The Open Research Caf\u00e9 is co-designed by PROSPR and the Library and will be a regular event built around the following principles:<\/p>\n
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- Informal<\/li>\n
- Interdisciplinary<\/li>\n
- Community-led<\/li>\n
- Open to researchers and support staff from all levels<\/li>\n
- Facilitates discussions on different aspects of Open Research<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/p>\nWhat happened?<\/h3>\n
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The current PROSPR Chair Dermot Lynott<\/a> opened the Open Research Caf\u00e9. Dermot pointed out that\u00a0pioneering researchers and policy makers are exploring ways in which research can become more open and transparent, but also that the term Open Research has many meanings to different people in different contexts.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nThe discussions that followed focused initially on what Open means to our researcher community. The conversations were diverse and touched upon Open Access publishing, Open Data, pre-registered studies and\u00a0providing practical support for researchers who want to engage in open practices.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nThe Open Research Matrix<\/h3>\n
In order to gain a sense of researchers\u2019 priorities we introduced a poster including eight areas of Open Research (loosely based on the Eight Pillars of Open Science<\/a> as defined by the EU Commission). Attendees were asked to place six stickers on our poster in areas that interest them most. This will help us focus our attention and future themes of Open Research events considering our community\u2019s interests.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nWe will use the matrix to inform future events and give priority to aspects of Open Research that are of most interest to our community.<\/p>\n
What comes next?<\/h3>\n
The Open Research Caf\u00e9 will return in spring 2019! In the meantime, our\u00a07th Data Conversations The best laid plans…<\/i><\/a>\u00a0is on the 18<\/b>th<\/b>\u00a0February 2019<\/b>.\u00a0We will talk about\u00a0we will talk about developing research projects. How do we go about preparing for data collection or creation? How do we identify and use existing suitable datasets? How do we develop interdisciplinary projects with partners who may be at Lancaster University or elsewhere? How do we ensure that our data is well managed through the whole\u00a0lifecycle<\/a>\u00a0and leveraged to its full potential?<\/p>\n
\u00a0How can you get involved?<\/h2>\n
If you want to be part of the Lancaster Open Research Community please sign up to our mailing list by emailing Hardy: h.schwamm@lancaster.ac.uk<\/a>. We will announce future events and other ways how you can engage in Lancaster’s Open Research Community.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nBy Hardy Schwamm & Joshua Sendall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Why have an Open Research Caf\u00e9? During Data Conversations\u00a0our\u00a0researcher community demonstrated an interest in discussions that move beyond open data\u00a0to broader discussions around\u00a0open research\u00a0paradigms\u00a0and practices. The library explored possibilities\u00a0with\u00a0our Psychology\u00a0department’s\u00a0PROSPR (Promoting Open Science Practices) group about how we might provide a forum for those discussions. Enter the Open Research Caf\u00e9. The Open Research Caf\u00e9 is … Continue reading First Lancaster University Open Research Caf\u00e9 21 November 2018<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,36,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-data","category-open-research","category-open-research-cafe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p81NIC-dD","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/highly-relevant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/highly-relevant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/highly-relevant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/highly-relevant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/highly-relevant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/highly-relevant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/highly-relevant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/highly-relevant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/highly-relevant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/highly-relevant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}