Members and Collaborators

The Open Research Community Management team members, RCMs, are TPS researchers at the Turing who provide community management expertise in the Turing’s teams, projects and programmes in the organisation. As a core capability of the Turing, the RCM team supports the convening power of the Turing Institute across different interdisciplinary and multi-stakeholder projects. They also work closely with other core capabilities including the Research Application Management team, the Skills Team and the Research Engineering Group.

RCM team members apply open science and FAIR (Findable, accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) practices in the development, maintenance and sharing of community/research resources. Many of the RCMs work on projects under the Health Programme or projects involving sensitive/confidential data, where they ensure and operationalise the principle of “as open as possible, as closed as necessary”.

All resources developed to support/facilitate their work as RCMs and as experts from their respective projects will be shared via this repository (by removing any project-specific sensitive information). Practices and case studies learned from their work will be shared in The Turing Way wherever possible.

The RCM team also hosts members with community-oriented roles currently collaborating with TPS or The Turing Way

New members are onboarded by the team lead and added as a contributor to this project repository. Please create an issue for your induction (if not already created by the project lead).

If you are not already collaborating with TPS, but are interested in community management, please join The Turing Way community. You can also contact Malvika Sharan for any questions or resources regarding community management developed by the team.

TPS Senior Researcher and Team Lead

• Malvika Sharan, TPS Senior Researcher - Open Research

Research Community Managers

• Emma Karoune, Senior Research Community Manager

  • Projects:

    • Health Programme/Grand Challenge

    • Skills Policy Award - Skills Team

    • Clinical AI - Special Interest Group

    • Other Health projects

      • Turing-RSS Health Data Lab

      • DECOVID

• Gabin Wilfried Kayumbi, Senior Research Community Manager

  • Project:

    • Data Centric Engineering (DCE)

• Cassandra Gould Van Praag, Senior Research Community Manager

  • Project:

    • Environment and Sustainability Grand Challenge (E&S GC)

• Vicky Hellon, Research Community Manager

  • Project: GitHub Research

    • Turing-Roche Strategic Partnership

• Anne Lee Steele, Research Community Manager

  • Project:

    • The Turing Way

• Eirini Zormpa, Community Research Manager

  • Projects:

    • AI for Multiple Long Term Conditions Research Support Facility (AIM RSF) - Open Collaboration

• Sophia Batchelor, Research Community Manager

  • Projects:

    • AI for Multiple Long Term Conditions Research Support Facility (AIM RSF) - PPIE

    • AutSPACEs

Collaborators from TPS/The Turing Way projects in Community Roles

• Ayesha Dunk, Skills Team, AI and Data Science Educators Programme, The Alan Turing Institute

If you are interested in joining this team, please reach out to Malvika Sharan (msharan@turing.ac.uk).

Previous members

• Arron Lacey, Senior Research Community Manager

  • Projects:

    • Early Detection of Neurodegenerative Diseases (EDoN)

    • Data Safe Haven

• Achintya Rao, Community Manager

  • Projects: GitHub

  • AI for Science and Government Research Programme

• Sarah Gibson, JupyterHub Community Development Lead, 2i2c and JupyterHub

• Bridget Nea, Skills Team, Data Skills Taskforce and Skills Policy Award, The Alan Turing Institute

• Claudia Fischer, Research Assistant; Turing Commons, The Alan Turing Institute