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Exploring diverse data science roles (9:08)

Northern Health Futures (NortHFutures)

14 July 2026

Last Updated

1 January 2025

This talk presents some of the research from the Skills Policy Award Project - Professionalising traditional and infrastructure research roles in data science. Emma presents a case for a move away from the current unhelpful and misleading narrative around data science roles dominated by the 'the data scientist' to the much more realistic 'data science team' made up of individuals performing diverse roles with specialised skills to enable more impact and greater sustainability for data science research.

She gives examples from Turing's data science project teams and how different roles have been deployed to make up effective interdisciplinary teams.

The accompanying slides are available here: Karoune, E. (2024, November 7). Exploring diverse data science roles and their skills. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14049537

Instructor

Emma Karoune

Senior Researcher, The Alan Turing Institute

Emma works as a Senior Researcher focusing on Research Community Building in the Tools, Practices and Systems Programme of The A...

Organisation

Northern Health Futures (NortHFutures)

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.