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Qualitative Open Science: Challenges, Opportunities, Tensions, and Synergies
đď¸ 28th of March 2025 đ Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) is organising the symposium âQualitative Open Science: Challenges, Opportunities, Tensions, and Synergiesâ.
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 đ¸ and lunch will be provided đŻ
Register here âŹď¸

Making scholarship look like the world looks: A workshop day on Openness, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Academia
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 âequitable, fair and reciprocal access to science for allâŚâ and âembracing diversity of knowledge, practices, workflows, languages and research topics and outputsâ. 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 peopleâs 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 GĂźlzow, 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.
Apply for this workshop here:
Please note: We are committed to making this event accessible and welcoming to everyone. In the application form below you can let us know if there is anything we can do to support your participation (for example, assistive technology, mobility assistance, or quiet spaces). If your screen reader has problems with the embedded form below, you can go to the full-screen respondent experience via this link: https://6nwujj22sqm.typeform.com/to/sLTSd4Yw

Confronting Injustice through Open Science: Centering justice, equity, and decolonial approaches in research.
Join us for the Confronting injustice through Open Science symposium in Amsterdam !
About the Event:
In this symposium, we will explore how Open Science can help to fight injustice, by centering decolonial and anticolonial Open Science initiatives. Together, we aim to raise awareness about the neglect justice in mainstream Open Science practices and explore actionable pathways to embed justice and equity as fundamental values ââof Open Science.
For this, we will specially focus on three topics related to injustice and Open Science:
- Diamond open access publishing as an alternative to working with commercial publishers.
- Advocating for contextual , rather than absolute, openness as a means of centering justice.
- Expanding the definition of ‘science’ in Open Science to be more inclusive to diverse knowledge production approaches.
Event Details:
- Date: Thu, 13 March 2025
- Time: 09.30-16:30 (CEST).
- FREE registration.
- Location: Theater 5, NU, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
This symposium will take place in person in Amsterdam. It is also possible to register for online attendance only.
If you have any questions about the event, feel free to leave them in the ‘Questions’ section during registration. We will get in touch with you directly to provide the information you need.