Research for Social Impact: Making ‘Open’ Work for You

Life as an Australian academic can be tough. Funding for research is hard to find, a ‘typical’ career path doesn’t exist, and the rules for what seems to count as ‘high quality’ or ‘high impact’ research keep changing. Individual researchers are often left feeling exhausted and unsure of how to make the system work for them.

This two-hour workshop will provide practical strategies for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) researchers who are eager to adopt more ‘open’ approaches to the work that they are doing; but unsure of where they should start, or how such approaches will fit with established research evaluation practices.

The workshop will:

• Provide participants with contextual information about how the language, and practice, of research evaluation is changing in Australia and internationally and where ‘open’ fits
• Help participants to articulate their own research communication goals: Who do they hope their research will be visible to? How do they hope it will be used?
• Empower participants to make informed choices about open approaches to research communication.

Facilitator

Cameron Neylon is Professor of Research Communication at the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University and well-known agitator for opening up the process of research. His current work focuses on how the cultures of research affect and effect change in research communications. He speaks regularly on issues of Open Science including Open Access publication, Open Data, and Open Source as well as the wider technical and social issues of applying the opportunities the internet brings to the practice of science. He was named as a SPARC Innovator in July 2010 for work on the Panton Principles and was a co-author of the Altmetrics manifesto and the Principles for Open Scholarly Infrastructures. He is a proud recipient of the Blue Obelisk for contributions to open data.

Webpage: https://cameronneylon.net/ 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0068-716X

Refreshments will be provided at this event.

This event is being held as part of RMIT University's Social Change Symposium, presented in collaboration with the College of Design and Social Context and the Social Change Enabling Impact Platform.