Bio
Emma works as a Principal Researcher focusing on Research Community Building in the Tools, Practices and Systems Programme. She brings her open research and community-building skills to projects including People in Data, the AI for multiple long term conditions research support facility, the Clinical AI Interest Group, the Turing-RSS Health Data Lab, the DECOVID project and Scoping the future of Health-AI.
She is the Lead of the Research Community Management team within the Tools, Practices and Systems Research Programme. She is a core contributor to The Turing Way (an open-source community-led guide to reproducible research), and a member of the Book Dash Working Group, helping to build resources and training for other researchers.
Emma is working closely with the Turing Skills Team to lead a project on Professionalising traditional and modern data science roles. This project is funded by a Skills Policy Award. She also co-lead People in Data that aims to convene an open community of data professionals, which promotes a culture that values and prioritises data and recognises people that work in data roles as essential to research.
Emma is a specialist in Archaeobotany with a PhD from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. As well as her role at the Turing, Emma has been the Principal Investigator on the FAIR Phytolith Project at Historic England and in collaboration with the Universitat Pompeu Fabra funded by EOSC Life. She is also involved in a project to develop the use of phytolith research in British archaeology by developing a comprehensive and open reference collection.
Emma is a Software Sustainability Institute Fellow focusing on promoting a more accessible and inclusive research culture. She is also working with Elixir-UK as a FAIR Data Stewardship Training Fellow to develop training resources for FAIR data management. Emma works closely with the Open Life Science Programme as a mentor and expert.
All of her research and community building embraces an Open Scholarship approach in which she is striving to develop more open and sustainable research practices within her discipline and beyond.