F1000, a provider of services to biomedical researchers to support the discovery, writing and publication of new scientific findings, has strengthened its senior leadership team with the appointment of Liz Allen as Director of Strategic Initiatives. Liz was formerly Head of Evaluation at the Wellcome Trust, one of the world's largest biomedical research charities.
During more than a decade at the Wellcome Trust, Liz developed infrastructure to support research governance, progress monitoring and impact assessment, and shape funding programme evaluations to support research strategy. Liz has a particular interest in the 'science of science', and specifically the development and application of science-related information and metrics to accelerate scientific progress and make science more effective; during 2014-15 she served as an adviser on the UK government commissioned Independent review of the role of research metrics in research assessment.
During 2010-2015 Liz was also Board Director of ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID), and is currently a Co-Chair of Project CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy - http://www.casrai.org/CRediT), which aims to bring greater granularity and transparency to contributions for scholarly outputs. Liz was recently appointed a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Policy Institute at King's College London.
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