Programme

EORC26 has a packed agenda of full talks, lightning talks, posters, and networking opportunities. The programme includes five main sessions, addressing some of the big picture issues found in Open Research, Lightning Talks, and Institutional Observation and Support for best practice.

A photograph of the front of 50 George Square, the conference venue.

Venue

The conference takes place on the ground floor of 50 George Square. 

50 George Square, 
Edinburgh 
EH8 9JU

Photographs of the lecture hall and seating areas can be found on the venue website. 

View the photographs of the venue 

If you have any questions relating to the venue and accessibility, please email us at open.research@ed.ac.uk. 

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Schedule

Please collect your name badge and register at the front desk in 50 George Square. There will be tea and coffee outside the main lecture hall.


Dominic Tate, (Deputy Director & Associate Director, Library Research Support) will introduce the themes of the conference.


 

10:15 - 10:30 Rethinking Power and Decoloniality in Open Science

Batool AlmarzouqUniversity of Edinburgh

10:30 - 10:45 Fostering Multilingualism in Research and Science: Bridging Language Gaps in Global Research Communities

Carlos Soler Montes (he/him)0000-0002-4085-9878University of Edinburgh

10:45- 11:00 From Open Data to Feminist Archiving: Rethinking Research Data Practices

Mary Hanlon (she/her)0000-0001-9741-6771
St. Francis College
Martina Karels (she/her)0000-0002-8388-3165Okanagan College
Niamh Moore (she/her) 0000-0002-5372-7428University of Edinburgh

11:00 - 11:15 Panel Discussion & Q&A

 


Tea and coffee will be available in the atrium outside the main lecture hall.


Encouraging pre-registration upon favourable opinion from a research ethics committee

Zsofia Garai-Takacs (she/her)

0000-0003-0190-0628University of Edinburgh

Furthering Open Research: Open Access Platforms for Freedom of Information (FOI)

Alli Spring (she/her)

0009-0008-7939-6162University of Edinburgh
Morgan Currie (she/her)
0000-0003-4569-7190University of Edinburgh

Strengthening the SPC Digital Library for inclusive and sustainable knowledge sharing

Carolina Mayen Huerta (she/her)

0000-0002-5751-1982University of Edinburgh

Can we measure research in a more meaningful way? Insights from the 2025 PLOS Open Science Indicators dataset

Yusuf Ozkan (he/him)0000-0002-3098-275XImperial College London

Copyright as a path to Open Research: Unlocking global access and learning

Cristina Rusu

0009-0008-1023-7462University of Edinburgh

Open scholarship strategic planning at Simon Fraser University, Canada

Gracielle T. Higino (she/her)

0000-0003-2791-8383Simon Fraser University

 

12:15 - 12:30 Panel Discussion & Q&A

 


Rapid fire talks introducing poster submissions to the conference. Visit the posters in room G.01 opposite the lecture hall


Join us for lunch in the atrium and adjascent rooms outside the lecture hall. We also encourage you to browse the various booths and engage with the posters on display. 


 

14:00 - 14:15 Peer research approaches as mechanisms to engage societal actors in open science

Louise Warwick-Booth (she/her)

0000-0002-7501-6491Leeds Beckett University
Susan Coan (she/her)0000-0001-5279-8673Leeds Beckett University

 

14:15 - 14:30 Connecting Local Communities Meaningfully to Research through a Community-Campus Partnership for Health Model

Susan Coan (she/her)

0000-0001-5279-8673Leeds Beckett University

14:30 - 14:35 Community Access and Power to Transform Urban Green and Blue Spaces through Research: Lessons from Groundswell

Luis Soares (he/him)0000-0003-0091-7946University of Edinburgh

14:35 - 14:50 Beyond Open Research: Embedding Reliability Through Team Science, Public Involvement and Co‑Creation

Hamid Khan (he/him)

0000-0002-4587-7717Imperial College London

 

14:50 - 15:05 Theorising open research for the arts, humanities and social sciences via the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science

Jenni Adams (she/they)

0000-0003-2420-0763University of Sheffield
Miranda Barnes (she/her)0000-0001-7740-4896University of Cambridge

15:05 - 15:10 Towards an Inclusive Research Framework for People Experiencing Homelessness

Emily Adams (she/her)

0009-0003-3232-419XUniversity of Edinburgh

15:10 - 15:25 Panel Discussion & Q&A


Tea and coffee will be available in the atrium outside the main lecture hall.


15:45 - 15:50 An Institutional Framework for Cross-Disciplinary Open Research (CDOR)

Qwin Saikia (she/her)

0009-0000-0138-4550University of Sheffield

15:50 - 15:55 Developing the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CAHSS) Open Research Strategy

Veronica Cano (she/her)

 University of Edinburgh

15:55 - 16:00 Computational Methods in Practice: Using GitHub and GitHub Pages to Increase Accessibility to Teaching Resources

Lucia Michielin0009-0008-7945-9346University of Edinburgh

16:00 - 16:15 (meta)data, distortion, and dashboards

Emma Wilson (she/they)

0000-0002-8100-7508University of Edinburgh

16:15 - 16:30 Integrating FAIR and CARE Principles into Open Science Monitoring: Insights from RESPIRE 2 (NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Respiratory Health) Multi-country LMIC Collaboration

Tapas Kumar Mohanty (he/him)

0009-0009-6822-9411NIHR RESPIRE, University of Edinburgh; King George’s Medical University (KGMU)

16:30 - 16:45 Panel Discussion & Q&A


Wine and nibbles will be served in the rooms adjascent to the lecture hall.  


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