Dr. Kelly Cobey completed her PhD in social psychology at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Following her PhD, she worked as a lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Stirling in Scotland. She subsequently worked as an investigator and as the institution’s publications officer at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute where she provided internal and external consulting on publication best practices.

Dr. Cobey holds a number of national and international leadership positions in the meta-research community. Since 2015 she has been a member of EQUATOR Canada which provides educational outreach and support for the use of reporting guidelines. She also presently sits on the Advisory Board of DORA (Declaration On Research Assessment) which aims to drive the use of more responsible metrics to evaluate research and researchers, and serves on the Science Policy Committee for Research Data Canada.

In her capacity as a consultant, Dr. Cobey has provided educational outreach and strategic planning to a number of organizations including the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH).

Dr. Cobey was recognized in 2018 by the University of Ottawa as the co-recipient of the institute’s Open Scholarship Award in recognition of her research and educational outreach pertaining to predatory journals.

She has held funding from a range of agencies to support both her research and educational outreach. She currently holds an award from the UK-based Wellcome Trust to develop an international dashboard to better track open science practices and to benchmark for improvements. She is also active on a Compute Ontario funded project to develop publicly available training on responsible data handling.