MORPHSS

@morphss.bsky.social

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/

💭 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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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 · 4w ago

My 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

Thanks so much to all the researchers & professionals who joined us for this - we're really excited about the training materials and look forward to sharing these when they're ready. Also, so many great conversations with colleagues from across the UK who are thinking about similar issues.

MORPHSS@morphss.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In two weeks, MORPHSS colleagues are hosting a one-day hackathon bringing together researchers & professionals from 18 UK institutions to develop training materials on open research in the arts, humanities & qualitative social sciences.

Send us your views on how we can best develop the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS! The catalogue is a living resource that will evolve and improve with community feedback. You can share yours using the webform below (the catalogue itself is at catalogue.morphss.work/about)

Feedback form - MORPHSS Catalogue of Open Research Practices in AHSS

Please complete this feedback form before 30th June 2026. Thank you so much for your feedback, which will help us to improve and develop this resource.

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In two weeks, MORPHSS colleagues are hosting a one-day hackathon bringing together researchers & professionals from 18 UK institutions to develop training materials on open research in the arts, humanities & qualitative social sciences.

"We have purposefully chosen a term which lays aside questions of epistemological inclusion or exclusion of contributions & instead embraces all ways of doing, knowing & understanding how research is practiced, produced & governed" Great to see this in the manifesto for this new r-o-r journal⬇️

Introducing the Journal of Research on Research (J·ROR): aligning constellations and communities

Published in Journal of Research on Research (Vol. 1, No. 1, 2026)

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One of the more unexpected things about working on @morphss.bsky.social is how often scientists say that the issues we've identified apply to STEM too. It was always our intention to focus only on AHSS but it seems there's a more general dissatisfaction with narrow understandings of open research.