Tara is a Senior Consultant at the ODI, leading projects in a variety of sectors including health and physical activity, education, and arts, culture and heritage.
She joined the ODI in 2018 to lead the engagement team for OpenActive, a Sport England-funded initiative to help more people become physically active through open data. She has since led the Microsoft and ODI Education Open Data Challenge, and is the project lead for MediaFutures, a European Commission-funded project, supporting startups and artists to reshape the media value chain through responsible and innovative uses of data.
Prior to joining the ODI, Tara was a senior consultant at Upshot, a project management, monitoring and evaluation system. While there she consulted with and supported over 100 community organisations from across the UK.
Tara holds a BSc in Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE), with a focus on gender in society.
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Blog 05/12/2022
Industry Data for Society Partnership challenge: Using openly available data to improve local environments
- Josh D'Addario
- Tara Lee
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Blog, News 11/10/2022
Supporting the development of United Utilities’ open data strategy
- Data publishing and use
- Josh D'Addario
- Tara Lee
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Blog 25/11/2021
Applications open: second open call for startups and artists to tackle misinformation
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Data ethics and privacy
- Startups
- Tara Lee
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ODI project
Building open, trustworthy data ecosystems to solve common challenges
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Humanitarian response
- Innovation
- Science and research
- Search and discovery
- Weather, energy and environment
- Diana Szasz
- Tara Lee
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Blog, News 05/05/2021
Microsoft Education Open Data Challenge winners announced
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Skills and literacy
- Tara Lee
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Blog 29/04/2021
Microsoft and the ODI – reflections from the first year of our partnership
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Diana Szasz
- Jack Hardinges
- Tara Lee
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Blog 04/03/2021
Longlist and shortlist announced for Microsoft Education Open Data Challenge
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Skills and literacy
- Tara Lee
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ODI project
MediaFutures: an innovation hub to support media's innovative and responsible use of data
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Orsola De Marco
- Tara Lee
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ODI project
Microsoft and the ODI – helping bridge the data divide
- Data infrastructure
- Policy
- Jack Hardinges
- Tara Lee
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ODI project
INSIGHT: exploring access to eye health data
- Data ethics and privacy
- Health and physical activity
- Policy
- Public service design
- Jack Hardinges
- Tara Lee