Members and collaborators

Note: This is an archive of former team members, collaborators, and project affiliations at the Turing. It is not a current staff directory, and many of the people listed continue to work as RCMs or in related roles.

The Open Research Community Management team brought together TPS researchers who provided community-management expertise in Turing teams, projects, and programmes. It was established at the Turing in 2022 and operated until 2026. The team worked with other capabilities, including Research Application Management, Skills, and Research Engineering, and applied open-science and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) practices to community and research resources.

Resources and case studies from this work were shared through this repository and, where possible, through The Turing Way, with project-specific sensitive information removed.

Team leads

• Malvika Sharan, TPS Senior Researcher - Open Research (team lead, 2022–2024)

  • Projects:

    • The Turing Way - lead

    • The Turing Way Practitioners Hub - lead

    • Turing-Crick Partnership - lead

    • Data Science and AI Educators’ Programme - co-Principal Investigator

    • Trustworthy and Ethical Assurance of Digital Twins (TEA-DT) - co-Principal Investigator, with the project led by Christopher Burr

• Emma Karoune, Senior Research Community Manager, team lead (2025–2026)

  • Projects:

    • Advancing Biomedical Data Science Careers (ABDC) - Principal Investigator for this MRC-funded project, which started in February 2025

    • Health Programme/Grand Challenge

    • Skills Policy Award - Skills Team, with Malvika Sharan; this led to co-leading the People in Data project

    • Clinical AI - Interest Group organiser

    • Other Health projects

      • Turing-RSS Health Data Lab

      • DECOVID

      • AIM RSF - coordinated the AIM ECR network and was Principal Investigator for the last six months of the programme

Project and role details on this page draw on the Turing’s Community Management and Open Research programme page and may not reflect later changes.

Research Community Managers

• Denise Bianco, Senior Research Community Manager

  • Project:

    • Advancing Biomedical Data Science Careers (ABDC)

  • Also collaborated with the RCM team to embed community-management expertise in the Skills Team’s work on the Connections Initiative

• Alexandra Araujo Alvarez, Senior Research Community Manager

  • Project:

    • Innovate UK BridgeAI

• Gabin Wilfried Kayumbi, Senior Research Community Manager

  • Project:

    • Data Centric Engineering (DCE), now the Data Centric Engineering and Sustainability Mission

• André Piza, Senior Research Community Manager

  • Projects:

    • CVD Net - the first mission under the Health Grand Challenge

    • Data/Culture - Arts and Humanities

• 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 and The Turing Way projects in community roles

• Arielle Bennett, TPS Senior Researcher for Open Source Practices; worked on The Turing Way Practitioners Hub as part of the Innovate UK BridgeAI programme

• Giulia Tomba, Senior Research Associate, Advancing Biomedical Data Science Careers (ABDC)

• Ayesha Dunk, Widening Participation team (previously the Academic Engagement Team), and former lead of the Data Science and AI Educators Programme, The Alan Turing Institute

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