Tracy Teal announced as keynote speaker at CarpentryConnect Manchester 2019
Dr. Tracy Teal at the
National Library of
Medicine.
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We are very pleased to announce Tracy Teal as one of the keynote speakers at CarpentryConnect Manchester 2019. Her talk “Democratising data: building inclusive communities teaching universal data literacy” will address issues around supporting the creation and development of inclusive communities and teaching researchers data skills.
About Tracy
Dr Tracy Teal is co-founder of Data Carpentry and now the Executive Director of The Carpentries. She received her PhD in Computation and Neural Systems from California Institute of Technology, was an NSF Postdoctoral Researcher in Biological Informatics and then an Assistant Professor in Microbiology at Michigan State University. While an assistant professor, she saw researchers' need for effective data skills to effectively and reproducibly conduct research, and co-founded Data Carpentry to scale data training along with data production.
About CarpentryConnect Manchester
In affiliation with The Carpentries, the Software Sustainability Institute are organising the first CarpentryConnect Manchester from 25th - 27th June 2019 in collaboration with the Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research and with support from Manchester’s Data Science Institute. It will be hosted at The Studio Manchester on 25th and 26th of June and in the Kilburn Building at the School of Computer Science (University of Manchester) on 27th June.