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Lizzie Sparrow

Research Support Librarian

Department of Engineering / Cambridge University Libraries

Areas Of Expertise:

Data Management Plans, Open data, Data policies, Copyright, Licensing, Workshop delivery

As the Research Support Librarian at the Department of Engineering I am part of the Technology Libraries team providing library services for the Departments of Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, and Computer Science and Technology. My role includes providing training and advice on research data management and open data. I became a Data Champion in my previous role as the Library Manager at the Cambridge Conservation Initiative, supporting nature conservation researchers from the university and NGOs. I have previous experience, from research during masters degrees, working with ethnographic data in libraries and statistical analysis of palaeobiology data using R.

Mark Fernandes

Bioinformatics Training Developer

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute

Areas Of Expertise:

File sharing systems, Big data, Discipline-specific repositories, Repositories (general), Licensing, Copyright, Sensitive data, Code sharing, Bioinformatics, RDM training, Coding, Python, R language, SQL, Git, Database design, Data storage, Workshop delivery, Social media and digital communications, Video editing, Website development

Contact Information

mark.fernandes@cruk.cam.ac.uk

@MAFatCRUK

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I have over 30 years experience of Scientific Computing. I have worked on Image analysis of Light Microscopy images, Scientific IT Support (13 years), Data-driven web applications of mathematical models and Bioinformatics Training at the Institute of Food Research (Now the Quadram Institute). I have been involved in an EU Framework Database Workshop. I strive to include good data-handling and reproducibility practices into all training materials.

River Cronin

Assistant Research Services Librarian

Department of Engineering

Areas Of Expertise:

Data Management Plans, Licensing, Copyright, Research data ethics, Data protection and research, Data policies, Data storage, Institutional repositories, Data sharing, Open data, Surveys, Workshop delivery, Social media and digital communications, Video editing, Illustration, Website development

Contact Information

rcc40@cam.ac.uk

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Biography

Before joining the Engineering Library in 2017, I worked in a variety of roles around Cambridge, including supporting researchers with effective communication of their work. I currently support resource and training provision in areas including research skills, open access, reference management etc.

Additional areas of expertise:

Information literacy, research communication, social media use for researchers.

Xinyi Wen

PhD student

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Areas Of Expertise:

Data Management Plans, Data collection, Database design, Data architecture, Version control, Data storage, Open data, FAIR Data, Data archiving, Data preservation, Writing/publishing data papers, Textual data, Audiovisual data, Digitisation, Workshop delivery, Social media & digital communications, Website development

Contact Information

xw360@cam.ac.uk

@HPSWarburgian

ORCiD:

0000-0002-2147-2854

Biography

I am a historian of science, medicine and humanities. Currently I am a PhD candidate at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, working on the Wellcome-funded research project "The Doctrine of Signatures in Early Modern Medical Practice (221115/Z/20/Z)". I specialise in the history of medicine, natural history and occult sciences in early modern Europe, and the history of ideas in the long nineteenth century, particularly in the circle of art historian Aby Warburg (1866–1929). Before coming to Cambridge, I have worked as a new media art curator in Beijing.

As a historian, I am very interested in the historical aspect of Research Data Management from early modern botanical taxonomy, nineteenth-century index cards to the digital age. I seek to explore how techniques of data management shaped our perspectives, methodologies, and construction of scientific objects in the long run, and how our RDM practice in humanities today could benefit from past theories and experiences. I am the founder of the History of Science Library, a public Zotero library for the history of science and a resource hub for historical and contemporary data management in humanities. Currently I'm running RDM training sessions both in my department and virtually based at the History of Science Library, please feel free to get in touch.

Lizzie Sparrow

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