About me

I help researchers communicate and collaborate more effectively using technology, mainly focusing on research data management policy, practice, training and advocacy. I currently work at The British Library as Data Services Lead.

In my free time, I like to:

• Run, hike, climb
• Play and run tabletop roleplaying games (Dungeons & Dragons 5e, Numenera, Cypher System, Tales from the Loop) and board games (including Go)
• Play the accordion, dance British & European social dances, morris dance
• Cook, write, read (fiction and non-fiction, mostly scifi & fantasy)

Professional service & recognition

• Member, CAKE-CoSeC EDI Working Group, 2025 – present
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD), 2023 – present
• Member and former chair, EMEA Expert Group, 2021 – present (chair until 2023)
• Fellow, Sustainable Software Institute, 2020 inauguration (see also my Fellow profile)
• Member, DataCite Community Engagement Steering Group, 2018 – present
• LIBER Award for Library Innovation (shared), for: Chue Hong, N. et al. (2021) “Recognising the value of software: how libraries can help the adoption of software citation,” in Liber annual conference 2021. LIBER. Available at: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14825268.
• Open Life Science programme Mentor & Expert, 2020 – present

Formerly

• Committee Member (Website), Neurodivergent Library and Information Staff Network (NLISN), 2024 – 2025
• Member, Physical Sciences Data Science Services (PSDS) Management Advisory Panel, 2019 – 2023
• SSI Fellowship mentor, 2019
• Member, Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) Workforce Development Subcommittee, 2018 – 2023
• Member, Library Carpentry Governance Group, 2017 – 2019
• Maintainer of the Library Carpentry lesson about git
• Member of the Jisc UK Research Data Shared Service Expert Advisory Group