Kate Towsey
Author of Research That Scales
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·duh) for “people who do research,” Kate also wrote some of the earliest blog posts about setting up research operations, founded the ResearchOps Community, and launched the #WhatisResearchOps movement, putting ResearchOps on the map.
In 2019, she stepped back from the ResearchOps Community and started the Cha Cha Club, a members’ 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 katetowsey.com, or find her on LinkedIn, Medium, or Substack
Rosenverse talks by Kate:
"You can’t own knowledge; you can own the infrastructure that allows knowledge to flow."
Ask Me Anything (AMA) with Kate Towsey
April 2, 2025
"Ignoring established skills from fields like librarianship can hinder our growth in research."
Theme Panel
March 11, 2025
"A ratio of one Research Ops person to five researchers is ideal for efficiency."
The State of ResearchOps: More Than Just Theory
June 20, 2019
