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Virginia Barbour

Council Title: 
Past Chair and Trustee

Term of Office as Chair
2015-2017 Second term
2012-2015 First term

Term of office as Secretary
2010–2012

Term of office on Council
2005–2010

Dr Virginia Barbour is Director of the Australasian Open Access Strategy Group, a position she has held since 2015. In 2004, she was one of the three founding editors of PLOS Medicine. She then became Chief Editor of PLOS Medicine, and then Medicine Editorial Director, finally becoming Medicine and Biology Editorial Director of PLOS from 2014 until 2015.

She has a part time position as Professor spilt between the library and the Office of Research Ethics & Integrity at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia.

She has a medical degree from Cambridge University, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. She has been involved in the development of a number of reporting guidelines including CONSORT, PRISMA and TIDieR statements. She has been and is currently involved with a number of Open Access, publishing, and ethics initiatives.

She is based in Brisbane, Australia. Her ORCID ID is orcid.org/0000-0002-2358-2440

Competing interests statement: 
Talks and presentations: 

2015

Invited speaker on Publishing and Ethics at various Australian Universities including: University of Queensland, Griffith University, QUT, Flinders University, University of Melbourne, Southern Cross University. 2013 - 2015

The REWARD/EQUATOR Conference, Edinburgh, UK.  28 - 30 September 2015

“Publication and Research Ethics: inextricably linked and impossible to ignore", Medical Editors Meeting, Sydney, Australia. August 2015

"Reclaiming the Knowledge Commons: The Ethics of Academic Publishing and the Futures of Research 'The role of  incentives in the new world of publishing' ", Sydney, Australia. 26 August 2015

"Publishing Ethics - an overview", Southern Cross University, Australia. 26 May 2015

"How can we change the culture of science in a way which minimises the extent of fraud and misconduct?", The Royal Society, London, UK.  5 May 2015

2014

"Uncovering the Impact Story of Open Research and Data", invited speaker at Australian National Data Service (ANDS) Seminar, Brisbane, Australia. 3 November 2014

Invited speaker, Wiley Japan Executive Seminar, Yokohama, Japan, September 2014

"Challenges as standards and systems in peer review  evolve", invited Speaker, OASPA Asia, Bangkok, Thailand. 2 - 3 June 2014

"Building a Culture of Data Citation", ANDS Canberra Workshop , Canberra, Australia. 1 March 2014

2013

Advisory Board member & Panel Chair, Seventh International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication, Chicago. 8-10 September 2013

Speaker, PharmedOut, Washington DC, USA. June 2013

Presenter to Nuffield Council on Bioethics Forward Look Group, 7-8 May 2013

Presenter, Evidence Live, Oxford, UK. March 2013

2012

"ACT now: Accuracy, Completeness, and Transparency in health research reporting", Speaker EQUATOR Seminar, Freiburg, Germany. October 2012
Panel Speaker, European Medicines Agency Clinical trial data workshop, London, UK. November 2012

"Educational Initiatives in Publication Ethics", CSE/COPE workshop at 2012 CSE Annual Meeting, Seattle, USA. 18-21 May 2012

Participant on Workshop on Research Integrity in the UK, London, UK. January 2012

2011

Speaker, EU Summit on Gender in Science and Technology, Brussels, Belgium. November 2011

Speaker, PharmedOut Conference, Washington DC, USA. June 2011