Teams that advance Open Research at Surrey

I have a PhD in Digital Heritage from King's College London looking at the contribution of Libraries in preserving and making Heritage collections, Open Educational Resources, and Research outputs discoverable and easily reusable by everyone. 

In my current role, I am working with colleagues across the University to embed Open Research practices across the student and research lifecycle. 

Twitter handle: eleonorag1

I have a PhD in Translation Studies from the University of Surrey. I worked on Open Access for 10 years, before taking on the joint role of Open Research manager. In my current role I am responsible for team management and strategy for all Open Research services, with a focus on infrastructure and open content.

Over the years I led the development of the e-theses policies and service, set up the OA publishing service (APCs), and delivered several infrastructure projects.

In my current role, I am excited to contribute to the transition to fairer OA publishing, and to help develop seamless infrastructure for Open Research.

Twitter handle: @SurreyOR

I have a PhD in high velocity impact of composites from the Aeronautics Department at Imperial College and have worked for them as a consultant (ICON) on various EU and DSTL funded programmes. Most of my career has been ensconced in science/technology whilst working at BAeSEMA, Logica and QinetiQ on large scale National and EU collaborative programmes, where I performed complex numerical modelling simulations generating substantial quantities of data. More recently I have joined the Open Research Team at the University of Surrey where I now advise on all aspects of research data management ranging from more general enquiries regarding our repository to specific metadata creation for a variety of outputs including papers/articles, datasets, software code, etc. I also help generate and review of Data Management Plans both for grant applications/bids and research deliverables.

I joined the Content Team at the start of 2022 having previously worked in the library for ten years in the Customer Services team. As Content Coordinator (Open Access) I work with both the Content and Open Research Teams. My aim is to help us lead a joined-up approach to all areas of our work including enquiry management and assessing publisher agreements.

I joined the library in November 2020. My focus is on Open Access including APCs, repository deposits and e-theses.

I joined the Open Research team in 2016. Since then, my main area of responsibility has been the processing of papers and e-theses submitted to the repository.

I joined the Faculty Librarian team in January 2023, after spending the past 8 years working as the Library Customer Services Team Leader, responsible for front of house operations. Open Research is a fairly new area for me, so I’m looking forward to working with colleagues across the University in partnership with our Open Research team to help showcase the benefits of Open Research practices. 

In my role as Faculty Librarian and drawing on my background in higher education libraries for over 8 years, I support researchers in discovering the many benefits of Open Research practices. I provide training offered via the Doctoral College’s Researcher Development Programme and guidance on search strategy design and reporting, encouraging researchers to adopt methods that will enhance the discoverability, transparency and reproducibility of their work.

I am the Surrey UKRN Local Network Lead, taking over from Dr Mojtaba Soltanlou in 2024, where, together with Prof Emily Farran, I act as the point of contact for UKRN, representing the grassroots network of researchers at Surrey. I joined Surrey in December 2019, after 2 years as a postdoc at Carnegie Mellon University developing open-source software for the pharmaceutical industry. I work to develop and grow the Open Research Culture within Surrey, coordinating with academics, early career researchers and professional services. In my own research, which develops optimisation algorithms and software for decision-making in energy and process systems, my group publishes pre-prints of papers, and openly shares code and data when possible. We attempt to use open-source software best-practices during our research to make our research transparent, reproducible, and accessible.

Twitter handle: @mchlshort