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Dr Patricia Clarke is the Co-Chair of the National Open Research Forum (with the Higher Education Authority), previously Chair of the National Committee for Open Access policy that delivered the National Open Access Principles, a Member of the EU Commission expert group on National Points of Reference on Scientific Information and a Member of the Science Europe Research Data Working Group. She is a graduate from Queens University Belfast and the University of Birmingham UK where she completed her doctorate in health behaviour change and also holds an MSc in Computer Applications. She has a long standing interest in policy and research having previously worked in the NHS in London and with the Centre for Cross Border Studies, a UK-Ireland cross-border policy research centre. Currently she is the Programme Manager for Policy and for EU Funding at the Health Research Board and also National Delegate for EU Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing. Patricia is responsible for HRB Open Research.