Open Science Evening Talks 2017: free event
Event details
| Date | 25.09.2017 |
| Hour | 18:00 › 19:15 |
| Speaker | Isabelle Kratz: Isabelle Kratz has been Library Director at the 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 institutional research community, while not losing sight of students’ needs. Competencies and efforts have focused on major issues such as Open Access Publication and Open Research Data. The work is beginning to pay dividends and the Library now has a major role in the stewardship of services dedicated to researchers. Before coming to EPFL, Isabelle Kratz was Library Director at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, where she worked at modernising librarianship and libraries. Her library experience ranges from leading technical library services to managing important libraries with different positions in between. She is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale des Chartes (Paris) as archivist-paleographer (Ecole Nationale des Chartes, Paris), and she has a Master’s in History from University Paris I. Arnaud Vaganey: He is Director of Meta-Lab, Research Associate at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Catalyst of the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in Social Sciences (BITSS). His research focuses on meta-research, which is the study of research practices and behaviours. Arnaud’s brand of meta-research aims to: measure the transparency and scientific credibility of applied social sciences (e.g. evaluations of employment policies); measure the influence of scientific norms, political institutions, financial incentives on the transparency and credibility of this research. His work has been published in academic journals and cited in various policy documents. Arnaud’s interest in meta-research stems from his experience as a policy and programme evaluator. He regularly advises policy-making institutions, including the European Commission, on research and methodological issues. Between 2004 and 2009, Arnaud was a senior consultant at Gellis, a Brussels-based management consultancy specialised in the evaluation of public programmes. Arnaud holds a PhD in Social Research Methods from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a MSc in political science from Science Po Grenoble, France. Laurent Gatto: He is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge. He is an avid open research advocate and make every possible effort to make his research reproducible and openly available. He is a Software Sustainability Institute fellow and a Data and Software Carpentry instructor, affiliated member of the Bioconductor project and a founding member of OpenConCam, our local OpenCon group. Benedikt Fecher: Benedikt is the programme director of the research programme “Knowledge dimension” and heads the Open Science research group since 2017. He studied communication science, economics and organisation science at the University of Erfurt (Germany), the University of Ottawa (Canada) and the University of Aalborg (Denmark). He was a doctoral candidate within the research infrastructure department at the German Institute for Economic Research (Berlin) and the Internet-enabled innovation department Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (Berlin). He completed his doctorate at the Berlin University of Arts in 2017. In his doctoral research, Benedikt investigated data sharing in academia. |
| Location |
Rolex Learning Center
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| Category | Miscellaneous |
This free event took place in the Rolex Learning Center from Monday 25th to Thursday 28th September at 6pm on the EPFL Campus (Rolex Learning Center). Following the programme of the Open Science Summer School, each day focused on a specific aspect of Open Science: landscape, publications, research data, code and tools.
The main goal was to encourage a constructive thinking and stimulate discussions about Open Science, offering every evening two or three short public talks followed by an aperitif, to allow participants exchange in an informal and convivial context.
The event was open to EPFL community, as well as all those who wanted to learn more about Open Science, getting an overview of its main stakes and the related evolution of academic research.
Watch the playlist of all talks given by specialists in the Open Science field on Youtube.
6.10PM "Open Science: state of play and perspective" by Arnaud Vaganey (PRESENTATION)
Abstract: This presentation will address two key questions: To what extent do researchers 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 briefly discussed.
6.30PM "An early career researcher's view on mordern and open scholarship", by Laurent Gatto (PRESENTATION)
Abstract: If research is the by-product of researchers getting promoted, then shouldn't we, early career researchers (ECRs), focus on promotion and being docile academic citizens rather than aiming for the more nobel cause of pursuing research to understand the world that surrounds us, and disseminate our findings using modern channels? Indeed, a critical point that is failing us, is the academic promotion of open research and open researcher, as a way to promote a more rigorous and sound research process and tackle the reproducibility crisis. In this talk, I will present the case for open scholarship from an early carrer researcher's perspective, pointing out that being an open researcher is not only the right thing to do, but is also the best thing to do.
6.50PM Talk by Benedikt Fecher (PRESENTATION)
Research funders and science policy makers increasingly demand science to be more open and transparent. In practice however, many of the initiatives under the umbrella of Open Science fail due to analogue thinking in an digital world. This talks gives a brief overview of Open Science and critically assesses its prevailing barriers.
Practical information
- General public
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