PROGRAMME, NATIONAL OPEN RESEARCH FESTIVAL 2023

Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson St, Dublin

THURSDAY, 2 NOVEMBER 2023

9:00

Registration

10:00

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Colm O’Reardon, Secretary General, Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science

Daniel Bangert, National Open Research Coordinator, Digital Repository of Ireland

10:15

Keynote Address: ‘Opening Science’

Chelle Gentemann, science lead for NASA’s Transform to Open Science Mission and co-chair of the U.S. White House Office for Science and Technology and Policy (OSTP) Sub-working group on the Year of Open Science

11:00

Panel: ECR Perspectives on Open Science and Research Assessment

Chair: Yensi Flores Bueso, Steering Board member of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA)

Panellists: Noémie Aubert Bonn, Postdoctoral Researcher at Hasselt University, Belgium, and the University of Manchester, UK; Irene Castellano, Horizon Europe Health Cluster National Contact Point (NCP) for Ireland and Chair of the Ireland Chapter of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA); Stefan Müller, Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow in the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin, Member of the Young Academy of Ireland, Melissa Sharp, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow and Honorary Lecturer, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland.  

12:00

Lunch

13:00

Lightning Talk Session 1: Establishing a Culture of Open Research

Chair: Frances Madden, Technological University Dublin

Agape – Building an Open Science Practising Community

Cassandra Murphy, Agape Open Science/Maynooth University

Open Research Practices for Research Integrity

Lai Ma, University College Dublin

Research Assessment and Incentivising Open Research Practices

David O’Connell, University College Cork

Lightning Talk Session 2: Achieving 100% Open Access to Research Publications

Chair: Marion Boland, Science Foundation Ireland

Students as Scholars – Participation in Open Research and Publishing Practices: The Case of the Communications Undergraduate Journal at Dublin City University

Ronan Cox, Dublin City University

5 Years of HRB Open Research in 5 Minutes

Hannah Wilson, F1000

National Open Access Repositories: Strengthen and Align Ireland’s Network of Open Access Repositories

Christopher Loughnane, University of Galway

The National Open Access Monitor Project

Catherine Ferris, IReL

Lightning Talk Session 3: Enabling FAIR Research Data and Other Outputs

Chair: James Smith, University College Cork

The Irish ORCID Consortium

Catherine Ferris, IReL

Exploring Large-Scale Open Data: The Curatr Platform

Derek Greene, University College Dublin 

A Workflow for Research Data Management (RDM): Aligning the Management of Research Data

Gail Birkbeck, University College Dublin

Making Cultural Heritage Data FAIR: Developing Recommendations for the WorldFAIR Project at the Digital Repository of Ireland

Joan Murphy, Digital Repository of Ireland

15:00

Break

15:30-17:00

Launch of the NORF Open Research Fund 2023 Projects

Daniel Bangert, National Open Research Coordinator, Digital Repository of Ireland

The NORF Open Research Fund 2023 is funding 13 research projects designed to support and advance Open Research in Ireland. This session will feature presentations from a selection of the Project Leads of these projects. Speakers include Sally Smith (TCD), Jo-Hanna Ivers (TCD), Armin Straube (UL), Eoin O’Dell (TCD), Patrick Healy (UL), Ian Marder (MU) and Gemma Moore (HSE).

17:00-17:10

Closing Remarks

Louise Callinan, Head of Research & Research Policy, Higher Education Authority

FRIDAY, 3 NOVEMBER 2023

9:30

Parallel Workshops

European Open Science Cloud National Tripartite Event 

Organiser(s): Roberto Sabatino, HEAnet

Open Peer Review Detective Game / Science Sleuths

Organiser(s): Nina Tubranová, UCD Connect, Agape – Open Science Practising Community

11:00

Break

11:30

Parallel Workshops

Sonraí Irish Data Stewardship Network Roadshow – Could you be a Data Steward? 

Organiser(s): Aoife Coffey, Sonraí – Irish Data Stewardship Network, University College Cork (UCC); Junwen Luo, UCC; Darren Dahly, UCC; Jenny O’Neill, University College Dublin, Johanna Archbold, Technological University of the Shannon.

13:00-14:15

Lunch

14:15-15:45

Parallel Workshops

Scholarly Authorship and Open Access

Organiser(s): Ruth Hegarty, PublishOA.ie, Royal Irish Academy; Lucy Hogan, Publish OA.ie, Royal Irish Academy

Examining Open Source Software Management Challenges & Solutions for Irish Universities

Organiser(s): Clare Dillon, University of Galway, Lero, Open Ireland Network