Research updates

Following on from the success of our May 2025 half-day event on “Open research issues and prospects in the Arts, Humanities and Social Science”, we are organising a second event on 13 November 2025, 1-5pm, at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. 

Developments in digital open research and open access publishing have generated a thriving ecosystem of practices, policies and approaches in university and library settings. The emergence and rapid uptake of AI platforms and technologies create possibilities and tensions within this ecosystem, and challenge those committed to open research to consider its future anew in terms of sustainability, infrastructure and ethics. Join this session to explore how these issues are playing out in practice, and reflect on what the future of publishing might, and could, hold.

We’ll hear from a range of engaging speakers: Dr Sarah Ames (National Library of Scotland), Dr Lisa Otty (Director, Centre for Data, Culture and Society), Dr Ben Williamson (Senior Lecturer, Centre for Research in Digital Education) and a speaker TBC. 

Sign up at: https://www.events.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?event=book&scheduleID=80681