PROGRAMME, NATIONAL OPEN RESEARCH FESTIVAL 2025

Registration

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Michelle Doran, National Open Research Coordinator, National Open Research Forum

Keynote Address

Joy Owango, Founding Director of TCC Africa

Panel: Global Open Research

Chair: Alexandra Delipalta, Director, RDA Europe
Panelists:

• Rebecca Lawrence, Vice-Chair of DORA
• Joy Owango, Founding Director of TCC Africa
• Lautaro Matas, Executive and Technical Director of LA Referencia

Lunch

Parallel Sessions

Cross-cutting Policy Agendas

Lightning Talk Session 1
Co-designing a National Resource on the Responsible Use of Research Metric – Colleen Thomas, Research Culture & Engagement Manager, University College Dublin

Sharing Arts Practice Research FAIRly – Ed Kearns, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Limerick

Open Research Training for Health Science PhDs – Ruth Geraghty, Research Data Coordinator, RCSI

Communicating FAIR Expectations through Data Policies – Beth Knazook, Research Data Manager, Digital Repository of Ireland

Introductory remarks: ‘Knowledge Security and Open Science: It is complicated…’

Speaker: Franklin van der Hoeven, Programme Manager, Open Science, TU Delft

Panel: Connecting Research Security, Academic Freedom, and Research Integrity in an Open Research Environment

Chair: Senator Laura Harmon
Panelists:

• Franklin van der Hoeven, TU Delft
• Padraig Carmody, TCD, MRIA, ALLEA Taskforce on Academic Freedom and Research Security
• Maura Hiney, UCD MRIA, Adjunct Professor of Research Integrity

Open Research 101 Workshop A

Qualitative Secondary Analysis (QSA): Extending FAIR Data Principles into Practice

Organiser(s):
Jane Gray, Principal Investigator, QSA*Net, Maynooth University
Rong Bao, Postdoctoral Researcher, QSA*Net, Maynooth University

Coffee Break

Parallel Sessions

Open Research for Innovation

Lightning Talk Session 2
The iFrame Project into establishing a national framework for research data management – Marcus Leaning, Researcher, University of Limerick

APCs in the wild… who gets our money and can we really afford this? – Donna Ó Doibhlin, Scholarly Communications Librarian, UCC

Open Educational Practices in Open Research: Synergies and Impact – Marta Bustillo, Digital Learning Librarian, UCD

Making Visible the Invisible: Open Research to Expose Global Profit Shifting, Inequality, and Corporate Power – Lakshmi Menon, PhD. Researcher, UCD

Building Synergies for Open Research: Development of a national EOSC node for Ireland – Jenny O’Neill, Research Engagement Officer, HEAnet

Panel: Open Research for Innovation

Chair: Clare Dillon, Open Ireland Network
Panelists:

• Aedin Culhane, Professor of Cancer Genomics and Director of the Limerick Digital Cancer Research Centre
• Lautaro Matas, Secretary Technical and Executive of LA Referencia
• Joy Owango, Founding Director of TCC Africa and Keynote speaker.
• Kalpana Shankar, Professor of Research Policy and Practice and PI of ROCHE

Open Research 101 Workshop B

Myths, Maps and Missions: Becoming an Open Researcher

Organisers:
Dermot Lynott, Coordinator, TROPIC, Maynooth University
Dounia Lakhzoum, Postdoctoral Researcher, Maynooth University

Closing Remarks

Registration

NORF-funded Projects Meeting

Parallel Community Engagement Workshops

Lunch

Parallel Community Engagement Workshops

Event Concludes