Can incentives encourage open research practice?
Discussants
Can incentives encourage open research practice? Exploring solutions beyond compliance.
Academic researchers are pulled in many directions, with teaching, research, administrative duties, and an ever-changing sectoral environment leading to larger and larger workloads. In such an environment, introducing new ways of working that come with open research must have clear benefits for the researcher. In this environment, the question of promoting open research practices becomes one of incentives. Today, funders often require open access publication, and some require open data deposits, however these requirements may appear as a stick (do this or lose your funding) rather than a carrot. Funders, journal editors, and university managers are best placed to offer incentives for open research, but how can this be done in a fair way that acknowledges the diversity of open research practices in different fields, encourages rather than threatens, and works with researchers rather than dictating terms?
Join us for this discussion with our panel of researchers and policy makers. There will be plenty of space for questions from the room and online.
A light lunch will be provided for in-person attendees. The event will be hybrid.
Panel
Liam Delaney is a professor in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at LSE.
Steven Hill is Senior Policy Advisor to the CEO at Digital Science.
Banaz Jalil is Research Fellow at UCL and Project Manager for OR4.
Chair
Liz Stokoe is Associate Vice President (Impact) and Professor in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at LSE.
This event is hosted by the Library and LSE's Open Research Working Group. ORWG is an informal group of researchers, academics, and professional services staff from across LSE. The aim of the ORWG is to provide strategic direction for open research support at LSE, and to foster a culture of open, transparent, inclusive, and collaborative research across the School.
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