Office for Open Research Accelerator Fund 2023/24
26 Sep 2023
We are pleased to announce the winning entries of this year’s fund, which supports the development of open research practice
The Open Research Accelerator Fund is supporting the development of open research practice by funding projects across our University.
This year there were a record number of applications across all three faculties highlighting the diversity of the open research movement at the University.
More than £130,000 has been awarded to open research projects.
The following projects will be supported by the Accelerator Fund:
- Neil Mitchell (Faculty of Science and Engineering), The International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP)
- Lukas Hughes-Noehrer (Faculty of Science and Engineering), Investigating Open-Source Software and Code at The University of Manchester
- Nuno Pinto (Faculty of Humanities), DSS MS: Decision Support Systems for local community engagement in Moss Side
- David Buil Gil (Faculty of Humanities), CrimRxiv - The global open access hub for criminology
- Cristina Temenos (Faculty of Humanities), Data for the People: Exploring Zotero’s Capabilities as an Open Data Interface
- Siobhan Caughey (Faculty of Humanities), Psychophysiological Database of Emotion Elicitation
- Patrick Parkinson (Faculty of Science and Engineering), Understanding Open Research Practices in the Natural Sciences
- Akinloluwa Babalola (Faculty of Science and Engineering), Development of an Implementation Flowchart for Open Research Awareness and Understanding to Engineering Postgraduate Research Students
- Francisco Espinoza (Faculty of Humanities), Best Practices for open research in Political Science: sharing experiences
- Paul Stott (Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health), Designing and conducting open and reproducible experiments in linguistics
We will be sharing further details of this year’s successful projects over the forthcoming months.
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