Teams that advance Open Research at Surrey

I have a PhD in Translation Studies from the University of Surrey. I worked jointly with my colleague, Christine Daoutis, 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 Psychology from the University of Surrey. I worked jointly with my colleague, Montserrat Rodriguez, 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 communications and training related to Open Research. I have particular expertise in copyright.

I am proud to have set up the very first OA repository and related policies at Surrey. Over the years I have had a personal interest in researcher training and was excited to develop the Open Research training module this year. The main focus in my current role is to forging relationships across the University that will shape open and transparent research.

Twitter handle: @SurreyOR / @DaoutisStringer

I joined the Open Research team about two years ago, working in the specialist area of bibliometrics. I currently also work in the content team of the library handling e-resource queries and maintaining access to our online e-books, journals and databases.

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. 

I have over 20 years’ experience working in Higher Education in roles supporting researchers promoting and advocating the Open Research agenda. As a Faculty Librarian at the University of Surrey I work in partnership with the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, the Library Open Research and Content teams; and the Doctoral College, to help and support academic and research staff and postgraduate research students with all aspects of the research lifecycle.

I provide advice and deliver training to help researchers; plan, discover, manage, present, publish and preserve their research. This includes providing coaching on search strategy and analysis of the literature, to consider trends, impact, and potential collaborations i.e., encouraging researchers to adopt methods that will enhance their own work, whilst discovering the research and related work of others. 

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 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.

In my role as Academic Lead for Research Culture and Integrity, I seek to develop and promote a positive culture of research integrity and Open Research practice across the University, including acting as liaison with the UK Reproducibility Network.

I work with academics and professional services to develop and broaden understanding and awareness of Open Research and research integrity across the University. Together, we are working to further advance our research culture of excellence, openness and transparency.

In my own research, I pre-register my projects and openly share my data when possible.

Twitter handle: @ekfarran

I am a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow working on promoting the awareness and understanding of Open Research practices across the University.

I am particularly passionate about Registered Reports, having written the three empirical chapters of my PhD as Registered Reports.

I use the Open Science Framework (OSF) to share materials, data, scripts and lab logs, and prioritise submitting research to journals that select based on scientific validity rather than subjective impact.

I am a member of the Registered Reports Steering Committee, an Ambassador for the Centre for Open Science (COS), and part of the Preregistration Support Community.

Twitter handle: @EmmaHendersonRR / @SurreyOR

I am a Doctoral Researcher in the field of Comparative Psychology.

In my role as Project Officer, I am working towards growing and embedding Open Research in institutional practice and culture. As an animal behaviour scientist, I am particularly interested in how Open Research practices can contribute to improved welfare of animals used in research. 

In my own work as a researcher, I share code and data via online repositories and submit research to journals that offer Open Access publishing.   

Twitter handle: @ATKorzeniowska 

As an aspiring researcher, I have always respected my mentors who have shown me the imperativeness of transparency, integrity and openness in research and practice. I am dedicated to continuing this practice within my work and supporting communities to do the same. During my presidency, I am excited to work with the research community in advocating and practising open and reproducible research whilst coproducing outcomes that will allow society to have inclusive and supportive offers in the long term.

Twitter handle: @Surrey_Repro / @ArcanAltinar

My aspiration to follow Open Research principles has been driven by a constant pursuit of high quality, replicable and reproducible data, the only type of data that can bring positive changes to society. I am currently involved in Surrey Reproducibility Society (SRS), and my role involves keeping up interdisciplinary discussions and offering helpful coding guidance.

Twitter handle: @Surrey_Repro

My interest in Open Research has been motivated by the challenges associated with replicability and reproducibility in neurodevelopmental research. I support the Surrey Reproducibility Society (SRS) with organising events. I am also a member of the Open Autism Research group.

Twitter handle: @Surrey_Repro / @laurenamyjenner

As an early career researcher, I am deeply committed to Open Research by following those practices in different steps in my research and teaching. For instance, I publish most of my new studies as Registered Reports, use freeware for task design and data analysis to freely share my materials and codes, disseminate my research as preprints and Open Access papers, encourage open peer review as a reviewer and editor.

I have also delivered several talks and workshops of Open Research practices and recently edited a special issue on replication in numerical cognition. In my role as UKRN local network lead I promote reproducibility in research within the University of Surrey and in collaboration with the Open Research Working Group (ORWG), Surrey Open Researcher Community, and Surrey Reproducibility Society (SRS). I also organise ReproducibiliTea journal clubs at Surrey.

Twitter handle: Moji_Soli