Gavin Morrison Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

A programme and project management role, where I lead and/or contribute to the development and management of a number of community-based projects.Specific programmes include PeerJ Collections and Special Issues, the PeerJ Awards programme, PeerJ Hubs society publishing and the development of the five PeerJ Chemistry journals.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

This role was within the Publishing Team, i.e. the more business-orientated wing of the company. I was the business owner of PLOS’ programme looking at launching new journals, using business analytics data and industry knowledge to investigate new journal suggestions then acting as project manager for launches. I also took a lead role in PLOS’ work towards.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

I was promoted to become PLOS' first Preprints Manager following the implementation of a new process to post certain research articles to a public preprint server prior to peer review. I would screen submitted content for preprint suitability - for example assessing the potential for the research to impact on public health - as well as leading process.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

I moved from PLOS Biology to PLOS Medicine to become their Publications Manager and take on more of a leadership role. This involved day to day management of the journal, such as publishing schedules, content delivery and supervision of journal staff, as well as more long term projects. These have included journal performance statistics, process.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Whilst continuing my responsibilities involving press and the journal’s magazine section, as a Senior Publications Assistant I became the lead for coordinating cases relating to publishing ethics/scientific integrity. I also began writing monthly blog articles to unwrap recently published research and explain them in a manner more accessible to the general.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Following a successful period working across all of PLOS’ journals, I was asked to move to the PLOS Biology team. Here, I took on greater responsibility including creating the weekly homepage, collating the monthly issue release, management reports, training new starters and mentoring junior staff. I also took on overseeing the magazine section of the.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Working as a publications assistant across PLOS’ seven journals to facilitate the submission, peer review and publishing of scientific research. This included technical style and writing checks, proof reading and troubleshooting problems such as copyright issues, figure manipulation and plagiarism. I was required to quickly become proficient in a number of.

Working up to 120 days a year offshore collecting data for environmental baseline surveys, habitat assessments, and seabed investigations. Responsibilities encompassed a range of tasks including seabed ground-truthing using both shallow and deep water camera systems, sediment sampling with various grabs or cores, water profiling using CTD arrays, water.

Primary responsibilities revolved around the comprehensive analysis, interpretation, and presentation of scientific data gathered from various locations within the UK and abroad. These data encompassed physical, chemical, and biological attributes, that would inform on the environmental suitability of a region intended for oil, gas or renewable energy.

Mossel Bay, South Africa

An internship during my Master's degree acquiring and analyzing valuable data on great white sharks in South Africa. Tasks included dorsal surveys/ID and the acoustic tracking of tagged white sharks - as well as additional seal and dolphin surveys - to inform on shark residency patterns and local habitat use. The culmination of my internship was reflected.

Msci, Master Of Marine Biology, 2:1

Awarded Academic ‘Entrance Scholarship’ Bursary, 2006 Example Modules: Cellular and Genetic Mechanisms; Physical Oceanography; Chemical.

A-Levels: Biology (A), Chemistry (A), Maths (A).

Gcses: 3A*, 6A, 2B