Open Research

We are pleased to announce the winner of the first Sheffield Hallam Open Research Award Tig Slater. Our congratulations to Tig!

Tig’s submission showed a high quality of engagement with a range of open research practices which clearly strongly integrate with their research work.  

Where possible they choose to publish their work as Open Access. Tig’s participatory methods include producing non-traditional types of outputs which increase the accessibility of their work and contribute to public engagement with their work. Tig’s research was recognised externally by the National Co-ordinating Center for Public Engagement.  

Their open practice has shown a contribution to the public good, and its insights and approaches benefit marginalised groups in society. They've used social media and set up a project website to promote their research projects.  

Tig has used a wide range of teaching activities to make open research understandable and actionable, which has also supported external organisations in following an open approach in their work. 

Lewis Quayle and Ronak Naeemaee 

Lewis and Ronak have demonstrated a strong commitment to open practice in their ongoing research project. They have plans to carry out their research in an open way, including producing peer-reviewed publications, depositing their work in an open repository, and using plain language summaries.  

They have adopted practices that serve as the direct equivalent of open lab notebooks within computational and data-intensive research. They have shared their progress via podcasts, social media, and a series of blog posts on lewisdoesdata.com.  

They have used open-access datasets from GEO and the Genomic Data Commons, repositories which support the development, testing, and benchmarking of the new survival modelling framework.  

Their project will generate a set of harmonised tumour compendia which will ensure that underrepresented groups are not excluded or misrepresented in the biomarker validation process.  

Lewis and Rona are also active in open research promotion and mentoring. 

Sadiq Bhanbhro 

Sadiq is a very engaged Open Research Champion, and his research work demonstrates his commitment to the principle of openness. He registers his work with sites such as Prospero, publishes preprints, reuses open datasets, and translates his research findings into everyday language via social media and online blogs.  

Sadiq's research adopts co-production and community-based participatory research, to centre the voices of communities and ensure research relevance and accountability. 

He also encourages his research students to adopt Open research policies 

Abraham Badjona   

Abraham has shown a very mature approach in open research considering the early stage of his research career. He publishes Open Access and uses our rights retention policy where possible.  

He has demonstrated his commitment to open research by creating open research tools, a protocol, and open access resources like a data analysis template which was shared beyond the university.  

He has shared a preprint, used open notebooks and FAIR data templates, and run workshops to democratize research participation and skill development.  His work has been recognised and showcased at the European Federation of Food Science and Technology conferences 2023/2024 and the Student Sustainability Research Conference 2024. 

Liz Laycock  

Liz has shown an impressive engagement with citizen science. Her research involves working with members of local church communities to establish benchmark conditions and changes in walls and internal building conditions to establish the natural change over time and then to evaluate changes driven following a heritage intervention, the results of which are shared with the public via external webpages.  

She creates the space for non-destructive monitoring and testing to allow the local community to engage with her research. We appreciate her work is planned to be published Open Access and the impact of this community project will be actively tracked.