PROGRAMME, NATIONAL OPEN RESEARCH FESTIVAL 2025

Registration

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Location: RIA Meeting Room

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

Keynote Address: ‘Global Open Research: Building Equitable and Sustainable Open Science Ecosystems’

Location: RIA Meeting Room

by Joy Owango, Founding Director of TCC Africa

Panel: Global Open Research

Location: RIA Meeting Room

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

Location: RIA Meeting Room

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
• Pádraig 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

Location: RIA Members’ Room

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

Location: RIA Meeting Room

Lightning Talk Session 2
The iFrame Project into establishing a national framework for research data management – Armin Straube, Research Data Manager, 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

Location: RIA Members’ Room

Myths, Maps and Missions: Becoming an Open Researcher

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

Closing Remarks

NORF-funded Projects Meeting (hybrid)

Location: RIA Members’ Room and online

Registration

Parallel Community Engagement Workshops

Location: RIA Meeting Room

A. The Next Phase of Open Research Monitoring in Ireland: Community Priorities and Practice

Organisers:
Susan Reilly, Director, IReL
Aaron Binchy, Project Manager, National Open Access Monitor, IReL
Ioanna Grypari, Technical Manager, OpenAIRE

CANCELLED B. Making Real-world Impact with Your Open Science Initiative Using Evidence-based Digital Marketing Skills

Organisers:
Bethan Iley, OSPARK Coordinator, OLS
Joyce Kao, Research Software Engineer, Digital Research Academy
Heidi Seibold, Co-founder, Digital Research Academy
Debs Udoh, Research Software Engineer, OLS
Yo Yehudi, Executive Director, OLS

Lunch

Parallel Community Engagement Workshops

Location: RIA Meeting Room

C. New Faces: The Future of Open Research and Public Engagement

Organisers:
Michael Foley, Coordinator, ENGAGED, Trinity College Dublin
Jo-Hanna Ivers, Principal Investigator, Trinity College Dublin
James Brunton, Principal Project Partner, Dublin City University
Louise Hopper, Project Partner, Dublin City University
Kathyan Kelly, ENGAGED Project Manager, Trinity College Dublin
Autumn Brown, ENGAGED Researcher, Dublin City University
Tracey-Jane Cassidy, ENGAGED Engagement Lead, Trinity College Dublin

Location: RIA Members’ Room

D. ROCHE Project Update: Open Science in Public Private Research Partnerships

Organisers:
Kalpana Shankar, Principal Investigator, ROCHE, University College Dublin
Gail Sheppard, Co-Principal Investigator, ROCHE, Maynooth University

Location: RIA Gold Room

E. Co-designing a National PID Strategy Template for EOSC Alignment

Organiser:
Jenny O’Neill, Research Engagement Officer, HEAnet

Event Concludes