Find an Advocate in your field
Profiles of our current York Open Research Advocates can be found below. Feel free to contact them for support on open research practice and issues in your discipline.
Photo | Name | Role/dept | Areas of interest and expertise | Links | |
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 | Dr Jon Agirre | Royal Society Olga Kennard Research Fellow (York Structural Biology Laboratory / Department of Chemistry) | As a crystallographer, I have always uploaded my data and results to open repositories, and benefitted from others doing the same. As a software engineer, I have shared code with others and others have reciprocated. I am also an advocate for free software. | ||
Dr Keith Allen | Senior Lecturer, Deputy Head of Department (Philosophy) | ||||
Thom Blake | Open Research Manager (Libraries, Archives and Learning Services) |
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 | Ben Catt | Open Research Librarian (Libraries, Archives and Learning Services) | Supporting open research in all disciplines, developing and delivering training sessions and events, helping to build an open research community of practice and Advocates network. | ||
Dave Curtis | Academic Liaison Librarian (Libraries, Archives and Learning Services) | I work with departments to deliver Information Literacy workshops but have been extensively involved with creating the White Rose Open Educational Resources Toolkit. | |||
Dr Angela de Bruin | Lecturer (Psychology) | ||||
Siobhan Dunlop | Teaching and Learning Advisor (Libraries, Archives and Learning Services) | I work developing resources and delivering teaching on digital skills, including coding (especially Python, web development, Google Apps Script, and introductory coding principles), digital creativity, and working with data. I also have an interest in areas of digital citizenship and wellbeing, data ethics, and open source digital tools. | |||
Cátia Ferreira de Oliveira | Research Associate (Psychology) | ||||
Dr Sarah Forrester | Research Associate (Biology) | My research involves the use of big data, typically metagenomic and metabolomic data, to interrogate and understand microbial community interactions. I'm interested in training researchers, with a focus on how to pipeline analysis and adopt reproducible practices. | |||
Kirralise Hansford | Postgraduate Researcher (Psychology) | Kirralise Hansford is a third year PhD Student in Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging in the Department of Psychology, and is the Open Research Graduate Engagement Lead for the Faculty of Sciences. She is also involved with the ReproducibiliTea journal club, Open Science Interest Group and Early Career Researchers Group in her department. Read more about Kirralise’s Open Research Journey in the second issue of our newsletter. | |||
Dr Simon Hickinbotham | Research Fellow (Electronic Engineering) | ||||
Dr Peter Hill | Research Software Engineer (Physics) | ||||
Dr Hannah Hobson | Lecturer (Psychology) | My research is on neurodevelopmental conditions, especially autism and Developmental Language Disorder, and how language/communication affects socioemotional abilities and mental health. I have recently been working to promote open research practices in autism research, and have experience with registered reports (doing them, and editing them). | |||
| Dr Andrew Holding | Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biomedical Science (Biology) | I am a Cancer Biologist, and our research uses high-throughput sequencing and public genomic data. The field has embraced publishing data in online databases like GEO and PRIDE, supported by Preprints on BioRxiv to make papers more available. | ||
Dr Emma James | Lecturer (Psychology) | I am interested in improving the robustness and reproducibility of research findings. My early experiences in this area came from experimental psychology research: I began to preregister analyses prior to data collection, develop reproducible data processing pipelines, and use the Open Science Framework to share data, code, and output. More recently, I have begun applying these principles to research with secondary data, including within the registered report publication format. | |||
Dr Annabel Jenkins | Research Facilitator (Department of Mathematics), Fellowship Coordinator (Research Excellence Training Team) | ||||
Dr Eleanor Jew | Lecturer in Environment and Development (Environment & Geography) | ||||
Melissa Kays | Postgraduate Researcher (Archaeology) and Open Research Graduate Engagement Lead for the Arts & Humanities | I enjoy exploring the different avenues utilized by the various faculties at the University of York in regards to Open Research, and look forward to bringing new ideas and perspectives to my peers in the Arts and Humanities faculty. | |||
Dr Iain Larmour | Research Environment and Development Team Leader (Sciences) | I am working in SPET alongside a team of RED coordinators across Science departments to support the maintenance and development of departmental/school research strengths and create/maintain a positive and supportive research culture. | |||
Dr Chris MacDonald | Research Fellow / Lecturer (Biology) | I have been an advocate for Open Access (OA) research since starting my lab in 2017. All research from my lab is made available via pre-print servers when articles are originally submitted to a journal, and this version is updated following reviewer requested changes as part of our resubmission process. As a Wellcome Trust funded researcher I have OA obligations that have been met through various mechanisms. These include: 1. Using OA agreements between the University of York and publishing organisations, such as the Company of Biologists and Wiley. I have experienced many barriers to OA and would be happy to discuss strategies me and the library team have used to successfully navigate such issues. | |||
Dr Andrew Mason | Lecturer in Cancer Informatics (Biology) | Biologist using sequencing data from multiple species. Major focus on human and avian cancers, using WGS, RNAseq and single-cell technologies. | |||
Alex Mepham | Postgraduate Researcher (Psychology) | ||||
Dr Colleen Morgan | Lecturer in Digital Archaeology and Heritage (Archaeology) | Supporting archaeology staff and students in considering open access publishing, open research, and general transparency in practice. | |||
| Lucy Moore | Postgraduate Researcher (Archaeology) | I volunteer as a Wikipedia editor, and am enthusiastic about how the goals of open research can coincide with the goals of the Wikimedia movement more widely. |
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Luqman Muraina | Postgraduate Researcher (Politics/IGDC) | My interests are in politics of knowledge production (decolonization), higher education, African politics & development, black/decolonial feminism, social movement, etc. Furthermore, I have vivid interest in open research, re-use of data, meta data, etc. | |||
Lindsey Myers | Open Research Librarian (Libraries, Archives and Learning Services) | Working in partnership with staff and postgraduate research students to provide support with the principles and practice of research data management and with making research data "as open as possible". Developing and delivering training and materials, reviewing data management plans and delivering the Research Data York service. | |||
Dr Nathalie Noret | Lecturer in Mental Health and Wellbeing (Education) | My research focuses on young peoples' experiences of bullying in school and the relationship between experiencing bullying and poor mental health. As part of my research, I have an interest in adopting and advocating for open research practices. I have experience in openly sharing data, and pre-registering studies and have written on the benefits of open science for bullying research. | |||
Junlan Pan | Postgraduate Researcher (Education) | I am interested in applying open research principles and practices in the field of applied linguistics. I have been working as the project assistant in the IRIS project, an open accessible database for research materials and data in language learning. I am also a network collaborator of OASIS project, an open accessible database of summaries in language studies. I am extremely interested in introducing the OS principles and practices to the community in China because I believe the benefits of OS need to reach out to a wide audience. | |||
Dr Alex Payne-Dwyer | Postdoctoral Research Fellow (School of Physics, Engineering and Technology) | I am a biophysicist, microscopist and soft matter Research Fellow in the Physics of Life Group in PET. I use open software packages to quantify super-resolution microscope images of living cells and tissues, and publish Open Access with commented repositories. I also run projects dedicated to promoting Open Research principles in the publication of microscopy images and derived results (Community-developed checklists for publishing images and image analyses. Nat Methods (2023)). Through the QUAREP-LiMi network I hope to exert influence on scientific publishers and funders to encourage publication standards to become streamlined, better fit-for-purpose and less burdensome. As the coordinator of the PET ECR Forum I encourage ECRs to use/cost the expertise of RSEs and technicians in the ReDSI network to solidify FAIR principles in their work. I am an advocate for Sense about Science at UoY and engage with them to foster evidence-based policy within UK Government, which of course requires transparent and trustworthy research practices and findings. | |||
Ryan Pound | Research Associate in Modelling (Chemistry) | ||||
Emma Rand | Senior Lecturer (Biology) | I am a Teaching and Scholarship lecturer specialising in reproducible data analysis and a fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute. I train undergraduate and postgraduate students, lead the Analytics training for the White Rose BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) in Mechanistic Biology, the Royal Society of Biology training in R and the Biochemical Society's training in Python. I co-lead (with James Chong, Biology and Neil Chue-Hong, SSI) ) a UKRI funded programme to upskill researchers in the specialised analyses of environmental 'omics data with cloud computing. I'm also on the Core Team of R Forwards, the R consortium's task force for women and other underrepresented groups. | |||
Dr Janet Remmington | Associate of Humanities Research Centre (English & Related Literature) | ||||
Paula Schirrmacher | Research Intelligence Analyst (Libraries, Archives and Learning Services) | I work in responsible bibliometric analysis to support data-driven decision-making at the university. I am passionate about data and code sharing (python and R). | |||
Dr David Shaw | Research Associate (Environment & Geography) | I am a Research Associate in Indoor Air Quality with a background in plasma physics. I wrote and released the open-source INCHEM-Py model which predicts the concentrations of chemical species and particles indoors. The model is fully available online with collaborations and community input encouraged through strong copy-left licensing. I am a believer in open research and sustainable research methods. | |||
Louise Shepperd | Postgraduate Researcher (Education) | ||||
Prof Alex Smith | Reader of Epidemiology, Deputy Director Epidemiology & Cancer Statistics Group (ECSG) (Health Sciences) | ||||
Emma Sullivan | Postgraduate Researcher (Psychology) | My PhD explores the mechanisms through which sleep supports emotion regulation and mental health. I am an open science enthusiast and have been developing my skills throughout my PhD. For example, I have published Registered Report. I am also one of the organisers of RepoducibiliTea. | ecs518@york.ac.uk | ||
Jo Tozer | Research Manager (Archaeology) | I lead the research support team to promote a strong research environment, encouraging engagement and compliance with open research practices particularly within funding applications and awards and REF. |