Dr Heather Turner is an EPSRC Research Software Engineering Fellow based in the Statistics Department at the University of Warwick. She first joined the department as a researcher in 2004, then spent just over a decade working outside academia from 2010, initially at Pfizer and for the most part as a freelance consultant. Both in and out of academia, her work has focused on the development of statistical code and software, using the programming language R. Heather is heavily involved in community management and engagement among users and developers of R. In her fellowship, she is working on initiatives to improve sustainability and equality, diversity and inclusion in the R project.
