Contributing to The Turing Way#
Note: This page records how the Turing’s Research Community Management team engaged with The Turing Way. The Turing Way remains an open, community-driven project that anyone, including RCMs anywhere in the world, can use and contribute to, so people seeking active community-management resources are encouraged to join The Turing Way directly.
All members of the Open Research Community Management team were expected to learn the details in the The Turing Way core documents. Community managers were onboarded as core members of The Turing Way, and part of their time was allocated to the Tools, Practices and Systems (TPS) programme and The Turing Way. Malvika Sharan, who led the team from 2022 to 2024, led The Turing Way alongside Kirstie Whitaker, and Emma Karoune led the team from 2025 to 2026.
Why RCMs engaged with The Turing Way#
Engagement with The Turing Way project and community helps RCMs to:
enable reproducibility, open communication, and ethical research in their projects and the Communities of Practice they build;
identify people, projects, and resources that are crucial for the development, maintenance, and sustainability of their projects;
interconnect their work with other projects and communities in the wider landscape of data science and open research;
facilitate openness, collaboration, and transparent reporting, even when not all components of their projects can be made public;
find support for their community work and, in exchange, support others’ work, especially when it is closely aligned with their projects; and
enhance the technical understanding required in their work and share it more widely via The Turing Way (chapters, tutorials, templates, or events).