SpotOn London 2018 - Open Research- Live Stream Registration

SpotOn London is a dynamic, highly interactive meeting of researchers, science communicators, technologists, and those interested in science policy.

This year’s theme is Open Research. The programme will include talks, panel sessions and workshops offering practical tips and inspiring examples, examining policy, practice, open data, peer review, citizen science and a host of other engaging open research topics.

If you are interested in learning more about Open Research, why to do it, how you do it, and what happens when you share your research with others, make sure to register for the livestream here.

You can also join in the conversations on Twitter by following @SpotOnLondon or using the #spoton18

Take a look at the various sessions below and feel free to tune into whichever session take your interest.

Morning session: Opening up research

Stephen Curry, Imperial College London

Jenny Molloy, University of Cambridge

Gary Fuller, King’s College London

Rachel Burley, BMC

Morning session: Open research in practice

Louise Bowler, Alan Turing Institute

Ian Hrynaszkiewicz, Springer Nature

Amanda Bartell, Crossref

Fiona Frame, University of York

Mate Palfy, PreLights

Alan Hyndman, Figshare

Afternoon session: Science and Storytelling

Chris Street, University of Huddersfield

Alok Jha, Broadcaster and Wellcome Fellow

Lucy Frisch, Springer Nature

Elodie Chabrol, Pint of Science

Afternoon session: Citizen science

Martin Jones, Francis Crick Institute

Afternoon session: Data visualisation

Ian Calvert, Digital Science

Afternoon session: Diversity in science

Yolanda Ohene, Minorities in STEM

Matthew Young, Pride in STEM

Siena Castellon, Quantum Leap Mentoring

Kevin Coutinho, University College London

Afternoon Session: Public Engagement

Emily Jesper-Mir, Sense About Science

Further information is available on the BMC SpotOn page.

Please contact spoton@biomedcentral.com if you have any questions. If you would like to receive emails about the latest open access content from BMC journals or subjects and other updates from BMC such as events, webinars, and community news please click here and follow the route to register.

We look forward to seeing you tune into our live stream and hope you will join us for what pomises to be a thought provoking day!

The SpotOn Team