Recognising Open Research Practices in Recruitment and Promotion

UKRN Open Research Programme

Online event

The UKRN Open and Responsible Researcher Reward and Recognition (OR4) project is reforming the ways in which institutions recruit, promote and appraise their staff, to better reward open research practices.

On 19 November 2024 we hosted an all-day online event to share our work and encourage engagement with it.  Slide decks from the day are linked to below and recordings of the keynotes can be found on YouTube:

  • Morning keynotes including Lizzie Gadd, an introduction to the OR4 Toolkit and Community of Practice and Stories from the Community
  • Afternoon panel discussion between Caitlin Carter, Clare Viney and Lizzie Gadd

 

Background

Key OR4 deliverables include an institutional toolkit, a community of practice and a landscape review:

  • The institutional toolkit comprises an integrated maturity framework, self-assessment tool and guide to implementing responsible researcher assessment recognising open research.
  • The community of practice comprises 51 institutions that have joined a collective initiative to reform how they recruit, promote and appraise staff to recognise open research; 15 of those institutions have a deeper level of engagement as ‘case study’ institutions.
  • The landscape review is an online curated list of initiatives, resources and tools pertinent to reward and recognition for open research.

   Agenda

9:30

Welcome & aims for the day
Tim Newton, King’s College London (and OR4 Project lead)

Slide deck

09:35

Collective action to reform the incentive system to recognise (and demonstrate openness) in research: CoARA and other international developments.

Lizzie Gadd, Head of Research Culture & Assessment at Loughborough University and Vice-Chair of the Coalition on Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA).

Slide deck

10:20

Break

10:30

The OR4 project: aims, activities, timeline, outputs and ways to engage
Tim Newton

Slide deck 

10:45

Introducing the OR4 Toolkit
Robert Darby, University of Reading

Slide deck

11:00

Introducing the OR4 Community of Practice and case studies
Karen Desborough, Cardiff University

Slide deck

11:15

Break

11:30

Stories from the community

  • Stephanie Rossit (University of East Anglia)  Slide deck to follow
  • Anton Muszanskyj (Nottingham Trent University)  Slide deck 
  • Andreea Tocca (University of Suffolk)  Slide deck to follow
  • Marcus Munafò and Jon Gausden (University of Bristol)  Slide deck
  • Paul Lynch and Emma Butler (University of Derby)  Slide deck 

13:00

Lunch

14:00

Breakout workshops

  • How best to enable the OR4 Community of Practice to share and learn from each other?
  • How best to use the OR4 Toolkit in the real world of institutional policies, procedures and cultures?
  • What would prompt new UK institutions to join the OR4 Community of Practice?
  • How best to bring good practice from elsewhere into the OR4 community?

14:45

Break

15:00

Plenary feedback from breakout groups
Chaired by Tim Newton

15:30

Closing panel session: Why should institutions join collective efforts to reform research assessment, to recognise open research?

16:15

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