Speakers

Helen Cooke, SVP – Publisher Markets, Digital Science
Helen joined Digital Science in 2021 and now heads up the publisher team, bringing 20+ years of experience from the academic publishing industry.  She has worked previously in sales and marketing positions to bring e-resources to libraries worldwide. Helen headed up the Journals Sales team at SAGE Publishing also working at GeoScienceWorld and Blackwell Publishing. For 8 years she was one of the owner/directors at Burgundy Information Services, working with varied publisher clients such as SPIE, Mary Ann Liebert, Canadian Science Publishing and CUP.

Jon Treadway, Director, Great North Wood Consulting
Jon works as an independent consultant specialising in business modelling and analysis, organisational review, and strategic planning. He works with organisations in the research sector and the cultural and creative industries. His clients include The BMJ, Cambridge University, Cochrane, ORCID, OASPA, SPARC Europe, Digital Science, Dryad, and the American Physical Society. Jon was previously Chief Operating Officer for Digital Science. He previously worked as a Senior Analyst at Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and Macmillan Publishing and ran the largest arts funding programme in Europe for Arts Council England. Jon is a qualified accountant and change management practitioner. 

Leslie D. McIntosh, PhD
Leslie D. McIntosh, PhD is VP of Research Integrity at Digital Science and leads FoSci, an initiative using forensic scientometrics to detect manipulation and strengthen trust in research. An academic-turned-entrepreneur, she founded Ripeta in 2017 to improve research integrity, which is now a key part of Digital Science. She has advised global governments, institutions, and organizations. Her work was the most-read RetractionWatch post of 2022. In 2023, her influential ideas on achieving equity in research were highlighted in the Guardian and Science.

Laura Wilson, Head of Research Integrity & Ethics, Taylor & Francis
Laura joined the publishing world in 2010, and has served as a council member on the Committee on Publication Ethics, as well as the Early Career Publisher member on the STM board. Laura is currently a member of the ALPSP policy and STM Membership committees.

Dr Jennifer Wright, Head of Publication Ethics & Research Integrity, Cambridge University Press
Dr. Jennifer Wright is the Head of Publication Ethics and Research Integrity at Cambridge University Press. She is also an elected COPE Council member and a registered advisor for the UK Research Integrity Office. Jennifer was previously an academic in the field of forest ecology and climate change (PhD University of Edinburgh, post-doc Oregon State University), and holds an MBA from Cranfield University”

Doug Melville, Technical Product Manager, Sage
Following a data career in public, private and third sector organisations in Scotland and Australia, Doug works closely with Data Science at Sage, managing the development of intelligence products to assist Research Integrity. Whilst new to publishing, having been at Sage for a little under two years, Doug has experience of working in Universities, and has a particular interest in risk modelling and early detection of anomalous behaviour from his time in Aviation Safety.

Ann Campbell, Technical Solutions Manager, Digital Science
As a Systems and Data Manager with deep expertise in Research & Innovation, Ann specialises in leveraging data to enhance research visibility, integrity, and impact. At Digital Science, she provides strategic insights and guided analysis using tools like Dimensions and Altmetric, helping funders, publishers, and academic institutions uncover trends and make data-driven decisions.

Her work focuses on data advocacy – integrating data across systems to support open research, research evaluation, and global sustainability goals, particularly the UN SDG agenda. With a background in implementing research and innovation systems, she has led process transformations that improve data reporting, compliance, and institutional rankings. Passionate about fostering a data-literate culture, she advocates for data-driven storytelling and breaking down silos to enable more effective decision-making across academia and scholarly publishing.

Katie Davison, Insights Analyst, Emerald Publishing
Squiggly career both outside of and within Emerald Publishing. I work in Data and Insight and involved in Emerald’s Open Lab, a team dedicated to helping our customers navigate the complexities of open access. Delighted to work in the critical thinking space of the research ecosystem, contributing to strategies and innovative approaches to address some of the challenges impacting academic research.

Mike Taylor, Head of Data Insights, Digital Science
Mike is Head of Data Insights at Digital Science, where he works with publishers and research enterprises to understand the impact of their journals and research.

Mike is an innovator in scholarly metrics and social impact. Prior to the development of altmetrics, he was working to understand how researchers were using emerging social media networks and other platforms to exchange information. Mike has conducted much research and has published papers and presentations on altmetrics and other forms of impact. He is working towards a PhD with Mike Thelwall at Wolverhampton University on Open Access publishing and social impact.

He has been involved in many open initiatives during his career, most notably contributing to the architecture of the Orcid repository and API prior to its launch during his time at Elsevier Labs.

Mike is the co-founder of ElevenOne Theatre and an active director, producer, writer and actor.

Lou Peck, CEO & Founder, The International Bunch
With 20+ years in the research ecosystem and 25 years of marketing expertise, Lou Peck specializes in strategy, training, and research, driving innovation through her leadership at The International Bunch. Her career includes impactful roles at the British Standards Institution, ProQuest, EBL Ebook Library, Kudos, Wiley and the Royal Society of Chemistry, where she has consistently empowered organizations to thrive. Since 2016, Lou has been a consultant providing critical insights and support for marketing teams across the research ecosystem. Lou lives in South Wales, UK, with her family and small ‘zoo’.

Jitske de Vries, Head of Marketing, The Company of Biologists
Jitske heads up the marketing team at The Company of Biologists, a not-for-profit publishing organisation. With a background in Business Communications, she has previously held sales and marketing roles, including for Elsevier and the European Association of Urology.

Rowena Gordon, Senior Managing Editor, British Ecological Society
Rowena manages the strategic development of two journals at the British Ecological Society. She specialises in communications and global equity in ecology. She has a Masters in ecology from Queen Mary University of London and has been working in publishing since 2017.

Daisy Veysey, Social Media Manager, eLife
Daisy is the Social Media Manager for the open-access journal eLife, where she is responsible for the strategy and management of the journal’s ever-increasing accounts. With a background in science communication, education, and public engagement, she takes on various other digital content and community engagement roles to support the organisation’s mission of improving research communication and culture.

Marion Schnelle, Social Media Manager, De Gruyter Brill
Marion oversees De Gruyter Brill’s social media strategy, running the publisher’s corporate accounts and steering nearly 100 editorial and imprint accounts post-merger. She has recently driven the company’s move from X to Bluesky. She holds a degree in English and Philosophy from the University of Leeds and previously worked on the Berlin Film Festival’s social media and in communications in the arts and higher education.

Sarah Greaves, Director and Publishing Consultant, Sarah Greaves STEM Consulting
Sarah has over 20 years of experience within STM editorial and publishing. After an academic career she worked at Nature Publishing Group for over 15 years in both editorial and publishing roles, launching Nature Communications and Scientific Reports before spending two years at Hindawi.  Sarah focuses on creating innovative new products and services aimed at solving key researcher pain points whilst ensuring the academic scientist remains at the heart of any publishing decision. 

Sarah is now a publishing consultant, non-executive director of the Royal Society of Chemistry & The Biochemical Society.

Jo Wixon, Director – External Analysis, Wiley
After exchanging an academic career for research publishing 20+ years ago, Jo has run journals, grown subject portfolios, built society partnerships, and led on portfolio strategy. Her team identify opportunities and risks in market trends, and policy, business model and technology developments to drive evidence-based strategic decision-making. Jo is also a HESI SDG Publishers Compact Fellow, and contributes to sustainability work at STM, ALPSP and EASE. For ALPSP, she is a Director, Vice-Chair of the Membership & Marketing Committee, and Co-Chairs the SDGs & Publishing SIG.

Nicholas Bailey, Senior Product Manager, Digital Science
Nicholas Bailey is an AI Researcher, Data Scientist and Senior Product Manager. In the past 3 years his efforts have been centred around research integrity, open science and scientometrics. He is the product manager for Dimensions Author Check, a state-of-the art tool for performing due diligence on published researchers. He is an expert in the way machines can learn and use language and, alongside his work with Digital Science, he researches deep learning at City St George’s, University of London. Nicholas regularly appears at conferences as an engaging speaker on technical topics and provides mentoring for early-career technologists. He lives with his wife and two children in Cambridge, UK.