PROGRAMME, NATIONAL OPEN RESEARCH FESTIVAL 2025

Registration

Welcome and Opening Remarks

William Beausang, Assistant Secretary General, DFHERIS’ Research and Innovation Policy, EU and International Division

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, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

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

A Call for a System-level Approach to Embed Open Research Practices and Advance Responsible Research Assessment – Simone O’Rourke, Project Manager of the NORF-funded ABOARD project

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 MRIA, TCD, ALLEA Taskforce on Academic Freedom and Research Security
• Maura Hiney MRIA, Adjunct Professor of Research Integrity, UCD

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