about
Fiona Galston is a full-stack web developer with 3 years RSE expereince working within the team at Newcastle University. She has a background in Developmental Biology but graduated in Computer Network Technology. Prior to joining the team she worked in industry for a large technology organisation on projects in innovation, health and nuclear energy. As an RSE she has kept a focus in web technologies but the subject matter has varied broadly, branching into mobile and middleware for AI projects. She has also adopted a focus in socially or ethically impactful projects. She has also qualified as a Software Carpentries instructor and has taught several of their classes to PHD students and staff.
PROJECTS
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Mousemapp /
2022-2023- Front end mobile app to submit mouse pictures
- Server side to store data and send images for AI analysis
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QuOD Pathology Atlas - Phase 2 /
2022- Build upon the previous version
- Updated to include a new database level for a region of an organ
- Imagery
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QuOD Pathology Atlas /
2020-2021- Database design and set-up to store donated organ data
- Development of a web-based digital portal to help organise requests and allocate organ samples to authorized researchers.
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Animating Text Newcastle / School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics
2019-2021- Plan, design and develop web-based applications to display or work with text in varying forms
- Geospatial work using leafletJS to map translations of femenist literature across Europe
- UI/UX work to display stages of text creation and modification by authors
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Hands on Reading / School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics
2020- Front-end development of mobile-centric web-application using Angular
- Use of HTML Canvas so users can annotate digital texts
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Metro Futures / Open Lab, Nexus
2020- Front-end development work on a web-based tool to launch and review the new Tyne and Wear Metro trains
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Climate:Red / Open Lab, IFRC
2020- Contribute to the user-interface for an IFRC virtual conference held in September 2020
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Hate Speech Measures and Counter-measures / The Alan Turing Institute
2019-2020- Scraping of misogynistic and anti-feminist forum posts and searchable storage of this data
- Using Puppeteer and headless Chrome to crawl the website
- Linux server and MySQL database set-up on Azure
education
BSc Computer Network Technology / Northumbria University
Completed modules in web technologies, operating systems, network technology, C/C++, CCNA and an industrial placement working with C# and web-based systems for the NHS.
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