The Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement (CSCCE) serves to professionalize and institutionalize the role of the scientific community engagement manager. We believe in the importance of human infrastructure for successful collaboration and offer fellowships, training and resources for scientific community professionals. We also conduct research into the role and impact of scientific community engagement managers. CSCCE is a fiscally sponsored project of Community Initiatives, a 501(c)3.

The goal of the Center is to professionalize and institutionalize the role of the community engagement manager within science. All of our activities are in service of this.Underpinned by an ethos of collaborative, evidence-based activities and the development of network-centric leaders, the Center has three focus areas:1. The AAAS Community Engagement Fellows Program (CEFP) and its alumni network, which provides a one-year professional development opportunity to existing scientific community engagement managers.2. Research to better characterize and support the emerging role of the scientific community engagement manager – including through collaborations with visiting scholars.3. The development and delivery of scalable, modular training materials, white papers and other professional development support materials for individuals and organizations working to build or fund scientific teams and communities.These three areas are tightly interlinked – with the research informing training materials and organizational feedback signposting future areas for research and/or curriculum development.

The AAAS Community Engagement Fellows Program is a training program for community engagement professionals in science. Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation the first cohort started in January 2017.I'm responsible for all aspects of the program - from budget to curriculum development. This has included:- Creating selection criteria, and an online application portal, plus carrying out all interviews for the inaugural class of Fellows and their host organisations. - Devising and delivering a brand new curriculum for scientific community engagement professionals via a week-long in-person training, mid-year meeting and end of year wrap-up meeting. Plus monthly cohort webinars and the supervision of the 4 project teams that the Fellows self-selected in January. - Creating, disseminating and analysing the first ever survey of scientific community engagement professionals. - Communications strategy for reporting the news and impacts of the program including blog posts on the Trellis blog, news articles and reports.CEFP is now housed at cscce.org. Please contact info@cscce.org for questions about the program.

I worked closely with Dr. Martin Storksdieck, Director of the OSU Center for Research on Lifelong STEM Learning, to develop a research agenda around Trellis. This position was made possible through a cooperative agreement between OSU and AAAS. See descriptions of the Trellis and AAAS projects for more details.

Trellis is an online communication and collaboration platform for members of the scientific community. Free to access, and open to anyone involved in science, Trellis makes it easy to discover the latest scientific news and research, engage with scientists from around the world and collaborate in public or private groups of any size. Trellis is built and operated by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science for the benefit of all people.As one of the founding members of the Trellis leadership team my role includes:- Overseeing all internal and external communications about Trellis including: updates for Trellis users, news stories, blog posts and social media marketing, plus leading our weekly Trellis team meetings. I also represent Trellis at various conferences and workshops discussing scholarly communications, online tools for scientists, and community engagement within science.- Managing a team of two full-time community managers to support external and AAAS groups in their use of Trellis- Providing strategic support for AAAS staff including the Office of Membership and AAAS programs.- Delivering on NSF INCLUDES grants to AAAS to a) organise a three day conference on human and technical infrastructure for collaboration and b) build a forum for broadening participation in STEM on Trellis.- Devising and implementing accessible, timely resources for all group admins on Trellis such that they understand the fundamentals of community management and how to get the most from the platform for their groups.- Running a family of groups on Trellis called C4Sci - Communities for Science Communication aimed at anyone working to build communities within science.- Significant product management input - including product testing, user feedback and user trainings.- Market research including devising and analysing user surveys.

One of a team of three organisers of the Open Knowledge Festival 2014, a 2.5 day event in Berlin, Germany from July 15th - 17th that brought together over 1000 members of the international open community. The festival had a strong emphasis on productive, interactive discussions with formats including workshops, hacks, demos, and art projects.Involved in communication-focused aspects of the event logistics including:- Overseeing creation of the festival website in WordPress and regular content updates. Creating and sourcing news updates and community contributions for the site.- Marketing activities for the event: social media coverage, email newsletters and press releases.- Planning and creating communications to ensure that everyone involved in the event, including 1000+ attendees. 200+ session facilitators, 7 major sponsors and OK staff had information that they needed.- Coordinating coverage at the event which produced over 11, 000 tweets on the #okfest14 hashtag during the week of the festival, as well as community-created etherpads of notes from the sessions.- Building partnerships with sponsors including tailor-made packages to encourage greater interaction between sponsors and open community members at the event. This also included a substantial Financial Aid programme to assist attendees from around the world to attend the festival.- Coordinating logistics at the event itself - including working with a team of 50+ volunteers, ensuring room set up and turnover and briefing speakers and exhibitors.

I devised, implemented and measured NPG's social media strategy for Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and Pinterest. This included co-chairing the NPG social media working group and creating and overseeing best practice guidelines and metrics documents for use by the 50+ account admins. My team ran training workshops and provided ongoing support for NPG social media users. This included the creation and maintenance of a social media toolkit of "how to" documents and other resources. Event organisation - Devised, launched and continue to co-organise SpotOn NYC (aka SoNYC), a monthly discussion series for scientists, technologists and educators. Main organiser of SpotOn London (formerly Science Online London) an annual two-day conference. Responsible for editorial programming, sponsorship, communications and reporting. Delivered break-even events in 2012 and 2013. Co-organiser of social media coverage for the Lindau Nobel Community aggregation site for the annual Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting in 2010, 2011 and 2012.In 2012 I led the rebranding of the NPG Communities events in London and NYC. This rebranding to SpotOn events (Science Policy, Outreach and Tools Online) included the creation of a new WordPress microsite (nature.com/SpotOn) as well as working with multiple internal and external stakeholders on required features, design and communications around its launch. In 2012 I was the product manager for the migration of the Nature Network bloggers to a new home on the WordPress-based SciLogs.com network. The previous year I was the product manager for the upgrade of 25 NPG staff blogs to a new WordPress cluster, blogs.nature.com, and I ensured the day-to-day support, promotion and monitoring of these blogs. I also oversaw content creation for two Communities blogs (Soapbox Science and Of Schemes and Memes) by managing a team that included a full time Communities Coordinator.

Nature Network is NPG's social networking site for scientists.nature.com blogs is an aggregator of NPG staff blogs, Nature Network blogs and the best science blogs from around the internet.This role included all aspects of Product Management, from working with tech teams on new feature specifications and QA/UAT testing to collecting and relaying user feedback, business development and social media marketing. I also oversaw all editorial content on the site both by writing content myself and managing a small team of part-time community managers and volunteer staff based in locations in the UK and US.Co-organised social media coverage for the Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting 2010 http://lindau.nature.com/ including site design, promotion, content creation, competition organisation and live-tweeting and blogging from the event itself.Co-organiser of the Science Online London 2010 two day conference - now SpotOn London.

Responsible for the re-design and project management of NPG's presence in Second Life, the Elucian Islands. In 2009 this included a Charles Darwin-themed area, an interactive, educational game and a virtual science park area for educators.Community management and organisation of virtual educational events including scientific conferences, launch events, educational tours and workshops. This role has also included industry analysis, business development and online marketing.

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Co-founder and then Managing Editor of Cambridge University's termly science magazine, BlueSci. Involved in all aspects of the magazine from advertising, recruitment, editing, production and distribution.

I was Sales Director and then promoted by my peers to Managing Director of the Young Enterprise company that we established during Sixth Form. During our free time we created and sold calendars based on old photographs from the school archives. Gained a distinction in the national examinations run by Young Enterprise.