Elspeth Haston
AHRC Smithsonian Digital Fellow at Arts & Humanities Research Council & The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolElspeth Haston is a botanical scientist and digitisation specialist with nearly a decade of focused experience leading large-scale herbarium curation and digitisation programmes at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and as an AHRC–Smithsonian Digital Fellow. She combines deep taxonomic and systematic research— including molecular and morphological studies in Leguminosae and floral development in Gesneriaceae—with practical delivery of tools, workflows and standards to integrate digitisation into curatorial and research pipelines. Elspeth led the first major herbarium reorganisation to the APG family sequence and co-leads development of an international digitisation standard within the Biodiversity Information Standards community. Equally comfortable in field taxonomy and digital infrastructure, she builds reproducible processes that make specimen data discoverable and research-ready at scale. Based in Edinburgh with a PhD in Botany from the University of Reading, she brings a rare blend of hands-on botanical scholarship, collections management, and standards-driven technical leadership.
9 years of coding experience
Cults AcademyMaster of Science (MSc), Plant and Fungal Taxonomy, Master of Science (MSc), Plant and Fungal Taxonomy at The University of ReadingHigher National Diploma (HND), Horticulture with Applied Plantsmanship, Higher National Diploma (HND), Horticulture with Applied Plantsmanship at Royal Botanic Garden EdinburghPhD, Botany, PhD, Botany at University of ReadingDiploma, Horticulture, Diploma, Horticulture at Threave School of Gardening
Github Skills (11)
jekyll6
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
RBGE-Herbarium/RBGE-Herbarium.github.io
Jun 2022 - Aug 2024
Contributions:345 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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