People
RROx is represented by 5 Local Network Leads (LNLs) who work to create, organise and promote initiatives and events to support research reproducibility.
The RROx mailing list has members from all the academic Divisions of the University of Oxford. Group members, as well as the UKRN Institutional Lead, and LNLs span all career stages, from DPhil student to senior professor. They also include representation from the Bodleian Libraries and Research Services.
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Who we are
Five UKRN Local Network Leads have been appointed to champion and support open and transparent research practices across the University of Oxford, as part of Oxford’s commitment to the UK Reproducibility Network. The University has appointed them following an open call for expressions of interest.
The UKRN Local Network Leads are a diverse team from a range of career stages, roles, and disciplines:
Gaurav Bhalerao
Psychiatry
gaurav.bhalerao@psych.ox.ac.uk
Gaurav Bhalerao (ORCID link) is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychiatry working in neuroimaging. As part of his interests in promoting reproducible and reliable research software and code, he holds a Software Sustainability Institute fellowship and is part of the Code Reproducibility (CodeRep) training project.
Marc Brouard
Experimental Medicine
marc.brouard@ndm.ox.ac.uk
Marc Brouard (ORCID link) had over 30 years of experience in the IT industry before starting an academic career. He completed a DPhil and postdoc in the Department of Zoology at Oxford, collecting and modelling ecological data and archiving research, and now works as a research software engineer with the Nuffield Department of Medicine in the Modernising Medical Microbiology group, working on pathogen genetic data. He is interested in helping researchers improve data handling.
Mae Chester-Jones
Epidemiology, Biostatistics, NDORMS
mae.chester-jones@ndorms.ox.ac.uk
Mae Chester-Jones (ORCID link) is a medical statistician and first-year DPhil candidate in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, with experience in both clinical trials and observational studies. In her role as a DPhil student, she has observed both the barriers early career researchers face in implementing open research (from lack of awareness to lack of senior support), as well as their enthusiasm for these practices. She is interested in developing training and collaborative learning opportunities to help researchers at Oxford to ensure their research is reproducible.
Patricia Logullo
NDORMS, UK EQUATOR Centre
Patricia.logullo@ndorms.ox.ac.uk
Patricia Logullo (ORCID link) is a postdoctoral researcher in Centre for Statistics in Medicine. Since 2018 she has worked with the UK EQUATOR Centre group, teaching responsible, reproducible, and open science principles. Her prior experience as a scientific journalist and medical writer in Brazil has given her direct perspectives on diversity and challenges of research in developing countries. She is passionate about raising awareness of the value of reproducing research to improve the rigour of knowledge generation.
Charles Rahal
Demographics, Population Health
charles.rahal@demography.ox.ac.uk
Charles Rahal (ORCID link) is a Senior Departmental Research Lecturer in Computational Social Science within the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science. He is passionate about building new open and transparent methods through his own work, by creating new publicly available and open-source data and software libraries. He also actively promotes and teaches these practices to students and other researchers via formal taught models and short courses.
They will work closely with Professor Laura Fortunato, who serves as the University’s Academic Lead for Research Culture (UKRN), and with colleagues in the research practice team in Research Services.
Additionally, three researchers have been selected as “liaison points” between the Local Network Leads and the broader RROx community, with a focus on specific areas of activity:
Lazaros Belbasis (ORCID link) will be leading the ReproducibiliTea journal club at Oxford, which provides researchers with an academic space to informally discuss issues related to Open Science and Research Reproducibility and an opportunity to the improve their research practice. Lazaros is a physician-scientist who recently joined the Nuffield Department of Population Health as an Early Career Research Fellow, examining the reproducibility of research findings in the field of neuroepidemiology. He is also an affiliate scientific member at the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford.
Allyson Lister (ORCID link) will lead on projects related to FAIRsharing, a curated educational resource on data and metadata standards, inter-related to databases and data policies, across all disciplines. Allyson is the FAIRsharing Content and Community Lead within the Data Readiness Group at the Oxford e-Research Centre.
Ruth Nanjala (ORCID link) will be liaising with RROx on Software Carpentries training, an initiative which helps researchers learn key coding skills. Ruth is a DPhil candidate in Molecular and Cellular Medicine, and has previously worked on several initiatives training Bioinformatics researchers in open research practices. She is a certified Carpentries instructor.
