MORPHSS

NEW resource for open research in the arts, humanities and qualitative social sciences: The MORPHSS catalogue documents 30 open research practices in AHSS disciplines, with detailed descriptions, examples, and suggested resources and further reading. catalogue.morphss.work

Forthcoming @alpsp.bsky.social webinar Experiences of Open Peer Review: From Concept to Practice 17 November 2026, 3pm UK time Open to all - an opportunity to deepen understanding of how open peer review is evolving across the disciplines. Details/booking: www.alpsp.org/events/event...

Exemplar Practice Research Captured on UAL Research Online arts.ac.libguides.com/scholcomm/bl... #OAWeek #OAWeek26

As #OAWeek draws to a close, we'd like to leave you with something practical 👩‍💻 We're highlighting our #OpenAccess in the #Humanities course on RESHAPED. If you'd like to learn more about your OA publishing options, take this free short course: uolpress.co.uk/2026/10/want... @sas-news.bsky.social

The MAIA COST Action are inviting participants to fill out a short survey exploring the availability, accessibility, documentation, licensing, and AI-readiness of digital archaeological collections. 🕔5-10 mins 👉 To fill out the survey visit: forms.gle/1fyFsdWodifsqE4V6

🏺 Happening today! Nicky Garland from the ADS speaks at UEA's @reproducibilitea.org series on accessibility and re-use of heritage data at the ADS. 🕑 2-3pm (online) 💻 Link via Teams - buff.ly/BgQjVq6 ℹ️ Find out more - buff.ly/9q2QXkD #OpenResearch #Reproducibility #Archaeology #Heritage #Data

UAL Research Online Top Ten Most Downloaded Items, a countdown of the most popular items on UAL Research Online this year... arts.ac.libguides.com/scholcomm/bl...

Forthcoming @alpsp.bsky.social event: Experiences of Open Peer Review: From Concept to Practice Featuring speakers René Aquarius, @mariomalicki.bsky.social , & MORPHSS's @jenniad.bsky.social We look forward to seeing you there!

As you may remember we partnered with @openresshef.bsky.social for another edition of #OpenFest! With 800+ the event sparked great conversations. Missed a session? Thanks to @reddite.eurosky.social recordings are now available on our website to watch anytime👇 libguides.shu.ac.uk/openresearch...

The events for the Trust, Open Knowledge & Infrastructure @crasshlive.bsky.social research network begin next week! Have a look at our programme and register for the first event at the link below.

Our latest case study is from @aliceflinta.bsky.social, Centre for Women's Studies & @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social Making Waves of… Words: Promoting Transnational Literature Through Public Engagement describes how a participatory workshop led to conversations and reflections on feminism and migration 🗺️

Our annual Open and Engaged 2026 Conference is coming up on Tuesday, 20 October - online during #OAWeek. Hope some of you can join us! Find out more about #OpenEngaged, check out the programme and register events.bl.uk/events/open-...

ReproducibiliTea Galway Journal Club - The MORPHSS project, With guest introducer Dr. Jenni Adams 🗓 Wed, 7th Oct, 🕑 14.00-15.00 📌Archives & Special Collections Training room. Suitability:All Research levels Register: universityofgalway.libcal.com/event/4562619 #openresearch #openscience

An infrastructure does not succeed because it is well built. It succeeds because people use it. Today at the ENCATC Congress in Nice we presented A Community-Centred Path to a Sustainable #CulturalHeritageCloud, with ARIADNE and the University of Antwerp. #EchoesEccch

If you’re interested in #openresearch / #openscience / #openscholarship, We welcome researchers at all levels for interesting conversations once a month! Join us this month in person or online with guest introducer Dr. Jenni Adams. Register & info here👇 hardimanlibrary.blogspot.com/2026/09/repr...

Great to hear colleagues at Essex and UEA found the MORPHSS project's work useful in developing an expansion pack of the game Copyright Dough for arts, humanities and social science PGR students #OpenFest26

We are glad to announce this year's winner of the early career Open Criminology Award, sponsored by @nscr-instituut.bsky.social: Danielle Stibbe! A PhD student on cybercriminal decision making, the committee was impressed by her consistent engagement with open science practices. Congratulations! 🎉

The Open Criminology Award for established researchers, sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, goes to Prof Scott Jacques, founder of @crimrxiv.com, for advancing transparent, accessible, and collaborative research practices in criminology. 🏆

'The word traceability, in place of reproducibility, [...] refers to the extent to which the decisions made by the researcher are transparently documented, allowing readers to see how conclusions were reached' @maddipow.bsky.social in new paper 'Can open science speak qualitative?' ⬇️

@morphss.bsky.social gets a mention #OpenRes26

Adopting a juntos (together) stance to co producing knowledge with teachers through collaborative ethnography Ester Ehiyazaryan-White (SHU) Ester cites @morphss.bsky.social in the motivation for the project ‘openness as equitable and inclusive knowledge creation’ #OpenFest26

NEW blogpost introducing the most recent MORPHSS outputs around qualitative data sharing in the social sciences ⬇️ morphss.hcommons.org/2026/09/11/n...

Arts, humanities & social science researchers, are you aware of any journals in your field that make good use of plain language summaries to make publications more accessible to non-academic or practitioner audiences? If so, we'd love to hear from you - do reply in-thread!

Issue 61 of #rdmweekly! ➡️ Open Research in the Arts, Humanities and Qualitative Social Sciences @jenniad.bsky.social ➡️ CODECHECK: An Open Science Initiative for the Independent Execution of Computations ➡️ Intro to Synthetic Data @ukdataservice.bsky.social rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

Been chewing up and digesting all the information I know to create a 'Basics of open science' course for the scientists (Using the UNESCO pillars) and Basics of open research for the not!scientists (Thanks @morphss.bsky.social for all the information for this one!) they're looking quite good!

Version 2 of the MORPHSS article 'Cataloguing and Theorising Open Research Practices in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences: Problematising and Diversifying ‘Open Science’ is now available on F1000 research: doi.org/10.12688/f10...

NEW MORPHSS resource for qualitative researchers: Qualitative Data Sharing with Care: A Concise Guide Incorporating examples & case studies, this resource is informed by a series of interviews with qualitative researchers on decision-making processes around data sharing ⬇️ doi.org/10.17613/khv...

Our study of autism community perspectives about Open Data has now been published at @collabrapsychology.bsky.social (🔓) online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art... Participants were generally optimistic about open data to advance autism research and reduced participant burden. But,

New experimental preprint on zine-making, feminism and open research from MORPHSS colleagues @jenniad.bsky.social & @mirandab-oa.bsky.social alongside collaborators @domismithson.bsky.social and others:

MORPHSS – Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities and Social Sciences https://morphss.hcommons.org/

💭 Why is change in scholarly communication so hard to imagine? This article presents findings from a consultation for cOAlition S proposal Towards Responsible Publishing. Reviewers were generally positive but urged the authors to include more detail and potential solutions. 👇 Read now on MetaROR

Call for Participation | Linked Pasts 2026 📅 23–25 November 2026 📍 University of Porto The annual Linked Pasts Symposium brings together scholars, heritage professionals & other practitioners with an interest in Linked Open Data (LOD). 🔸 More info: atrium-research.eu/events/linke...

Registration for #OpenFest26 is now open! Join us to explore "Open Research: People and Place" through talks, workshops, panels, and more. Register now: libguides.shu.ac.uk/openresearch... @openresshef.bsky.social @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social

Feel like I'm late coming across this but excited to see this work happening! #OpenResearch #SHAPE

Practice #8 in the MORPHSS Catalogue of Open Research Practices in the Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences: Data Papers "Examples of (the small number of) dedicated data journals in AHSS include the Journal of Open Humanities Data, @rdjhss.bsky.social, & the Journal of Open Archaeology Data..."