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 19th November 2024 it will host an all-day online event to share its work and encourage engagement with it.

We invite you to register for this event by completing the registration form.

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 49 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 (subject to change)

Time (UK) Session
0930

Welcome, aims for the day

Candy Rowe, Newcastle University (and OR4 Project lead)
0935

Keynote: followed by Q+A: 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).
1020 Break
1030

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

Anna Korzeniowska, University of Surrey
1045

Introducing the OR4 Toolkit

Robert Darby, University of Reading
1100

Introducing the OR4 Community of Practice and case studies

Karen Desborough, Cardiff University
1115 Break
1130

Stories from the community: the expectations and experiences of being a case study or community of practice institution.

Participating institutions
1300 Lunch
1400 Introduction to workshops
1405 Breakout workshops

  1. How best to enable the OR4 Community of Practice to share and learn from each other?
  2. How best to use the OR4 Toolkit in the real world of institutional policies, procedures and cultures?
  3. What would prompt new UK institutions to join the OR4 Community of Practice?
  4. How best to bring good practice from elsewhere into the OR4 community?
1445 Break
1500

Plenary feedback from breakout groups

Chaired by Candy Rowe
1530

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

Caitlin Cartner (HELIOS Project, US)

Clare Viney (OPUS Project / Vitae)

Lizzie Gadd (CoARA)
1615 Close