Welcome to LU Open Science Days 2024 – Crossing boundaries with Open Science!
Join us on the 19th and 20th of November at Palaestra for the second instalment of LU Open Science Days organised by the cross-faculty Open Science Champions group. The event aims at bringing together staff, faculty, and research students from across the university to engage in a dialogue about what the future of Open Science and Open Access should look like in Lund and beyond.
Crossing boundaries with Open Science
This year’s LU Open Science Days focus on how Open Science can bridge boundaries, both within academia and in society at large. The theme alludes to four different types of boundaries; within academia and between disciplines, between academia and society, geopolitical boundaries, and boundaries between LU and other national and international actors. Sessions will address broadening of merits, how to turn science into action and activism, creative science communication, Open Science in an unstable geopolitical world, and community building.
The program committee invite all LU-affiliated researchers and PhD-students as well as support staff that work with research support to attend this free of charge lunch-to-lunch conference that
highlights Open Science, by featuring inspiring speakers, interactive sessions, and lively discussions. We have a limited number of seats for participants that are not LU-affiliated. If you are not LU-affiliated and want to attend the conference, please contact karolina.lindh@ub.lu.se.
Registration is now open! Participation is free of charge. Vegetarian lunch and coffee are included, as well as drinks and bites during the mingle on the 19th.
The program is preliminary and will be updated continuously.
If you have any questions about the conference, please contact karolina.lindh@ub.lu.se
Tuesday 19th November
11:30-13:00 Registration and lunch
13.00-13.20 Inaugural speech
13.20-14.30: Broadening merits: Recognizing Open Science contributions in research
In recent years, the scientific community has emphasised the importance of open science – a shift that is in line with a wider societal movement towards greater transparency and accessibility of knowledge. However, this push towards open science poses significant challenges for researchers, as making data available is labour-intensive and requires significant resources that could otherwise be spent on activities more traditionally recognised in academic careers, such as writing papers or securing research grants.
Despite the clear benefits to the scientific community and society as a whole, current academic evaluation systems often do not directly reward these activities. This leaves researchers in the difficult position of being expected to contribute to the open dissemination of knowledge but without adequate recognition or reward for the time and effort required.
This discrepancy raises critical questions about the future of open science in the academic world. If these contributions are vital to the wider scientific community, why are they not valued similarly to other academic achievements?
This session will take a critical look at this paradox and will discuss whether and how open science contributions should be formally recognised in academic evaluations. We will consider the impact of the current system on the way researchers have experienced it, particularly those early in their careers, and discuss potential changes that could better align institutional expectations with the realities of academic work. The aim is to stimulate a conversation about how academia can truly support open science by ensuring that the efforts required for open dissemination are appropriately valued and rewarded.
Keynote speaker: Björn Hammarfelt, Professor, Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås.
Speakers and discussants: Jonatan Nästesjö, Researcher, Educational Sciences, Per Mickwitz, pro vice-chancellor for research, sustainability and campus development, Alison Gerber, Associate professor, Sociology.
Moderator: Nicoló Dell’Unto, Professor, Department of Archaeology.
14:30-15:00 Coffee break
15.00-15.45: Open Science stories and initiatives
Would you like to contribute to this session and share your Open Science research project? Stay tuned, we will soon announce a call for abstract.
15.45-16.30: Film screening and discussion: Creative science communication
This session is invitation to a conversation on how art and research can be cross-fertilized and serve as a catalyst for social change. In the session, a short movie produced by screen writer Anna Maria Hutri is shown. The movie is based on research from a FORTE-funded research project entitled “Moral stress and moral agency in Swedish eldercare”. In the research project, care workers, needs assessors and first line managers have described difficult situations in their everyday work. The collected stories, or scenes, were given to a professional screen writer (Hutri) who produced a manus for the short movie. The process was co-creative; researchers and artist collaborated. In the session, we will discuss challenges and opportunities in the process of producing the movie and our thoughts on art as a tool to promote social change.
Moderator: Sara Hultqvist, associate professor and senior lecturer, School of Social Work.
16.30 – Poster mingle and reception.
The program committee invites PhD students, researchers and support staff to present their experiences of engaging in open science at the poster exhibition. Exhibitors include Swedish National Data Service who will present their upcoming national portal for reserach data, Researchdata.se, and the newly established unit for research data support E-infra.
If you want to display a poster or exhibition please contact karolina.lindh@ub.lu.se
Wednesday 20th November
08:30-09:00 Registration
9.00-9.45: Keynote: Mirjam Walpot, International Network of Open Science & Scholarship Communities
Title TBA
Mirjam Walpot is a board member of the International Network of Open Science & Scholarship Communities (INOSC) and a co-founding board member of the Open Science Community Amsterdam (OSCA). She used to work as a research and educational advisor at the central staff department of Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS), where she together with her colleagues developed the organization’s guidelines and recommendations around Open Science. Recently she moved to Sweden, where she aims to continue her work on Open Science.
9.45-10.30: Open science and climate emergency
Open science practices take place on a warming planet. Do they help to address it, or do they contribute to exacerbating our ecological footprint? What does it mean to be open when engaging with climate change in universities? This session will address the practices of open science from a socio-ecological perspective and reflect on what “openness” in science should and could mean in the context of climate emergency.
Speakers: Aitzkoa Lopez de Lapuente Portilla, postdoctoral fellow, Division of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, Jutta Haider, professor, Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås, affiliated to Lund University.
Moderator: Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, researcher, Environmental and Energy Systems Studies.
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11.45: Geopolitical borders and Open Science
One of the relatively less explored aspects of the promotion of Open Science in the academy are the implications for Open Science practices in the context of a global academic system that includes collaboration with universities in authoritarian contexts. This talk will examine the ways in which authoritarian actors leverage commercialised modes of academic enclosure to restrict access to information and create information asymmetries to further their goals. The talk will conclude by reflecting on how the adoption and institutionalisation of Open Science modes of engagement can be a valuable tool in countering authoritarian creep in the academy.
Speaker: Nicholas Loubere
11.45-12.30: Community building
Panel discussion and workshop aimed at kick starting open science community at LU. Speakers and additional information TBA.
12.30 Closing the conference