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Upcoming events

OpenFest 2024

10th-12th September 2024, online and in-person

Co-delivered by the University of º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ and º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ Hallam University, OpenFest is our flagship celebration and exploration of open research, providing an opportunity to explore current issues, share experiences, and consider how open research can be applied in your discipline. 

View our programme for 2024 and book your place on OpenFest events here.

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ReproducibiliTea journal club

Our local  meets monthly to discuss and review papers on improving open research, reproducibility and the Open Research movement.

Find out more about forthcoming sessions

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'How to Share...' seminar series

Our How to Share.. series are short, bitesize seminars that look at how best to share different research data types to help you make your research outputs more FAIR and open. 

View details of upcoming sessions

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External training and events

Details of external training and events can be found in the .

This includes internal and external, online, in-person and hybrid events and it can be . To have an event added to the calendar, please contact Adam Partridge (a.partridge@sheffield.ac.uk).

You can also find details of both internal and external training via the .

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Resources from previous events

Changing Research Culture - 9th July 2024

In anticipation of REF2029’s heightened emphasis on People, Culture and Environment, ‘research culture’ is increasingly coming into scope as a focus of attention for UK institutions. But critical and reflective work is needed to avoid the term becoming, like ‘excellence’ itself, a floating signifier that obscures the genuine conditions, processes and limitations of academic practice. 

This one-day workshop addressed this task with a particular focus on practices around openness and transparency. With reference to UKRIO’s, speakers examined the degree to which open practices present a necessary condition of a culture of research integrity and inclusion and explored the extent to which embedding and facilitating open practices offers a significant mechanism of culture change. 

Keynote speakers:

• Tanita Casci, Director, Research Strategy & Policy Unit, University of Oxford
• Stephen Curry, College Consul and Professor of Natural Science, Imperial College London, and Chair of the Declaration on Research Assessment ()

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OpenFest 2023 - 4th-8th September

OpenFest is the University of º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½â€™s flagship celebration and exploration of open research, providing an opportunity to explore current issues, share experiences, and consider how open research can be applied in your discipline. In 2023, we held a series of events in partnership with our colleagues at º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ Hallam University, from workshops to symposia - find out more and view event recordings here.

OpenFest 2022

A two-day programme of talks, panel discussions and project showcases, 2022 provided an opportunity for University of º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ researchers and information/software professionals to explore a range of issues around open research, including OA monograph publishing, Open Educational Resources, FAIR data and software, open qualitative research and software licensing.

Previous Open Research Conversations - recorded talks

You can find recordings and slides from previous Open Research Conversations here:

(June 2024) featuring Caroline Mackay (Jisc), Caroline Edwards (Open Library of Humanities) and Samuel Moore (Cambridge University)

(May 2024) featuring Lizzie Gadd (Loughborough University; CoARA); Robert Darby (University of Reading) and Simon Hettrick (University of Southampton; the Hidden REF) 

(March 2024) featuring Matt Franklin (School of Medicine and Population Health) and Claire Cunnington (Department of Sociological Studies)

(February 2024) featuring Tom Webb (Biosciences) and Chris Ohge (Digital Humanities Climate Coalition)

(January 2024) featuring Johan Rooryck (cOAlition S), Chris Chambers (Cardiff University) and Judith Green (University of Exeter)

(December 2023) featuring Romain Thomas, David Wilby and Sylvia Whittle (Research Software Engineering)

(November 2023) featuring Hardy Schwamm (University of Galway), Lutfi Othman and Kim Clugston (University of Cambridge) and Neil Shephard (University of º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½)

(October 2023) featuring Toby Steiner (Flavours of Open), Meredith Warren (School of English) and Emma Cheatle and Luis Hernan (School of Architecture).

(June 2023) featuring Aneta Piekut (º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ Methods Instititute) and Norm Medeiros (Project TIER) 

(May 2023) featuring Caroline Curwen (Department of Music), Charles West (Department of History) and Isabella Magni (Digital Humanities Institute)

(April 2023) featuring Kate Petherbridge (White Rose University Press), Adele Mason-Bertrand (University of Leeds) and Jost Migenda (KCL)

(March 2023) featuring Jessica Bradley (School of Education) and Jamie Coates (School of East Asian Studies)

(February 2023)

(February 2023) featuring Sarah Lippincott (Dryad), Andrew Beckerman (School of Biosciences) and Bev Jones (University Library)

(January 2023) featuring Tom Howard (Multidisciplinary Engineering Education), Maria Mawson and Helen Moore (University Library

(November 2022) featuring Stephen Pinfield (Information School and Research on Research Institute)

(October 2022) featuring Vicky Farnsworth (Speakup Self Advocacy), Dan Goodley (School of Education) and Matt Flinders (Politics and International Relations)

(January 2022) featuring James Wilsdon (Information School; Research on Research Institute) and Jon Griffiths (Research, Partnerships and Innovation)

(April 2021) featuring Alice Sereiro (School of Clinical Dentistry) and Endre Kiss-Toth (Department of Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease)

(January 2021) featuring Tom Stafford (Department of Psychology; University Research Practice Lead) and Anna Krystalli (Research Software Engineer)