Anyone who knows me will tell you that I’m passionate about my work and that passion has led me to some amazing opportunities to write about and otherwise share the work we’ve done in the Archive and the Service.
Often, I’ve ended up developing the writing laos rcs data and sharing in my own time. The job is such a full one, but I never want to miss an opportunity to share our expertise and knowledge. I’m sure this – along with recognition of my expertise – is why I’ve been asked to join a number of advisory boards and reviews for international organisations, as well as helping develop external funding bids. This passion has led to travel to other countries to share experience and support the development of their own new data services and repositories.
I’m proud that my expertise and knowledge has been recognised on a national and international level.
I’d say I’m also very proud of being a pioneer in this field, leading and influencing policy. And, of course, being associate director for the UK Data Archive and working with the other Service directors in the UK Data Service to help shape its direction and approaches.
I’m really proud of having been a pioneer in methodology in terms of archiving and providing access to qualitative data in the 1990s, and following from that, the new work on Research Data Management, and early moves into licencing and data citation.