Open Research, University of Sheffield

🔊Four weeks to go until OpenFest 2025! 🥳Join us ONLINE for sessions on building diverse and inclusive research cultures, recognition practices, publishing ecosystems, open research communities, and libraries.

Full programme and registration links below:

New preprint on researchers’ responses to a pilot data stewardship service at @sheffielduni.bsky.social

Our mixed methods evaluation found value across a range of disciplines, enhancing data management practices & supporting integration of FAIR principles into research workflows.

New podcast episode has just dropped on Spotify!
Listen to Dr Lewis Quayle and Ronak Naeemaee from Sheffield Hallam uncovering the power of open data👇

discussinghttps://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/shu-library-research-supp/episodes/Unlock-the-power-of-open-data-and-teach-open-research-e3663qq

(Episode 123) Valuing Diverse Research Outputs: The Hidden REF and the 5% Manifesto with Simon Hettrick Quickly and easily listen to Research Culture Uncovered for free!

🆕 #ResearchCultureUncovered episode! Host @nickshepp.bsky.social chats with @simonhettrick.bsky.social on the #HiddenREF & why ALL research outputs matter. 🎧

🔊 Our survey on Electronic Lab Notebooks/ Electronic Research Notebooks is still open! We want to hear how ELNs support your work and open research aims, and to find out what further support or resources might be valuable. Survey link below:

If you are a research team or organisation who has a bit of underspend before the end of July. Then consider investing some of it learning hands on skills and tools to communicate your research.

Animations, podcasts, infographics, blogs, social media and more.

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🔊 6 weeks to go until Sheffield #OpenFest2025 - join us for 4 days of online events, with an in-person celebration at Hallam to round off the week 🤓 Registration link below!

New Spotify episode on #openresearchculture

How are we driving a cultural change? What are the skills and practices that inform transparency and accessibility? As a linguist by background, I look into HOW we communicate and interact with researchers👇
spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/a7JJh3iXSUb

Interesting outputs from a project involving colleagues at @openresshef.bsky.social @knowledgeexchange.bsky.social and @researchconsulting.bsky.social

Research rationale published on @octopus-ac.bsky.social, with links to underlying problems: doi.org/10.57874/m15...

We’ve got a job going. You get to work with me and quite frankly I am an exceptionally hilarious* and brilliant** person to work with, honest.

* Moderately funny on occasion
** Shouty about big publishers but in a knowledgable way

🔊Come and join our team!

Electronic Lab Notebooks

🔔Do you use Electronic Lab Notebooks/ Electronic Research Notebooks (ELNs/ ERNs) in your research or technical work? We want to hear how ELNs support your work, and what further support or resources might be valuable. Find the survey link on our webpages: www.sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch...

Great to see how #OpenScience #OpenAccess gatherings are zeroing on #DEI #EDI even when the US is rejecting it. This is more important than ever and as always, grateful to UK/EU colleagues for keeping the flame alive!

#DefendResearch #StandUpForScience #ScienceForAll

Join us in the next #OpenFest2025 at Sheffield: #OpenResearch and #EEDI in all the meanings of those terms: all the way from safeguarding #publicdata around experiences of marginalised groups 👉to an equitable #bibliodiversepublishing ecosystem.

Register now:
libguides.shu.ac.uk/c.php?g=7091...

Really excited to be kicking this event off as the first speaker - talking about EDI, but specifically EDI in the Open Research space.

@alicejanegibson.bsky.social from my team is then speaking in the last session on research culture.

Love an event that bookended by @crick.ac.uk 😉

OpenFest 2025 OpenFest 2025 will take place between 2nd-5th September 2025. View the programme and book your place:

🔊Registration is NOW OPEN for OpenFest 2025, the annual open research event led by Sheffield & Sheffield Hallam unis.

2-5 September - all welcome!

This year's theme is Open Research & Equity, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion.

Read the programme & register here:
www.sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch...

Looking forward to attending a few of these!😊

Excellent few days of online events, free and open to everyone (except final day!)

OpenFest 2025 OpenFest 2025 will take place between 2nd-5th September 2025. View the programme and book your place:

To whet your appetite, we've got sessions on:

Diversity in (open) data & metadata for representative research

Building inclusive relationships with research participants

Towards an equitable, inclusive & bibliodiverse publishing ecosystem

Changing & critiquing (open) research culture

& more...

OpenFest 2025 OpenFest 2025 will take place between 2nd-5th September 2025. View the programme and book your place:

🔊Registration is NOW OPEN for OpenFest 2025, the annual open research event led by Sheffield & Sheffield Hallam unis.

2nd-5th September - all welcome.

This year's theme is Open Research & Equity, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion - in all the meanings of those terms.

More details and registration:⬇️

Congratulations to Insigneo member, Dr João Periquito @fohsheffield.bsky.social, on winning one of two first prizes in the @openresshef.bsky.social Research Prize 2025 in the Staff category - individual prizes for his work on co-founding the Open Source Imaging Initiative (OSI²) e.V.

SARG's Lucy Burke wins Open Research Prize 2025 - Sheffield Addictions Research Group Lucy Burke, a Qualitative Research Associate and PhD Student with the Sheffield Addictions Research Group (SARG), has been awarded the University of Sheffield Open Research Prize 2025 in the Postgradu...

🎉Huge congratulations to Lucy Burke who has won the University of Sheffield Open Research Prize 2025 in the Postgraduate Researcher (PGR) category!🎉 This recognition celebrates her outstanding commitment to making her research transparent, accessible and impactful. @openresshef.bsky.social

Congratulations to our brilliant @accessfolk.bsky.social colleagues on their team prize for open research @openresshef.bsky.social 🍾🎵

Open Research Prize 2025 - winners and runners up The winners of the University of Sheffield’s 2025 Open Research Prize have now been announced - many congratulations to our prize winners.

Winners of the Team Prize, the Access Folk team, commented:

"Having been awarded the Team Prize for Open Research has provided affirmation that all the effort we are putting in is recognised as high quality by the institution. This has given us momentum to keep doing what we feel is important."

Open Research Case Studies

Runner up prizes were awarded to Lowenna Jones (Faculty of Social Sciences), Daniel Poole (Faculty of Sciences) @danpoole.bsky.social, & Zuzanna Zagrodzka (Faculty of Sciences).

Read case studies from all the prize winners and runners up here:

Open Research Prize 2025 - winners and runners up The winners of the University of Sheffield’s 2025 Open Research Prize have now been announced - many congratulations to our prize winners.

In the staff category, the two winners were Stephen Bradley & João Periquito, both of the Faculty of Health.

The team prize was awarded to the Access Folk team (Faculty of Arts). @accessfolk.bsky.social‬

The individual PGR prize was won by Lucy Burke (Faculty of Health).

Open Research Prize 2025 - winners and runners up The winners of the University of Sheffield’s 2025 Open Research Prize have now been announced - many congratulations to our prize winners.

The winners of the University of Sheffield’s 2025 Open Research Prize have now been announced - many congratulations to our prize winners in the staff, PGR and team categories.

Read more about the winners and runners up here:

www.sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch...

Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2025 The Edinburgh Open Research Conference is a collaboration between the Library Open Research Team and Edinburgh ReproducibiliTea, and offers an opportunity for researchers, students, professional servi...

Watch all four sessions from the Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2025. This year focusing on the question:

“What’s stopping us?” Asking what barriers we face, the challenges slowing progress, and searching for strategies to overcome them.

#OER #OpenResearch
open.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-op...

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