- 22/10/2024
- Hong Kong
- 15:00 HKT
- 9:00 CEST
- 8:00 BST
- #FocusOpenScience
Recording of the Event
CHAPTER XLIV:
HONG KONG
A CHAPTER XLIV (44th) OF FOCUS ON OPEN SCIENCE
A virtual event organised by:
Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), supported by the UCL Office for Open Science University College London, UCL Press, and Scientific Knowledge Services.
About the event
Open Science describes the current transition in how research is undertaken, how the outputs are stored and disseminated, how researchers collaborate, how success is measured and how researchers are rewarded for more transparent and collaborative approaches. Open Science has the potential to transform the research landscape. This potential has been successfully tested – if only that – during pandemic times.
Open Science started as a vision, aiming to address matters like research reproducibility and access to the results of publicly-funded research. The vision was generally welcome by academic and research institutions and benefited from a great advocacy movement. It’s high time now to build on practice and effective management.
It is generally accepted in Europe that research should be as open as possible and as close as necessary. Finding the borderline between the two is one of the most important tasks for practitioners, whether they belong to funders, research organisations, their partners or researchers themselves.
Yet, this borderline is not sufficiently explored. Guidelines based on feedback and learning from practice should be created, rather sooner than later.
This innovative approach to research has further potential: to address existing inequalities and matters like inclusivity, ethics, better assessment or the missing links between science and society or to re-shape public-private partnerships.
This Open Science event is organized by The Chinese University of Hong Kong, supported by the UCL Office for Open Science University College London, UCL Press, with technical support by Scientific Knowledge Services (SKS).
Emphasizing research practices, we will discuss the role of research organisations to support this transition, both acting local and internationally.
The results of the workshops will be captured in a formal report. The report is intended to be used by all involved partners, to advance the implementation of Open Science in their communities and their own institutions.
The language of this event is English.
The Workshop format offers both on-the-spot interactions and follow-up opportunities.
Please feel welcomed to participate to the sessions and to extend your professional network at the international level.
Steering Committee
Our team is happy to announce a Steering Committee that will help us select the annual topics, the invited speakers and advise on best practices for delivering successful events.
The members of Open Science Workshops Steering Committee are:
- Dr. Paul Ayris, Pro-Vice-Provost (LCCOS – Library, Culture, Collections and Open Science) in UCL (University College London)
- Frank Manista, European Open Science Manager, Jisc, UK
- Jeannette Frey, Director of BCU Lausanne
- Colleen Campbell, Open Access 2020 Initiative, Max Planck Digital Library
- Dr. Ignasi Labastida i Juan, Head of the Research and Innovation Unit of the CRAI at the University of Barcelona
- Dr. Tiberius Ignat, Director of Scientific Knowledge Services
We look forward to seeing you in October for what promises to be a stimulating event.
Schedule
The full agenda will be published soon. All times are listed in CEST.
Chair
Jenny Lam
Ms. Jenny Lam is the Open Science Librarian at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Library, leading the Library’s initiative to champion open science principles and practices. Driven by a passion for research transparency and accessibility, she works to integrate open science principles within the university community, fostering a culture of collaboration and knowledge sharing. Her work encompasses developing and implementing open access initiatives, promoting research transparency, building partnerships with key stakeholders, and leading citizen science projects.
Speakers
Benjamin Meunier
Benjamin Meunier is the University Librarian at The Chinese University of Hong Kong since April 2023. The University Librarian serves as a University Officer and is responsible for overseeing CUHK Library’s operations with effective strategic planning and supervision; enhancing the student learning experience in accordance to the University’s teaching initiatives; developing key collaborative relationships with major stakeholders; strengthening collections of the library for key research areas of the University; and building comprehensive collections across disciplines. Previously, he was the Director of Operations at UCL Library, Culture, Collections and Open Science, overseeing Estate developments, Health & Safety, Communication and other operational matters. He was the strategic lead for Sustainable Estate developments across 16 sites and contributed to the strategic development of libraries, museums and the university theatre. Benjamin led the development of library services in UCL East, a major UCL development on the Olympic Park to create a model for the university campus of the future. In this role, Ben facilitated partnership working with stakeholders on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, as co-Chair of the Libraries & Archives Working Group which includes the V&A Museum, London College of Fashion (University of the Arts London), Sadler’s Wells and LLDC. He was Secretary of the LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – Association of European Research Libraries) Architecture Group between and 2018 and 2023. He currently serves as a member of the Steering Committee of the Pacific Rim Research Libraries Association, member of the IFLA Buildings & Equipment Section and Vice-Chair of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau University Libraries Alliance. Benjamin holds an MBA in Higher Education Management from UCL. Before joining UCL, he worked for BP Archives and the Royal Parks Archive.
Dr Christina Daouti
Christine worked in open access and open science
roles at the University of Surrey (UK) for 20 years before
joining University College London in 2022 to focus on
copyright. She also has a PhD in Psychology.
Christine’s work has mostly focussed on the education and
policy aspects of open science and copyright, leading on
the development of relevant institutional policies, training
programmes and resources for researchers. Her most
recent work involves developing engaging and playful resources to support the
understanding of copyright and open science.
Ian Caswell
Dr. Jinxia Huang
Dr. Jinxia Huang is the director of the Open Science Research Center of National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NSLC) and a professor of the School of Economics and Management of the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS). She holds a PhD in Biology and worked on literature resource construction in NSLC for 10 years. She became the head of the Open S&T Resources Development Team for CAS in 2013 and has participated in the research and practice projects on open science for CAS, China and UNESCO since 2020. She led the team to establish a global high-quality OA paper integration platform GoOA (including more than 27,000 OA journals and more than 16 million OA papers, and signed OA data cooperation agreements with 30 international publishers), developd the APC rationality Inquiry tool APCheck (gooa.las.ac.cn/APCheck), and annually released the “List of Global High-quality OA S&T Journals” ”Global OA Journals and APC Monitoring Reports”. These projects are funded by CAS, China’s National Social Science Foundation.
Prof. Mai Har Sham
Professor Mai Har Sham has been the Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Research) and Choh-Ming Li Professor of Biomedical Sciences at CUHK since 2020. Prof. Sham oversees the strategic development of research and innovation, entrepreneurship, knowledge transfer and research impact at CUHK. She provides leadership to research support services for technology transfer, intellectual property management, start-ups and commercialization platforms to translate research and knowledge into societal impact. Prof. Sham is dedicated to promoting research integrity and responsible conduct of research, including data management and the practice of open science. She is a Governing Board member of the World Conferences on Research Integrity Foundation (WCRIF) and was the Co-Chair for the 6th World Conference on Research Integrity in 2019. Prof. Sham obtained her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Cambridge, U.K. Before joining CUHK, she was the Associate Vice-President (Research), Head of the Department of Biochemistry, Assistant Dean (Research), Director of the Centre for Reproduction Development and Growth in the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of mammalian development and human congenital disorders, and she is currently the President of the Hong Kong Society for Developmental Biology.
Minlei Ye
Minlei Ye is senior acquisitions editor and editorial manager at The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. She acquires books in the humanities and oversees the production of academic books and journals. She also serves on the Open Access Committee of the Association of University Presses.
Prof. Patrick Wong
Patrick C. M. Wong is Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience and Founding Director of the Brain and Mind Institute at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Before moving to Hong Kong, he served on the faculty of Northwestern University for close to a decade. Wong’s research covers a wide range of basic and translational issues concerning the neural basis and disorders of language and music. Findings from this research have appeared in a broad array of interdisciplinary scholarly venues such as Nature Neuroscience, PNAS, and Science Advances. In 2021, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow for Humanities. Wong’s research has received public attention from media outlets such as The New York Times and the British Broadcasting Corporation/Public Radio International. A versatile and effective teacher, research mentor, and clinical educator, Wong is a four-time recipient of the Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award at CUHK. He actively seeks to translate his research into clinical and educational solutions. One of his patented inventions, Precision Listening®, was awarded the Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury at the 2023 International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva. Wong has been Associate Vice-President (Research) at CUHK since 2023.
Dr. Sandy Schumann
I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at University College London, Department of Security and Crime Science. My current research examines the interplay between (social) media/information/
