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SUMMARY:Open Science Evening Talks 2017: free event
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DESCRIPTION:Isabelle Kratz: Isabelle Kratz has been Library Director at th
 e Swiss Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) since March 2012
 . Located in the famous building known as the Rolex Learning Center\, the 
 EPFL Library has recently been working to regain its place within the inst
 itutional research community\, while not losing sight of students’ needs
 . Competencies and efforts have focused on major issues such as Open Acces
 s Publication and Open Research Data. The work is beginning to pay dividen
 ds and the Library now has a major role in the stewardship of services ded
 icated to researchers. Before coming to EPFL\, Isabelle Kratz was Library 
 Director at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris\, where she wor
 ked at modernising librarianship and libraries. Her library experience ran
 ges from leading technical library services to managing important librarie
 s with different positions in between. She is a graduate of the Ecole Nati
 onale des Chartes (Paris) as archivist-paleographer (Ecole Nationale des C
 hartes\, Paris)\, and she has a Master’s in History from University Pari
 s I.  Arnaud Vaganey: He is Director of Meta-Lab\, Research Associate at t
 he London School of Economics and Political Science\, and Catalyst of the 
 Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in Social Sciences (BITSS). His resea
 rch focuses on meta-research\, which is the study of research practices an
 d behaviours. Arnaud’s brand of meta-research aims to: measure the trans
 parency and scientific credibility of applied social sciences (e.g. evalua
 tions of employment policies)\; measure the influence of scientific norms\
 , political institutions\, financial incentives on the transparency and cr
 edibility of this research. His work has been published in academic journa
 ls and cited in various policy documents. Arnaud’s interest in meta-rese
 arch stems from his experience as a policy and programme evaluator. He reg
 ularly advises policy-making institutions\, including the European Commiss
 ion\, on research and methodological issues. Between 2004 and 2009\, Arnau
 d was a senior consultant at Gellis\, a Brussels-based management consulta
 ncy specialised in the evaluation of public programmes. Arnaud holds a PhD
  in Social Research Methods from the London School of Economics and Politi
 cal Science and a MSc in political science from Science Po Grenoble\, Fran
 ce. Laurent Gatto: He is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of 
 Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge. He is an avid open research a
 dvocate and make every possible effort to make his research reproducible a
 nd openly available. He is a Software Sustainability Institute fellow and 
 a Data and Software Carpentry instructor\, affiliated member of the Biocon
 ductor project and a founding member of OpenConCam\, our local OpenCon gro
 up. Benedikt Fecher: Benedikt is the programme director of the research pr
 ogramme “Knowledge dimension” and heads the Open Science research grou
 p since 2017. He studied communication science\, economics and organisatio
 n science at the University of Erfurt (Germany)\, the University of Ottawa
  (Canada) and the University of Aalborg (Denmark). He was a doctoral candi
 date within the research infrastructure department at the German Institute
  for Economic Research (Berlin) and the Internet-enabled innovation depart
 ment Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (Berlin). H
 e completed his doctorate at the Berlin University of Arts in 2017. In his
  doctoral research\, Benedikt investigated data sharing in academia.\nThis
  free event took place in the Rolex Learning Center from Monday 25th to Th
 ursday 28th September at 6pm on the EPFL Campus (Rolex Learning Center). F
 ollowing the programme of the Open Science Summer School\, each day focus
 ed on a specific aspect of Open Science: landscape\, publications\, resear
 ch data\, code and tools.\nThe main goal was to encourage a constructive t
 hinking and stimulate discussions about Open Science\, offering every even
 ing two or three short public talks followed by an aperitif\, to allow par
 ticipants exchange in an informal and convivial context.\nThe event was op
 en to EPFL community\, as well as all those who wanted to learn more abou
 t Open Science\, getting an overview of its main stakes and the related ev
 olution of academic research.\n \nWatch the playlist of all talks given 
 by specialists in the Open Science field on Youtube.\n\n6.10PM "Open Scien
 ce: state of play and perspective" by Arnaud Vaganey (PRESENTATION)\nAbstr
 act: This presentation will address two key questions: To what extent do r
 esearchers engage in open science? And\, assuming that open science is the
  way forward\, what are the main factors driving or hindering compliance? 
 The main findings from the latest research across several disciplines will
  be presented. Their individual and organisational implications will be br
 iefly discussed.\n\n6.30PM "An early career researcher's view on mordern a
 nd open scholarship"\, by Laurent Gatto (PRESENTATION)\nAbstract: If resea
 rch is the by-product of researchers getting promoted\, then shouldn't we\
 , early career researchers (ECRs)\, focus on promotion and being docile ac
 ademic citizens rather than aiming for the more nobel cause of pursuing re
 search to understand the world that surrounds us\, and disseminate our fin
 dings using modern channels? Indeed\, a critical point that is failing us\
 , is the academic promotion of open research and open researcher\, as a wa
 y to promote a more rigorous and sound research process and tackle the rep
 roducibility crisis. In this talk\, I will present the case for open schol
 arship from an early carrer researcher's perspective\, pointing out that b
 eing an open researcher is not only the right thing to do\, but is also th
 e best thing to do.\n\n6.50PM Talk by Benedikt Fecher (PRESENTATION)\nRese
 arch funders and science policy makers increasingly demand science to be m
 ore open and transparent. In practice however\, many of the initiatives un
 der the umbrella of Open Science fail due to analogue thinking in an digit
 al world. This talks gives a brief overview of Open Science and critically
  assesses its prevailing barriers.
LOCATION:Rolex Learning Center
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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