Laura James

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I'm starting to look for my next job! This will be a fully remote role, where I can make…

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  • Maintain Graphic

    Founder

    Maintain

    - 5 years 11 months

    Instigated the Festival of Maintenance, celebrating those who maintain different parts of our world, recognising the often hidden work done in repair, custodianship, stewardship, tending and caring for the things that matter. The Festival has been featured on the BBC World Service and in the Economist. We become Maintain, running online events, and then wound down.

  • Software Sustainability Institute Graphic

    Fellow

    Software Sustainability Institute

    - 1 year

  • 2017 - maker. 2018 - crew. 2019 - crew lead. 2022,2023 - crew.

    Liverpool MakeFest

    - Present 7 years

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    Volunteer

    Helpful Engineering

    - 10 months

    Coordination of community engineering response to coronavirus. Initially coordinating multiple communities and projects for face masks and face shields, then logistics for aligning needs and supplies in the UK, helping set up PPEHub.org.uk.

  • Digital Life Collective Graphic

    Co-founding member

    Digital Life Collective

    - 2 years

    The Collective researches, develops, funds and supports technologies that prioritise our autonomy, privacy and dignity. I was a board member until September 2018.

  • Advisory Board member

    the Content Mine

    - 4 years

    using machines to liberate facts from the scientific literature. More information at www.contentmine.org

  • team member

    HI:project

    - Present 9 years

    The Human Interface Project - building a human-centric, open and accessible web. More at http://hi-project.org/

  • Advisor

    Good Night Lamp

    - Present 12 years

    a family of connected devices which help people stay in touch with their loved ones

  • Mentor, Internet of Things programme

    Springboard accelerator

    - 2 years

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    Science and Engineering Ambassador

    STEMNET

    - 7 years

    Education

    Active part time volunteer, designing, leading and delivering hands-on activities and major events around science, technology and enterprise themes in and for schools around the region. Represented Cambridgeshire SetPoint at the 2005 reception for Science and Engineering Ambassadors at the House of Lords. One of the first IET Faraday Ambassadors in 2007.

Projects

  • Learning

    - Present

    I've worked in many different fields and organisations, and have experience of: product management, service design, open data, open access, computer networking, embedded systems, AI, conversational interfaces, remote/distributed teams, sensors, wireless, consumer electronics, public understanding of technology, IT in higher education, libraries, research management, sustainability, building integrated photovoltaics, usability and human-centric design, social enterprise and non-profit…

    I've worked in many different fields and organisations, and have experience of: product management, service design, open data, open access, computer networking, embedded systems, AI, conversational interfaces, remote/distributed teams, sensors, wireless, consumer electronics, public understanding of technology, IT in higher education, libraries, research management, sustainability, building integrated photovoltaics, usability and human-centric design, social enterprise and non-profit organisation management, makerspaces & hackspaces, and humanitarian work. Still learning about many things including digital transformation, systems change, co-operatives, distributed manufacturing and energy networks.

  • Developing the innovationLabs at ideaSpace, University of Cambridge

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    The innovationLabs seeks to bring together talented researchers across the University of Cambridge with private, public and third sector partners to tackle the toughest problems facing humanity. The Labs concept blends multi-disciplinary research, design and systems thinking plus network intelligence to explore these systemic challenges in depth, discovering new insights, and creating viable and scalable new ventures and activities to address them.

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