Open Research

Open Research is an open textbook based on the award winning course of the same name. The course ran two facilitated iterations during 2014 and 2015 on Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU). Open Research was co-authored and delivered by the OER Hub team, leaders in open education research and open research practices. Open Research explores what it means to be more 'open' in your research, ethical considerations, dissemination and the role of reflection. This open textbook also incorporates previous participant contributions into new activity commentary sections

Analysing the evolution of computer science events leveraging a scholarly knowledge graph: a scientometrics study of top-ranked events in the past decade

The publish or perish culture of scholarly communication results in quality and relevance to be are subordinate to quantity. Scientific events such as conferences play an important role in scholarly communication and knowledge exchange. Researchers in many fields, such as computer science, often need to search for events to publish their research results, establish connections for collaborations with other researchers and stay up to date with recent works. Researchers need to have a meta-research understanding of the quality of scientific events to publish in high-quality venues. However, there are many diverse and complex criteria to be explored for the evaluation of events. Thus, finding events with quality-related criteria becomes a time-consuming task for researchers and often results in an experience-based subjective evaluation. OpenResearch.org is a crowd-sourcing platform that provides features to explore previous and upcoming events of computer science, based on a knowledge graph. In this paper, we devise an ontology representing scientific events metadata. Furthermore, we introduce an analytical study of the evolution of Computer Science events leveraging the OpenResearch.org knowledge graph. We identify common characteristics of these events, formalize them, and combine them as a group of metrics. These metrics can be used by potential authors to identify high-quality events. On top of the improved ontology, we analyzed the metadata of renowned conferences in various computer science communities, such as VLDB, ISWC, ESWC, WIMS, and SEMANTiCS, in order to inspect their potential as event metrics

The Legacy of Thelma & Louise - A Panel Discussion

Thelma & Louise, directed by Ridley Scott, written by Callie Khouri and starring Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon was a box office hit on its release thirty years ago and ignited an extraordinary debate about the representation of women, violence and feminism. In this talk the panel considers the film's significance and contemporaneity in the age of #MeToo and #TimesUp. Panellists include: - Professor Marita Sturken - Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. - Lucy Brown - Award-winning educator and practitioner. She is Head of Division for Film and an Associate Professor at London South Bank University. - Funke Oyebanjo - Script consultant, lecturer and scriptwriter. She is one of the founding members of the Talawa theatre writers’ group. - Dr Shelley Cobb - Associate professor of Film at the University of Southampton and Principal Investigator of Calling the Shots: Women and Contemporary Film Culture in the UK