On this page you can find some selected projects from my portfolio of work. I’ve had the opportunity to work in life sciences, higher education, software development and local Government. If you have limited time I suggest taking a look at the following case studies for more complex projects:
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Preprint peer reviews
Europe PMC started indexing preprint articles in 2018 alongside journal peer-reviewed articles. During the COVID-19 pandemic preprints became increasingly popular as they offered immediate access to resarch findings and data. But it was left up to the reader to make a judgement about the robustness…
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Article status monitoring tool
Research articles can have have several different statuses. These include for example: published, withdrawn, retracted or removed. Knowing the status of an article is important for anyone who is citing an article. If an article is retracted, withdrawn or removed it may be due to…
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COVID-19 full text preprints
Scientific research has traditionally undergone a rigorous peer review process by experts in the field, before being published in journals and available to read. Prior to the pandemic, preprints were a relatively new format of research article that enable researchers to share their results and…
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Event organising 2011 – 2020
For 9 years I co-organised a number of community design events and conferences, including the Cambridge Usability Group, UX Unconference and Biocuration 2019. I was the Programme Co-Chair for UX Cambridge, UX Scotland, Service Design in Government conferences, organised by Software Acumen. Cambridge Usability Group…
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Europe PMC redesign
Europe PMC is an open, life sciences literature discovery tool that supports the open access policies of 37 funders. The primary users are life sciences researchers (academic and industry), clinicians and biocurators. The challenge When I joined the team they had limited knowledge of user-centred…
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Funder impact dashboards
Europe PMC is funded by 35 biomedical funders and charities. Researchers who receive grant funding from these organisations are required to publish any articles resulting from the research open access, and ensure that the full text of the article is available in Europe PMC in…
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Author profiles
Europe PMC provides access to millions of life sciences research articles. It can be challenging to find articles by a particular author or co-author, particularly if they have a common name. To resolve this issue, Europe PMC integrates with ORCID, the registry of unique, persistent…
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Open Access service
UK government and funder policies require researchers to publish their work Open Access. In 2014 a new requirement came into place which meant that all research articles which had been accepted for publication by a journal should be deposited in an institutional repository at the…
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Source Control for Oracle
Source controlling databases is manual and time-consuming, prone to human error, which causes problems during deployments such as accidental data loss. Red Gate Software already had a source control tool for SQL databases, but did not have one for the Oracle market. The challenge This…