Turing Way Practitioners Hub 2025 – become an Expert in Residence

Examples of activities include but are not limited to:

• Access to the Turing and The Turing Way resources, activities and collaborative opportunities curated for your organisation and network.
• Supported participation in training and capacity-building efforts available through the Practitioners Hub.
• Participating in Community of Practice training to build skills and gain frameworks for identifying stakeholders and engagement pathways to help your community collaborate and achieve shared goals in data science.
• Development of impact-based case studies capturing the success and challenges of open source and reproducibility in their organisation, highlighting projects of their interests.
• Customised pathways for capacity-building, community engagement and user research through expert-led consulting to strengthen the interdisciplinary collaboration and data science activities for your organisation.
• Consulting and support in organising training workshops with The Turing Way team to engage researchers from your organisation/network in data skills such as version control, programming skills, Open Science practices, computational reproducibility, Research Data Management and FAIR principles.

1-2 members from each organisation are recognised as Experts in Residence in the Practitioners Hub.

An EiR is

• A project leader, manager or specialist, who holds responsibilities for decision-making and strategy formulation for advancing technology, skills and data practices in their organisations or companies.
• An individual practitioner who understands the importance of open source, open data, reproducibility, ethics and collaborative approaches, serving as advocates and practitioners for best practices in their respective domains and sectors.
• An active contributor to skill and process building through consultation, hands-on support, and engagement activities in their organisations, advancing their teams, networks and capacity to embrace best practices to maximise the impact of AI.
• Someone who recognises the transferable and generalisable nature of data skills and wants to collaborate with practitioners from various sectors in the field of AI.

EiRs represent their organisation’s expertise and gaps in adopting best practices in data science and AI projects. This programme offers opportunities to:

• Engage with fellow EiRs and experts in AI through numerous networking opportunities.
• Develop an impact-based case study sharing successful examples from your organisation.
• Access customised training workshops, coaching and collaborations tailored to address challenges associated with your goals.
• Support in incorporating systems-level, collaborative and community-minded approaches to developing long-term strategies for your team and projects.

We have much more clarity about the ethical challenges, quality challenges and AI issues other organisations are facing. It helped to discuss them instead of relying on our understanding alone. We’ve updated our project management processes to include better stakeholder mapping, roadmapping, and risk analysis. We’re also planning an ethics team meeting where we outline our policy as a company that can be shared online.

– Cohort 2 Expert in Residence