EoI to join the current network of Advisors (2024)
The Practitioners Hub network including the cohort members will seek advice, consultation and expertise from advisors when adopting these practices in their organisation’s workflow. To broaden participation in this effort, we are accepting interest from individuals to join our network of advisors who will engage with our project and cohort activities. Advisors will bring real-world expertise that can benefit SMEs interested in implementing best practices in data science and AI initiatives in their organizations.
Respond via the Expression of Interest Form
Want to Participate in the next cohort of The Turing Way Practitioners Hub?
The Turing Way Practitioners Hub serves as a forum for knowledge exchange, collaboration and sharing of evidence-led best practices for companies involved in data science. Designed for 4-6 months, each cohort has opportunities and pathways to engage with Experts in Residence (EiRs) representing their organisations. Through planned activities, events and customised consulting and capacity-building processes, they will learn, collaborate and share best practices, challenges and examples from different organisations/sectors.
Examples of activities include but are not limited to:
- Access to the Turing and The Turing Way resources, activities and collaborative opportunities curated for your organisation and network.
- Supported participation in Training and capacity-building efforts available through the Practitioners Hub.
- Participating in Community of Practice training to build skills and gain frameworks for identifying stakeholders and engagement pathways to help your community collaborate and achieve shared goals in data science.
- Development of impact-based case studies capturing the success and challenges of open source and reproducibility in their organisation, highlighting projects of their interests.
- Customised pathways for capacity-building, community engagement and user research through expert-led consulting to strengthen the interdisciplinary collaboration and data science activities for your organisation.
- Co-hosting a Book Dash (a hackathon-like event) and/or Fireside Chats (a virtual community panel), to enable collaboration and knowledge sharing in The Turing Way platforms and book, featuring selected topics, projects and experts invited from their organisations
- Consulting and support in organising training workshops with The Turing Way team to engage researchers from your organisation/network in data skills such as version control, programming skills, Open Science practices, computational reproducibility, Research Data Management and FAIR principles.
If you or your organisation is interested in joining future cohorts, or want to have a chat, please get in touch with the team:
- Malvika Sharan - Senior Researcher: [email protected]
- Arielle Bennett - Programmw Manager: [email protected]
Who is a Turing Way practitioner’s hub expert in residence?
1-2 members from each organisation are recognised as Experts in Residence in the Practitioners Hub. An EiR is
- A project leader, manager or specialist, who holds responsibilities for decision-making and strategy formulation for advancing technology, skills and data practices in their organisations or companies.
- An individual practitioner who understands the importance of open source, open data, reproducibility, ethics and collaborative approaches, serving as advocates and practitioners for best practices in their respective domains and sectors.
- An active contributor to skill and process building through consultation, hands-on support, and engagement activities in their organisations, advancing their teams, networks and capacity to embrace best practices to maximise the impact of AI.
- Someone who recognises the transferable and generalisable nature of data skills and wants to collaborate with practitioners from various sectors in the field of AI.
What to expect from the cohort?
EiRs represent their organisation’s expertise and gaps in adopting best practices in data science and AI projects. This programme offers opportunities to engage with fellow EiRs, develop a public-facing case study sharing successful examples from your organisation and access customised training workshops, coaching and collaborations tailored to address challenges associated with your goals. You will also be assisted in incorporating systems-level, collaborative and community-minded approaches to developing long-term strategies for your team and projects.
During your participation, you will have access to curated opportunities from the Turing’s research programmes and partnership network, which include events and collaborative projects; training and skill-building events; funding and fellowship calls; and research and communication outputs. All outcomes will be shared with the BridgeAI network, The Alan Turing Institute, and the wider UK AI and data science ecosystem.
Reports
All project resources, reports and case studies from the Practitioners Hub are shared on Zenodo under a permissive license. Explore materials shared from the first cohort here: zenodo.org/communities/the-turing-way-practitioners.
Our project team supports EiRs in co-developing case studies that highlight examples, use cases, and projects from their respective organisations. These case studies provide insights into best practices, challenges and the impact of adopting AI and data science best practices in their sector. All case studies are openly published on Zenodo (with the approval of the EiRs), aiming to facilitate the cross-exchange of skills, knowledge and expertise. The goal is to extend the impact of sector-specific practices by transferring them to different sectors, facilitated through the BridgeAI, the Turing, and The Turing Way networks.