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## The 2025 Ambassadors

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### Tara Ghafari
Tara is a postdoc in neurosc lab at OHBA. She is in the process of relocating to Oxford, and her updated profile will be available in March. To see her profile at the University of Birmingham, click [here](https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/university/colleges/les/ecdn/reps/tara-ghafari).
*"I believe that reproducibility strengthens scientific findings and accelerates progress. Inclusivity is equally vital, it ensures that diverse voices and perspectives are welcomed, creating a more creative and supportive environment for everyone to thrive."*
### Kirralise Hansford
Kirralise is a postdoc in the Pain in Women and the EndoCaRe research group. More about Kirralise on her [profile page](https://www.wrh.ox.ac.uk/team/kirralise-hansford).
*"Open science practices are important to implement no matter what type of researcher you are / what your field of study is, however, I feel they are especially important when your work has a clinical focus or involves patient groups as participants. This is because research aimed at supporting people living with clinical conditions needs to be reproducible, replicable, and open for researchers, clinicians, and patients to access. Open science practices help ensure that research has the best chance of creating a lasting impact for the people who need it. I am excited to continue developing my open research practices as a WIN ambassador, and share knowledge of these practices with others within the WIN community."*
### Séamus O'Sullivan
Séamus is a WIN Experiment Support Officer and MEG lab manager at OHBA. Learn more on his [profile page](https://www.win.ox.ac.uk/people/seamus-osullivan).
*"I strongly believe in open science, and I want to help improve transparency and reproducibility in research.
As an experiment support officer, I work with researchers throughout WIN to help them set up and manage their experiments.
I am looking forward to helping researchers incorporate open science practices into their workflow, and building tools to facilitate these practices."*
### Yifan (Vivian) Yang
Yifan (Vivian) is a DPhil Student in the Department of Experimental Psychology. More about her on her [profile page](https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/people/yifan-yang).
*"Open science represents one of the best practices for enhancing research impact and quality while fostering a thriving academic community through transparent sharing of all study stages. Embedding open science principles into my doctoral studies from the outset will allow me to integrate cutting-edge practices into my work, advocate for them, and contribute meaningfully as a researcher. I very much look forward to learning from and collaborating with Open WIN."*
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## The 2024 Ambassadors
