Minutes of UKCORR committee meetings are now available.
UKCORR Chair
The role involves:
- Leading on the strategic direction and operational planning for UKCORR, with support and input from the Committee.
- Communication with the members around strategic and operational decisions.
- Promoting the activities and expertise of UKCORR to external stakeholders.
- Ensuring UKCORR representation on relevant Committee and project groups.
- Co-ordinating responses to relevant consultations and developments
- Co-ordinating UKCORR members days and other events
- Leading on drafting responses to consultations and other relevant policy ensuring input from the Committee and members.
- Setting the agenda with the Deputy Chair and chairing the Committee meetings
Thom Blake – UKCORR Chair
UKCORR Deputy Chair
The role involves:
- Working closely with the Chair on the strategic direction and operational planning.
- Working with the Chair to set the agenda for the Committee meetings.
- Supporting the Chair in their role and working to increase the visibility of UKCORR.
- Deputising for the Chair as required.
Leigh Stork – Deputy Chair
UKCORR Secretary
The role involves:
- Organising the Committee meeting.
- Working with the Chair and Deputy Chair to set the agenda for the Committee meetings.
- Taking the minutes at Committee meeting, capturing actions and circulating these to the Committee and members.
Kate Beeby – UKCORR Secretary
UKCORR Membership Secretaries
The role involves:
- Managing UKCORR’s membership requests, processes and records, ensuring they are compliant with relevant policies e.g. GDPR
- Acting as a list owner for the “UKCoRR-DISCUSSION” JISCMail list
- Overall responsibility for the membership guidelines and making recommendations to the Committee when these need changing
- Providing updates to the Committee on membership requests
Bev Jones and Kelly Hetherington – UKCORR Membership Secretaries
UKCORR Technical Officer
The role involves:
- Maintaining the visibility of UKCORR as a source of technical expertise in the sector, by:
- Acting as a point of contact for technical aspects of repository development for the UKCORR membership and wider community
- Commenting on technical issues as they relate to repositories, open access and scholarly communication via the mailing list, UKCORR blog and other suitable outlets
- Contributing to members’ events from a technical perspective
- Liaising with other key stakeholders on technical developments e.g. Jisc, UKRI and contributing to their consultation and outreach events
- Supporting the development and maintenance of ‘Rioxx: The Research Output Metadata Schema’.
Agustina Martinez Garcia – UKCORR Technical Officer
UKCORR Web and Publicity Officer
The role involves:
- Updating the UKCORR website
- Developing the resource to ensure it remains relevant to members
- Actively engaging members to share information and knowledge
- Managing an active knowledge base of community resources
Tara Healy – Web and Publicity Officer
UKCORR Social Media Officer
The role involves:
- Leading on the assessment, maintenance and development of UKCORR’s social media presence
- Co-ordination of the creation of content for UKCORR and distributing these on the most appropriate social media platform.
- Management and development of the UKCORR blog and its content.
- Increasing the visibility of UKCORR and its activities to members and external stakeholders.
Michelle O’Hara, Social Media Officer
Committee Members ‘without portfolio’
During 2017, as part of promoting and expanding the work of UKCORR, the decision was taken to expand the Committee to enable a wider range of activities to be undertaken. This led to the creation of the group of committee members who serve without a specific portfolio.
Current Committee Members serving ‘without portfolio’ are:
- Anisha Ahmed
- Jenny Basford
- Kate Beeby
- Yvonne Budden
- Nicki Clarkson
- Jon Cook
- Nicola Dowson
- Gordon McQueen
- Andrew Marsden
- Satu Nieminen
- Dawn Pike
- Kirstyn Radford
- Nick Sheppard
- Alison Sutton
- Michaela Tonkinson
Past UKCORR Committee Members
- Nicola Dowson, Chair, February 2018-January 2024
- George Macgregor, Technical Officer, February 2018-January 2024
- Chris Manning, Web and Publicity Officer, February 2018-January 2024
- Anisha Ahmed, Social Media Officer, January 2019-January 2024
- Ellen Cole, without portfolio 2021-2024
- Galia Umansky, without portfolio 2021-2024
- Thom Blake, External Liaison Officer, June-October 2023
- Karen Veitch, External Liaison Officer, August 2022-May 2023
- Stuart Lawson, without portfolio, 2021-2023
- Catherine Sharp, without portfolio, 2021-2023
- Leigh Stork, External Liaison Officer 2021-2022, November 2023- January 2024
- Tracy Colborne, without portfolio, 2021 -2022
- Stephanie Meece, without portfolio, 2016-2021
- Arthur Smith, Secretary, February 2018 – January 2021
- Suzanne Atkins, without portfolio, 2016-2021
- Yvonne Budden, Chair, August 2012 – January 2018
- Nancy Pontika, External Liaison Officer, August 2013-January 2018
- Nick Sheppard, Technical Officer, May 2010 – January 2018
- Nicola Siminson, Secretary, April 2014 – January 2018
- Paul Stainthorp, Web and Publicity Officer, 2012 – 2016
- Katie Evans, Secretary, September 2012 – April 2014
- Anne Spalding, External Liaison Officer, January 2013 – August 2013
- Dominic Tate, External Liaison Officer, March 2009 – January 2013
- Jackie Wickham, Secretary, July 2011 – August 2012
- Gareth J. Johnson, UKCORR Chair, March 2011 – August 2012
- Graham Stone, Chair, April 2010 – March 2011
- Nicky Cashman, Secretary, December 2009 – July 2011
- Jenny Delasalle, Chair, March 2009 – March 2010
- Mary Robinson, Secretary, March 2009 – November 2009