Secretariat
Executive Director:
Dr. Simon Hodson
Simon Hodson has been Executive Director of CODATA since August 2013.
Simon is an expert on data policy issues and research data management. He has contributed to influential reports on Current Best Practice for Research Data Management Policies and to the Science International Accord on Open Data in a Big Data World. Most recently he chaired the European Commission’s Expert Group on FAIR Data which produced the report Turning FAIR into Reality https://doi.org/10.2777/1524.
As part of his CODATA role, Simon is closely involved in an ISC and CODATA initiative to improve the coordination of standards for data integration and interoperability for interdisciplinary research and in the coordination of the CODATA Data Policy Committee.
Additionally, Simon leads or participants in numerous projects, Working Groups and Steering Groups. Currently (May 2019), this includes the following roles:
Project Director, African Open Science Platform Project;
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of CESSDA ERIC, the European data infrastructure for the social sciences.
In recent years, Simon has been a co-chair (2015-2018) of the GEO Data Sharing Working Group, to which CODATA has made a longterm contribution; co-chair of the OECD Global Science Forum and CODATA Project on Sustainable Business Models for Research Data Repositories; a member of the Board of Directors of the Dryad Data Repository (2012-2018), a not-for-profit initiative to make the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable.
Simon has a strong research background, as well as considerable project and programme management experience: from 2009 to 2013, as Programme Manager, he led two successful phases of Jisc's innovative Managing Research Data programme in the UK.
Contact Details:
5 rue Auguste Vacquerie, 75016 Paris, France
Tel. (Office): +33 1 45250496 / (Cell): +33 686304259 / Fax: +33 1 42881466
Email: simon[at]codata.org / Twitter: @simonhodson99 / Skype: simonhodson99
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3179-7270
Senior Research Lead: Laura Molloy
Laura is the senior research lead at CODATA, with a focus on the FAIRsFAIR project (https://www.fairsfair.eu/). She is Arts & Humanities Section Editor for the Data Science Journal (https://datascience.codata.org/) and joined the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts in 2016. She co-chairs the Research Data Alliance Interest Group on Education and Training for the Handling of Research Data, and the RDA IG Archives and Records Professionals; sits on the board of the Informall information literacy initiative; and regularly performs peer review for journals, conferences and award panels.
Laura has delivered a number of projects and initiatives in the digital preservation, digital curation and research data management (RDM) spaces since 2007. These include the management of a pilot UK research data discovery service for the Digital Curation Centre (DCC); advocacy and training to support RCUK expectations for RDM across the UK; skills-development and advocacy work for the FP7-funded Planets project, the universities of Glasgow and Cambridge and DigitalPreservationEurope; mapping of the JISC Managing Research Data (MRD) programme training outputs to the Vitae Researcher Development Framework and the SCONUL Seven Pillars models for JISC DaMSSI; production of the EC-funded DigCurV digital curation curriculum framework for cultural heritage; and work as Evidence Gatherer across the Jisc Managing Research Data programme of 2011-13.
Laura is interested in interdisciplinary research, creative arts professional practice; skills frameworks; improvement of the academic infrastructure for researchers including motivation and reward; research data policy development particularly for the arts and humanities; the development and certification of graduate education, training and careers in research data-related professions; transparent and ethical academic publishing, and the development of approaches to digital curation and RDM advocacy and training across all disciplines and user audiences, including the particular challenges of the articulation of digital curation and research data management good practice to non-science audiences. Her PhD project at the Oxford Internet Institute/Ruskin School of Art focuses on digital curation and digital literacy skills in UK visual art professional practice.
Research interests
visual art, digital curation, digital literacy, information literacy, digital skills development, qualitative research methods, research data management, digital object preservation, digital object management, digital preservation, skills modelling, academic infrastructure development, research data policy development, humanities research, qualitative social sciences, creative arts research
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Secretariat Assistant: Sally Davies
Secretariat assistance is provided by Sally Davies
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Programme Assistant: Asha Law
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