Webinars and whatnots – April 2025
Midlands Innovation Open Research Week 2025
- Tuesday, 6th May, 11:00am – Improving student research training through a consortium model (Dr Charlotte Pennington, Aston University)
- Tuesday, 6th May, 1:00pm – Open Peer Review: perspectives from editor, author and reviewer (Dr Lara Skelly, Loughborough University)
- Wednesday, 7th May, 11:00am – What if I really can’t share my data but want to be open? Synthetic data (Dr Krzysztof Cipora, Loughborough University)
- Wednesday, 7th May, 1:00pm – The intersection of neurodiversity and open scholarship (Dr Mahmoud Elsherif, University of Leicester)
- Thursday, 8th May, 11:00am – Computer Vision for Old Books: Open Research in the Digital Humanities (Dr Hazel Wilkinson, University of Birmingham)
- Thursday, 8th May, 1:00pm – Get Feedback, Work Smarter: The Hidden Perks of Preregistration (Dr Roni Tibon, University of Nottingham)
- Thursday, 8th May, 3:00pm – Building a Thriving Research Culture: The Importance of ‘Openness’ in its broadest sense! (Dr Marie Sams, Vicky Strudwick, & Dr Jake Spicer, University of Warwick NCRC)
- Friday, 9th May, 11:00am – Measuring Ourselves: A Self-Assessment Tool for Open Research Practices (Dr Masi Noor, Keele University)
- Friday, 9th May, 1:00pm – What can open research learn from the open source movement in computing? (Professor Stephen Eglen, University of Cambridge)
Other webinars:
- UKRI new draft research data policy information webinar
Interesting read(s):
- Kroon-Batenburg, L. (2025). Toward the Open Science model: publish your raw diffraction data. Structural Dynamics, 12(2_Supplement), A59-A59. https://doi.org/10.1063/4.0000368
Catch up on recorded webinars:
- Demonstrating Impact Beyond Metrics: How Lancaster University Uses Altmetric To Support Its Researchers
- Open Research Conversation – Early career researchers and open research
- Open Research Week at The Open University:
- DAY 1: The fundamentals of open research: decisions around data.
- A great start to the week with webinars on using open science to support science communication, the launch of the OU’s freely available course on Open Research, and a dedicated session for OU staff and students run by the Library Research Support Team on understanding the OU’s new Research Data Management Policy.
- DAY 2: Collaboration, AI and open education resources.
- The second day hosted a detailed account, spanning over 20 years, on open research in Artificial Intelligence, as well as a real-world example of five open practices to support effective capacity building and co-creation when developing open education resources.
- DAY 3: Citizen science showcase.
- The OU’s support and knowledge of citizen science platforms was demonstrated via the expansive Pelagios Network, the award-winning iSpot, and the hugely popular nQuire platforms.
- DAY 4: Open publishing pathways.
- Open access journals and open book publishing was the focus of the fourth day with practical sessions on how the Open Arts Journal has supported and expanding public-facing research, and on understanding the book commissioning and editing processes at the Scottish Universities Press.
- DAY 5: Accessing data. Open Research Week’s final webinar focussed on driving open research with AI and detailed the COnnecting REpositories (CORE) team’s current work on CORE-GPT, SDG-Classify and soFAIR.
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