What we do
- Communities of practice
  
  Build and foster communities of practice in the UK and Europe.
  
  Training
  
  Upskill the life sciences community
  
  RDM
  
  Supporting research data management
  
  Services
  
  Endorse open-access services to amplify their reach
  
  Fellowship
  
  Professionalising data stewardship with a fellowship of ambassadors
  
  Projects
  
  Lead and participate in projects that pave the way towards reproducible research
Who we are
- About us and ELIXIR
  
  Learn more about ELIXIR Europe and where we fit in
  
  How we are funded
  
  Discover the projects behind the UK Node
  
  Our people
  
  Explore the people behind the work we do
  
  Members
  
  See the member organisations that are part of the ELIXIR UK
  
  Collaborations
  
  Find out our collaborations with UK and international stakeholders
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Allyson Lister

University of Oxford

Allyson is the FAIRsharing Community & Curation Coordinator at the University of Oxford. With a background in data standardisation, ontologies, semantic data, and integration, she is responsible for FAIRsharing content, user collaborations, and outreach across all research domains. Allyson is also an EOSC Future / Research Data Alliance (RDA) Domain Ambassador (for standards, databases, and policies) and a co-chair of two RDA working groups.

2 December 2025

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ELIXIR-UK contributions to BioHackathon Europe 2025

Earlier this month, ELIXIR-UK contributors took part in BioHackathon Europe 2025, leading and supporting projects that advanced FAIR data, benchmarking, interoperability and sustainable workflow development across the ELIXIR ecosystem.
8 March 2025

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Celebrating International Women’s Day

As we mark International Women’s Day on March 8th, we are proud to highlight the crucial role women play in leadership within our ELIXIR-UK Node. With Prof Carole Goble as […]
23 December 2024

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Joining up the research data management dots with FAIRsharing

How FAIRsharing and DSW are linking up within the ELIXIR data management ecosystem
18 December 2024

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Manchester hosts two ELIXIR annual meetings on Interoperability and Tools

In November 2024, Manchester played host to two key groups of the wider ELIXIR Europe – the Interoperability and Tools Platforms – bringing together experts to strengthen connections, align efforts, and plan […]
2 July 2024

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UK Node’s collaborative presence at 2024 ELIXIR All Hands

Members of ELIXIR-UK attended in force the 2024 ELIXIR Europe All Hands meeting in Uppsala, Sweden, during the week of June 13th, 2024, to discuss collaborative solutions to life sciences […]
16 April 2024

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Top 6 data attributes for policymakers

Since 2016, when the FAIR Principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) were first published to address data reusability, the concept has gone a long way towards becoming a well-established foundation […]
3 April 2024

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Advancing research practices: OSTrails project towards open science

The Oxford e-Research Centre’s Data Readiness Group, an essential member of the ELIXIR-UK Node, is driving significant progress in open science and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) data as […]