Springer Nature and The Wellcome Trust are partnering again this year to stage 'Better Science through Better Data 2018' (#scidata18).This year's event will be held in the world famous Natural History Museum! Now a staple of the research data conferences held throughout the year, this event will cover the benefits, challenges and practicalities of managing and publishing research data. 

As with every year, the event will have a focus on the needs of early career researchers, such as data skills, career progression, and good practice for sharing data alongside peer-reviewed publications.

The event provides the opportunity to see real life examples from researchers of innovative approaches to data sharing and reuse, as well as demos of tools and resources available to help them and their research community.

The event will involve a number of short “lightning” talks and demos from researchers and students, presenting case studies of research data sharing, data reuse and associated tools in action.

For those unable to attend in person, this event will be live streamed globally.

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Draft event programme

09.00 Registration and coffee

09.30 Welcome/conference opening

Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Springer Nature

09.45 Keynote #1

Rebecca Boyles, Senior Manager, Bioinformatics and Data Science, RTI International

10.30 Keynote #2

Marta Teperek, Data Stewardship Coordinator, TU Delft

11.00 Coffee break

11.30 Lightning talks session #1

• Overcoming data barriers for regional-scale coastal-impact analysis by Claudia Wolff
• Share for Rare: Promoting Data-Sharing through Japan's Initiative on Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases (IRUD) by Takeya Adachi
• WorldPop: Mapping population distributions, demographic and dynamics by Andrew Tatem
• Gridded birth and pregnancy datasets for Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean by Natalia Tejedor Garavito
• Multi-centre Epilepsy Lesion Detection Project conducting clinical research in an open-science framework by Sophie Adler
• Consent for data archiving in end of life care research: reflections on two qualitative studies by Jane Seymour
• Sharing Electrical Impedance Tomography and neuroimaging data from stoke patient by James Avery

12.30 Lunch

13.15 Lightning talks session #2

• Live Audit and Feedback for Trials Transparency by Nicholas Devito
• Identifiers.org Compact Identifiers resolution services by Sarala M Wimalarante
• STRENDA DB: Monitoring the completeness of information in data reports by Carsten Kettner
• Meaningful and reproducible statistics: Does my data hold what it promises? By Andrej-Nikolai Spiess
• Materials Cloud, An Open Science Portal for FAIR Data Sharing by Aliaksandr Yakutovich
• Counting reuse to Make Data Count by Helen Cousijn
• Nine good things about open science (and one bad thing) by Alasdair Rae 

14.15 Keynote #3

Magdalena Skipper, Editor in Chief, Nature

15.00 Coffee break

15.20 Keynote #4

John Burn-Murdoch, Data Journalist, Financial Times

15.40 Panel discussion

Theme: The responsibility of reproducibility: whose job is it to change the status quo?

Moderator: Kirstie Whitaker, Alan Turing Institute

Panelists:

Paola Quattroni, Cancer Research UK

Natalia Tejedor, University of Southampton

Sue Fletcher-Watson, University of Edinburgh

Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar, University of Huddersfield

16.45 Conference closing remarks

Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Springer Nature

17.30 Drinks sponsored by Springer Nature at Angelsea Arms (10 mins walk from conference venue).

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Keynote Speakers

To ensure the successful development of the 2018 conference programme and provide expertise in postgraduate education, research funding, and publishing, the following people will be keynote speakers at this event:

Mr Iain Hrynaszkiewicz - Programme Chair 

Head of Data Publishing, Springer Nature

Iain is Head of Data Publishing in the Open Research Group at Springer Nature, where he      develops new areas of research data publishing and data policy. This includes efforts to make  research data more visible and reusable by developing links with data repositories, and data  journals such as Scientific Data. He has led various initiatives and published numerous articles  related to data sharing, open access, open data and reproducible research. 

Rebecca Boyles

Senior Manager, Bioinformatics and Data Science, RTI International

Rebecca Boyles has nearly 20 years of experience in environmental health science research with a focus on data science applications, including data management technologies and data integration. She has particular expertise designing data-driven research methods and architectures to support research collaborations. She is currently the Co-Director of Infrastructure for the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Data Analysis Center and a member of the North Carolina Precision Health Collaborative Steering Committee.

Dr Marta Teperek

Research Data Stewardship Lead, TU Delft

Marta completed a PhD in molecular biology at the University of Cambridge. She then got  professionally involved in advocating for Open Research and for better transparency in science.  In 2015 she joined the University of Cambridge and led the creation and development of the  Research Data Management Facility, supporting researchers at the University of Cambridge in  good management and sharing of research data. While at Cambridge, Marta initiated and  overseen the Data Champions programme and the Open Research Pilot. In August 2017 Marta moved to TU Delft in Netherlands, where she leads the Data Stewardship project.

Magdelena Skipper 

Editor In Chief, Nature  

Magdalena Skipper is Editor in Chief of Nature and Chief Editorial Advisor for Nature Research.   She has considerable editorial and publishing experience, having started in Nature Publishing   Group in 2001. She was Chief Editor of Nature Reviews Genetics, Senior Editor for genetics and   genomics at Nature, Executive Editor for the Nature Partner Journals and Editor in Chief of Nature   Communications. A geneticist by training, she obtained her PhD from University of Cambridge for   the studies on sex determination at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK. She continued her research at the ICRF Laboratories (CRUK today), London, before turning her attention to scientific publishing. She is passionate about mentorship, transparent science and clarity in science communication. She has a keen interest in innovation in science.

Dr Kirstie Whitaker

Research Fellow, The Alan Turing Institute

Kirstie completed her PhD in Neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley in 2012 and   holds a BSc in Physics from the University of Bristol and an MSc in Medical Physics from the   University of British Columbia. She was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychiatry   at the University of Cambridge from 2012 to 2017. Dr Whitaker uses magnetic resonance images   to understand the changes in the brain's structure and function that underlie the emergence   of schizophrenia and depression. She is particularly passionate about ensuring that work is reproducible and can be replicated in independent data sets. She is a Fulbright scholarship alumna and 2016/17 Mozilla Fellow for Science. Kirstie was named, with her collaborator Petra Vertes, as a 2016 Global Thinker by Foreign Policy magazine.  

John Burn-Murdoch

Senior Data-Visualisation Journalist, The Financial Times 

John Burn-Murdoch, 29, is a senior data visualisation journalist at the Financial Times, where he uses statistical analysis and graphics to find and tell stories on a range of subjects including politics, demographics and sports. Before joining the FT in 2013, John was a data journalist with the Guardian's Datablog, which he joined after studying geography at Durham University and completing a master's degree in interactive journalism at City University, London.