We are very pleased to announce that Dr Fiona Murphy has joined the Advisory Board for the 2018 Researcher to Reader Conference.

Fiona is an independent research data and publishing consultant advising institutions, learned societies and commercial companies. Fiona is also an Associate Fellow at the University of Reading, a Board Member for the Dryad Data Repository and has written and presented widely on data publishing, open data and open science.

She is a past and current member of several research projects including PREPARDE (Peer Review of Research Data in the Earth Sciences), Data2Paper (a cloud-based app for automating the data article submission process) and the Scholarly Commons Working Group (a FORCE11 project devising principles and practices for open science systems).

We welcome her to the Advisory Board, where she will be a great asset to the Conference.

Mark Carden

12 September 2017