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A two-day programme of talks, panel discussions and project showcases, OpenFest 2022 provided an opportunity for University of Sheffield researchers and information/software professionals to explore a range of issues around open research, including OA monograph publishing, Open Educational Resources, FAIR data and software, open qualitative research and software licensing.

The programme from the event can be found .

Talks from those sessions that were recorded and presentation slides can be found on the links below:

Day 1

: Organising Ourselves for World Domination: How Academics can Work Together to Improve Research Culture

• Jacob MacDonald (Urban Studies): The Open Research Project Lifecycle
• Matthew Hanchard (Sociological Studies): Models of Data Deposition

• Emily Nunn (University Library), Open Access to Health and Education Research outside Academia
• Jamie McGlaughlin (Digital Humanities Institute): It Is Happening Again: Do we keep Building the Same Digital Humanities Website?

• Michael Pidd (Digital Humanities Institute) - 3D Polygon Models of five Cistercian Abbeys in Yorkshire
• Joao Duro (ACSE) - SIPHER Project: Open-Source Release of the Decision Support Tool

 Helen Moore (University Library) and David Curtis (University of York)

Day 2

: Moving Beyond Lip Service

 - TUoS researchers discuss their own experiences around open research

• Stephen Allen (Management School): Publishing an Open Access Monograph
• Andrea Paterlini (Biosciences): Microscopy Af-FAIR-s: The Power of Existing Datasets
• Daniele Tartarini (Computer Science), Enhancing Reproducibility of Biomedical Applications using Virtualisation 

 - Kate O’Neill (University Library) and Robert Turner (Research Software Engineering) 

• Monika Fratczak (Sociological Studies) - Living With Data Dataset
• Sylvia Whittle (Materials Science & Engineering) - TopoStats Software for Microscopic Data 
• Eleanor Hyde (Psychology) - Tatool-Web Support and Interface for Experimental Code 
• Joanna Sutton-Klein (ScHARR) - CUREd Database - Aggregated Emergency Department Attendance Data

• Joe Heffer (IT Services): Research Data Management: A Software and Technology Perspective
• David Wilby (Research Software Engineering): Making MATLAB Projects Reproducible and Shareable

• Adam Partridge (Open Research Training Lead), Get Involved! Open Research Communities at the University of Sheffield
• Zuzanna Zagrodzka (Biosciences / RoRi - Research on Research Institute): Accelerating the Open Research Agenda to Solve Global Challenges
• Jenni Adams and Rosie Higman (University Library), Developing Discipline-Specific Guidance on Making Research Data and Software FAIR