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Dr Rachael Stickland (she/her)

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I am a Research Scientist by background, with a PhD in Neuroscience. I specialised in neuroimaging, specifically Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). I have investigated the neural, vascular and metabolic function of the human brain and how these functions change in Multiple Sclerosis. I have developed and refined methods of measuring brain signals, examining different interpretations of what these signals tell us about brain health.

🧠 (2022 - Present) Data Wrangler at The Alan Turing Institute

Click for more details - What is a Data Wrangler?

Data Wranglers can be viewed as a specialised type of data scientist, read a description from The Turing Way book: https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/collaboration/research-infrastructure-roles/data-wrangler.html.

The research projects I work on use large population health databases (often electronic health records derived from primary care data). This data rarely comes AI-ready or research-ready. I create re-usable, accessible and efficient analytical workflows to help prepare data for specific use cases.

🧠 (2024 - Present) Member of the CPRD Scientific Advisory Group

Click for more details - What is CPRD?

"Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) is a real-world research service supporting retrospective and prospective public health and clinical studies." See: https://www.cprd.com/

The role of the Scientific Advisory Group is to provide advice to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) on the overall scientific direction and strategic priorities for its Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) service.

Click for more details - What is the SSI?

The SSI works to "help people build better software and more sustainable research software to enable world-class research." https://www.software.ac.uk/about

In 2025 I was accepted onto the SSI Fellowship programme (https://www.software.ac.uk/programmes/fellowship-programme). The main goals of the Programme are to improve and promote good computational practice across all research disciplines and support those who are doing this important work. My fellowhip plans will promote and enhance the activities of the Physiopy community.


🧠 (2024 - 2025) Independent Scientific Advisor Alumni for Innovate UK BridgeAI

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  1. aim-rsf/mapmetadata aim-rsf/mapmetadata Public

    An R package to help researchers use publicly available health metadata to map variables onto research domains

    HTML 6 3

  2. physiopy/physiopy-automations physiopy/physiopy-automations Public

    test & document automations used across physiopy repos

  3. Breathing-Task-Visual-PsychoPy Breathing-Task-Visual-PsychoPy Public

    PsychoPy code to display visual instructions for a 'Breath Hold' and a 'Cued Deep Breathing' task, alongside MRI scanning.

    Python 4 1

  4. aim-rsf/cprd-data-wrangle aim-rsf/cprd-data-wrangle Public

    Introduction to CPRD using synthetic datasets

    Jupyter Notebook 5

  5. aim-rsf/Synthetic-Data aim-rsf/Synthetic-Data Public

    An introduction to synthetic data, in the context of health-care and biomedical research.

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  6. the-turing-way/the-turing-way the-turing-way/the-turing-way Public

    Host repository for The Turing Way: a how to guide for reproducible data science

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