Slides for DARTS8 2023. Pecha Kucha: Liam Bullingham; Kate Ehrig-Page; Kim Davis & Tara Healy

1. Influencing research culture
at a smaller institution
Liam Bullingham
Head of Research Support Services | Library and Learning Services
Edge Hill University

2. About Edge Hill
University

3. Research
Support in
LLS
(Pre-2022/23)
Research Support Team
(2.8 FTE)
Liam Bullingham
Head of RS Services
Helen Bell
Academic Engagement
Specialist
Juliet Bibby
Scholarly Communications
Co-ordinator

4. Research
Support in
LLS
(now)
Research Support Team
(2.8 FTE)
Liam Bullingham
Head of RS Services
Helen Bell
Academic Engagement
Specialist
Juliet Bibby
Scholarly Communications
Co-ordinator
Academic Engagement
Team (4.5 FTE)
Rachel Bury
Head of AE
Sonia Edwards
AE Manager
4 x AE Specialists
Scholarly Communications
Co-ordinator
TBC
Research Data Manager

5. In the next 5:20… 🕔🕔
• ‘We’re small’
• ‘What can I do?’
• ‘How is this an advantage?’
• ‘Where’s it going to hold me back?’
• Money and costs
• Tools and systems
• Fin.

6. “We need to have a culture of doing
research before we can talk about
having a research culture”

7. ‘We’re small’
This image is licensed under CC BY

8. ‘What
can we do?’

9. “It's better to ask
for forgiveness
than permission”
- attributed to Commander Grace Hopper
Photo By James S. Davis

10. What I’ve
done

11. Being ‘nimble’
…the best thing since sliced bread?
Source: BFI

12. Avoiding mistakes up ahead

13. How is this an
advantage?

14. With trust comes…
Participation
Invitations
An award!

15. Champions

16. ‘Where’s it going to hold us back?’

17. Example: rights retention

18. Money and costs

19. Tools and systems

20. The end
Q. How does the size or
research maturity of your
institution enable you or hold
you back from influencing
research culture?
Please:
- Go to menti.com
- Enter the code 5991 6468
I will tweet the results later:
@liamealbee

21. research-data@bath.ac.uk
Top Tips for encouraging Open Research
Kate Ehrig-Page
Research Data Librarian
20

22. Introduction
•Encourage
•Confront fears
19

23. Holistic
•One size does not fit all
•Value all outputs
18

24. Open Research
•Don’t just focus on the end
product!
•Equality of outputs
17

25. Open Access
•Vital to communicate research
•Find collaborators
16

26. Open Data
•Building blocks
•Transparency
15
Defining Open Data by
Open Knowledge Foundation (CCBY4.0)

27. Open Software/ Code
•System interoperability
•Equitable
14

28. Registered Reports
• Scooping
• Publication Guarantee
13

29. Lifecycle
•Value time
•Prepare to share
12
Research cycle by Cameron Neylon from
Wikimedia (CCBY2.0)

30. ID
•Legitimacy
•Connected profile
11
id by White Snow from
Noun Project (CCBY3.0)

31. Subject Diversity
•Output acceptance
•Inter-disciplinary
10

32. Network
•Reputation
•Collaboration
9

33. Career Stage
•Distribute credit
•New career researchers
8
career by win cahyono from
Noun Project (CCBY3.0)

34. Structure
•Licenses
•Interoperability
7
system development life cycle by Eko
Purnomo from Noun Project (CCBY3.0)

35. Compliance
•Institution
•Funders
6
compliance by Cuputo
Noun Project (CCBY3.0))

36. Motivations – Individual Researcher
•Impact
•Reputation
5

37. Motivations - Society
•Research development rate
•Funding impact
4

38. Summary
•Open Research:
values outputs throughout the research lifecycle
•Network:
interconnectivity of people and outputs
•Motivations:
impact beyond the individual
3

39. Top Tips
•Holistic view of research
Lifecycle
•Impact: researcher and
society
2

40. research-data@bath.ac.uk
01225 383570
go.bath.ac.uk/rdm
Feedback
library.bath.ac.uk/research-
data/home
1

41. Research Sparks
Sparking conversations among postgraduate and early career researchers
Tara Healy (Open Research Specialist)
Kim Davis (Information Specialist)

42. Are researchers aware of the wider research
environment?

43. "I prefer to conduct the sessions in person once more.
I'm bored of online training."
- 2022 UoP PGR/ ECR Survey
"...satisfaction levels are lowest, and have fallen,
among PGRs who interact exclusively online"
- 2022 PRES sector results report
Increasing face-to-face opportunities for
postgraduate and early career researchers

44. Transformative sustainability learning- space to
change

45. Sparking
conversation
We provide space, hot
drinks, biscuits
Changing research
culture
Meeting new people and
finding new ways of
working
Informal,
discussion led
We act as facilitator
Research Sparks

46. 'Sparking' debate

48. Structuring Sparks

49. Measuring impact
• Rejected 'before- and- after'
quizzing on topics as a way
of measuring impact
• Any feedback needed to
be light- touch and optional
You're not under scrutiny
here...

50. Measuring impact
• Rejected 'before- and- after'
quizzing on topics as a way
of measuring impact
• Any feedback needed to
be light- touch and optional
You're not under scrutiny
here...
...but was it useful?
• What do you feel you gained from
today?
• Would you like more opportunities
to meet researchers from other
disciplines?
• Would you be more likely to talk to
peers or colleagues about the topics
we discussed today, as a result of
attending this session?

51. The
discussions
changed
opinions
"I gained a new (more
positive) perspective,
possibly some stronger
skills"
"I have a feeling I will
need to use it [ChatGPT]
in the near future, as a
tool to support my
research"

52. Researchers
learned from
those at
different career
stages
“My knowledge of metrics
was zero so I feel that I've
learnt a lot!!! It's always
nice to learn about what I
think of as PhD level stuff,
because it seems very
overwhelming from my
ResM.”

53. Disciplinary
differences
shaped
conversations
“I got to understand how
people in other
disciplines feel about
ChatGPT”
“...there was some
debates with very
different viewpoints...”

54. The session
structure
helped learning
“I feel like having a very
informal discussion was
actually helpful as
opposed to a structured
session, we got to jump
around topics”
“I feel I learned about GPT
from my peers in the
room, it was interesting to
hear their opinions”

55. Overall feelings
were very
positive
"Would you be more likely to
talk to peers or colleagues
about the topics we discussed
today?"

56. We learned a lot about
our researchers...

57. It was valuable to be able to listen- we could
spot new needs to develop our training and
service offer

58. Mistimed
sessions, event
clashes, failing
to make ideas
relevant, not
promoting
enough....

59. Going forwards- from sparks to flames

60. Kim Davis- Kim.Davis@plymouth.ac.uk
@Kiminthelibrary
Tara Healy- Tara.Healy@plymouth.ac.uk
@_tarahealy
Thank you
for listening
Image Credits
• Slide 3- Photo by Daniel Thomas on Unsplash
• Slide 1
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• Slide 1
8- Photo by Sarah Kilian on Unsplash
• Slide 5- Photo by Alex McCarthy on Unsplash
• Slide 1
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• Slide 8- Photo by Matt Botsford on Unsplash
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• Slide 1
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61. DARTS8: Discover Academic Research
Training and Support