Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2025 now open for booking!
By Kirsty, on 24 April 2025
We are delighted to be able to finally launch the full programme for the Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2025 in collaboration with LSE and the Francis Crick Institute.
The festival will run from the 2-6th of June and includes and exciting array of sessions including creative workshops, informal networking, case studies, online and in person panel discussions and technology demonstrations.
Download the full programme or keep scrolling for all the booking links below!
Monday 2 June
Open Methods with Protocols.io
In person – Francis Crick Institute
9.15am-12noon
This workshop at the Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2025 will introduce you to the benefits of publishing your methods and protocols as a separate & open access output. The workshop is open to all, but may be of particular interest to scientific lab researchers and staff: PGRs, Postdoc, Research Assistants, Technicians etc.
The session will include:
- General principles of Open Methods: Who, What, When, Why?
- An introduction to Protocols.io as a way of publishing your methods and protocols
- A workshop with Protocols.io where you can try out the system and get immediate answers to your questions from the experts.
Creativity in research and engagement – In Person
In person – UCL East campus
2-4pm
A session of making, sharing and storytelling. Speakers from across UCL share how they use creative methods to enrich their research, engage with people, and share their learning. Join us to discuss these methods, the benefits of creativity, and try creating a visual output based on your own work.
Tuesday 3 June
Co-producing research with Special Collections: Prejudice and Power case study
Online only
10-11.30am
Join UCL Special Collections for a session exploring co-creation as a tool to engage with rare book and archive collections.
This session will focus on the practitioner experience of collaborating with communities using rare collections. The core example will be the recent Prejudice in Power project, that consisted
of a range of co-creation, community and academic initiatives that focussed on our holdings to respond to the university’s historic role in promoting eugenics. We will also discuss wider co-creation activity in UCL Special Collections, the lessons we have learnt and how we are embedding them into future practice.
Wednesday 4 June
Should reproducibility be the aim for open qualitative research? Researchers’ perspectives
Hybrid: LSE campus and Online
10-11am
Reproducibility has been touted among quantitative researchers as a necessary step to make studies rigorous. To determine reproducibility, whether the same analyses of the same data produce the same results, the raw data and code must be accessible to other researchers. Qualitative researchers have also begun to consider making their data open too. However, where the analyses of these data do not involve quantification and statistical analysis, it is difficult to see how such analysis processes could be reproducible.
Furthermore, for researchers in fields where cultural knowledge plays a key role in the analysis of qualitative data, openness of such data may invite misrepresentation by re-use of the data by researchers unfamiliar with the cultural and social context in which it was produced. This event asks whether reproducibility should be the aim for open qualitative data, and if not, why should researchers make their qualitative data open and what are the other methods used to establish rigour and integrity in research?
Co-Chairs:
- Dr Matteo Galizzi, Associate Professor of Behavioural Science, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, LSE
- Dr Sandy Schumann, Lecturer in Security and Crime Science, Dept of Security and Crime Science, University College London
Panel:
- Kirsty Wallis, Head of Research Liaison, Office for Open Science and Scholarship; and PhD Student, University College London
- Dr Annayah Prosser, Assistant Professor, Centre for Business, Organisations and Society (CBOS), University of Bath
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Dr Madeleine Pownall, Associate Professor, School of Psychology, University of Leeds
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Dr Matthew Hanchard, Research Fellow, School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield
How open is possible, how closed is necessary? Navigating data sharing whilst working with personal data
Hybrid: UCL Bloomsbury and Online
1 – 2pm
In the interests of transparency and research integrity, researchers are encouraged to open up more of their research process, including sharing data. However, for researchers working with personal data, including interview and medical data, there are important considerations for sharing. This event will bring together researchers from a range of disciplines to share their experiences and strategies for open research when working with personal data.
The panel will discuss if and how this type of data can be made openly available, the balance between the work involved to anonymise data and benefits to research and society for making it available, and consider the legal frameworks researchers are working within in the UK.
Chair:
Dr Douglas Gray, Head of Human Research Governance, the Francis Crick Institute
Panel:
- Dr Stella Tsoli, Research Officer, LSE Health Inequalities Lab
- Professor Gabriella Vigliocco, Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, UCL
Thursday 5 June
Open Research in the Age of Populism
Online only
4-5pm
Political shifts around the world, from the Trump administration in the US to Orban’s government in Hungary, are making it more important than ever to have reliable research freely available. However, these governments are also making it more risky to be a researcher openly sharing the results of research in many countries and disciplines. Alongside the political censorship of research in some countries there are also changes to research funding, research being misrepresented and used to spread misinformation online, and concerns about the stability of open research infrastructure which is funded by the state. In these circumstances we will consider the value of open knowledge, the responsibilities of individual researchers and institutions to be open and how you can protect yourself when making your research openly available?
Chair:
Jason Mckenzie Alexander, Professor of Philosophy at LSE and author of The Open Society as an Enemy
Panel:
- Martin Eve is Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck, University of London and Technical Lead of Knowledge Commons at MESH Research, Michigan State University, and co-founder of the non-profit open access journals publisher, Open Library of the Humanities.
- Frances Pinter is a Visiting Fellow at LSE and has had an impressive career in publishing latterly focused on open access publishing.
- Sara Rouhi has a long career in publishing and is a co-founder of the Declaration to Defend Research Against US Government Censorship
Friday 6 June
Authorship in the era of AI
Online only
2-4pm
With the rapid growth of AI tools over the past three years, there has been a corresponding rise in the number of academics and students using them in their own writing. While it is generally agreed that we still expect people to be the “authors” of their work, deciding how to interpret that is often a nuanced and subjective decision by the writer. This panel discussion will look at how we think about “authorship” for AI-assisted writing – what are these tools used for in different contexts? Where might readers and publishers draw their own lines as to what is still someone’s own work? And how might we see this develop over time?
Panel:
- Ayanna Prevatt-Goldstein – Head of the Academic Communications Centre at UCL
- Rachel Safer – Executive Publisher for Ethics & Integrity at OUP and a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics
- Dhara Snowden – Head of the textbooks program at UCL Press