Tamora James is a Software Development Scientist at the Centre for Environmental Modelling and Computation, University of Leeds, working on projects ranging from weather forecasting to water resource management. A former web and software developer, in 2020 she completed a PhD focused on using demographic and life history based approaches to identify effective conservation measures for long-lived species such as parrots. During her PhD, Tamora became interested in helping other researchers to improve their research software outputs by teaching them about tools and practices which are commonly used in software development. She has led workshop sessions on version control and reproducible research at the British Ecological Society Annual Meeting and for researchers at Oxford, Sheffield and Glasgow universities. She contributed to the BES publication ‘A Guide to Reproducible Code in Ecology and Evolution’. She was a co-organiser of Sheffield R Users Group from 2017—2019.
PhD Parrot Conservation and Extinction Risk, 2015—2020
University of Sheffield
MRes Ecology & Evolution, 2015
University of Sheffield