In our weekly Research Culture Uncovered conversations we are asking what is Research Culture and why does it matter? This episode is part of Season 3, hosted by Nick Sheppard who will be speaking to colleagues from both the University of Leeds and from other universities and organizations about open research, what it is, how it's practiced in different disciplines, and how it relates to research culture. In this episode Nick is joined by Dr Dorka Tamás.

Funded by Research England, Dorka has been working on a series of open research case studies here at Leeds. She was awarded her PhD from the University of Exeter in 2022, examining the presence of the supernatural in Sylvia Plath's poetry. You can connect to Dorka via LinkedIn or Twitter.

With her background in English, Dorka has learned a lot about open research through this role and how it can relate to the humanities as well as STEM disciplines. She talks about how she did not receive any training about open practices through her PhD, which she thinks would have benefitted her.

In thi episode talk about:

  • providing open research training for PhD students and PGRs
  • differing terminology and concepts across different disciplines including reproducibility, open and FAIR data, preprints and preregistration
  • her use of archives in her own research and what 'open research' might mean in the study of English
  • barriers to practicing open research that have emerged through the case studies
  • her future plans in academia including turning her PhD into a monograph

Be sure to check out the other episodes in this season!

Links:

  • Case by case: Open research in different disciplines
  • Open Research Case studies by faculty
  • The Supernatural in Sylvia Plath’s Poetry: From Salem to Ariel (PhD thesis, access restricted pending monograph)
  • Sylvia Plath’s reimagination of the Grimms’ fairy tales in postwar American culture (Journal article, open access)
  • Sylvia Plath and the supernatural

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