Instructor
Senior Researcher, The Alan Turing Institute
Northern Health Futures (NortHFutures)
Emma works as a Senior Researcher focusing on Research Community Building in the Tools, Practices and Systems Programme of The Alan Turing Institute. She brings her open research and community building skills to projects including People in Data, the AI for multiple long term conditions research support facility, the Clinical AI Interest Group, the Turing-RSS Health Data Lab, the DECOVID project and Scoping the future of Health-AI. She co-leads the Research Community Management team within the Tools, Practices and Systems Research Programme. She is a core contributor to The Turing Way (an open-source community-led guide to reproducible research), and a member of the Book Dash Working Group, helping to build resources and training for other researchers. Emma is working closely with the Turing Skills Team to lead a project on Professionalising traditional and modern data science roles. This project is funded by a Skills Policy Award. She also co-lead People in Data that aims to convene an open community of data professionals, which promotes a culture that values and prioritises data and recognises people that work in data roles as essential to research. Emma is also a Software Sustainability Institute Fellow and an Elixir-UK FAIR Data Stewardship Training Fellow.
The Northern Health Futures (NortHFutures) Digital Health Hub aims to enhance health and wellbeing across the North East and North Cumbria region of the UK. The hub facilitates responsible research and innovation in healthcare technologies (health-tech), supported by inclusive digital skills sharing, training, and making connections. We take a people-centred approach and are committed to humanising health-tech by championing equity, participation, and investment across the region. We aim to create an inclusive environment where everyone, from health and social care professionals and industry leaders to community organisations, advocacy groups and academic researchers, can come together to collaborate, innovate and share insights and experience.
