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Naomi Penfold

ORCID 0000-0003-0568-1194

LinkedIn naomipenfold

Twitter @npscience

Github @npscience

My focus

• Championing and supporting others — including asking the right questions, but not necessarily evaluation or feedback; I’m a coach, not a referee. I am proud to be a mentor for Open Life Sciences.
• Events that build community — thinking about the people, what they need in order to engage with each other, be productive together, feel part of something and welcomed. I love participating in well-organised communities like CSCCE and The Turing Way.
• Providing information to help others — finding things out and presenting the information for others to learn, understand and use. I’m good at finding out the details. To improve how I summarise it simply and elegantly for others, I am learning Service Design methodologies.
• Strategy development – I like understanding the landscape, the gaps, opportunities and priorities, and building a strategy from this. To flex my creative muscles, I practise improv comedy with a small troupe.
• Equitable innovation – I am focussing my learning on whether advances in some places offer advances to everyone, or to an already privileged subgroup. This is important to me because I am interested helping anyone to answer questions and make life better for themselves locally, and I prefer not to focus on national productivity or competitive advantages. Openness in science may be a way toward this goal, if implemented equitably, or designed for those with the greatest disadavantages in scholarship right now. To keep learning, I join book clubs and read/listen/watch.

Employment

At work, I am a Funding Programme Designer at Science Practice. I work with funders to design more inclusive, transparent, and strategic grantmaking and philanthropy sector. Key skills: qualitative research, programme design, event facilitation, communications.

My previous experience includes: academic research in biomedical science (PhD, 2017, University of Cambridge), supporting the early-career researcher community and promoting open science and transparency in research communication / science publishing (eLife, 2016-2018, 2020; ASAPbio, 2018-2020; mentor, Open Life Science, 2020; advisor, PREreview, 2018-2020; fellow, CSCCE Community Engagement Fellowship Program (CEFP 2019)).

2020-11 - 2022-04

Funding Programme Designer @ Science Practice

2020-02 – 2020-10

Community Manager (maternity cover) @ eLife

2018-10 – 2020-01

Associate Director @ ASAPbio

2016-11 – 2018-10

Innovation Officer @ eLife

2016-02 – 2016-11

Events Coordinator @ eLife

Professional Development

Dryad Board of Directors

Treasurer (2020-ongoing) during 2019-2022 term on Board of Directors for Dryad, a non-profit open research data repository

Open Life Science community mentorship

Mentor for Open Life Science, a 15-week mentoring & training program for Open Science ambassadors, for cohort 1 (January-April 2020) and cohort 2 (September-December 2020. Check out Cass Gould van Praag’s amazing work asOpen Science Community Engagement Coordinator for the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford & find her on GitHub; Look out for Harriet Natabona Mukhongo (Twitter), Brenda Muthoni Twitter and Jelioth Muthoni, who taught me how to be both a learner and a critical friend.

UAL Service Design Short Course, Summer 2020

7-week online course by Megha Wadhawan, University of Arts London, introducing service design and key methodologies and principles, June-August 2020.

Transition to Line Management course

Training given via Cambridge Network, delivered by Des Williams and Debby Lewis, DG International - introducing key concepts for line management and people-first approach, June-July 2020.

CSCCE CEFP 2019 fellowship

Scientific Community Engagement Fellowship by CSCCE, including learning about community management best practices and theory, developing strategy and a handover document for ASAPbio ambassadors, and running a survey of community members across 14 scientific communities to understand why people start contributing, what helps them stay, and why they may leave (see ‘Busy Bees’ at https://www.cscce.org/cefp/cefp-project-teams/) - and see the cohort celebrate our graduation

PREreview advisor

Advisory committee (2018-2020) for PREreview, a platform and community project to crowdsource peer reviews on preprints

Events and talks

Slides and recordings for ASAPbio talks are available from asapbio.org/resources

Event	Location	Date	Role	Description
eLife Online Research Talks 2020	Online	March-April 2020	Lead organiser	Online science talks in place of in-person talks for travel award winners during COVID-19 pandemic
eLife Community Ambassadors 2019-2020	Online	Feb-June 2020	Staff lead	Responsible for delivering programme from month 10 of 14, including summary blogs and community calls for Q3 and Q4 – see highlights of the programme co-produced with Miranda Nye here; full programme set up and coordinated by previous staff
eLife Innovation Leaders 2019-2020	Online	Feb 2020	Speaker	15-minute talk on ‘Establishing a shared vision’ (slides); programme summary blog
ASAPbio Jan 2020 workshop	EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK	Jan 20, 2020	Lead organiser and speaker	32-person, 2-day workshop for stakeholders to take stock and set next priorities in problem space; 15-min talk about the ASAPbio preprint server directory research with Jamie Kirkham, Fiona Murphy and others; Talk slides, accompanying data and preprint, plus workshop blog and resulting report (release blog)
FORCE2019	Edinburgh, UK	Oct 16, 2019	Panel organiser	1-hour talk panel with Dario Taraborelli (CZI), Theo Bloom (The BMJ and medRxiv), Amye Kenall (Springer Nature) and Humberto Debat (National Institute of Agricultural Technology, Argentina) - slides, blog & follow-up dinner report blog
ZMBP Annual Student Symposium 2019	near Tubingen, Germany	Sep 24, 2019	Speaker and workshop facilitator	25-min talk (slides, .pptx) and 1-hour workshop (slides, .pptx) to ~30 PhD students from Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), University of Tubingen (closed event) to learn about preprints
eLife Innovation Sprint 2019	Cambridge, UK	Sep 4-5, 2019	Project lead (participant)	Pitched project idea and co-led team with Daniela Saderi to develop ‘Hidden Gems’, a demo website to reveal preprints with fewer views to subvert the attention economy of well-connected networks - see ‘Equitable Preprints’ in blog with links
Neuroinformatics 2019	Warsaw, Poland	Sep 1-2, 2019	Keynote speaker	25-min talk to ~100 people at annual INCF conference about preprints - slides
WACCBIP annual symposium 2019	Accra, Ghana	Jul 24, 2019	Speaker	15-minute talk on ‘Preprints: an opportunity for African Science?’ (slides; video)
FAIR Science Edinburgh	University of Edinburgh, UK	June 4, 2019	Speaker	Preprints as part of the open science toolbox, presented to attendees of a reproducible research one-day workshop at Uni of Edinburgh - slides
CCBI Annual Symposium	Cambridge, UK	May 15, 2019	Speaker	slides
University of Cambridge Lunch & Learn	Cambridge, UK	April 26, 2019	Workshop organiser & lead	no notes
OpenCon 2018	Toronto, Canada	Nov 2-4, 2018	Regional workshop co-lead with Katerina Dima	Workshop session link
MozFest 2018	London, UK	Oct 26-28, 2018	Activity support to co-organisers Stuart King and Elsa Loissel	Hello, do you hear me? The other side of open science proposal
FORCE 2018	Montreal, Canada	Oct 2018	Attendee	no notes
Wholetale workshop	Chicago, US	Sep 13-14, 2018	Lightning Talk	Slides on reproducibility
Software Deposition Workshop	Oxford, UK	July 11, 2018	Speaker	Slides
CCBI Annual Symposium	Cambridge, UK	May 16, 2018	Speaker	no notes
eLife Innovation Sprint	Cambridge, UK	May 10-11, 2018	Creator + lead organiser	Collaborative event for open-source technologists + open science enthusiasts to prototype for open science - summary webpage
Better Science Ideathon MIT	Boston, US	April 23, 2018	Participant	no notes
Sage Assembly	Seattle, US	April 19-21, 2018	Participant	no notes
Collaborations Workshop 2018	Cardiff, UK	Mar 26-28, 2018	Speaker	‘Sustainability in research communication’ - video, slides; also runner-up in team hackday project
Hack24	Nottingham, UK	Mar 10-11, 2018	Participant	no notes
OpenCon 2017	Berlin, Germany	Nov 11-13, 2017	Member of organising committee, Regional workshop co-lead with Chris Hartgerink	Workshop notes
MozFest 2017	London, UK	Oct 27-29, 2017	Activity organiser & facilitator	‘Blockchain for research: opportunity or hype?’ discussion proposal; ‘Open science public park’ exhibition proposal; Open science soapbox lunch session – blog on eLife Labs cross-posted from my Medium
Hack the Midlands	Birmingham, UK	Sep 23-24, 2017	Participant	no notes
Science Disrupt London sessions	London, UK	Sep 14, 2017	Panel speaker	Slides
Open Science Fair 2017	Athens, Greece	Sep 6-8, 2017	Poster	no notes
Mozilla Global Sprint	London, UK	June 1-2, 2017	Participant	no notes
ODSC East	Boston, US	May 3-5, 2017	Participant	no notes
csv,conf,v3	Portland, US	May 2-3, 2017	Speaker	Slides
OpenDataCamp (UK)	Cardiff, Wales	February 2017	Participants	no notes

Writing

Academic works (preprints, articles, peer review reports) are collated at https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0568-1194.

Elsewhere:

• Online co-working partnerships are community of practice in action / archived - February 2020 blog for community site about virtual co-working practise with a fellow community member, now republished in CSCCE’s guide ‘Using virtual events to facilitate community building: event formats’
• What do preprints need to be more useful in evaluation / archived - Oct 2019 thoughtpiece for DORA envisioning how preprints could be a substrate for improved research assessment practices, co-authored with Jessica Polka
• Preprints are valid research outputs for REF2021 / archived - Aug 2019 summary of how preprints can be included in the next UK research institution funding assessment exercise, the Research Evaluation Framework, or REF
• ASAPbio supports NIH CSR proposal to notify study sections about NIH preprint policy archived and NIH CSR reiterates to study section reviewers that preprints may be cited in applications / archived - May and July 2016 blogposts detailing investigation into how the NIH’s preprint policy is being put into practice during application reviews
• Charting the Dimensions of Preprint Policies / doi: 10.18243/eon/2019.12.2.3 – March 2019 article about different elements discovered in journal preprint policies through the Transpose project
• Getting ahead of the curve as a community manager / archived – April 2019 write-up of my process to consider the engagement curve for ASAPbio ambassadors
• An agile community strategy — or how to use OKRs to say no and stay focused / archived – March 2019 blogpost about agile stategy development for community management (for CEFP2019 fellowship)
• Surveying the landscape of products and services for sharing preprints / archived – Feb 2019 webpage listing the various preprint platforms and service providers
• eLife Labs (2016-2018): elifesciences.org/labs
• The Reproducible Document Stack reinvents the journal publication for a world of computationally reproducible research
• eLife Innovation Sprint 2018 - FAQ
• Fostering collaboration at MozFest
• Science communication: Know your audience

Audio

Featured on:

• eLife Innovation Sprint 2019 podcast – speaking about the Hidden Preprints project and in conversation with Emmy Tsang about organising the Sprint event; produced by Jo Barratt, Hannah Drury and Elsa Loissel; available from the eLife Labs blog archived and from Soundcloud.
• Science Disrupt podcast, recorded January 2019, released June 2019 here – transcript to follow
• Open science podcast by Rachel Harding, recorded in interview with Daniela Saderi at FORCE 2018 (October 2018) and released (with a transcript) by the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform (CONP) here archived and on Soundcloud

Education

2016 - PhD in Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge 2012 - MRes, University of Cambridge 2011 - BA (Hons) in Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge

v1 of this resume was assembled by Emmy Tsang with <3 and kindness