Blogs
This page predominantly features blogs from NORF-funded research projects and initiatives, along with workshop summary reports.
QSA*Net co-host event on Open Research Initiatives
On 22 October 2024, during Maynooth University’s Research Week, the NORF-funded project QSA*Net: Promoting Open Research in Qualitative Social Science co-hosted a hybrid event titled 'Current Open Research Initiatives at Maynooth University'. The recording is...
Engaging with Your Community to Effect Change: An Irish Case Study
The below case study is by Alice Meadows, a co-founder of the MoreBrains Cooperative. It was published in the Scholarly Kitchen on 3 October 2024. This case study coincides with ‘Interoperability, Openness, and Impact - Recommendations and Roadmap for an Irish...
Connecting the evidence-for-policy and open research agendas
In this blog Patrice McCormack and Ian Marder of the NORF funded project, Embedding a culture of interdisciplinary open research in Ireland’s criminal justice sector through a national Researcher-Practitioner/Policymaker Partnership, report on the conference, “What next for Irish Public Policy Development?”, at ILAS Auditorium, University of Galway, 28 May 2024.
Department of Justice hosts agenda-setting CORD Partnership workshop
In this blog, Ian Marder of the NORF funded project, Embedding a culture of interdisciplinary open research in Ireland’s criminal justice sector through a national Researcher-Practitioner/Policymaker Partnership, reports on the Criminal justice Open Research Dialogue (CORD) Partnership’s third workshop of 2024, held at the Department of Justice on 11 July 2024.
Webinar: Open Monograph Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences Hosted by Irish Open Access Publishers (IOAP) with support by National Open Research Forum (NORF)
In this post, Beth Tyrrell and Lai Ma of the NORF-funded project, “Cultivating Open Research Culture in the Humanities and Social Sciences” describe a webinar they hosted on Open Monograph Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences on the 26th April 2024. The webinar brought together international experts and Irish publishing pioneers for a discussion on Open Access Monographs grounded in practical working solutions by adapting the Diamond OA model.
CORD Partnership hosts webinar on developing research partnerships
On Thursday 2 May, the Criminal justice Open Research Dialogue (CORD) Partnership hosted its second event of 2024. Funded by the National Open Research Forum (NORF) under the Open Research Fund Call 2023, CORD is bringing its partners together for three events...
A Case Study: Investing in Open Scholarly Infrastructure in Ireland Will Save Time and Money. It’ll Also Be Good for Research
This blog is re-posted from the Scholarly Kitchen and you can find it here. The post coincides with the launch of a cost-benefit analysis commissioned by the Irish National Open Research Forum (NORF) and written by MoreBrains Cooperative, that estimates the return on...
NORF is delighted to launch ‘Efficiency and Insight: A cost-benefit analysis for a central support service to support persistent identifier implementation in the Republic of Ireland’.
The National Open Research Forum is delighted to launch ‘Efficiency and Insight: A cost-benefit analysis for a central support service to support persistent identifier implementation in the Republic of Ireland’. This is the first of two publications in the NORF-led...
Citizen Science Month blog: The Kid’s Trial
April is Citizen Science Month and to mark the occasion we have invited early career researcher Simone LePage to blog about her experience of planning and implementing a project focusing on citizen science. Simone is a PhD Candidate with the Health Research Board...
Galway reflections: charting MOSS-I’s mission to drive open source policy within Irish universities
In this blog post, Michael Meagher, Project Manager on the ‘Managing Open Source Software in Irish Universities’ (MOSS-I) project led by Lero’s Dr Patrick Healy (University of Limerick) summarises a recent public event. On March 20th, we gathered at the University of...
iFrame workshop: Building the national RDM framework
We would like to invite you to participate in the final iFrame workshop on the 25th March at the Asiera offices (formerly HEAnet) in Dublin (93/94 North Wall Quay) The iFrame project is a NORF-funded investigation into the support for research data management in Irish...
Community voices shaping the ENGAGED roadmap
The ENGAGED project continues to be shaped through genuine co creation with the communities it serves. Across our collective intelligence workshops, NGOs, policy makers, citizen scientists, community partners, and people with lived experience have actively contributed...
Launch of the Irish Reproducibility Network
As part of the NORF-funded TROPIC II project, the end of January saw the official launch of the Irish Reproducibility Network, which is a national, peer-led network rooted in collaboration that connects researchers, librarians, and research offices to strengthen...
Research Output: Sharing Arts Practice FAIRly workshop 10 November 2025
The Sharing Arts Practice FAIRly project hosted its workshop on 10 November at the Glucksman Library, University of Limerick, disseminating its best practice guidelines on the digital preservation and dissemination of arts practice research outputs to colleagues in...
ABOARD Capstone Event
The ABOARD project is delighted to invite you to the ABOARD capstone event: "Responsible Research Assessment & Open Research: Why they matter and how we can make them happen!" at the Royal Irish Academy (Dublin) on March 27, 2026. The ABOARD project is funded by...