This talk with Sorrell Harriet from the research computing consulting service, makes the case for embedding product design thinking into research software projects from the start. Drawing on real examples — from how to make space for this in a grant application, to what it looks like in practice — it explores how structured design activities like user research, co-design, and iterative prototyping can bring researchers, end users, and stakeholders into genuine collaboration around what gets built and why.
FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable
Open Research practices and the FAIR principles are interlinked, and this training will support you to understand how these areas are complementary. We will also consider disciplinary specific considerations, introduce the CARE principles for indiginous data governance and explore how they relate to FAIR.
The Knowledge Equity and Open Scholarship Week 2026 (KE & OS Week) Programme brings together a diverse coalition of partners from North Africa, Europe and South Africa, including Mohamed Lamine Debaghine University – Sétif 2, University of Pretoria, University of Leeds, University of Salford, Université de Sousse, the UNESCO Chair on Open Education for Innovative, Intelligent and Inclusive Learning, Utrecht University, and the Knowledge Equity Network, to co-create a fully online event dedicated to advancing more inclusive, collaborative and equitable knowledge ecosystems.
Jonathan Cates, Technical Product Manager for the Wellcome Collection, will demonstrate how you can explore Wellcome's diverse digital collections, discuss how their IIIF resources are being used and how to increase their use to support open research.
This webinar focuses on advancing knowledge equity through Wikimedia initiatives and open education, with a particular emphasis on South African and UK perspectives.
This Edit-a-thon is a partnership between the University of Rochester and the University of Leeds. Together, we’ll explore the intertwined histories of abolitionism and channel the spirit of transatlantic collaboration to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of Black history, abolitionist networks, and the role of libraries and archives in preserving these stories.
A panel discussion about the benefits, impacts and challenges of research podcasts, chaired by Andy Tattersall, Information Specialist in the School of Medicine and Population Health at the University of Sheffield.
In this session, Javiera Atenas (University of Suffolk) and Sandra Schön (Graz University of Technology), in conversation with Chrissi Nerantzi (University of Leeds), reflect on new opportunities to navigate the evolving knowledge landscape, inspiring new Open Education Practices globally.
An online event to discuss potential alternative models to pay for open access monographs in the humanities with Ros Pyne from Bloomsbury Open Collections and David Teira from the British Society for the Philosophy of Science (BSPS).
The Knowledge Equity Network presents and international panel discussion, on the topic ‘Knowledge as a key driver for Sustainability’. The panel will collectively explore the advance of knowledge equity in global higher education and ask how this can be used to better promote people and planet, rather than just profit.
