Research support

 

Universities for North East England Open Research week 24-28 March 2025 

The Universities of Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Sunderland and Teesside invite you to attend their Open Research Week.  

We are organising a series of online events discussing Open Research practices in our institutions and beyond. The events aim to explore and share good practice, discuss barriers and strategies to enable Open Research. A range of speakers will explore different aspects of Open Research.

 

Monday 24 March 

10:30-12:00 Open Research: towards a more inclusive and equitable research environment? (Hosted by the University of Sunderland) 

Funders increasingly support Open Research (OR) highlighting its potential to make research environments more equitable and inclusive. The 2021 UNESCO recommendations on Open Science embrace the notion that OR will enhance research and provide equity across the world of research.  

This session brings a panel of experts to discuss the potential for Open Research to create an equitable, fairer and more trustworthy research environment? 

Professor Stephen Pinfield (Professor of Information Services Management, Sheffield University), Professor Matthew Campbell (Professor of Human Metabolism and Integrative Physiology, University of Sunderland) and Dr Catalinai Neculai (Assistant Professor Academic, Coventry University)

 

2:00-3:30pm: Open Data?! Benefits and strategies for sharing research data (Hosted by Teesside University) 

Opening research data is a key strand of Open Research. This session will bring together academics from the Universities for North East England to share their experience and understanding of sharing research data. From planning stage, to sharing data in repositories, they will explore some of the strategies, benefits and challenges of sharing different types of research data.

 

Tuesday 25 March  

10:00-11:00 Monitoring open research: findings and lessons from the UKRN indicator pilots (Hosted by Newcastle University) 

Between 2023 and 2025, the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) supported pilot Open Research Indicators projects. Dr Neil Jacobs, head of the UKRN Open Research Programme, will outline the pilot projects, their findings, the lessons learned, and what may happen next. https://www.ukrn.org/open-research-indicators/  

 

Wednesday 26 March 

10:00-11:00 Getting to Grips with Green: investigating the contribution made by self-archiving at our institutions (Hosted by Durham University) 

The Open Research team at Durham University are embarking on a project to learn more about researchers' attitudes towards and experiences of green open access. In this talk, we will discuss why we have decided to undertake this project, provide an analysis of the quantitative data we have already gathered from institutional repositories in North-East England and the trends that data reveals, and outline our methodology for the upcoming stages of our project.

 

Thursday 27 March  

1:00-2:00pm AI and academic publishing: opportunities and challenges 

 (Hosted by Northumbria University) 

AI has the potential to rapidly change academic publishing, raising new opportunities and challenges for researchers. This session brings together experts to explore how AI is shaping scholarly communication, from AI-assisted writing to ethical considerations in publishing. We will discuss how AI is driving changes in academic publishing and how open research practices can support transparency and integrity in an AI-driven landscape. 

 

Friday 28th March 

12:00-2:00pm Drop into the Buttery between to continue the conversation on Open Research with the Library's Research Support Team https://tees.libcal.com/calendar/succeed_research/buttery_dropin.

 

All online sessions can be booked at https://librarytalksunderland.libcal.com/calendar/researchandscholarlycomms?cid=9282&t=g&d=0000-00-00&cal=9282&inc=0