Thursday 5 December

Location:  Auditorium,The McClay Library, Queen’s University Belfast (QUB)

‘Practical Approaches to Open Research in Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences’

Draft Programme

09:30 – 10:00: Registration

10:00 – 10:10: Welcome Address, Elizabeth Traynor, Assistant Director of Library Services, QUB

10:10 – 11:10: Keynote Address: ‘Future of open research and its impact on humanities and social science’, Martin Eve, Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck; CEO at Open Library of Humanities 

Chair: Dr Natalie Harrower, Director, Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI)

11:10 – 11.30: Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:15: Panel 1 

‘Do we have data in ASSH?’

• Dr Michelle Doran, Trinity College Dublin Digital Humanities Centre
• Dr Orla Murphy, Head of the Digital Humanities Department, University College Cork

Chair: Dr Deborah Thorpe, Education and Outreach Manager, DRI

 12.15 – 13:00: Panel 2 

‘Research case studies from ASSH: it’s all about the data’

• Kate Keane, Project Archivist, Prisons Memory Archiv, QUB 
• Dr Paula Devine, QUB, Northern Ireland Life and Times 
• Dr Sarah McCleave, QUB, Thomas Moore in Europe 
• Dr Aileen O’Carroll, Irish Qualitative Data Archive 

Chair: Dr Michelle Doran

13:00 – 14:00: Lunch

14:00 – 15:00: Panel 3

‘FAIR-ifying ASSH research data’, Timea Biro, Project Manager, DRI 

‘A snapshot of funder requirements for open research’, Kevin Long, Digital Archivist, DRI

Chair: Dr Orla Murphy

15:00 – 15:30: Coffee break

15:30 – 16:45: Workshop: ‘How does a humanities researcher draft a DMP?’ 

• Session 1: Jenny O’Neill, Data Manager, University College Dublin
• Session 2: Ross Henry, Information Compliance, QUB

16:45 – 17:00: Closing remarks, Dr Natalie Harrower

Programme subject to changes

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