A supportive research community is vital for researchers to thrive. The pandemic has completely transformed the ways our communities interact. Drawing inspiration from Café Scientifique, research librarian, Katherine Stephan, has been running interdisciplinary Research Café’s at Liverpool John Moores University. She will be talking about how these events have been successfully relocated to an online space and continue to benefit researchers.
Tyler Shores is the Manager of the ThinkLab Program at the University of Cambridge and is interested in academic social media use and digital wellbeing. His current research explores digital distractions.
Dr Natalia Cecire will chair this event.
Plan S is an initiative for open-access science publishing launched in 2018 by “cOAlition S“, a consortium of national research agencies and funders from twelve European countries. Many aspects of Plan S have now come into force, including the Rights Retention Strategy.
Sally Rumsey, Open Access expert at Jisc and Professor Johan Rooryck, Executive Director of cOAlition S, talk about what this means for our researchers and, in particular, how the changes to rights retention for authors might impact our future dissemination of research.
Dr Maria Mercedes Frabboni will chair this event.
Dr Lizzie Gadd, founder of the Bibliomagician blog, discusses responsible metrics, in general, and recent policy changes by UK funders and what that means for the sector.
Professor Robin Banerjee will also talk about the specific work being carried out by Sussex and how are practically implementing our DORA action plan and how the University is moving away from traditional ways of ranking research to a fairer, more inclusive system.
As the research landscape, and the policies and technologies that underpin it, continue to evolve, we look towards the next iteration of research assessment.
Dr Catriona Firth, Head of REF policy at Research England and Professor Alis Oancea, Philosophy of Education and Research Policy at University of Oxford will consider what the future holds for research assessment.
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Supported by SAGE Publications and hosted by the University of Sussex Library, these events are open to everyone engaged in, supporting or curious about the research process. Where possible slides and recordings of the sessions will be made available.
