Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him)

Dr Matt Lloyd Jones is an Associate Research Fellow at the University of Exeter interested evidence-based approaches to public health, microbiology and ecology, with a particular specialism in evidence synthesis. Matt is a keen advocate for open research practices, and is currently Open Research Champion for the Department of Public Health & Sports Sciences (alongside Callum O’Malley) at the University of Exeter. As well as applying open research practices in his own work, Matt also delivers training on preprints, preregistration, and open and reproducible code and data (having been trained through the UK Reproducibility Network's Train the Trainer programme). He is on the organising commitee of the Evidence Synthesis Hackathon, an organisation which supports the development of open source software to support evidence synthesis through hackathons and other initiatives.