🗓️ 28th of March 2025 📍 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) is organising the symposium “Qualitative Open Science: Challenges, Opportunities, Tensions, and Synergies”.

The one-day event, funded by Open Science NL will comprise plenary talks and interactive workshops on a variety of topics related to qualitative Open Science (see flyer).

Participation is free of charge 💸 and lunch will be provided 🌯

Register here ⬇️

https://lnkd.in/egfqgamE

May 12th, 2025, Nijmegen

This workshop brings together knowledge and skills for a more inclusive, diverse, equitable and therefore more open academia. The values described in the UNESCO Recommendations on Open Science (OS) aim to ensure ‘equitable, fair and reciprocal access to science for all…’ and ‘embracing diversity of knowledge, practices, workflows, languages and research topics and outputs’. The research community is far from embodying these values in everyday research practices and work environments. Therefore, the goal of this workshop is capacity building by equipping participants with know-how to make their research, research support, or events (such as presentations, training, engagement activities) more open, participatory, and inclusive in the broadest sense of the word.

This workshop offers three different interactive sessions. You can participate in two (one before, and one after lunch). Each of the three sessions is led by two leads who will provide participants with background information and strategies to apply in their daily work.

1) Leveling the playing field for careers in science & measuring marginalization (Afreen Khalid, Ze Freeman)

This session focuses on learning from lived experiences navigating the research world as a woman and person of color. It will provide research based insights into how to support other people who have similar diverse backgrounds who want to have a career in science. The session will also explore how and whether to measure people’s experiences of disability and queerness for different purposes, sharing insights from another lived experience perspective on how data from marginalised identities can be collected considerately.

2) Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion in the research lifecycle (Thomas Gülzow, Hanne Zimmermann)

Ensuring diverse and inclusive representation throughout the research process is crucial. Key considerations include: Is the research team inclusive? Are the research participants representative of the population being studied? How can a researcher be reflexive and transparent about their positionality? To foster diversity and inclusion while adhering to Open Science principles, researchers can use add-ons for preregistration forms focusing on these goals. This session centres on leveraging preregistration to enhance research representativeness undefined.

3) Inclusive events, work environments and building ally skills (Esther Plomp, Melanie Imming)

It is essential to recognise that individuals with privilege can drive positive change, often with relatively lower risks than marginalised groups. For instance, they can actively contribute to inclusivity by developing ally skills. Members of the Open Science Communities, for instance, play an important role as change agents, leading by example and setting standards for inclusivity. Academics can use their power and influence to take meaningful action by knowing when to act as allies and how to organise inclusive, accessible events. This session focuses on practical information, tools and skills, to ensure that events, trainings and activities become more inclusive.

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