University College London
Dr Rob Aldridge
Rob is a public health doctor in the NHS, but is also an academic clinical fellow at UCL’s centre for infectious diseases epidemiology. Rob works on respiratory infections such as influenza and tuberculosis, particularly trying to find new ways to better diagnose and help engage with these very vulnerable populations so that they get a better deal from health services than at present. Rob also does a bit of teaching in epidemiology and public health on a number of courses at UCL.
Rob will be working with a team of colleagues from UCL on Decipher My Data: Flu!
Gallomanor
Shane McCracken – Executive Producer
Shane is the Director of Gallomanor Communications Ltd, which he set up in 2001. He’s an ex-advertising executive and later television executive, with a degree in business management. He created the ‘Get me out of here!’ format for online engagement and is generally responsible for the smooth running of Decipher My Data.
Katie Tomlinson – Project Wrangler
Katie started working for Gallomanor in October 2011 and 
as chief wrangler, is the first port of call for any queries about the Decipher my Data project. She has recently graduated with a Biology degree and loved it so much, that she wants to use engagement projects to help inspire other students to study science.
Rosie Schultz – Project Wrangler
Rosie started working on Gallomanor’s science engagement projects at the start of 2011. She runs the day-to-day workings of the sister project I’m a Scientist, Get me out of Here!. She developed her interest in science engagement and communication whilst studying for a Masters in the Science of Natural Hazards at Bristol University.
Declan Fleming – Teacher Consultant
Declan is a chemistry teacher at Pates School, Cheltenham. He has worked as a school teacher fellow for the Royal Society of Chemistry at the University of Bath and runs numerous outreach activities. Declan came up with the idea for I’m a Scientist, Decipher My Data and works on the school side of the project.
Web Builder: Mike Little of zed1
Mike Little did an amazing job building the original I’m a Scientist site, and he’s taken it even further with the Decipher My Data site. They’re incredibly complex site ‘doing things with WordPress that no-one has ever done before’. Mike is one of the founding developers of the WordPress project, so we knew we were in capable hands. zed1.com is a web development company specializing in WordPress-based web site solutions.
Designer: Dot Design
Our graphics guru on Decipher My Data has been designer Gareth Coxon, of Dot Design. Gareth has been our designer since the start of the I’m a Scientist project and has designed everything from the logos and branding for the entire project, to the individual pages on the website. Also, he never complained, however contradictory, confusing, or downright stupid our briefs were.
Site Styling: Andrew Beeken
Andrew takes the site skeleton that Mike builds and Gareth’s designs and magically makes the site look and feel how we want! He translates the technical specification and graphics into what you see now. Andrew is a website designer/develop who has extensive experience using WordPress, which is handy for Decipher My Data.
