Proposals are invited from all researchers and research-related professionals for 20-minute presentations or 5-minute lightning talks, on current and future issues and perspectives around open research. Topics might include, but are not restricted to:

• Issues in culture change around the movement towards open research; vision(s) of the future of academic research and/or publishing; what an open, collaborative research culture could and should look like. 

• Ethical and ideological debates around open research.

• The impact and implications of open research practices within a specific contemporary or recent context, e.g. Covid-19, the climate crisis, the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

• The applicability of open practices and methods to specific research methodologies, topics or disciplines.

• Open research and public engagement strategies; co-production, participatory research methods, and open research.

• Current and potential future relationships between open research and teaching.

• FAIR metrics and institutional recognition; employability and FAIR.

• Critical-theoretical perspectives on open research.

We welcome proposals from PGR and MRes students as well as more experienced researchers and professionals.