Rebecca Lawrence
We are pleased to welcome Rebecca Lawrence to the National Open Research Festival (NORFest) 2025, at which she will participate in the Global Open Research discussion on Thursday, 6 November 2025 at 11:00.
Rebecca is currently Vice-Chair of DORA (San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment), as well as Vice President, Knowledge Translation at Taylor & Francis and Founding Managing Director of the open research publisher, F1000 (now part of Taylor & Francis).Â
She was responsible for the launch of F1000Research in 2013 and has subsequently led the initiative behind the launches of many funder- and institution-based publishing platforms partnering with the European Commission, Gates Foundation, Wellcome and others, that aim to provide a new trajectory in the way scientific findings and data are communicated.
Rebecca was a member of the European Commission’s Open Science Policy Platform, chairing their work on next-generation indicators and their summary advice: OSPP-REC, and was Editor of their final report. She was also a member of the US National Academies (NASEM) Committee on Advanced and Automated Workflows. She has been co-Chair of many working groups on data and peer review, including for Research Data Alliance (RDA) and ORCID, and has been a non-Executive Board Member of Open Research Central (ORC). She has worked in STM publishing for over 25 years, is an Associate of the Royal College of Music, qualified as a pharmacist, and holds a PhD in Pharmacology.