{"id":396,"date":"2024-12-17T11:20:54","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T16:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/advancing-research\/2025\/?post_type=speakers&#038;p=396"},"modified":"2024-12-19T13:32:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T18:32:11","slug":"kate-towsey","status":"publish","type":"speakers","link":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/advancing-research\/2025\/people\/kate-towsey\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Towsey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Towsey is an independent strategist, coach, and advisor. For more than a decade, she has been at the forefront of ResearchOps. The inventor of the widely used acronym PWDR (pau\u00b7duh) for \u201cpeople who do research,\u201d Kate also wrote some of the earliest blog posts about setting up research operations, founded the ResearchOps Community, and launched the <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/researchops-community\/a-framework-for-whatisresearchops-e862315ab70d\">#WhatisResearchOps<\/a> movement, putting ResearchOps on the map.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, she stepped back from the ResearchOps Community and started the <a href=\"https:\/\/chacha.club\/\">Cha Cha Club<\/a>, a members\u2019 club for full-time ResearchOps professionals, which she runs to this day. Over twenty years, Kate has delivered operations in ecommerce, education, government, retail, and tech. She built and managed the Atlassian ResearchOps team, widely recognized as the benchmark for scaling research services and systems to hundreds of people. Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/katetowsey.com\">katetowsey.com<\/a>, or find her on LinkedIn, Medium, or Substack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Towsey is an independent strategist, coach, and advisor. For more than a decade, she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":399,"template":"","class_list":["post-396","speakers","type-speakers","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/advancing-research\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/advancing-research\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/advancing-research\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speakers"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/advancing-research\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/advancing-research\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}