Saskia Lawson-Tovey
saskialawsontovey.bsky.social
Saskia Lawson-Tovey
@saskialawsontovey.bsky.social
Research Fellow/Data Steward at the University of Manchester/Manchester BRC - health data, data stewardship, FAIR, open science

Deputy lead - ELIXIR-UK Human Data Community
Co-lead - NIHR MSK TRC Real World Data Harmonisation workstream
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🟣 Find out more about #SSIFellow @saskialawsontovey.bsky.social's experience attending the Fellowship of the Data - International RDM Community Meeting in our latest blog post:
www.software.ac.uk/blog/fellows...
July 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Proud to help drive cross‑Node collaboration at ELIXIR All Hands 2025 in Greece
25+ members joined the annual meeting to talk about #FAIR, #knowledgesharing, #nutrition #womenleadership, #digitaltwins & #softwarequality + a closing keynote
🔗 Read more: elixiruknode.org/news/2025/20...
June 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Reposted by Saskia Lawson-Tovey
Delighted to announce 'ConveRSE' - the new online hub for #MentalHealth information, resources and support for people in the research software community - at @softwaresaved.bsky.social #CollabW25.

More details and opportunities to contribute to follow in the coming weeks.
May 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Final chance to register - registration closes tomorrow!

If you're interested in musculoskeletal #data and stuck for something to do after #BSR25 on 29th April, why not come down to our workshop?
Are you going to British Society for Rheumatology's Annual Conference (#BSR25)?

Join us on Tuesday 29th April to learn how to make your #data #FAIR and our first in-person workstream meeting. Food will be provided!

Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti...
Introduction to FAIR with the NIHR MSK TRC Data Harmonisation workstream
Come learn about making data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) with the NIHR MSK TRC Data Harmonisation team!
www.eventbrite.co.uk
April 22, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Are you going to British Society for Rheumatology's Annual Conference (#BSR25)?

Join us on Tuesday 29th April to learn how to make your #data #FAIR and our first in-person workstream meeting. Food will be provided!

Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti...
Introduction to FAIR with the NIHR MSK TRC Data Harmonisation workstream
Come learn about making data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) with the NIHR MSK TRC Data Harmonisation team!
www.eventbrite.co.uk
April 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Reposted by Saskia Lawson-Tovey
The University of Manchester will collaborate on a new £6.2 million programme, TREvolution, to advance the development of key technical requirements and capabilities for UK Trusted Research Environments. The eScience Lab is leading TREvolution's approach to FAIR. www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/n...
March 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Reposted by Saskia Lawson-Tovey
🟥 We are happy to announce that the SSI has received £4.8m from @ukri.org to launch the Research Software Maintenance Fund.
Find out more about this exciting opportunity at www.software.ac.uk/news/ukri-aw...
March 6, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Reposted by Saskia Lawson-Tovey
ELIXIR UK Advent Calendar – Day 20 ✨🎄

Another #FAIRytale
@saskialawsontovey.bsky.social created a 90-minute FAIR workshop for UoM, blending collaboration and a pinch of data management magic! The success = a new recurrent FAIR training course at Manchester

Full story 👉 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Adapting ELIXIR training content at the University of Manchester
To expand FAIR data principles at the University of Manchester (UoM), we adapted ELIXIR’s FAIR Pointers course as an "Introduction to FAIR" workshop within UoM’s My Research Essentials (MRE) program. ...
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December 20, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Reposted by Saskia Lawson-Tovey
This is good news Friday www.ukri.org/news/ukri-de...! Good to see #FAIRData and a more integrated and consistent approaches to data management are in the pipeline plus promoting open research #OpenData
UKRI developing new research data policy framework
New pan-UKRI research data policy framework will maximise the value of data arising from UKRI funding and support an open research and innovation culture.
www.ukri.org
December 13, 2024 at 4:05 PM
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🎁 Day 12 of our #AdventCalendar
Have you read our #FAIRytales? Short stories from Digital RTPs
This one from Adam Partridge
"New training and support to address the barriers to implementing #Open and #FAIR data practices" at University of Sheffield
fellowship.elixiruknode.org/latest/outre...
FAIRytale. New training and support to address the barriers to implementing Open and FAIR data practices – ELIXIR-UK Fellowship
A a personal story about working with FAIR data
fellowship.elixiruknode.org
December 12, 2024 at 5:08 PM
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🧭 The selection process for this year’s SSI Fellowship Programme has now ended and we’re excited to introduce our 27 new Fellows and share their inspiring plans: www.software.ac.uk/news/introdu...

Congratulations to all our new Fellows!
December 12, 2024 at 1:55 PM
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🎄 Day 6 of #AdventCalendar: Spotlight on @rostler.bsky.social on of our#datastewardship Fellows

Richard’s Carpentries course offers guidance on managing #agriculturaldata for long-term reuse, supporting #FAIRprinciples

👉 Learn more: fellowship.elixiruknode.org/latest/carpe...
FAIR Data Management for Long-term agriculture experiments – ELIXIR-UK Fellowship
A Carpentries course aimed at long-term agricultural experiment (LTE) managers
fellowship.elixiruknode.org
December 6, 2024 at 8:13 AM
Reposted by Saskia Lawson-Tovey
Looking for members for the Biofair Research and Technical Advisory Group

biofair.uk/news/2024/bi...
BioFAIR Research and Technical Advisory Group: member vacancies - BioFAIR
The BioFAIR project is establishing a Research and Technical Advisory Group (RTAG). RTAG will play a key role in supporting the delivery of BioFAIR’s mission to assemble and operate a federated world-...
biofair.uk
December 5, 2024 at 11:25 AM
Reposted by Saskia Lawson-Tovey
What a great All Hands! co-hosted with our members at Cardiff University.
Check this out. What a great pic of our community with our funders, scientific and industry advisory board and potential collaborators 👇
November 21, 2024 at 4:29 PM