Events
Information about upcoming events for internal and external researchers, as well as resources from past events.
Upcoming events
Open Research Conversations autumn-winter 2024/25
Our lunchtime Open Research Conversations are free, online and open to all. Each focuses on a specific aspect of open research and features talks from 2-3 speakers followed by questions and discussion.
ReproducibiliTea journal club
Our local meets monthly to discuss and review papers on improving open research, reproducibility and the Open Research movement.
Find out more about forthcoming sessions
External training and events
Details of external training and events can be found in the .
This includes internal and external, online, in-person and hybrid events and it can be . To have an event added to the calendar, please contact Adam Partridge (a.partridge@sheffield.ac.uk).
You can also find details of both internal and external training via the .
Resources from previous events
Annual Open Research Lecture 2024
2024’s Annual Open Research Lecture was delivered by Professor Stephen Pinfield, Professor of Information Services Management and Senior Research Fellow at the Research on Research Institute (RoRI).
Titled ‘Achieving Global Open Access: The Need for Scientific, Epistemic and Participatory Openness’ and drawing on work from Professor Pinfield’s recent book, the presentation explored some of the key conditions that are necessary to deliver global Open Access in a way that is effective and equitable.
Open Access Week 2024
21st-25th October 2024 was International Open Access Week, an opportunity to discuss and explore the value and possibilities of open access scholarship. View session recordings
OpenFest 2024 (September 2024)
Co-delivered by the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University, OpenFest is our flagship celebration and exploration of open research, providing an opportunity to explore current issues, share experiences, and consider how open research can be applied in your discipline.
Changing Research Culture (July 2024)
In anticipation of REF2029’s heightened emphasis on People, Culture and Environment, ‘research culture’ is increasingly coming into scope as a focus of attention for UK institutions. But critical and reflective work is needed to avoid the term becoming, like ‘excellence’ itself, a floating signifier that obscures the genuine conditions, processes and limitations of academic practice.
This one-day workshop addressed this task with a particular focus on practices around openness and transparency. With reference to UKRIO’s, speakers examined the degree to which open practices present a necessary condition of a culture of research integrity and inclusion and explored the extent to which embedding and facilitating open practices offers a significant mechanism of culture change.
Keynote speakers:
- Tanita Casci, Director, Research Strategy & Policy Unit, University of Oxford
- Stephen Curry, College Consul and Professor of Natural Science, Imperial College London, and Chair of the Declaration on Research Assessment ()
'How to Share...' seminar series
Our How to Share.. series, which took place during the academic year 2023/24, contained a series of short, bitesize seminars that looked at how best to share different research data types to help you make your research outputs more FAIR and open.
OpenFest 2023
Recordings from OpenFest 2023 can be found .
Recordings from OpenFest 2022 can be found ,
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Previous Open Research Conversations - recorded talks
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You can find recordings and slides from previous Open Research Conversations here:
(November 2024) featuring David Wilby (British Antarctic Survey) and Chris Stride (Senior Lecturer and Applied Statistician, University of Sheffield)
(October 2024) featuring Monika Fratczak (Living with Data project), Susan Oman (Information School) and Andy Tattersall (Medicine and Population Health)
(June 2024) featuring Caroline Mackay (Jisc), Caroline Edwards (Open Library of Humanities) and Samuel Moore (Cambridge University)
(May 2024) featuring Lizzie Gadd (Loughborough University; CoARA); Robert Darby (University of Reading) and Simon Hettrick (University of Southampton; the Hidden REF)
(March 2024) featuring Matt Franklin (School of Medicine and Population Health) and Claire Cunnington (Department of Sociological Studies)
(February 2024) featuring Tom Webb (Biosciences) and Chris Ohge (Digital Humanities Climate Coalition)
(January 2024) featuring Johan Rooryck (cOAlition S), Chris Chambers (Cardiff University) and Judith Green (University of Exeter)
(December 2023) featuring Romain Thomas, David Wilby and Sylvia Whittle (Research Software Engineering)
(November 2023) featuring Hardy Schwamm (University of Galway), Lutfi Othman and Kim Clugston (University of Cambridge) and Neil Shephard (University of Sheffield)
(October 2023) featuring Toby Steiner (Flavours of Open), Meredith Warren (School of English) and Emma Cheatle and Luis Hernan (School of Architecture).
(June 2023) featuring Aneta Piekut (Sheffield Methods Instititute) and Norm Medeiros (Project TIER)
(May 2023) featuring Caroline Curwen (Department of Music), Charles West (Department of History) and Isabella Magni (Digital Humanities Institute)
(April 2023) featuring Kate Petherbridge (White Rose University Press), Adele Mason-Bertrand (University of Leeds) and Jost Migenda (KCL)
(March 2023) featuring Jessica Bradley (School of Education) and Jamie Coates (School of East Asian Studies)
(February 2023)
(February 2023) featuring Sarah Lippincott (Dryad), Andrew Beckerman (School of Biosciences) and Bev Jones (University Library)
(January 2023) featuring Tom Howard (Multidisciplinary Engineering Education), Maria Mawson and Helen Moore (University Library
(November 2022) featuring Stephen Pinfield (Information School and Research on Research Institute)
(October 2022) featuring Vicky Farnsworth (Speakup Self Advocacy), Dan Goodley (School of Education) and Matt Flinders (Politics and International Relations)
(January 2022) featuring James Wilsdon (Information School; Research on Research Institute) and Jon Griffiths (Research, Partnerships and Innovation)
(April 2021) featuring Alice Sereiro (School of Clinical Dentistry) and Endre Kiss-Toth (Department of Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease)
(January 2021) featuring Tom Stafford (Department of Psychology; University Research Practice Lead) and Anna Krystalli (Research Software Engineer)