Building capacity in data science for MLTC research: the AIM RSF approach

Kirstie's presentation at UK MLTC Symposium 2024: Building capacity in the UK MLTC community event on 18 April 2024.

Bio: Dr Kirstie Whitaker is a passionate advocate for making science "open for all" by promoting equity and inclusion for people from diverse backgrounds. She leads the Tools, Practices and Systems research programme at The Alan Turing Institute, the UK's national institute for data science and artificial intelligence. Kirstie founded and co-leads The Turing Way, an openly developed educational resource that enables researchers and citizen scientists across government, industry, academia and third sector organisations to embed open source practices into their work. She is the lead investigator of the £3 million AI for Multiple Long Term Conditions Research Support Facility. She holds a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of California at Berkeley. She is a Fulbright scholarship alumna and was a 2016/17 Mozilla Fellow for Science.