## Founder

The project was founded in 2019 by Kirstie Whitaker at The Alan Turing Institute.

:::{profile} Kirstie Whitaker
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roles: |
    Steering Committee Member (Chair);
    Project Delivery Team member, Project Lead Investigator (2019-Present);
    Book Dash Organiser: 2019-2020
github: kirstiejane
orcid: 0000-0001-8498-4059
bio: |
    I'm the lead of the Tools, Practices and Systems (TPS) Research Programme at the Alan Turing Institute.
    I have a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of California at Berkeley and conducted my postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge in the Brain Mapping Unit.
    I am a Mozilla fellowship (2016) and Fulbright scholarship (2007) alumna.
highlights: |
    I am the lead of _The Turing Way_.
    I've done a lot of advocacy for changing research culture to make our work more efficient and effective, and I've noticed that we need to address the power structures in academia if we are to truly make research reproducible by default.
    I'm excited to build the Turing Way to both inspire the people who DO the research to make all their outputs as accessible as possible and to nudge everyone else in the ecosystem to care about the work required to do so.
more: |
    I'm passionate about the concept of making science "open for all".
    I take that to mean we should share all of our outputs - the data, code and protocols that we develop - whether they're "significant" or not.
    But it also includes making those outputs FAIR - findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. I am an advocate for greater diversity in STEM and in data science and am particularly passionate about improving the ways we reward collaborative and supportive working.
    Finally, I'd like to pivot to having the data science project be developed in the open from the beginning and with a decision-making governance process that is inclusive and community-led.
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