We welcome Emma Karoune, the Alan Turing Institute, to this month’s RDM Club meeting.

This talk will present some of the research from the Skills Policy Award Project – Professionalising traditional and infrastructure research roles in data science. Emma will present a case for a move away from the current unhelpful and misleading narrative around data science roles dominated by the “data scientist” to the much more realistic “data science team” made up of individuals performing diverse roles with specialised skills to enable more impact and greater sustainability for data science research.

Emma is a Senior 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 co-leads the ResearchCommunity 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 also a Software Sustainability Institute Fellow and an Elixir-UK FAIR Data Stewardship Training Fellow.