Shifting power centres in scholarly communications – The One Day Conference 2019

Jocelyn LeBlanc is the Research, Data and Impact Manager at the Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC), a membership organisation representing over 145 charities in the UK. She is responsible for demonstrating the impact of charity-funded medical research and connecting and supporting members on issues related to research and impact. She coordinates AMRC Open Research, an F1000 platform for author-led publication and open peer review of research funded by AMRC member charities. AMRC Open Research was launched in early 2019 by 24 AMRC members.

Before joining AMRC, Jocelyn earned her PhD in neuroscience from Harvard Medical School and spent several years as a research fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital studying brain development. Her work with children and families affected by neurodevelopmental disorders inspired her to pursue a career in the medical research charity sector. She is passionate about accelerating research progress and bringing impact to people sooner.

Cathal is University Librarian at Maynooth University (MU), Ireland. He previously worked in University College Dublin (UCD) Library. Prior to joining UCD, he worked for FGS (now Grant Thornton) as Director of Consulting. He is Vice President and Council Member of the Library Association of Ireland, a former Chair, of the Irish Universities Association (IUA) Librarians’ Group and current Treasurer of the Consortium of National and University Libraries in Ireland. He is the Director of the Irish University Libraries Collaboration Centre at MU which houses the IReL initiative. He represents the IUA on the European Universities Association ‘Big Deals’.

Siân has worked for INASP since 2014 and is responsible for communications within INASP and in programme work with the people and organizations that INASP works with in Africa, Asia and Latin America. In addition, she has been involved in the development and launch of Journal Publishing Practices and Standards (JPPS), represents INASP in the Think. Check. Submit. committee and serves as a mentor in the AuthorAID project. She is a chef on Scholarly Kitchen and, prior to joining INASP, was editor of Research Information magazine for more than a decade. She has also worked as a science and technology journalist and has a PhD in inorganic chemistry.

Dr Anja Felmy is an evolutionary biologist. She obtained her Ph.D. from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, studying mating-system evolution in a hermaphroditic freshwater snail. Her doctoral thesis was honoured with the Silver Medal of ETH Zurich for being outstanding. After a maternity leave, Anja was awarded a Tailwind Grant to work as a postdoctoral researcher at EAWAG, Department of Aquatic Ecology, Switzerland. Since early 2019 she is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, funded by an Early Postdoc Mobility Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation. Her current research focuses on developing a more accurate method to predict short-term evolutionary change in natural populations, using Trinidadian guppies (small tropical freshwater fish) as a study system.

Alan Warde is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. His expertise is in cultural sociology, the sociology of consumption and the sociology of food and eating. He has published widely, acted as principal investigator of many research projects, and has had positions of director of research at institute and faculty levels. He has previously served on the Executive Committee and as a trustee of the British Sociological Association with responsibility for publications. He currently has such a role with the European Sociological Association. He has just stepped down from the being Co-Editor in Chief of the journal Sociology. He has had a long career in research and writing and is in a good position to reflect on new pressures on social science researchers and changes in ways of reporting and publicising scholarly research.

Dr Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins is a social anthropologist specialising in rural and regional development in the UK and Central Europe. She joined the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, after previous appointments at the University of Melbourne. Her current research is part of IMAJINE and ROBUST – two major consortium projects funded by the EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, and working across sixteen and eleven countries respectively. Bryonny is an affiliate of the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD), and was recently recognised as one of the Welsh Crucible’s thirty emerging research leaders in Wales.

I am a postdoctoral researcher in James Turner’ laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute (London, UK). My scientific interests include developmental biology and cell fate choices, specially from a transcriptional regulation perspective. My research training started at the Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris, France) thanks to the Erasmus program, where I could join Muriel Umbhauer’ group for a few months. I obtained my Degree in Biology from the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain) in 2012. As an undergrad student I joined Miguel Manzanares’ laboratory at CNIC (Madrid, Spain) to study the regulation of the trophectoderm lineage in the mouse preimplantation embryo. I stayed in the same lab to perform a PhD thanks to a “FPI-Severo Ochoa” fellowship, and I focused on the transition of the totipotent embryo towards the activation of the first lineages. During my PhD, I had the opportunity to carry out a short stay in Kat Hadjantonakis’ lab at the Sloan Kettering Institute (New York, USA) learning live imaging. Currently, I am studying epigenetic mechanisms regulating X-chromosome inactivation during mammalian evolution.

Wayne Sime is the Chief Executive of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), the international trade body for non-profit organisations and institutions that publish scholarly and professional content.

Previously, he was the Director of Library Services for the Royal Society of Medicine. Wayne is an accomplished Executive who has extensive experience in financial, IT and people management. Wayne has worked within the NHS and the financial sector.

Wayne has been a chartered Librarian since 2001 and became a Fellow of CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals) in 2009.