UKRN Professional Roles

Case Studies

In 2023 UKRN and Jisc convened a group of national representatives of professional and technical staff to discuss how their work contributed to open research. You can read a report of that roundtable workshop.

As one follow-up activity, a series of six case studies have been written by staff from very different institutions, illustrating the wide variety of contributions to different aspects of open research across a very diverse sector. Even with this variety, we recognise that not all types of contribution are represented in these case studies, and would be interested in adding to this collection. If you are interested authoring a case study, please email contact@ukrn.org.

 We hope these case studies will help raise the profile of the many professional and technical staff whose work is essential to make research open and rigorous.

 In the article “Open and transparent research is vital, but not easy – and it is reliant on research professionals“, Jisc has written about the following case studies:

Professional and Technical Staff supporting Open Research

• Case Study 1: Sharing stimulus materials, Northumbria University, Newcastle
• Case Study 2: Open research on digital lives, University of Bath
• Case Study 3: Maintaining continuous populations of crop pests for use in sustainable crop protection research and outreach, Harper Adams University
• Case Study 4: Research-enabling staff and Open Research, University of Glasgow
• Case Study 5: Practice-based arts research project, Leeds Arts University
• Case Study 6: Open Access and the use of CRediT, Oxford Brookes University