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Fostering Open Qualitative Research - Final Project Report
No full textFostering cultures of open qualitative research: Final Project Report
This report was created and deposited onto the University of Sheffield Online Research Data repository (ORDA) on 14-Dec-2023 by Dr. Matthew S. Hanchard, Research Associate at the University of Sheffield iHuman Institute.
The report presents findings and recommendations from a project titled ‘Fostering cultures of open qualitative research’ which ran from January 2023 to June 2023. The project was funded with £13,913.85 of Research England monies held internally by the University of Sheffield - as part of their ‘Enhancing Research Cultures’ scheme 2022-2023.
Research within the report aligns with ethical approval granted by the University of Sheffield School of Sociological Studies Research Ethics Committee (ref: 051118) on 23-Jan-2021.This includes due concern for participant anonymity and data management. ORDA has full permission to store and make available datasets and reports from the project for public viewing and reuse on the basis that no commercial gain will be made from reuse. It has been deposited under a CC-BY-NC licence. Overall, the report relies on the below datasets:
Survey Responses:
Hanchard M and San Roman Pineda I (2023) Fostering cultures of open qualitative research: Dataset 1 – Survey Responses. The University of Sheffield. DOI: 10.15131/shef.data.23567250.v1.
Interviews:
Hanchard M and San Roman Pineda I (2023) Fostering cultures of open qualitative research: Dataset 2 – Interview Transcripts. The University of Sheffield. DOI: 10.15131/shef.data.23567223.v2.
Workshop:
Hanchard M and San Roman Pineda I (2023) Fostering cultures of open qualitative research: Dataset 3 – Workshop Transcript. The University of Sheffield. DOI: 10.15131/shef.data.24807753.v1.
The project report covers research undertaken by two staff:
Co-investigator:
Dr. Itzel San Roman Pineda
ORCiD ID: 0000-0002-3785-8057
[email protected]
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Labelled as ‘Researcher 1’ throughout all project datasets.
Principal Investigator (corresponding dataset author):
Dr. Matthew Hanchard
ORCiD ID: 0000-0003-2460-8638
[email protected]
Research Associate
iHuman Institute, Social Research Institutes, Faculty of Social Science
Labelled as ‘Researcher 2’ throughout all project datasets.</p
Matthew Henry: The Bible, Prayer, and Piety – A Tercentenary Celebration
No full textThe summer of 2014 marked the tercentenary of the death of Matthew Henry (1662–1714), a leading figure among early eighteenth-century Dissenters and author of the six-volume Exposition of the Old and New Testaments (1707–1714/25). This monumental work, which by 1855 had already been published in twenty-five different editions, attempted a peculiarly practical approach to the biblical text and continues to be widely used and readily accessible even today in both print and online versions. The theme of foreign (or ‘strange’) wives and Israelite intermarriage is one which occurs throughout the Hebrew Bible and, accordingly, throughout Matthew Henry’s commentary upon it. Where it appears, the practice of intermarriage is characterized by Henry as (at best) unwise and (at worst) a very real threat to both social and religious cohesion. This essay explores how Henry deals with the issue of ‘strange wives’, why he believes they continue to pose a threat, and (in view of the overall intention of his commentary) what ‘practical observations’ he offers to his reader as a result. In doing so it is argued that Henry’s commentary traces a thematic thread from the ante-diluvian age to the post-exilic period of calamities resulting from mixed marriages between ‘professors of religion’ and their ‘strange wives’
Open Research in Practice 1 (OpenFest session recording)
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Session at OpenFest2022:
Jacob MacDonald (Urban Studies): The Open Research Project Lifecycle
Matthew Hanchard (Sociological Studies): Models of Data Deposition
A two-day programme of talks, panel discussions and project showcases, OpenFest provided an opportunity for University of Sheffield researchers and information/software professionals to explore a range of issues around open research, including OA monograph publishing, Open Educational Resources, FAIR data and software, open qualitative research and software licensing.</p
Have digital maps altered our experience of urban surroundings?
No full textFor many of us, digital maps have become an integral part of everyday life. As common as they have become, we should be aware that they change how we experience cities, argues Matthew Hanchard
Have digital maps altered our experience of urban surroundings?
No full textFor many of us, digital maps have become an integral part of everyday life. As common as they have become, we should be aware that they change how we experience cities, argues Matthew Hanchard
Annual Open Research Lecture 2023: Dr Matthew Hanchard, Qualitative research: Towards a new socio-technical imaginary of open research
No full textThe deposit contains two files - a recording of the talk (MP4 file) and a copy of the presentation slides (PDF file).The lecture took place on 6th December 2023 at the University of Sheffield. Details of the lecture are as follows:Dr Matthew HanchardResearch Associate, Department of Sociological Studies and iHuman instituteQualitative research: Towards a new socio-technical imaginary of open researchFrom the 1665 publication of Philosophical Transactions onwards, there has been a clear sociotechnical imaginary - or collective vision of what science ought to be - centring on openness, sharing, and transparency. This openness enables claims to be disproved (or not), which lies in conflict with any closing-down of knowledge-sharing for commercial reasons. These contradictory forces of openness and commercially-motivated closedness led to developments like the internet and Web drawing on reconfigured imaginaries which include some elements of both. As a closed military defence project opened to a small academic community, and then the wider public, the development of the Web was steeped in a free and open-source ethos, albeit with private ventures reaping rewards of collective endeavours. In doing so, it followed a post-World War II configuration of pure science being state-funded or citizen-led, with applied derivatives left to a free market. Operating within this environment, and amidst a turn to neoliberalism, scientific research and publication met monopoly capitalism in the early 2000s, raising concerns over the future accessibility and openness of both pure and applied science.By the early 2010s, the US Office of the President, European Commission, UNESCO and several funding bodies mandated that the research they fund must be published open access - a move to reassert accessibility, openness, and transparency, for non-applied science at least. This has recently been extended to data, posing challenges for qualitative research - often steeped in interpretivism, which makes data hard to verify. Building on the notion of 'renderability' to articulate claims to transparency from non-STEM research, in place of concepts of reproducibility or replicability, this lecture examines existing examples of open qualitative research to theorise the contours of a new landscape emerging around open qualitative research.</p
Fostering cultures of open qualitative research: Dataset 3 – Workshop Transcript
No full textThis dataset was created and deposited onto the University of Sheffield Online Research Data repository (ORDA) on 14-Dec-2023 by Dr. Matthew S. Hanchard, Research Associate at the University of Sheffield iHuman Institute. The dataset forms part of the outputs from a project titled ‘Fostering cultures of open qualitative research’ which ran from January 2023 to June 2023, and was funded with £13,913.85 of Research England monies held internally by the University of Sheffield as part of their ‘Enhancing Research Cultures’ scheme 2022-2023. The dataset aligns with ethical approval granted by the University of Sheffield School of Sociological Studies Research Ethics Committee (ref: 051118) on 23-Jan-2023. This includes due concern for participant anonymity and data management. ORDA has full permission to store this dataset and to make it open access for public re-use on the basis that no commercial gain will be made from reuse. It has been deposited under a CC-BY-NC license. Overall, this dataset comprises: 1 x Workshop transcript - in .docx file format which can be opened with Microsoft Word, Google Doc, or an open-source equivalent. The workshop took place on 18-Jul-2023 at the Wave Building, University of Sheffield. All five attendees have read and approved a portion of transcripts containing their own discussion. All workshop attendees have had an opportunity to retract details should they wish to do so. All workshop attendees have chosen whether to be pseudonymised or named directly. The pseudonym or real name can be used to identify individual participant responses in the qualitative coding held within accompanying dataset from the same project - Survey Responses: Hanchard M and San Roman Pineda I (2023) Fostering cultures of open qualitative research: Dataset 1 – Survey Responses. The University of Sheffield. DOI: 10.15131/shef.data.23567250.v1. Interviews: Hanchard M and San Roman Pineda I (2023) Fostering cultures of open qualitative research: Dataset 2 – Interview Transcripts. The University of Sheffield. DOI: 10.15131/shef.data.23567223.v2. As a limitation, the audio recording of the workshop session that this transcript is based upon is missing a section (due to a recording error) and may contain errors/inaccuracies (due to poor audio conditions within the workshop room). Every effort has been taken to correct these, including participants themselves reviewing their discussion/quotes, but the transcript may still contain minor inaccuracies, typos, and/or other errors in the text - as is noted on the transcript itself. The project was undertaken by two staff: Co-investigator: Dr. Itzel San Roman Pineda (Postdoctoral Research Assistant) ORCiD ID: 0000-0002-3785-8057 [email protected] Labelled as ‘Researcher 1’ throughout all project datasets. Principal Investigator (corresponding dataset author): Dr. Matthew Hanchard (Research Associate) ORCiD ID: 0000-0003-2460-8638 [email protected] iHuman Institute, Social Research Institutes, Faculty of Social Science Labelled as ‘Researcher 2’ throughout all project datasets
Citation expectations: are they realized? Study of the Matthew index for Russian papers published abroad
Full text linkWe consider the "Matthew effect" in the citation process which leads to reallocation (or misallocation) of the citations received by scientific papers within the same journals. The case when such reallocation correlates with a country where an author works is investigated. Russian papers in chemistry and physics published abroad were examined. We found that in both disciplines in about 60% of journals Russian papers are cited less than average ones. However, if we consider each discipline as a whole, citedness of a Russian paper in physics will be on the average level, while chemistry publications receive about 16% citations less than one may expect from the citedness of the journals where they appear. Moreover, Russian chemistry papers mostly become undercited in the leading journals of the field. Characteristics of a "Matthew index" indicator and its significance for scientometric studies are also discussed
Fostering cultures of open qualitative research: Dataset 2 – Interview Transcripts
No full textThis dataset was created and deposited onto the University of Sheffield Online Research Data repository (ORDA) on 23-Jun-2023 by Dr. Matthew S. Hanchard, Research Associate at the University of Sheffield iHuman Institute. The dataset forms part of three outputs from a project titled ‘Fostering cultures of open qualitative research’ which ran from January 2023 to June 2023: · Fostering cultures of open qualitative research: Dataset 1 – Survey Responses · Fostering cultures of open qualitative research: Dataset 2 – Interview Transcripts · Fostering cultures of open qualitative research: Dataset 3 – Coding Book The project was funded with £13,913.85 of Research England monies held internally by the University of Sheffield - as part of their ‘Enhancing Research Cultures’ scheme 2022-2023. The dataset aligns with ethical approval granted by the University of Sheffield School of Sociological Studies Research Ethics Committee (ref: 051118) on 23-Jan-2021. This includes due concern for participant anonymity and data management. ORDA has full permission to store this dataset and to make it open access for public re-use on the basis that no commercial gain will be made form reuse. It has been deposited under a CC-BY-NC license. Overall, this dataset comprises: · 15 x Interview transcripts - in .docx file format which can be opened with Microsoft Word, Google Doc, or an open-source equivalent. All participants have read and approved their transcripts and have had an opportunity to retract details should they wish to do so. Participants chose whether to be pseudonymised or named directly. The pseudonym can be used to identify individual participant responses in the qualitative coding held within the ‘Fostering cultures of open qualitative research: Dataset 3 – Coding Book’ files. For recruitment, 14 x participants we selected based on their responses to the project survey., whilst one participant was recruited based on specific expertise. · 1 x Participant sheet – in .csv format which may by opened with Microsoft Excel, Google Sheet, or an open-source equivalent. The provides socio-demographic detail on each participant alongside their main field of research and career stage. It includes a RespondentID field/column which can be used to connect interview participants with their responses to the survey questions in the accompanying ‘Fostering cultures of open qualitative research: Dataset 1 – Survey Responses’ files. The project was undertaken by two staff: Co-investigator: Dr. Itzel San Roman Pineda ORCiD ID: 0000-0002-3785-8057 [email protected] Postdoctoral Research Assistant Labelled as ‘Researcher 1’ throughout the dataset Principal Investigator (corresponding dataset author): Dr. Matthew Hanchard ORCiD ID: 0000-0003-2460-8638 [email protected] Research Associate iHuman Institute, Social Research Institutes, Faculty of Social Science Labelled as ‘Researcher 2’ throughout the datase
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