OPEN RESEARCH &
ENGAGEMENT
BONNIE STEWART
@bonstewart
#openupei
October 2016
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WHAT IF YOU COULD ENGAGE
WITH LEADERS IN YOUR FIELD
EVERY
DAY?
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OPEN RESEARCH GOES BEYOND
DISSEMINATION
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OPEN RESEARCH IS BUILT ON
OPEN ENGAGEMENT
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• Generates interest / input into
premises / outputs
• Is valued / understood by
publics it addresses

OPEN AS PRACTICE OF SHARING
(blog posts, status updates, half-baked ideas,
data, vulnerabilities, successes…)

CONTRIBUTION + CONNECTION
“Sometimes…I’ll choose
someone with 20
followers, because I
come across something
they’ve managed to say
in 140 characters, and I
think “oh, look at you,
crafting on a
grain of rice.”
- @KateMfD
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= OPEN
NETWORKED
PARTICIPATION

MY STORY
SEPTEMBER 2010:
• 10 years out of grad
school
• 10 years as staff &
sessional faculty
• 4.5 years as blogger /
writer / social media
observer…
Interested in the intersection of the two worlds

MY RESEARCH APPROACH
• Draft & share premises
openly
• Check resonance
against lived
experiences of
community under study
• Share processes,
challenges, & outputs
in the open

PROCESSES

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CHALLENGES

OUTPUTS

BENEFITS:
cross-disciplinary breadth of input +
recognition for developing profile

Visibility in the prestige economy of open
networks intersects with the prestige
economy of traditional scholarship.

OPEN ENGAGEMENT
+ OPEN RESEARCH =
SCHOLARSHIP OF ABUNDANCE
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