2025-05-20 –, Mies Bouwman
Do you sometimes wonder how you can support researchers without being seen as an open science fanatic that just causes them to do more work? In this interactive session, we present results of a project that looked at 4y-trends in adherence to 14 criteria for good research. With your help, we explore how these results may foster productive dialogs with researchers and research administrators about how we can move towards more responsible, efficient and open science work styles.
Researchers are happy with their support staff, but ambivalent about the growing amount of required research processes. DMPs, privacy checks, transparency measures, FAIR storage. Time-consuming! And what for exactly? In this interactive session, with your help, we want to explore how to engage in dialogs with staff by providing feedback on 4y-trends in their adherence to a research quality checklist.
In 2020, at Open Science Support Desk (Amsterdam University Applied Sciences), we created a 14-item Open Science Checklist. Now, 5 years on, we were curious about trends in adherence to the Checklist. We drew a time- and lectorate-stratified sample of 24 projects at our faculty and scored the checklist items using published output and researcher interviews. We will share methods, main results and limitations. Then, with your help, we want to explore how monitoring projects such as ours can be used for constructive dialogs with researchers and local policymakers to improve how we do research.
Gerben ter Riet is a clinical epidemiologist with a keen interest in topics at the intersection of methodology and research integrity. He is currently a member of the Committee for Research Integrity at AUAS. Since 2019, together with Anne de Jong (2024 SURF Support Champion), he runs the Open Science Support Desk at the AUAS, Faculty of Health, Sports & Exercise. Gerben actively supports Scientist Rebellion in their struggle to speed up implementation of effective climate policies, avert ecological breakdown and bring about climate justice. Anne de Jong serves in the City Council of Diemen.