DOI: 10.24377/ljmu.d.00000180
title: Open Research Week 2024

description: Open Research Week 2024 is a collaborative event organised by LJMU, Edge Hill University, University of Liverpool and the University of Essex. 
The week celebrates and promotes open research for researchers with a week of events that cover topics such as citizen science, research culture and open research in Europe. 

Open Research Week 2024 Keynote: Activating ‘Anecdotes’: the power of open practices in changing Research Culture
Monday, 26 February 2024
In this presentation, Dr Rachel Herries and Dr Kay Guccione of the University of Glasgow ask: what does openness look like from a culture development perspective? What constitutes data, how do we manage data stewardship, and what does ‘open’ look like for us? Developing the research culture is fundamentally a process of learning, whether that is learning new ways to do research or to communicate research, or new ways to engage and interact with and within our local and global communities. Working to support community learning generates discussions, stories, personal accounts, and organisational insights.


Citizen science: unleashing the possibilities of research for and with everyone
Tuesday, 27 February 2024
The Essex BioBlitz: Photographing the fingerprints of climate change in Essex-Dr. David Clark, University of Essex
Climate change is happening all around us - not just in the polar regions or distant islands, but here in Essex too. The Essex BioBlitz is a community science project aiming to measure how climate change in Essex is altering the timing and duration of flowering in our native flora. 

How is the Open Research landscape evolving in Europe?
Wednesday, 28 February 2024
The UK agreed a deal to associate to Horizon Europe in September 2023. Europe is investing heavily in open research through various projects, platforms and tools. What does this mean for UK researchers who collaborate with European colleagues or wish to in the future?
Professor Hugh Shanahan, Royal Holloway, University of London and Helen Clare, JISC, discuss what European open research initiatives mean for UK researchers and organisations that support researchers and open research.

Why Choose Open: Four Perspectives on Open Journals
Wednesday, 28 February 2024
We often discuss open journals in the arena of scholarly communication but what does it mean to work with and advocate for them? This session brings together four different speaker perspectives reflecting on their experiences of working on or with open journals. 

Open Research Practices and Skills-Organised and supported by the UKRN
Thursday, 29 February 2024
The UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) is a national peer-led consortium that aims to ensure the UK retains its place as a centre for world-leading research. They do this by investigating the factors that contribute to robust research, promoting training activities, and disseminating best practice. They also work collaboratively with various external stakeholders to ensure coordination of efforts across the sector. 
Will Gawned (Community Project Manager) and Dr Diane Hird – (Community Project Coordinator) together with our local UKRN leads:
Dr. Alexis Makin, Senior Lecturer Psychology, University of Liverpool
Dr. Michel Belyk, Senior Lecturer Psychology, Edge Hill University 
Dr. Andrew Jones, Senior Lecturer Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University and
Dr. Osama Mahmoud, Lecturer School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Essex 

Open Research Week 2024 Closing Keynote: Is Open science REALLY open for everyone?
Friday, 1 March 2024
Open Science discussions typically revolve around data sharing, reproducibility, and transparency in the research process - but to be truly open, it is important to be mindful of equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in this process. In this session, we discuss the illuminate three broad topics of EDI in open science: how to be an inclusive supervisor/principal investigator; how to make science more open for underrepresented scholars; and how to ensure diverse voices are heard when English is a second language for a significant number of researchers. 
Open Research Week 2024 and this session will be opened by Dr. Komang Ralebitso Senior, Associate Dean (Diversity and Inclusion) for the Faculty of Science and Seniror Lecturer Microbial Ecology, Liverpool John Moores University. 
Facilitators: 
Dr. Reshanne Reeder is Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Liverpool 
Dr. Loukia Tzavella is a Fellow in the Institute of Population Health University of Liverpool

Speakers:
Dr. Andrew Jones, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University: How to inspire open research as a principal supervisor/principal investigator 
Dr. Madeleine Pownall, Lecturer in Psychology, University of Leeds, How to make science more open for underrepresented scholars
Dr. Tatsuya Amano, Deputy Director in Research at the Centre for Biodiversity and Conversation Science, the University of Queensland, How to ensure diverse voices are heard when English is a second language for a significant number of researchers
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