Beyond Open Research: Understanding what matters for quality and reliability
- What really matters in research?
- What practices and behaviours lead to the highest-quality research?
- How can we recognise and incentivise those good practices?
These are some of the questions we’ve been asking in a Library-led, university-wide project on enhancing research culture since January 2024.
The first phase of the project looked at the challenges and opportunities of embedding transparency, quality and scrutiny into the research data life cycle.
Discover the workshops
We ran a series of workshops from April to July 2024. We involved researchers, professional staff and the public to scope out the challenges and co-create practical solutions.
Discover the workshops
Workshops
You can have the best systems, practices and processes you like, but if they’re not linked to the culture in which you do your work, then you'll never be able to focus on quality.
Semi-structured interviews from the project
We complemented the workshops with a series of semi-structured interviews with subject experts in research culture and assessment, public applications of research data, and data quality and transparency.
Structured interviews from the project
Code for Thought podcast episodes
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Acknowledgements:
The Beyond Open Research Project would like to extend their heartfelt gratitude to all stakeholders and leadership members for their invaluable contributions to this project:
- Hamid Khan, Library Services
- Jeremy Cohen, Department of Computing
- Kate Price, Library Services
- Ruth Harrison, Library Services
- Wayne Peters, Library Services
- Yusuf Ozkan, Library Services
- Marcus Munafo, UK Reproducibility Network
- Neil Jacobs, UK Reproducibility Network
- Alex Collins, Centre for Environmental Policy
- Amy Seakins, Societal Engagement Team
- Wayne Mitchell, Department of Immunology & Inflammation
- Ross Clark, Business School
- Kelly Gleason, Department of Surgery & Cancer
- Ian McArdle, Research Office
- Bob Klaber, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Sara Rankin, National Heart & Lung Institute
- Anna Seabourne, Early Career Researcher Institute
- Victoria Crossley, Early Career Researcher Institute
- Jess Wade, Department of Materials
- Nadia Soliman, Department of Surgery & Cancer
- Mark Kennedy, Data Science Institute
- Camille Kandiko-Howson, Centre for Higher Ed Research & Scholarship
- Jamie Meredith, MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciencies
- Emily Lumley, Research Computing Services - ICT
- Michael Bearpark, Department of Chemistry
- Lindsay Keith, MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciencies
- Stephen Curry, Department of Life Sciences
- Kirsten Bell, School of Public Health
- Chris Banks, Library Services
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