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Alanna Orpen

Alanna is Senior MarComms Executive at F1000. She obtained a…

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Alanna is Senior MarComms Executive at F1000. She obtained a BSc in Zoology from the University of Durham and assisted with cheetah conservation and land rehabilitation projects in Africa. Then she experimented with art infused science events and educational activities during her Masters in Science Communication at Imperial College London. From 2014 to 2017, Alanna worked as part of the Communications team at BioMed Central by blogging and coordinating media activity around published research.

Posts

Publishing 1000 articles: a time to celebrate collaboration and why it is vital

13 Jul 2021

The Tree of Life programme launches open access publishing hub to rapidly publish genome sequences of thousands of species on Wellcome Open Research

21 May 2021

Covid-19 drives surge in open-access publishing

08 Feb 2021

Presenting your Data Champions

09 Dec 2020

From Modelling Brain Activity to Modelling the Impacts of Covid-19

18 May 2020

BAME groups two to three times more likely to die from Covid-19 than the general population

07 May 2020

“To establish new models of publishing that are not bound by the legacy of processes tailored for print”

03 Apr 2020

“I believe open research can help early career researchers to seek new research opportunities and networks.”

04 Mar 2020

“The research community should move beyond the constraints of traditional peer review”

04 Feb 2020

“I’m excited to be part of a diverse board and hope I can contribute to shaping the platform into the most useful tool possible for early career researchers.”

16 Jan 2020