DRI Role: National Open Research Coordinator
Contact: m.doran@ria.ie / @MichelleT_Doran
Profile
Dr Michelle Doran is Ireland’s national open research coordinator. In this role, she guides the delivery of Ireland’s National Action Plan for Open Research 2022-2030, in the context of Impact 2030, Ireland’s Research and Innovation Strategy.
Michelle has a background in research and project management. Michelle initially joined the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) in 2022 as project manager for the National Open Research Forum (NORF). In this role she supported NORF, liaising with projects successful in securing funding from the NORF Open Research Fund and supporting NORF communications and engagement. Prior to this appointment, Michelle was a project officer and research fellow at the Trinity College Dublin, Centre for Digital Humanities (DH@TCD) where she supported the smooth operation of DH@TCD’s suite of national and international research projects, and core academic activities. She also served as Irish Principal Investigator of the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Network, a project funded by the AHRC/IRC to undertake research and consultation towards the implementation of a permanent Digital Humanities association for the UK and Ireland.
Michelle holds a PhD in Early and Medieval Irish Studies and an MA in Digital Humanities.
Expert/Advisory Roles
- Member, UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association Governance Working Group, 2023-present
- Member, Research Data Management DARIAH-EU Working Group, 2019-present.
- Member, Digital Methods and Practices Observatory (DiMPO) DARIAH-EU Working Group, 2017-2022.
- Member, New Exploratory Phase in Research on East European Cultures of Dissent (NEP4DISSENT), Working Group 5: Mediating Research Through Technology, 2017-2021.
- Member, Hub for boosting the responsibility and inclusiveness of ICT enabled research and innovation through constructive interactions with SSH research (HubIT), Board of Experts and Advisory Board, 2017- 2021.
- Member, Big Data Value eCosystem (BDVe) Steering Committee, 2017- 2018.
Other Activities
- PI, UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Network, 2020-2022.
- Member, DARIAH VX Event Programming Committee, 2020.
- Peer Reviewer, Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ), 2020 – present.
- Founding Member, Digital Radical Iterative Editing (DRIVE) Working Group, 2019-2022.
