Ruth Geraghty is the Research Data Coordinator at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, assisting research staff and students with Open Research, Research Data Management and publishing research data. Before joining the RCSI, Ruth worked as a social researcher and data curator in the academic and not for profit sectors. Ruth began her career in Open Research with the Irish Qualitative Data Archive in Maynooth University and was a team member in the original development of the Digital Repository of Ireland.