Liz Allen

Liz Allen is Director of Strategic Initiatives at F1000, and involved in shaping new initiatives and partnerships to promote and foster open science and research.  Prior to joining F1000 in 2015, Liz spent over a decade as Head of Evaluation at the Wellcome Trust, with a particular interest in impact assessment and the development of science-related indicators.  In 2015 Liz became a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Policy Institute at King's College London.

During 2014-15 Liz served as an adviser on the UK government commissioned Independent review of the role of research metrics in research assessment https://www.hefce.ac.uk/rsrch/metrics/.  Liz was a Board Director of ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) from 2010 until 2015, and is currently a Co-Chair of Project CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy - http://www.casrai.org/CRediT).