Dr Malvika Sharan

Malvika is a Senior Researcher - Open Research at the Tools, Practices and Systems Research Programme. She joined The Alan Turing Institute in 2020, and since 2022, she has been leading a growing team of Open Research Community Managers. 

She is a co-lead investigator of The Turing Way project – a community-led project on data science. The Turing Way handbook and community are dedicated to making research and data science open, reproducible, collaborative and ethical for communities around the globe. She leads The Turing Way Practitioners Hub, an extension of The Turing Way, which has received over £1 million in joint funding from BridgeAI and Ecosystem Leadership (EPSRC) in 2023. The Practitioners Hub offers a Systematic approach for enhancing expertise, building strategic insight and improving readiness for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) to co-adopt AI and industry best practices, with a focus on open source, open data and reproducibility. 

Malvika is a co-creator of the AI and Data Science Educators Programme and co-lead of Professionalising Data Science Roles, a project funded by Turing's Skills Policy Award. Previously, Malvika led the development of training resources for Data Science and AI skills for senior researchers, funded by the AI for Science and Government Research programme as the second phase of The Crick-Turing Biomedical Data Science Awards (BDSAs).

Malvika advocates for inclusive and collaborative community spaces to enable purposeful human-centred adoption of open research practices, tools and culture. Learn more about her in the Turing Spotlights post (from 2020) and on her homepage.