RIOS Symposium 2026 Making the Links: Bridging Research Integrity & Open Science

📅 9 April 2026

🕒  13:00-15:30

📍 Aurora Room, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

We are pleased to announce the upcoming RIOS 2026 Symposium: Making the Links: Bridging Research Integrity & Open Science!

This annual event brings together researchers, research support professionals, and policy experts to engage in dialogue on Research Integrity and Open Science.

The symposium is open to members of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Amsterdam UMC communities, as well as external researchers and professionals interested in Research Integrity and Open Science.

More details on the program will be announced soon.

We look forward to welcoming you!

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Program (preliminary!)

13:00 – 13:15 Welcome and Overview of RIOS activities

 

prof. dr. Jeroen de Ridder (co-chair RIOS) & prof. dr. Mariëtte van den Hoven (co-chair RIOS)

 
13:15 – 14:00 Bridging Research Integrity & Open Science – initiatives from the VU & Amsterdam UMC:

 

–              dr. Bogdana Huma & dr. Elliot Hoey (VU Amsterdam) – Enhancing transparency in qualitative research: Lessons from Conversation Analysis

 

–              Marián Crespo López (VU Amsterdam; Amsterdam UMC) – Integrating Diversity into Researcher Evaluation: Results from the IDEA Project

 

–              Claudia Pallise Perello (Amsterdam UMC) – Fairness, justice and equity in RI and RCR codes around the world: findings from a Scoping Review using Critical Discourse Analysis

 

–              More to be confirmed

 

Chair: to be confirmed

 

Q&A

 
14:00 – 14:45 Keynote session by dr. Joeri Tijdink (VU & Amsterdam UMC)  – Change research practices from the inside out: why tools and policy aren’t enough. Research culture is the engine of reproducibility — the CATALYST project

 

Chair: Sander Bosch (VU Amsterdam)

 

Q&A

 
14:45 – 15:15 2nd RIOS Collaborative Program – Announcement of winners – prof. dr. Jeroen de Ridder & prof. dr. Mariëtte van den Hoven

 

Q&A

 
15:15 – 15:30 Conclusion & Stay connected with RIOS

 

dr. Rita F. Alves dos Santos (RIOS Project Lead)

 

Featured Talks

Welcome and Overview of RIOS activities

prof. dr. Jeroen de Ridder

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

prof. dr. Mariëtte van den Hoven

Amsterdam UMC

About the speaker:

Jeroen de Ridder is a University Chair and Professor of Political Epistemology at the Department of Philosophy of the VU. His research focuses on issues in social epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of religion. Currently, most of it is in collective epistemology and political epistemology: can groups have beliefs and knowledge, are there collective intellectual virtues, what determines the epistemic performance of groups, how do people form, maintain, and reason about their political beliefs? He also apply these issues in thinking about the epistemic qualities of liberal democracy.

About the speaker:

Mariëtte van den Hoven is a Professor in Medical Philosophy and Ethics at Amsterdam UMC, and Department Head of Ethics, Law and Humanities. She is also the Chair of the Netherlands Research Integrity Network (NRIN), and the co-founder of the Network on Education and Research Quality (NERQ). Her main research interest is focused on contributing towards responsible conduct of research within academia. She is interested in how researchers conduct research, communicate about it, and share not only good practices, but also brilliant failures. For Mariëtte, this is a life long academic learning process.

Bridging Research Integrity & Open Science - initiatives from the VU & Amsterdam UMC

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María de los Ángeles Crespo López

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Amsterdam UMC

Integrating Diversity into Researcher Evaluation: Results from the IDEA Project

Overview:

How can diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) be meaningfully integrated into ongoing reforms of researcher evaluation? As Dutch universities revise their assessment systems under the Recognition & Rewards (R&R) agenda, DEI considerations are often insufficiently addressed. The IDEA project (2025), funded by CoARA Boost and conducted at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, examined how DEI can be embedded within these reforms. In this talk, I present the project’s co-creation approach, key insights, and resulting recommendations to support more equitable and inclusive academic career trajectories.

About the speaker:

María de los Ángeles Crespo López is a Junior Researcher at the Center for Research Integrity and Open Science (RIOS), part of the Department of Philosophy of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research focuses on equity, diversity and inclusion in open science, research integrity, and recognition and rewards. She also works as a Publication Steward at Amsterdam UMC, where she supports researchers in making their work more open and develops guidelines for integrating open science into recognition and rewards.

Clàudia Pallisé Perelló

Amsterdam UMC

Fairness, justice and equity in RI and RCR codes around the world: findings from a Scoping Review using Critical Discourse Analysis

Overview:

Research integrity codes frequently mention fairness, but what does fairness actually mean in these documents? This presentation shares the findings of a scoping review of research integrity (RI) codes from across the world, with the aim to examine how the concept of fairness is articulated in RI governance documents. Using Critical Discourse Analysis, the study identifies four approaches to fairness. While fairness is frequently referred in relation to procedural matters such as peer review or authorship, structural issues (including colonial legacies and hierarchies, structural injustices and global power asymmetries in knowledge production) are rarely addressed explicitly. This presentation discusses the implications and risks of these silences and proposes some steps forward, arguing for more grounded and contextualised research integrity frameworks.

About the speaker:

Claudia Pallise Perello (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam UMC with a background in biomedicine, public health, and bioethics. In her PhD thesis, she explores the role of epistemic injustice in the fields of research ethics and research integrity, combining empirical and theoretical approaches to identify and address these injustices. Claudia also teaches in the research integrity course at Amsterdam UMC and in the Master’s program in Philosophy, Bioethics, and Health at the VU Amsterdam.

Keynote

dr. Joeri Tijdink

Amsterdam UMC

Change research practices from the inside out: why tools and policy aren’t enough. Research culture is the engine of reproducibility — the CATALYST project

Overview:

Despite a decade of open science investment—new tools, mandates, infrastructures, and policy frameworks across the European Research Area—individual researchers slowly change how they work and how they engage in open science and reproducibility practices (RPs). The gap between principle and practice remains wide, and CATALYST, a new Horizon Europe project aims to close this gap.
The project’s main aim is that sustainable change happens neither at the level of grand policy nor through isolated grassroots effort, but in the messy middle: the departments and research teams where research culture is actually lived. By targeting this meso level, CATALYST treats culture change—not tool development—as the intervention.
This is where research integrity and open science meet. Open science practices such as preregistration, open data, and transparent reporting are not merely procedural boxes to tick; they are the institutional expression of a deeper values such as honesty, accountability and self-correction/reflection. CATALYST deploys evidence-based interventions across 15 disciplinary-diverse “Catalyser” departments—spanning biomedicine, computer science and AI, and the social sciences and humanities—focusing on three proven levers of culture change: reproducibility training, role modelling, and incentivisation. When these practices become embedded in how a department trains its early-career researchers, how it models good practice through senior leadership, and how it rewards rigour over novelty, research integrity stops being an abstract value and becomes a lived institutional norm. This ambition is hopefully contagious and we aim to transfers these values to other parts through our catalysers. In this presentation, I will highlight the aims of CATALYST, how it relates to open science, RI and reproducibility and how we hope that we can create this culture change.

About the speaker:

Joeri Tijdink is an associate professor and principal investigator at Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc, the Netherlands. He completed his PhD (2012–2015), entitled Publish & Perish: Research on Research and Researchers. His current research focuses on research integrity, reproducibility, research quality, mental well-being in academia, and research culture. He is involved and leading several national and international research projects on how to foster research quality and reproducibility. In addition, he leads projects aimed at supporting a responsible research culture in diverse academic settings and studies how early career researchers can be empowered to speak up. He is the coordinator of the CATALYST project.
Joeri is also the author of the book The Happy Academic – How to Thrive and Survive in Academia (2023), which offers guidance to early career researchers navigating the challenges of academic life. In his work, he consistently focuses on individual, cultural, and systemic factors that can help improve academia, with a strong emphasis on promoting mental health among researchers. Alongside his research, he continues to work as a clinical psychiatrist.

2nd RIOS Collaborative Program - Announcement of winners

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Conclusion

dr. Rita F. Alves dos Santos

Amsterdam UMC

About the speaker:

Rita Santos is the Coordinator of the Netherlands Research Integrity Network joined (NRIN) and Project Leader of RIOS. Before, she worked as Executive Director and Project Manager at the European Network for Academic Integrity. Her main tasks involved organising the networks’ events and activities and supporting ENAI’s members. Rita was the coordinator of one project output of the Erasmus+ FAITH (Facing Academic Integrity Threats) project about raising awareness for victims of misconduct in academia and research, where she coordinated the Victim Support Portal. Rita also led ENAI’s involvement in the Erasmus+ ETHICS (Responsible Conduct of Research – Research Integrity and Ethics in Georgian Universities) project. From 2019-2021, Rita worked as a junior researcher in the H2020 INTEGRITY project. Her main tasks involved developing teaching modules on research integrity and responsible conduct in research for high school students. She holds a PhD in Physical Geography from the University of Hull (UK)

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