Professor Keith George, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Exchange, Liverpool John Moores University will close Open Research Week 2023 by welcoming the final speakers. The Liverpool City Region Civic Data Cooperative aims to create an environment where data can be accessed, linked and analysed securely for the benefit of society, and act as advocates for better governance and use of data.  

They recently published their public engagement strategy Public Data for Public Good. In this talk, Ellie Fielding and Dr Emily Rempel will be talking about their most recent community project Round 'Ere. The project aims to build a locally governed and designed wellbeing data hub in Halton that connects community, researchers and service providers. The project is training local residents as community researchers to ask questions about wellbeing, data, and services in their local area. 

Ellie Fielding is a Programme Manager at the Civic Data Cooperative, hosted by the University of Liverpool. Ellie has worked in economic development in Liverpool and in London focusing on the role of start-ups and scale ups and their interactions with academic institutions to support innovation. Ellie is currently running a design lab to connect local entrepreneurs to societal challenges around mental health and an innovation sprint with students from the University of Liverpool to explore ways to support the most vulnerable residents of the city region through the cost-of-living crisis. 

Dr Emily Rempel (she/her) is the Public Participation Manager at the Civic Data Cooperative, hosted by the University of Liverpool. Her research and practice is at the intersections of critical data studies, public engagement, public health, and knowledge exchange. Her current projects include building models of public governance of local data and designing sustainable knowledge exchange systems for health data.   

Open Research Week is supported by the Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF) awarded by The Wellcome Trust to the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Liverpool 

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