UKRN Open Research Programme

The UKRN Open Research Programme training project supports a community of training practice. This is for anyone who has done a train-the-trainer session and is therefore planning to deliver training for staff or students at their institution. The community enables trainers to find inspiration, reflect on training experiences, share materials and lessons, support each other, and collaboratively develop new resources.

After participating in a training session in the Programme, the first step to joining the community is to receive a ‘badge’ to show that the training has been done. At that point, trainers are invited to join.

Inevitably, the community will start small and grow as the Programme trains more and more trainers.

Confirmed activities include:

• Education meets reality – How to help participants make the most of your open research training
  Verena Heise, Freelance Open Science consultant/ trainer/researcher.
• Creating visibility for open and reproducible research (training)
  Heidi Seibold, the Digital Research Academy.
•  Co-designing this Community
  Steve Boneham (Newcastle) and Joe Corneli (Brookes).
• Approaches to Training and CPD
  Anna Korzeniowska (University of Surrey) and Louise Saul (University of Southampton)
• UKRN ‘train-the-trainer’ sessions you can run locally
  Kirsty Merrett, University of Bristol.
• (UKRN Open Research Summer School
  Sam Westwood, King’s College London.

 In consultation with members of the community we are now planning more events and considering different types of activities, including regular informal ‘office hours’, train-the-trainer follow up sessions, training observation and peer feedback, focus groups and collaborative development sprints.

For more information, please contact steven.boneham@newcastle.ac.uk.