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Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities & Social Sciences. Research project funded by AHRC, Wellcome Trust & Research England. Co-delivered by Cambridge, Sheffield, Coventry & Southampton universities. https://morphss.hcommons.org/
Issue 61 of #rdmweekly! ➡️ Open Research in the Arts, Humanities and Qualitative Social Sciences @jenniad.bsky.social ➡️ CODECHECK: An Open Science Initiative for the Independent Execution of Computations ➡️ Intro to Synthetic Data @ukdataservice.bsky.social rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
RDM Weekly - Issue 061
A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.
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These are great and I think a number of the recommendations could and should be adapted for humanities work as well. A report like this for humanities scholars would be invaluable.
UAINE@mahtowin1.bsky.social · 5d agoIndigenous Scholars Establish Guidelines for Governance of Indigenous Data in Scholarly Publishing. nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/...
Spent the afternoon planning an Open Research session for the Arts, using this training material 🙂 It sits so nicely with the soft launch of the practice based repository page I've been developing! @morphss.bsky.social doi.org/10.17613/7ex...
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It was a real pleasure to be part of creating this - materials for teaching open research in AHSS works.hcommons.org/records/jenn... @morphss.bsky.social @jenniad.bsky.social @domismithson.bsky.social @meganeve.eurosky.social
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NEW training slides on open research in the arts, humanities & qualitative social sciences, codeveloped by staff from 15 UK universities at a hackathon event earlier this summer. Including colleagues from @uoyopenres.bsky.social, @edopenresearch.bsky.social, @openresleeds.bsky.social & more
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Been chewing up and digesting all the information I know to create a 'Basics of open science' course for the scientists (Using the UNESCO pillars) and Basics of open research for the not!scientists (Thanks @morphss.bsky.social for all the information for this one!) they're looking quite good!
Version 2 of the MORPHSS article 'Cataloguing and Theorising Open Research Practices in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences: Problematising and Diversifying ‘Open Science’ is now available on F1000 research: doi.org/10.12688/f10...
F1000Research Article: Cataloguing and Theorising Open Research Practices in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences: Problematising and Diversifying ‘Open Science’.
Read the latest article version by Jenni Adams, Miranda Barnes, Samuel Moore, Stephen Pinfield, at F1000Research.
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NEW MORPHSS resource for qualitative researchers: Qualitative Data Sharing with Care: A Concise Guide Incorporating examples & case studies, this resource is informed by a series of interviews with qualitative researchers on decision-making processes around data sharing ⬇️ doi.org/10.17613/khv...
NEW MORPHSS PREPRINT on Mixed methods and ethnographic researchers’ perspectives on sharing qualitative research data in the social sciences doi.org/10.31222/osf... #OpenResearch #OpenQualData
NEW MORPHSS resource for qualitative researchers: Qualitative Data Sharing with Care: A Concise Guide Incorporating examples & case studies, this resource is informed by a series of interviews with qualitative researchers on decision-making processes around data sharing (doi.org/10.31222/osf...).
Our study of autism community perspectives about Open Data has now been published at @collabrapsychology.bsky.social (🔓) online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art... Participants were generally optimistic about open data to advance autism research and reduced participant burden. But,
Open Data in Autism Research: The Views of Autistic People and Parents of Autistic Children
Open data has been promoted as a tool to improve the transparency, robustness, and efficiency of scientific research. However, the perspectives of participant communities, particularly those who are m...
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New experimental preprint on zine-making, feminism and open research from MORPHSS colleagues @jenniad.bsky.social & @mirandab-oa.bsky.social alongside collaborators @domismithson.bsky.social and others:
Jenni Adams@jenniad.bsky.social · 3w ago💥New preprint from @mirandab-oa.bsky.social , @domismithson.bsky.social , myself & others on creativity, collaboration & activism Our experimental piece offers reflections on a recent zine making workshop on feminism & open research, drawing on zine logics & aesthetics ⬇️ doi.org/10.17613/r46...
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MORPHSS – Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities and Social Sciences
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“Cross-disciplinary exchanges are crucial in contesting the narrowness of dominant frameworks of open research…” doi.org/10.36399/kgd...
“Disciplines need to speak to each other precisely to avoid the unquestioned proliferation of universalising assumptions about the forms of openness applicable to all fields” New article on cross-disciplinary conversations around openness, transparency & rigour in research doi.org/10.36399/kgd...
Leading cross-disciplinary conversations around open, transparent and rigorous research: Findings from a series of focus groups | Scottish Journal of Open Research
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💭 Why is change in scholarly communication so hard to imagine? This article presents findings from a consultation for cOAlition S proposal Towards Responsible Publishing. Reviewers were generally positive but urged the authors to include more detail and potential solutions. 👇 Read now on MetaROR
Why is change in scholarly communication so hard to imagine? Findings from a stakeholder consultation for the cOAlition S proposal ‘Towards Responsible Publishing’ - MetaROR
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Call for Participation | Linked Pasts 2026 📅 23–25 November 2026 📍 University of Porto The annual Linked Pasts Symposium brings together scholars, heritage professionals & other practitioners with an interest in Linked Open Data (LOD). 🔸 More info: atrium-research.eu/events/linke...
Registration for #OpenFest26 is now open! Join us to explore "Open Research: People and Place" through talks, workshops, panels, and more. Register now: libguides.shu.ac.uk/openresearch... @openresshef.bsky.social @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social
Feel like I'm late coming across this but excited to see this work happening! #OpenResearch #SHAPE
Sandra Abegglen@sandra-abegglen.bsky.social · 2mo agoAn interesting resource for anyone interested in open research: MORPHSS Catalogue of Open Research Practices in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (AHSS) - a living resource that documents a wide range of open research practices. catalogue.morphss.work #OpenResearch
Practice #8 in the MORPHSS Catalogue of Open Research Practices in the Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences: Data Papers "Examples of (the small number of) dedicated data journals in AHSS include the Journal of Open Humanities Data, @rdjhss.bsky.social, & the Journal of Open Archaeology Data..."
Data Papers | The MORPHSS Catalogue
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Sneak preview of next week's Under Review podcast with the brilliant @samuelmoore.org from University of Cambridge talking about the state of Open Access. We discuss what's wrong, what's working and what can change in the world of academic publishing. Stay tuned!
NEW BLOGPOST on the series of Unbind workshops held at Southampton & Cambridge universities earlier this year as part of MORPHSS. The workshops explored issues of openness, form, & difficulty in academic monograph writing in a supportive & inclusive space ⬇️ morphss.hcommons.org/2026/07/14/u...
An interesting resource for anyone interested in open research: MORPHSS Catalogue of Open Research Practices in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (AHSS) - a living resource that documents a wide range of open research practices. catalogue.morphss.work #OpenResearch
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Our community manager, @jmmchugh.bsky.social, has been listening in to all the excellent discussions at @ukrepro.bsky.social. What a rich & interesting community. It's great to see how much the work that @morphss.bsky.social are doing is influencing discussions in the #openresearch space!
Charlotte Pennington discussing the MORPHSS report "Openness in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Documenting open research practices beyond STEM" (doi.org/10.17613/jn1...) in her keynote address at the @ukrepro.bsky.social conference:
MORPHSS's @jenniad.bsky.social took part in this panel discussion on open research in AHSS yesterday at the @ukrepro.bsky.social conference. @openresleeds.bsky.social 's posts give a great sense of the range of 'provocations' that were presented to panellists - well worth a read.
Open Research Leeds@openresleeds.bsky.social · 2mo agoAnother provocation #ukrn2026
Excellent response from @jenniad.bsky.social that I'm not quick enough to capture! Perhaps she can post here later 👀 Arts based research shouldn't be about a 'paranoid' sense of reproducibility, rather a more generous and generative account of the creative process #UKRN2026
Open Research Leeds@openresleeds.bsky.social · 2mo agoMy question is therefore - is Open Research just not for these fields or applicable? Or do you think there are other ways we should be framing or understanding open research in this context? #ukrn2026
Have you found the MORPHSS catalogue useful, e.g. in delivering training, proposing a project, or developing open research initiatives at your institution? Please do let us know! (webform below)
MORPHSS@morphss.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe’re also really interested in how the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS is being used in different contexts and by different individuals and groups. If you’re happy to share examples of when you’ve made use of the catalogue, please do fill in the below form to let us know.
"Open documentation of methods is especially valuable in the context of research methods that are iterative, relational or responsive, and for which it is unlikely to be possible to fully document methods in advance via pre-registration." Read more about open documentation of methods for AHSS ⬇️
Open Documentation of Methods | The MORPHSS Catalogue
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The introductory slides for our recent zine-making workshop on feminism & open research are available here. The slides include a useful overview of some of the key issues in feminism & OR. ⬇️ These could be adapted and reused by anyone interested in hosting a similar event.
Slides for a feminism and open research zine-making workshop
These slides were used to introduce a feminism and open research zine-making workshop held at the University of Sheffield in June 2026. They include a short introduction to feminist issues in open research, and a short-introduction to zine-making. This content could be reused when developing similar sessions in other contexts or institutions.In this context, participants of the workshop used printed versions of the articles mentioned in the presentation, together with magazines, decommissioned books, paper, pens and a range of other materials to reflect on the issues raised, ultimately creating a collaborative zine.
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Jenni Adams@jenniad.bsky.social · 3mo agoNow available in digital version here: doi.org/10.17613/afd...