Research Data Champions
The Research Data Champion program aims to build a collaborative and diverse community of research data experts to drive uptake of good research data management practice and improve discipline-specific research data management support for Curtin researchers.
The program focuses on training, promotion and advocacy for research reproducibility; good research data management practice; data management planning; and FAIR data principles.
Research Data Champions can give research data management advice in their discipline, or refer queries to the appropriate support areas.
To learn more about the program, contact researchdata@curtin.edu.au.
Dr Stephen Ball
Research Fellow, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine, Faculty of Health Sciences
Phone: 08 9266 4341
Email: stephen.ball@curtin.edu.au
Areas of expertise:
Epidemiology, prehospital research, statistics, spatial data analysis and database programming.
Why I’m involved:
To assist my role as data security manager for our research group, and to be able help others in my School with data management issues.
Associate Professor Felix Chan
Associate Professor, School of Economics, Finance and Property, Faculty of Business and Law
Phone: 08 9266 7760
Email: Felix.Chan@cbs.curtin.edu.au
Areas of expertise:
Econometrics, time series, multi-dimensional panel data, predictive analytics and risk modelling.
Why I’m involved:
As the size and complexity of data increase, it is obvious that a robust approach to ensure data integrity and transparency, which respecting individual privacy, is essential to ensure trust, reproducibility and the credibility of our research. I see the promotion of such practice the main role of a Research Data Champion.
Dr Julien Cassoni
Lecturer, School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering
Phone: 08 9266 3512
Email: Julien.Cisonni@curtin.edu.au
Areas of expertise:
Computational Fluid Dynamics, Fluid-Structure Interactions, Aeroacoustics.
Why I’m involved:
I am interested in promoting collaborative research projects through sharing of numerical and experimental datasets. I would also like to contribute to the design of effective approaches to collect, manage and distribute scientific data.
Dr Lesley Crowe-Delaney
Adjunct Research Fellow, School of Management and Marketing, Faculty of Business and Law
Phone: 08 9266 3597
Email: lesley.crowe-delaney@curtin.edu.au
Areas of expertise:
Tourism policy, tourism and coastal development, Japanese tourism, Chinese tourism, Australian tourism, tourism geography.
Why I’m involved:
Tourism data can be specific and qualitative in academic research. Accessing managed data sets across larger and varied disciplines’ collections may contribute to better inform sustainability efforts in tourism and coastal development research and management rather than the basic broad range data currently collected and which doesn’t always facilitate the grass roots industries and SMEs.
Dr Hadrien Devillepoix
Research Associate, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering
Email: Hadrien.Devillepoix@curtin.edu.au
Areas of expertise:
Planetary science and astronomy. In charge of science and responsible for the data product of the Global Fireball Observatory (4.5 TB of raw data collected per day).
Why I’m involved:
I want to help other researchers in my area make their datasets discoverable and re-usable in the future, even after the project is finished. Eager to learn about best practices and solutions.
Jack Downes
Higher Degree by Research Student, School of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Science, Faculty of Science and Engineering
Email: jack.downes@curtin.edu.au
Shari Freeman
Higher Degree by Research Student, School of Design and the Built Environment, Faculty of Humanities
Areas of expertise:
Community development; Design thinking; Service design; Social innovation.
Why I’m involved:
To develop my skills in research data management, and collaborate with other researches in advancing best practice and continuous improvement in research data management practice.
David Hach Soeur
Higher Degree by Research Student, School of Marketing, Faculty of Business and Law
Email: David.Hachsoeur@curtin.edu.au
Areas of expertise:
Luxury branding, star designer, fashion designer and social media marketing.
Why I’m involved:
Marketing and data analysis come together as a package for researchers. As a result, I would like to learn and develop additional skills in this data management. Then, I can use them more effectively and efficiently.
Belinda House
Higher Degree by Research Student, School of Design and the Built Environment, Faculty of Humanities
Areas of expertise:
Urban Design.
Why I’m involved:
To implement good data management strategies early on in my Urban and Regional Planning PhD.
Dr Parisa Izadpanahi
Senior Lecturer, School of Design and Built Environment, Faculty of Humanities
Phone: 08 9266 7179
Email: Parisa.Izadpanahi@curtin.edu.au
Areas of expertise:
Urban informatics and ecologies: the use of data in designing smart and sustainable urban environment.
Smart urban design and infrastructure technologies (use of advanced technologies, real time data and spatial analysis) considering Universal Design
Designing smart and sustainable cities, through fostering citizen’s digital participations.
Smart active transportation.
Good urban design, and human’s health and wellbeing.
Sustainable design and occupants’ environmental attitudes and behaviours.
Why I’m involved:
Learn the best practices around research data management, and also being able to assist my colleagues with their related inquiries.
Dr Sean Lee
Lecturer, School of Marketing, Faculty of Business and Law
Phone: 08 9266 4389
Email: Sean.Lee@curtin.edu.au
Areas of expertise:
Consumer research in marketing, tourism and hospitality, quantitative research methods and programs (SPSS, AMOS, MPLUS, SMART-PLS) and experimental research methods.
Why I’m involved:
Marketing is becoming an increasingly data-driven industry requiring the collation of large amounts of data; and data is also the ‘bread and butter’ of researchers. Thus, it is highly important that researchers, both emerging and experienced, pay special attention to integrity in the acquisition, validation, storage, protection, and processing of this data. I am keen to be able to learn about the various facets of research data management and to be able to share this knowledge with my colleagues and students.
Jose Roberto Loureiro
Higher Degree by Research Student, School of Economics and Finance, Faculty of Business and Law
Email: 18974517@student.curtin.edu.au
Areas of expertise:
Economic Modelling & Engineering.
Why I’m involved:
To improve research skills.
Dr Stephen Ball
Associate Professor Felix Chan
Dr Julien Cassoni
Dr Lesley Crowe-Delaney
Dr Hadrien Devillepoix
Jack Downes
Shari Freeman
David Hach Soeur
Belinda House
Dr Parisa Izadpanahi
Dr Sean Lee
Jose Roberto Loureiro
Professor Rachael Moorin
Professor of Health Economics and Data Analytics, School of Population Health, Faculty of Health Sciences
Phone: 08 9266 3536
Email: R.Moorin@curtin.edu.au
Areas of expertise:
Epidemiology, Health Services Research, Biostatistics, Linked Administrative Data.
Why I’m involved:
Large linked individual level health (and other) data are now readily available but without the necessary skills to manage and analyse these data appropriately the opportunities these data present will not be fully realised. I am passionate about using these data and want to support others in developing skills to be able to use them.
Loveness Matemera
Learning Analytics, LITEC
Email: Loveness.Zambezi@curtin.edu.au
Areas of expertise:
Intern – Learning Analytics.
Why I’m involved:
I want to learn more about data management and other best practices involved.
Dr Kathryn Napier
Senior Data Scientist, Curtin Institute of Computation, Faculty of Science and Engineering
Email: Kathryn.Napier@curtin.edu.au
Areas of expertise:
Health Informatics and Data Science.
Why I’m involved:
The appropriate management of research data is a critical aspect of reproducible research. Sensitive and confidential data, commonly used in health research, has an additional level of complexity when it comes to best practices of data management. I wish to be as well informed as I can be, and to use this knowledge to assist Curtin researchers.
Dr Qassim Saad
Senior Lecturer, School of Design and the Built Environment, Faculty of Humanities
Phone: 08 9266 2276
Email: Qassim.Saad@curtin.edu.au
Area of expertise:
Industrial design, user experience design, product design and maker.
Why I’m involved:
I’m practising data visualisation, keen to go deeper in research data management, investigating further strategies, and applications.
Shashank Sharma
Higher Degree by Research Student, WA Australian School of Mines, Faculty of Science and Engineering
Areas of expertise:
Data sharing policies, coding, data visualisation, data archiving, statistical analysis, imaging, database design.
Why I’m involved:
Learn the principles of research data management, its importance for good scientific practice and also being able to train assistants and other members of the team how to organize findings and read data collected properly.
Dr Ranjodh B.Singh
Lecturer, School of Economics, Finance and Property, Faculty of Business and Law
Phone: 08 9266 4409
Email: Ranjodh.Singh@curtin.edu.au
Areas of expertise:
Statistics, econometrics and behavioural modelling.
Why I’m involved:
Data is accumulating at a rate never seen before, we need to adopt best practises to adopt it.
Dr Sharon Smart
Lecturer, School of Occupational Therapy, Social Work and Speech Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences
Phone: 08 9266 3086
Email: Sharon.Smart@curtin.edu.au
Areas of expertise:
Surveys, interviews, demand driven research and information organisation.
Why I’m involved:
To promote improved sharing of data, materials and equipment within the faculty and university. I am also interested to learn and share efficient ways to collect manage and store data effectively and efficiently.
Dr Irene Suarez-Martinez
Senior Lecturer, School of Electrical Engineering, Computation and Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering
Phone: 08 9266 3824
Email: I.Suarez-Martinez@curtin.edu.au
Area of expertise:
Material Science.
Why I’m involved:
I want to learn how other organize and manage their data, I’m interested in the cross-disciplinary approaches.
Jia-Xin Tay
Higher Degree by Research Student, Centre for Transformative Work Design, Faculty of Business and Law
Email: jiaxin.tay@curtin.edu.au
Areas of expertise:
Survey research and data-driven research in organisational behaviour.
Why I’m involved:
Much of the survey research in my organisation yield (somewhat) large amounts of data, sometimes of a longitudinal design, and often with various degrees of overlap in the survey instruments used. I want to learn better ways to properly manage all these data so that they are easier to archive, access and reuse, and ideally promote the conduct of research using archival data.
Chantel Tichbon
Higher Degree by Research Student, Faculty of Health Sciences
Email: chantel.tichbon@curtin.edu.au
Areas of expertise:
Psychological qualitative research.
Why I’m involved:
I want to help improve support resources for students to ensure they understand how to manage their data appropriately.
Dr Sawitchaya (Nancy) Tippaya
Senior Data Scientist, Curtin Institute for Computation, Faculty of Science and Engineering
Phone: 08 9266 7290
Email: Sawitchaya.Tippaya@curtin.edu.au
Areas of expertise:
Computer Vision; classification, recognition and implementation in IoT devices, Data analytics in health and sports, Adaptive signal processing, Software development in advanced circuit design analysis.
Why I’m involved:
To learn more about best practices and solutions for the data management and to share knowledge with my colleagues and other researchers.
Dr Ramon Wenzel
Senior Lecturer, School of Management and Marketing, Faculty of Business and Law
Phone: 08 9266 3341
Email: Ramon.Wenzel@curtin.edu.au
Areas of expertise:
Using science, technology and pragmatism to #makeworkbetter. I research how humans think, feel and act at work and translate insights so organisations can improve their capacity, culture and capability. Survey design : Data reporting, dashboards, visualisation : Evidence-based practice and data analytics education : Data pipelines : Planned missing data : Synthesised data : Privacy, Security, Ethics.
Why I’m involved:
To #makeworkbetter using analytics, algorithms, and automation, we need to better understand and educate on the opportunities, risks and practices in managing, leveraging and sharing data. It is my goal that scholars and practitioners can confidently use and share data for meaningful benefits, and no one has to deal with unintended consequences.
Professor Rachael Moorin
Loveness Matemera
Dr Kathryn Napier
Dr Qassim Saad
Shashank Sharma
Dr Ranjodh B.Singh
Dr Sharon Smart
Dr Irene Suarez-Martinez
Jia-Xin Tay
Chantel Tichbon
Dr Sawitchaya (Nancy) Tippaya
Dr Ramon Wenzel
Dr Hollie White
Lecturer, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Humanities
Phone: 08 9266 7631
Email: Hollie.White@curtin.edu.au
Areas of expertise:
Metadata, information organisation, library collections, representation and social justice and mixed methods research.
Why I’m involved:
As a former librarian, I know how important data sharing and open data is to social justice and a free society. I’m now a lecturer and researcher in the Humanities, so I want to learn the best approaches to promote the library’s data-related programs in order to help my academic colleagues who haven’t had the same experiences.
Dr Yifan Zhong
Lecturer, School of Management and Marketing, Faculty of Business and Law
Phone: 08 9266 5430
Email: Yifan.Zhong@curtin.edu.au
Areas of expertise:
International Business and Human Resource Management.
Why I’m involved:
The incredible value of research data requires further attention in management and retention. Meaningful research data is able to create information and knowledge in the long run. I am to utilise the research data management to promote research within my field.
Dr Hollie White
Dr Yifan Zhong
Dr Siobhan Hatton-Jones
Associate Lecturer, School of Marketing, Faculty of Business and Law
Dr Gretchen (Gigi) Petery
Research Fellow, ARC Centre for Excellence in Population Ageing Research, Centre for Transformative Work Design, and Future of Work Institute, Faculty of Business and Law
Dr Siobhan Hatton-Jones