Community Events

October 6, 2026
LMJU: Open Data Fortnight 2026 – Storytelling, Ethnography and Creative Approaches to Research Data
This is a week long showcase of LJMU’s commitment to open data, open research, and research integrity. Whether you’re new to open practices or a seasoned advocate, this session is designed to inspire and connect. Speaker: Irina Stadniciuc Doctoral Prison Researcher & Editor in Chief Ethnography is Dead. In this session, we will hear about Irina’s PhD research, which consists in-depth interviews with former prisoners about their experiences in Romanian prisons. Using narrative methods, Irina created individual stories focusing on each participant’s experience, as well as one composite story capturing shared experiences. We will also hear more about Irina’s editor in chief role, running the Ethnography Club at LJMU and more on the recently launched zine ‘Ethnography Is Dead’ https://openjournals.ljmu.ac.uk/EiD/index, . This session will introduce participants to a different format through which they can publish their work.
October 6, 2026
LMJU: Open Data Fortnight 2026 – Managing Research Data Across International Partnerships
This is a fortnight long showcase of LJMU’s commitment to open data, open research, and research integrity. Whether you’re new to open practices or a seasoned advocate, this session is designed to inspire and connect. In this session, Dr Davide Bruno will share how openly available research data has enabled him to conduct impactful Alzheimer's disease research without access to large clinical research groups or hospital-based datasets. By making use of established open research databases, he has been able to access valuable data resources, develop new research questions, and contribute to our understanding of dementia while significantly reducing the costs and barriers often associated with data collection.
October 6, 2026
LMJU: Open Data Fortnight 2026 – Unlocking Research Potential Through Open Data
Join us as we open the week with a showcase of LJMU’s commitment to open data, open research, and research integrity. Whether you’re new to open practices or a seasoned advocate, this session is designed to inspire and connect. In this session, Dr Davide Bruno will share how openly available research data has enabled him to conduct impactful Alzheimer's disease research without access to large clinical research groups or hospital-based datasets. By making use of established open research databases, he has been able to access valuable data resources, develop new research questions, and contribute to our understanding of dementia while significantly reducing the costs and barriers often associated with data collection.
October 6, 2026
DisCouRSE Focus Group: The dRTP-PRISM Interface
This focus group, run as a satellite event to the 2026 PRISM Network Conference, is an opportunity for PRISMs and dRTPs to come together and explore these questions openly. Through short talks, discussion sessions, and collaborative activities, participants at every level of experience will share what’s worked, what hasn’t, including pain points and frictions that can arise when different priorities, systems, and working practices meet. A key aim of the day is to turn the collective experience of the group into a short, practical guidance document for the PRISM community. This resource will help PRISMs better support digital research collaborations, and contribute to a clearer, shared understanding of the needs, constraints, and expertise that dRTPs bring to research projects.
October 6, 2026
DisCouRSE Focus Group: Defining “Green” Leadership in Digital Research
Supported by the DisCouRSE network, the focus group will explore the activities, responsibilities, and roles through which dRTPs can become sustainability leaders in their field. The workshop will focus on: How dRTPs can influence environmental sustainability decisions across digital research How dRTPs can shape workflows and technical practices to reduce environmental impact How sustainable practices can be embedded into digital research without requiring formal authority How the activities and responsibilities of dRTPs can be better defined in relation to environmental sustainability leadership
October 6, 2026
UKRN: Open Research: moving from individual recommendations to coordinated action – part 1
This is the first of a six-part online programme, bringing together funders, publishers, infrastructure providers, researchers, and research professionals to drive coordinated cross-sector action and make open research a reality in the UK. This session explores research data planning and review, focusing on the upstream practices that shape how research data and materials are managed, shared, and reused across the research lifecycle. Using the recent Sustainable and TrAnsparent Research data (STAR) Study Report as a starting point, this session will bring together perspectives from across the sector to reflect on the report’s recommendations, paying particular attention to its concluding recommendation on the need for formalised open research review mechanisms.
August 25, 2026
Research Data Alliance Plenary 27
Registration is now open for the RDA Plenary 27! Early Bird rates end 27 August, but tickets are continuously available. Register now https://www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/p27/registration-p27/  RDA’s 27th Plenary […]
June 8, 2026
Tools for Data FAIRification – overcoming barriers in data discoverability and reuse
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by barriers to making data FAIR, but when you realise that others have had the same problems AND have solutions, life feels much better! Holly Ranger and the N8 CIR group have organised an online seminar titled “Tools for Data FAIRification – overcoming barriers in data discoverability and reuse” will take place on Tuesday, 23 June from 13:00–15:00 (BST) with a focus on practical tools and approaches to improve how research data is managed, shared, and reused in line with FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). Four separate speakers will share their stories and present the solutions they have found to improve their practices.