23 August 2023
15:00
Resources and opportunities for learning and teaching digital and computational skills
The Carpentries, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, trains and fosters an active, inclusive, diverse community of novice learners and experienced Instructors to promote and model the importance of software and data in research. We collaboratively develop openly-available lessons and deliver these lessons using evidence-based teaching practices, focusing on people conducting and supporting research. This talk will outline how the organisation and the community surrounding it realises this work.
Oscar Masinyana is the Communications Manager at The Carpentries, an organisation building capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. Prior to this role, he was the Head of Researcher Services & Networks for Africa at the Taylor & Francis office in Johannesburg. He has degrees in Film and Media (2005), Linguistics (2007; 2014) and Law (2023) from the University of Cape Town and the University of Witwatersrand.