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Open Research Week 2025

Welcome to The Open University's (OU) first Open Research Week, which takes place from Monday 24 to Friday 28 March 2025.

Throughout the week, you’ll hear about the ‘real world’ use, translation, adaption and engagement of our openly available data, outputs and citizen science platforms. You’ll also hear about open practices that could help you if you want to make your research processes or outputs more open.

We’re aware that ‘open’ means different things across disciplines, and that not all research can be made open. We encourage you to take part in the discussions to explore what open means for you and how we can legally and ethically inform and use open practices to the betterment of society.

About Open Research Week 2025

This is a week that celebrates and promotes open research for researchers and colleagues who support open research practices. Whilst some sessions are UK-focussed, others will be of interest to colleagues around the world.

Further information and registration details will be available soon.

Event programme

Monday 24 March - The fundamentals of open research: decisions around data

Event title Time Presenters
Making research knowledge public: Using open science to support science communication 10:00 - 10:45 Alice Fleerackers, Assistant Professor of Journalism and Civic Engagement, University of Amsterdam
The OU's new Data Management Policy (internal event for OU staff and researchers. OU sign-in required) 11:00 - 11:45  Isabel Chadwick and Maxine Borton, Research Library Support, The Open University
Developing an Open Research course and decision tree for researchers across disciplines 14:00 - 15:00 Dr Camilla Elphick and the Open Research course development team, School of Psychology & Counselling, The Open University.

Tuesday 25 March – Collaboration in AI and open education resources

Event title Time Presenters
Open Research in Artificial Intelligence: A Personal Account of the Long View 11:00 - 11:45 Dr Paul Piwek, School of Computing & Communications, The Open University
Collaboratively developing Open Education: Openness in the Every1 project. 14:00 - 14:30  Beck Pitt, Senior Research Fellow, and Irina Rets, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University

Wednesday 26 March – Citizen science showcase

Event title Time Presenters
The Pelagios Network: from open methods and tools, to an open community of practice 10:00 - 10:30 Elton Barker, School of Arts & Humanities, The Open University
iSpot - a citizen science open platform for nature: connecting research, teaching, learning and engagement 11:00 - 11:45 Janice Ansine, Senior Project Manager, Citizen Science and the Citizen Science and Artificial Intelligence (CS&AI) Research Group
Opening research processes to the public 13:00 - 14:00 Prof Christothea Herodotou, Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University.

Thursday 27 March – Open publishing pathways

Event title Time Presenters
The Open Arts Journal: How open access publishing has supported and expanded public-facing research in the Arts and Humanities 09:30 - 10:00 Prof Leon Wainwright and Alice Sanger, School of Arts and Humanities, The Open University
Open Access Book Publishing with Scottish Universities Press 10:00 - 10:45 Dr Richard Marsden, School of Arts and Humanities, The Open University, with Dominique Walker and Paul Clarke, Scottish Universities Press

Friday 28 March – Accessing data

Event title Time Presenters
CORE – the world’s largest collection of open access papers 13:00 - 13:30 Petr Knoth and Halyna Torchylo, CORE, The Open University