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Conference paper (unpublished)
Using Open Source Tools to Decolonize Map Archives: The Case of Palestine Open Maps
An essential part of the colonial process was mapping the colonies: to know their historical and spatial characteristics as a prelude to conquering them (Abu Sitta, 2004). The maps produced through those processes now sit in various archives, and often serve as a snapshot of the spatial layout of those...Al-Shihabi, Majd
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Bricks and Mortals: Approaches to Decolonizing Museums at UCL
Subhadra Das is Curator of the Galton Collection at UCL. She reflects on the problematic issues of the naming of spaces and buildings at UCL, focusing on Francis Galton and his links with the history of eugenics. Subhadra considered how to bring this story to a wider public and in...Das, Subhadra
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Knowledge Justice in the Digital Archive: The Exclusions of ‘Open’ / The Inclusions of ‘Closed’
The digital revolution has arguably made more information – otherwise locked away in the exclusionary spaces of libraries, archives, personal collections, and memory – more accessible to more people, who can now both contribute to and draw from remarkable digitized repositories of free content, like Wikipedia. The open data, software,...Allmann, Kira
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Small and Medium Size Academic Publishers Matter!
Beyond the large publishing groups, with huge catalogs of international books and journals published in English and with extensive presence in academic institutions around the world, the small and medium size academic publishing houses exist. These publishers are concerned with building catalogs that cover global issues but also local ones....Giménez Toledo, Elea
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Open or Ajar? And How We Blow The B****Y Doors Off!
The Open Access movement has transformed access to publicly funded research outcomes. Since 2009 there has been a 216% increase in the number of Open Access journals registered with the Directory of Open Access Journals who have published over 5,276,127 articles between them. But what happens when open access content...Caplehorne, Josie ; Watson, Ben
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For Whom Should Science Be Opened?
Leslie Chan invites us to consider the uncritical acceptance of openness, proposing that there is no universal concept of open as the concept does not address how knowledge is created, shared and circulated in different communities and different contexts. Leslie advocates for a need to decenter whiteness in both academic...Chan, Leslie
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Understanding the concept of spatial recession and coining the Awadhi landscape
Roy, Malini
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Forging new identities: the role of the artist in 18th century northern India
Roy, Malini
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Iron Ladies? The true impact of pain in chronic illness: where pain really hurts
Bacchini, Simone
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Now You See It; Now You Don’t: The Experience of chronic illness in Six Italian Women Living With Autoimmune Disease
For those affected, chronic illness is a frightening, often isolating experience. Part of its power lies in its invisibility: to the onlooker, the chronically ill often appears “normal”. In addition, with the passing of time the absence of an immediate threat to life can lead the observer – medical professional...Bacchini, Simone
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Question and answer session 2 : Measuring and evaluating impact beyond journal articles
Recording of the Question and Answer discussion from Session 2: Measuring and evaluating impact beyond journal articles.Boruta, Luc ; Derrick, Gemma ; Boddington, Anne ; Adams, Helen
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Best of both: combining arts and science to measure the benefits of online culture for mental health in young people
An inter-disciplinary project undertaken by museum and psychiatry staff at the University of Oxford in 2020 set out to find out if online cultural content could be effective against common mental health issues such as anxiety and depression. The O-ACE (Online Active Community Engagement) project used traditional arts engagement research...Adams, Helen
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Making a Difference and 'Partnering for Impact'
This presentation will reflect on impact as defined in the Research Excellence Framework (REF2021) and that forms a key element of the current dual funding structure of research for Higher Education Institutions. Although impact in its broadest sense extends beyond research, it is most prominently highlighted in the REF as...Boddington, Anne
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Assessing the broader value of research culture: The hidden REF experience
The hidden REF was an experiment to counteract existing evaluation methods. UK REF Impact Case Studies have a narrative linearity which fails to appreciate the amazing plethora of interactions, individuals and different types of output that are part of our research culture. The hidden REF exercise aims to celebrate the...Derrick, Gemma
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Impact cannot be measured, and other sad half-truths about impact measurement
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. In this talk, I look at bringing algorithmic fairness to impact measurement, from web-scale attention tracking to computer-assisted data story-telling. Drawing on my experience with altmetrics, I argue that many proxies for impact correlate not...Boruta, Luc
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Increasing engagement through Towards a National Collection
At the centre of the £18.9m research development programme Towards a National Collection is the aim to increase engagement with the cultural heritage collections of the UK. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the programme is working to link collections and encourage cross-searching of multiple collection types, to...Bailey, Rebecca