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Open Research

The Sheffield Hallam Open Research Award

Open Research is a key part of Hallam’s research strategy. Our research should be as open as possible at all stages from planning to publication, to support research integrity, reproducibility, and accessibility.  

As part of our support for Open Research, we're excited to announce the creation of the Open Research Award. A lot of the research done at Hallam makes use of open research approaches and principles, and we want to recognise, reward, and celebrate that work.

The award is open to submissions from all researchers (including postgraduate research students) in all disciplines across the university  We invite colleagues to enter an application which demonstrates the application of open research principles and approaches.  We welcome individual and group applications.

The winner of the award will receive £500 to support their research.

To receive regular email updates about the Award, please contact the team.

Application form and guidance

In your application, tell us about how you have applied open research principles and approaches, and how these have contributed to your project.  In the project abstract tell us about your project aims, your research questions, the methodology you used, and the outcomes, of the project. Also, provide an overview of how you made your project open and how openness supported and enhanced your project,

The application form asks you to provide evidence against various ways of being open in your research, the assessment criteria. You don't have to enter something for every criterion. It's important that you choose criteria for which you have good evidence, with your application showing how you used open research practices appropriately and effectively. The full criteria are listed in this document.

In your application tell us what you did, why you did it, and how using open practices helped you to achieve your project goals. So for example, if your project had a goal of making new data available for other researchers, you would talk about how you shared your data in such a way that people could easily find, share, and re-use it.

The closing date for entries is May 23rd 2025.  With the permission of the researchers,  projects will be featured on the Open Research Award pages. 

Go to the application form.

All applicants will be invited to be part of the Open Research podcast series to promote open practice across the university. 

Shortlisted colleagues will be invited to the award ceremony, to be held in September 2025.  At the ceremony, colleagues will present their projects, and a winner will be announced.  The shortlisted projects will be written up as case studies for the Open Research pages.

 

You can mail the team with any questions.