Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2023

Edinburgh Open Research

The University of Edinburgh is delighted to once again be running the Edinburgh Open Research Conference and this year everyone is invited.

John McIntyre Conference Centre, The University of Edinburgh

Tickets are available for each conference day (15th, 16th, 17th); workshops can be selected as part of the booking process (after clicking 'Get Tickets' and choosing your chosen days). The University of Edinburgh Library Research Support Team and grassroots organisation Edinburgh ReproducibiliTea are once again joining forces to run the Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2023.  Edinburgh University is committed to making Open Research the new normal. In this year’s meeting, our focus is on the ways in which Open Research practices can positively support efforts to address global challenges - whether with respect to sustainability and the climate crisis, decolonising research, advancing healthcare, or any other area. We ask how adopting the open research principles of open access, fairness, participation in research, and open data can ensure that our work can help to address these global challenges.To learn more about the University’s commitment to Open Research and activities taking place to support these practices, visit the Library’s OR page:<a href="https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/about/organisation/library-and-collections/open-research" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/about/organisation/library-and-collections/open-research </a>P﻿lease note:This page is to register for in person attendance. To register for virtual attendance please go to: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/edinburgh-open-research-conference-2023-online-tickets-595757425497">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/edinburgh-open-research-conference-2023-online-tickets-595757425497</a>

Workshops, Monday 15th

The Centre for Data, Culture, & Society has a mission to grow capacity for applied computational and digital research in the arts, humanities and social sciences and offers a range of support for researchers, from technical advice to project assistance, as well as a broad training programme. This workshop aims to provide practical guidance on how to support good Open Research practices in the Arts and Humanities. We will focus on identifying and exploring specific challenges connected with embedding good Open Research practices in these fields, and share practical ideas, tools and resources to help support these efforts.

Promoting Open Research Practices in the Arts and Humanities

Join us for a session about diamond open access publishing initiatives in the library and have your say about how it will grow and develop in the future.

Edinburgh Diamond: The Future of Library-Led Open Access Publishing

This session explores the career paths, opportunities, and lived experiences of people who are working in and around research infrastructure. Together, speakers will introduce the audience to a range of research infrastructure roles and discuss how working in a team environment empowers researchers to tackle global challenges. They do this by incentivizing all aspects of a successful research project and applying a diverse set of skills to solving a common problem. At the Alan Turing Institute, the Tools, Practices, and Systems (TPS) programme is developing several of these roles including: Community Managers, Data Wranglers, and Research Application Managers, alongside the more established Research Software Engineers, Data Stewards, and Research Project Managers.

Research Infrastructure Roles: Assembling Research Teams for Global Challenges

This inaugural Edinburgh Research Café offers an informal space to share research, innovative ideas, methods and concepts for the enhancement of knowledge and enrichment of the academy and the society in which it serves. In this session of the Research Café, our will present on their own experiences with Open Research, with plenty of time for conversation and questions. Dr Marshall Dozier (Academic Support Librarian, CMVM) and Dr Ruth McQuillan (UNCOVER co-lead, Reader in Global Public Health Education) will introduce and prompt a discussion of principles, aspirations, and challenges of open practices in evidence synthesis research, drawing on the UNCOVER group’s experience of producing systematic reviews, rapid reviews, and policy briefings. Prof. Lauren Hall-Lew (Prof. of Sociolinguistics in Linguistics and English Literature and director of the Lothian diary project) will introduce us to the impacts of open practices on her research.

Research Cafe

Octopus.ac is a new scientific publishing model, designed to encourage, enable, and reward best practice using 21st century tools. Free to read, free to publish, and entirely open source, this is a new way to register research that is fast, free and fair. In this session, we would discuss some of the problems with the established publishing model and how Octopus seeks to solve them by espousing the principles of open science, as well as how Octopus can connect to existing and future Open Science infrastructure and services. Whilst the platform is live and ready for researchers to use, we want the further development of the platform to be community driven, and so look for opportunities to get feedback from current researchers, library staff, and those working at all stages of the research lifecycle.

Octopus.ac 

Talks, Tuesday 16th

Open Science in the wild – a view from the UCL Office for Open Science & Scholarship

Keynote: Open Science in the wild (Kirsty Wallis, UCL)

Lightning Talks

Tea & Coffee

Applying intelligent open science to combat future pandemics

How data papers present a unique contribution to open research in the Humanities and Social Sciences

How data papers present a unique contribution to open research...

Open Access Protocols and Reproducible Methods in Biological and Anthropological Sciences

Open Access Protocols and Reproducible Methods...

Lunch

South African Open Access and Open Data: an Open Science transition driven by University library repositories

South African Open Access and Open Data

Mike leads a small team of data scientists who help researchers and industry use financial data about citizens and businesses for the public good. He has previously worked in the public and private sectors on diverse topics including climate, agriculture, social science, workforce planning, overseas aid and more. Financial data are a rich resource which are rarely used in research due to privacy concerns. This talk will explain how we safely used financial data from NatWest Group, along with open data, to help East Renfrewshire Council target cost of living support.

Combining Open and Financial Data for Targeted Policy Solutions

Making research FAIR with a PID centric workflow

Open science hardware for realising globally equitable knowledge production

Teaching the best research data management practices to PhD students

Data Dashboards - The advantages of having access to data insights when conducting large scale citizen science 'direct to public' research projects

Data Dashboards - Data Insights & Citizen Science

OLS: capacity building in open science with a peer-led, global, and diverse community

OLS: capacity building in open science...

Open science is about far more than how we communicate our research: it encompasses all academic disciplines, from sciences to the arts and humanities, and has implications far beyond the ivory tower. In this talk I’ll first describe how open science helps us to realise our goals as scientists and scholars, including improving the culture and integrity of research. I’ll then highlight the structures and initiatives that are helping to realise the potential of open science, and how this is already becoming the “new normal". Will Cawthorn, Centre for Cardiovascular Science, UoE & LERU Open Science Ambassador

Improving research culture and integrity through Open Science

Wrap-Up

An opportunity to network over drinks and canapes.

Drinks Reception

Workshops, Wednesday 17th

This workshop is an opportunity to consider the relationships between University researchers and their partners in participatory research – whether referred to as ‘participants’, ‘community members’, ‘citizen scientists’, ‘crowdsourcers’, or, quite simply, collaborators. It will be an opportunity to come together and consider the nature of these relationships, and the ways in which we can ensure that they are of value both for all parties involved. The workshop will consist of two parts. In the first half of the session, researchers from across the University will share insights from their own participatory efforts. The second half of the session will provide an opportunity for conversation and networking, with smaller breakout discussions facilitated by the speakers.

Working with Crowdsourcers, Collaborators and Co-Producers

Study rigour, the standards used in conducting and reporting research, is part of high-quality research, as recognised by the REF 2021 definition of research quality, which identified originality, rigour and significance as its key indicators. While originality and significance are often viewed as more exciting, it is vital to also embed rigour in research. During Good Research Practice Week 2022, we developed a co-creation project where we aim to improve awareness of the importance of rigour and how to achieve it. In this workshop we will co-create bingo cards with the researchers present ensuring that their knowledge and expertise shape a tool that is useful for their own research disciplines. These bingo cards which have questions that people can ask at academic talks, will be made open-access and available to anyone who wants to use them. These cards will published under a CC-BY-NC-SA share alike license.

Bingo! Raising the profile of study rigour in academic questioning

While open research and research integrity (OR/RI) practices are quickly becoming a vital part of being a researcher, formal training on these topics is not yet a mandatory part of PhD training in most scientific fields. PhD students’ awareness of these topics therefore appears to be highly dependent on their supervisors’ own interest and understanding and/or their research group culture, creating a ‘postcode lottery’. Join us for some pizza and an informal discussion on how you got involved (or would like to get involved) in open research, and your experiences and perspectives on OR/RI more broadly. We also want to know about potential barriers to engaging with OR/RI and your ideas on how the University might overcome these. This session will be run by early-career researchers currently engaging with OR/RI within the University and members of a co-creation project on research integrity conceived as part of the University’s Good Research Practice Week events in November 2022.