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title: "Working Groups, Funded Projects and Informal Initiatives"
source: The Turing Way
source_url: https://github.com/the-turing-way/the-turing-way
licence: CC-BY-4.0
domain: data-and-analysis
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date_added: 2026-04-25
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# Working Groups, Funded Projects and Informal Initiatives

This page provides access to various group-based initiatives or subprojects, listed under three themes: working groups that guide the different areas of work as a formal part of Turing's governance, funded projects that are led by members in a paid capacity and informal initiatives that are led by members through collaboration around shared interests.
These subprojects are often time-bound and are supported by community members who take open leadership roles in response to the emergent and timely opportunities in the research and open science ecosystem.

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## Working Groups Led by Community Members

### Translation and Localisation Working Group

#### Project Information

- [Chapter in the Community Handbook](https://book.the-turing-way.org/community-handbook/translation)

#### People

- [Andrea Sanchez Tapia](https://book.the-turing-way.org/afterword/contributors-record#andrea-sanchez-tapia)
- [Batool Almarzouq](https://book.the-turing-way.org/afterword/contributors-record#batool-almarzouq)
- [Melissa Black](https://book.the-turing-way.org/afterword/contributors-record#melissa-black)

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### Infrastructure Working Group

#### Project Information

- [Project board](https://github.com/orgs/the-turing-way/projects/9)
- [Working group repository](https://github.com/the-turing-way/infrastructure-working-group)

#### People

- Chair: [Jim Madge](https://book.the-turing-way.org/afterword/contributors-record#jim-madge)
- Secretary: [Sarah Gibson](https://book.the-turing-way.org/afterword/contributors-record#sarah-gibson)
- Member: [Danny Garside](https://book.the-turing-way.org/afterword/contributors-record#danny-garside)
- Member: [Brigitta Sipőcz](https://book.the-turing-way.org/afterword/contributors-record#brigitta-sipocz)
- Member: [Johana Bayer](https://book.the-turing-way.org/afterword/contributors-record#likeajumprope)

### Accessibility Working Group

#### Project Information

- [GitHub issues](https://github.com/the-turing-way/the-turing-way/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+accessibility+label%3Aaccessibility)

#### People

- [Liz Hare](https://book.the-turing-way.org/afterword/contributors-record#liz-hare)
- [Anne Lee Steele](https://book.the-turing-way.org/afterword/contributors-record#anne-lee-steele)

### Book Dash Planning Committee and Working Group

#### Project Information
[Chapter in the Community Handbook](https://book.the-turing-way.org/community-handbook/bookdash)

#### People

- Chair: [Esther Plomp](https://book.the-turing-way.org/afterword/contributors-record#esther-plomp)
- Secretary: [Arielle Bennett](https://book.the-turing-way.org/afterword/contributors-record#arielle-bennett)
- Secretary: [Emma Karoune](https://book.the-turing-way.org/afterword/contributors-record#emma-karoune)
- Member: [Carlos Martinez](https://book.the-turing-way.org/afterword/contributors-record#c-martinez)
- Member: [Susana Roman Garcia](https://book.the-turing-way.org/afterword/contributors-record#susana465)

## Funded Projects

### Professionalising Data Science Roles - Turing's Skills Policy Award

#### Project Information

[GitHub repo](https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/professionalising-data-science-roles)

#### People

- [Emma Karoune](https://book.the-turing-way.org/afterword/contributors-record#emma-karoune)
- [Malvika Sharan](https://book.the-turing-way.org/afterword/contributors-record#malvika-sharan)
- [Alexandra Araujo Alvarez](https://book.the-turing-way.org/afterword/contributors-record#alexandra-araujo-alvarez)

### *The Turing Way* Practitioners Hub - BridgeAI-funded Project

#### Project Information

[Webpage](https://www.turing.ac.uk/turing-way-practitioners-hub)

#### People

- [Malvika Sharan](https://book.the-turing-way.org/afterword/contributors-record#malvika-sharan)
- [Kirstie Whitaker](https://book.the-turing-way.org/afterword/contributors-record#kirstie-whitaker)
- [Alexandra Araujo Alvarez](https://book.the-turing-way.org/afterword/contributors-record#alexandra-araujo-alvarez)

### Pathways Python Package for Curated Access to Book Chapters

#### Project Information

- [GitHub repo in The Turing Way](https://github.com/the-turing-way/pathways)
- [prototype repo in the Turing organisation](https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/bio-Turing-Way/)

#### Developers

- May Yong, Iain Stanson, Lydia France, Malvika Sharan: funded by AI for Science and Government in 2021-2022
- Arya A., Johanna Bayer, Malvika Sharan: 2023 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)

#### Maintainers

- [Arya A](https://book.the-turing-way.org/afterword/contributors-record#arya-a)
- [Infrastructure working group](#subprojects-infra-wg)

### Data Science Project Management for Project Leaders

#### Project Information

#### Project Information

- [GitHub repo in the Turing organisation](https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/data-training-for-bioscience)
- Materials are hosted under The Carpentries incubator
    - lesson 1: [introduction to AI and Data Science](https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/managing-computational-projects)
    - lesson 2: [open and reproducible practices](https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/data-science-ai-senior-researchers) featuring *The Turing Way* resources.

#### Developers

- Malvika Sharan, Lydia France, Federico Nanni: : funded by AI for Science and Government in 2021-2022
- Julien Colomb (in-kind from TU Berlin) and Jo Havemamm from Access to Perspective (funded by the Turing's Health Research Programme): 2023

#### Maintainers

- [Julien Colomb](https://book.the-turing-way.org/afterword/contributors-record#julien-colomb)
- [Malvika Sharan](https://book.the-turing-way.org/afterword/contributors-record#malvika-sharan)

## Informal Initiatives

## Cite.Software: Centalising Recommendation for Research Stakeholders

#### Project Information

[GitHub issues](https://github.com/the-turing-way/the-turing-way/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Asoftware-citation)

#### People

- [Christopher Erdmann](https://book.the-turing-way.org/afterword/contributors-record#christopher-erdmann)
- [Malvika Sharan](https://book.the-turing-way.org/afterword/contributors-record#malvika-sharan)

## Recognising Research Infrastructure Roles (RIR)

#### Project Information

[Article in Journal of Trial & Error](https://journal.trialanderror.org/pub/manifesto-rewarding-recognizing/release/1)

#### People

- [Arielle Bennett](https://book.the-turing-way.org/afterword/contributors-record#arielle-bennett)
- [Esther Plomp](https://book.the-turing-way.org/afterword/contributors-record#esther-plomp)
- [Danny Garside](https://book.the-turing-way.org/afterword/contributors-record#danny-garside)
- [Hao Ye](https://www.weecology.org/author/hao-ye/)
