FAIR Data Day- 29 November 2022

Workshop 1 - FLASH - GREEN

Title

Drylab 101 | Make data management exciting for research-performing organisations: increase your employability rate and build capacity.

Authors

Xenia Perez Sitja (University of Bradford), Sara Morsy (University of Bradford) & Saskia Lawson-Tovey (University of Manchester).

Abstract

FAIR Data Management should be the foundation of every research project. Then, why isn’t it common practice? You probably know dozens of tools, manuals and software. You probably have helped develop them, or are an advocate/user of those, but is everyone in your department? Come to this interactive session with a pinch of gamification hosted by the ELIXIR-UK DaSH, a project embedding data management into UK research-performing organisations. Let’s discuss institutional culture change, capacity building and better employability rate when bringing research data management to the top of the agenda.

Biography

Xenia Perez Sitja

University of Bradford

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Xenia Perez Sitja works as a Data Stewardship Community Manager at the University of Bradford. Looking at her background, you’ll probably guess she is a researcher – but if you look at her experience, you’ll consider her a communicator, writer, coordinator or artist. She likes to think of herself as a combination of all these. With a BSc in Biomedicine and an MSc in Science Communication, she has worked on Horizon 2020 projects for almost 6 years as a freelance science communicator and an in-house outreach expert. In parallel, she has worked for the private sector for 2 years creating, organising and leading the programmes of big expos, conferences and small, international meetings in the fields of Pharma, cybersecurity and Big Tech. Engagement and coordination have been at the core of her skill set to attract thought leaders and build a community of experts, bringing her to her current role as Data Stewardship Community Manager of the ELIXIR-UK DaSH Fellowship project.

Saskia Lawson-Tovey

University of Manchester

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Saskia Lawson-Tovey is a data scientist in the Centre for Musculoskeletal Research at the University of Manchester. In short, she creates databases, manages, and curates clinical data for national and international research projects into musculoskeletal diseases in both adults and children. She has a strong interest in FAIR and open science and is about to start a PhD around FAIR practices and sensitive data. She is also an ELIXIR-UK DaSH fellow and has produced FAIR training resources for REDCap as part of her Fellowship. Going forward, she hopes to continue her work in FAIR and open science in rheumatic diseases by building on her clinical data expertise and expanding into biological data curation and FAIRification.

Sara Morsy

University of Bradford

Sara Morsy works as a Data Stewardship Content Developer and Trainer at the University of Bradford, Clinician, experimental biologist, computational biologist, and data scientist. Her interdisciplinary research background allowed her to work with top professors in Japan and USA on identifying theranostic for different diseases. Currently, her research focus is on translational psychiatry where she combines her experimental and computational, and clinical experience to provide personalised diagnostic and prognostic markers for psychiatric diseases. Her current role at the University of Bradford is to help proper research data management and train the next-generation data stewards.

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