Putting together the pieces: How can Communities support Open Scholarship?Panel discussion on Open Scholarship Communities

Open Scholarship can increase the quality, efficiency, and impact of science. The value of open scholarship has been recognised through at the policy level, however the adoption of open science practice has remained slow.

Meet and hear from a panel of members from the International Network of Open Science and Scholarship Communities (INOSC) as they share about how communities can support Open Scholarship, learn about the benefits and importance of Open Scholarship, and the opportunities & challenges to the adoption of such practices. This event will provide an opportunity for reflection and dialogue to help us better understand some unique experiences that have been encountered.

The Panel

Emmy Tsang is the Community Engagement Manager for the TU Delft Open Science Programme, where she coordinates the Open Science Community Delft and works with researchers, teachers, students and staff to design and built pathways for everyone in the community to meaningfully engage with open science. Prior to TU Delft, Emmy contributed to the development of open-source research and publishing technology as Innovation Community Manager at eLife. She is passionate about community design and making research more open, equitable and user-friendly.

Loek Brinkman is an Assistant Professor at UMC Utrecht, where he develops teaching materials for Open Science (e.g. 25 teaching formats for Open Science), researches researcher's attitudes, opportunities and obstacles regarding Open Science, and manages the Open Science Community Utrecht. Moreover, Loek is chairing the Steering Committee of the International Network of Open Science Communities.

Batool Almarzouq is a bioinformatician and computational biologist affiliated with the University of Liverpool. She is a core contributor to the Turing Way, an open-source community-driven guide to reproducible, ethical, inclusive and collaborative data science. Batool is also a member of R-Ladies Global committee, a worldwide organization to promote gender diversity in the R community. As an advocate for Open Science and its role in improving scientific and economic outputs in the Middle east, she established an Open Science Community in Saudi Arabia (OSCSA). OSCSA aims to create significant value towards Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030, that focus on enhancing knowledge and improving equal access to education in the Kingdom.

The session is moderated by Sarah Carter. Sarah is a PhD candidate at the Data Science Institute (DSI), National Institute of Ireland, where she investigates how to help smartphone users make privacy decisions consistent with their values. Sarah is also a member of the Open Scholarship Community Galway.