Ulster University Inaugural Open Research Conference (2025)
Open Research: A Transformative Collaboration
Dr William Smyth
Open research data : addressing the perceived barriers
A webinar was delivered through MS Teams to address researcher concerns around open data and offer guidance for moving your open data journey forward.
Presentation - Opening your research data is easier than you think
Explore Open Research case studies
The UKRN (UK Reproducibility Network) is a national peer-led consortium dedicated to fostering a research culture that prioritizes rigor and transparency. Explore their case studies on applying open research across disciplines.
UKRN Open Research across Disciplines. Resources on how the principles of open research can be applied to your discipline.
Farran, E. K., Silverstein, P., Ameen, A. A., Misheva, I., & Gilmore, C. (2020, December 15). Open Research: Examples of good practice, and resources across disciplines (2025 edition). https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/3r8hb
Thinking of incorporating Open Research concepts into your taught research practice/methods modules?
An essential step in achieving an open research culture is to embed open research principles into undergraduate and postgraduate research training. If you would like some pointers in getting started in this process, the list below contains some ideas, slides, lesson plans and other resources.
Open Research in the classroom: Open Research in the Classroom is an initiative aiming to introduce secondary school and undergraduate students to concepts related to open and reproducible research. The resources can be accessed via the project website and the project OSF page and are shared using Creative Commons by Attribution (CC-BY) licenses.
FORRT lesson plans: FORRT is a Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training and the community advocates for the integration of open and reproducible science into higher education. FORRT’s community has built open educational resources that can be integrated into taught courses ‘out of the box’.
PaPOR TraIL (Principles and Practices of Open Research): PaPOR TRaIL is a free course on open research for students. It has been developed by academic, research and library staff in University College Cork, National University of Ireland Galway, and University of Limerick, with input and guidance from university students and research supervisors. It is a self-paced online course that will provide students with training and education in open research. Course materials can be found at the course OSF page and the course content is offered under a CC-BY attribution licence.
