Malvika Sharan
Senior Researcher
The Turing Institute
Investing in Research Infrastructure Roles for Cultural Change
Government, Law & Policy
Wednesday, February 8 • 2:30pm-3:00pm GMT
Westminster, 4th Floor
Investing in Research Infrastructure Roles for Cultural Change
In this panel session, I will bring together experts from the Turing Institute (Tools, Practices and Systems programme; and The Turing Way project) and the broader open source/science ecosystem, who have designed, implemented and strengthened policies for supporting research infrastructure roles such as community managers, research engineers, open source experts, data stewards, ethicist and other non-traditional positions at organisation levels. Drawing from some successful examples from their work, we will discuss what policies exist, and where investments in research infrastructure roles are crucial to influencing meaningful culture change in modern data science and AI.
Bio
Malvika is a senior researcher for the Tools, Practices and Systems research programme at The Alan Turing Institute, London. With a focus on Open Research, Malvika leads a team of community managers and co-lead The Turing Way project that aims to make data science reproducible, collaborative, ethical and inclusive for researchers around the globe.
Malvika is a co-founder of Open Life Science, a mentoring and training programme that empowers researchers to gain an understanding of open science principles, build collaborations with experts and adopt best practices in the context of their communities.