Short presentation on Friday 26th December as part of the FAIRsFAIR workshop: Advancing the skills agenda for reproducibility, open and FAIR. A virtual National Roadshow from FAIRsFAIR
Measures of Dispersion and Variability: Range, QD, AD and SD
What support is being provided to researchers? A view from a university
1. What support is being
provided to researchers?
A view from a university
Nick Sheppard
Open Research Advisor
Leeds University Library
n.sheppard@leeds.ac.uk
2. • Common or garden Library research support professional(?)
• NO professional qualification
• B.A. English Literature
• NO higher degree
• Learned on the job (still learning!)
- UKCORR*
• Leeds Metropolitan University (2007)
- Mostly repositories and open access
• University of Leeds (2016)
- Research Data Management Advisor
- Open Research Advisor
Who am I?
Image courtesy of RSPB
src: https://forstaff.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/5954/big-campus-birdwatch
*UKCORR – UK Council of Open Research and Repositories (https://www.ukcorr.org/)
3. • University of Leeds
• Research intensive
• 7 faculties
• 14 interdisciplinary research
institutes/centres
• 9,200 staff
- 3800 academic staff
• 10,000 postgraduates
- ~3700 PGRs
Where am I?
4. Library Research Support at Leeds
Library Research Support
Research Support Team Research Data Leeds
Open Research?
• OA publishing and funding
• REF support
• Symplectic, WRRO, WREO
• Researcher skills
development
• Bibliometrics
• Literature searching
• Raising research visibility
• Open and FAIR data
• PIDs (DOI, ORCID)
• Data management planning
• Research data repositories /
related infrastructure
• Funder compliance
• Researcher skills
development
Staff PGR
5. • FAIR data
• Metrics & Rewards
• Scholarly Publishing
• Research Integrity
• Citizen Science
Disciplinary differences?
• STEM vs HSS
• Preprints
• Registered reports / preregistration
Skills and knowledge?
6. Library Research Support at Leeds
• Software and code
• GitHub
• Training (Python, R)
• Cloud & HPC
Research Computing
OD & PL
• Researcher development
• Research culture
• Research integrity & ethics
• Research impact
Library Research Support
Research Support Team Research Data Leeds
Open Research?
• OA publishing and funding
• REF support
• Symplectic, WRRO, WREO
• Researcher skills
development
• Bibliometrics
• Literature searching
• Raising research visibility
• Open and FAIR data
• PIDs (DOI, ORCID)
• Data management planning
• Research data repositories /
related infrastructure
• Funder compliance
• Researcher skills
development
Staff PGR
7. Library Research Support at Leeds
Library Research Support
Research Support Team Research Data Leeds
Open Research?
• OA publishing and funding
• REF support
• Symplectic, WRRO, WREO
• Researcher skills
development
• Bibliometrics
• Literature searching
• Raising research visibility
• Open and FAIR data
• PIDs (DOI, ORCID)
• Data management planning
• Research data repositories /
related infrastructure
• Funder compliance
• Researcher skills
development
Staff PGR
8. • Grassroots journal club initiative
• discuss diverse issues, papers and ideas about
improving science, reproducibility & Open Science
• Started in early 2018 at the University of Oxford
Some examples from Leeds
• Power and inequality in Open Science discourses
• Open source tools (geographic analysis)
• Preregistering qualitative research
ReproducibiliTea
ReproducibiliTea Online (the only
good thing about Covid)
https://reproducibilitea.org/calendar
9. • Preprints & open peer review in different disciplines
• Tools for reproducible research
• Not just for STEM: Open and reproducible research
in the social sciences
• Open from beginning to end: addressing barriers to
open research
• The greatest possible impact: The Wellcome Trust
and open research
• Preregistration and the architecture of open science
• Responsible research assessment: rethinking what
we value in research
Open lunch series
Summaries and recording on the
Library blog:
https://leedsunilibrary.wordpress
.com/tag/open-lunch/
11. • One page ahead in the textbook
• Echo chamber – engage all staff/PGR?
• Disciplinary differences
- Principles vs practical support
- Local ‘champions’ / discipline experts
- TU Delft model
• Open access (the insatiable beast!)
• Culture
- Institutional
- Sectoral
• Reward and incentive
Challenges
Lets change
what we value
in research
12. • Reproducible research
• Responsible metrics
• Research culture
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• Open access
• Open data
• Open platforms, tools and services
• An open approach to conducting research
• Transparency and public engagement
What’s next?
Open Research Group
Reporting to Research Culture Group
13. Leeds University Library
Leeds, United Kingdom
LS2 9JT
Library no
library.leeds.ac.uk
Thank you
Nick Sheppard
n.sheppard@leeds.ac.uk
@mrnick
@OpenResLeeds
Notas del editor
Open Science is the practice of science in such a way that others can collaborate and contribute, where research data, lab notes and other research processes are freely available, under terms that enable reuse, redistribution and reproduction of the research and its underlying data and methods.
https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/foster-taxonomy/open-science-definition
We prefer the term “open research” to be more inclusive of the humanities.
The same principles apply.
http://bit.ly/UoL_OpenResearch
UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN)
- https://www.ukrn.org/
- ukrn@Leeds - https://bit.ly/ukrnLeeds
Research Computing
https://arc.leeds.ac.uk/
Research Software Engineers
ReproducibiliTea journal club
- https://reproducibilitea.org/journal-clubs/#Leeds
OD&PL Research culture cafes
- MS Team – https://tinyurl.com/j4dfx2dz
