Team Members
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Robert Haines
Director of Research IT
Robert (Rob) is Director of Research IT and an Honorary Lecturer in Computer Science, and a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute. He is one of the originators of the term “Research Software Engineer”, served for six years as an elected representative of the UK RSE Association, chaired the First Conference of Research Software Engineers in 2016, and was a founding trustee of the Society of Research Software Engineering. Robert’s research interests include software engineering, software sustainability, software use in open and reproducible research, software citation and credit, and career paths for software engineers and data scientists.
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Gillian Sinclair
Research IT Relationship Manager
Gillian is a Relationship Manager for Research IT. As part of her role she facilitates and coordinates research networks across the University and ensures that the research community is kept up to date with Research IT services and activities. Gillian is also the Network Manager for DisCouRSE, a UKRI-funded Network+ project that will encourage and support the development of leaders across all digital Research Technical Professional (dRTP) roles.
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Martin Turner
Research IT Relationship Manager
Martin is a Research IT Relationship Manager and is a Visiting Scientist within the Scientific Computing Division in STFC; after overlapping secondments being Visualisation Director for the Harwell Imaging Partnership (HIP) at STFC/RAL and as a Visualisation Group Leader at STFC/DL. He initially gained his PhD in the Computer Laboratory at Cambridge University, on Image Coding and now supports the full research pipeline over a broad HPC/HTC background, specialising in many Visualization Themes, Computer Graphics and Mathematical topics associated with image and signal creation, data management, analysis, processing and presentation.