What does community mean to open research? This was a theme that ran through many of the talks and workshops given at NORFest 2025, held at the Royal Irish Academy on November 6th and 7th.
OHRIN team members attended both days of the festival celebrating and informing attendees about the advances in open research in Ireland and across the globe.
Bookending both days were two presentations which were closely related to the theme of community.
NORFest opened with a keynote given by Joy Owango, Founding Director of TCC Africa, titled ‘Global Open Research: Building Equitable and Sustainable Open Science Ecosystems,’ and ended with a workshop given by the ENGAGED Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap project titled ‘New Faces: The Future of Open Research and Public Engagement.’ Underpinning both approaches was this focus on engaging different forms of community.
Community connections and equity are also highly relevant to the OHRIN project, which seeks to bring different forms of practitioner knowledge into the public sphere by creating a network and Diamond OA journal for health and social care researcher-practitioners, particularly those without any formal academic affiliations.
To help us with this work, we are conducting a survey, which will take only a few minutes to complete:
https://lnkd.in/e-VyKywy
If you work in any area related to health and social care and consider yourself a researcher, even informally, we would love to hear from you!
This project is funded by the National Open Research Forum through the Open Research Fund and is being delivered through a partnership led by Trinity College Dublin and the Health Service Executive, with partners including Irish College of GPs, IOAP, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) Library, and University College Dublin School of Nursing, Midwifery & Health Systems.