In this episode of PGR Matters, host Matthew Sillence explores how open research training is evolving, with a focus on the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Featuring Dr Samuel Moore (MORPHSS project, University of Cambridge) and Hannah Crago (University of Essex), the conversation looks at how traditional ideas of “open science” can be reframed for different disciplines, and how gamification—including the Copyright Dough game and escape rooms—can make open research concepts more engaging, practical, and accessible for researchers at all levels.

[0:00:00–0:03:15] Setting the Scene: Open Research Training & Series Recap

[0:03:15–0:07:17] Samuel Moore’s Path into Open Research

[0:07:17–0:12:42] Inside the MORPHSS Project

[0:12:42–0:25:57] Rethinking Openness: Broadening Concepts, Ethics, and CARE

[0:25:57–0:53:18] Gamification in Open Research Training (Hannah Crago)

[0:53:18–1:00:00] Adapting Games for Online Open Research Training

[1:00:00–1:03:00] Resources, OERs, and Future Directions

- Dr. Samuel A. Moore

- Publishing Beyond the Market | University of Michigan Press

- MORPHSS – Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities and Social Sciences

- Openness in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Documenting open research practices beyond STEM (A MORPHSS Project Report)

- Knowledge Commons - Open access, open source, open to all

- Hannah Crago | University of Essex

- Project - Copyright Dough - Figshare

- Gamified Research Support - Support for Researchers - Library & Cultural Services at University of Essex

Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Credits
Music by Matthew Sillence.

In this second episode of season 2, Matthew Sillence talks with Sean Andersson, Dr Alison Barker and Dr Sean Seeger about Open Access (OA) publishing for books and articles. Through our conversations, we unpack Green, Gold and Diamond OA routes, Creative Commons licences, image permissions, university OA funding, and how postgraduate and early‑career researchers can make their work more visible and accessible.

[00:00-04:15] – What is Open Access? Green, Gold, Diamond routes and CC licences.

[04:15-16:08] – OA at Essex: funds, repositories, and read‑and‑publish deals (with Sean Andersson).

[16:08-31.20] – Turning an art history PhD into an OA monograph and handling image permissions (with Alison Barker)

[31:20-35:38] – Images, third‑party copyright and choosing CC BY‑NC‑ND.

[35:38–43:51] – OA monographs, utopian studies and interdisciplinarity (with Sean Seeger).

Links
- Creative Commons Licenses

- Open Access Publishing - University of Essex

- Barker, A.C. (2025). The Dissemination of Saint George in Early Modern Art (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003454731

- Seeger, S. (2025). Utopian Variations. Utopia in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture. Peter Lang Verlag. https://doi.org/10.3726/b22926

Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Credits
Music by Matthew Sillence.

This first episode of season 2 on PGR Matters introduces Open Research and why it matters for postgraduate researchers. Matthew explores how open access policies (especially UKRI from 2021) have reshaped expectations that publicly funded research outputs should be freely available and reusable, with evidence that open access work gains wider and more diverse citations.

Our guest in this episode is Grant Young, Head of Open Research at the University of East Anglia Library and in conversation, move from open access publications to open research across the whole project lifecycle. Key ideas include transparency (making methods, decisions, and processes visible where appropriate), the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable), and planning for future reuse of data by both humans and machines.

The episode also introduces the MORPHSS project and CARE principles (Collective benefit, Authority to control, Responsibility, Ethics), stressing that open practices must be balanced with ethical responsibilities, especially when working with marginalized communities.

[00:00:11 – 00:04:11] – Series introduction, definition of open research, UKRI policy, citation benefits

[00:04:11 – 00:11:25] – Grant Young’s role, open research beyond publications, transparency as a research attitude

[00:11:25 – 00:19:49] – Funders, public money, research impact, and the open research support team in the library

[00:19:49 – 00:30:08] – FAIR principles, especially interoperability, metadata, formats, and AI/machine readability

[00:30:08 – 00:34:35] – Open research in the humanities and cross-disciplinary learning between humanities and STEM

[00:34:35 – 00:39:54] – MORPHSS, reproducibility vs replicability, FAIR vs CARE, ethics and marginalized communities, next-episode teaser

Links
- Arthur, Paul Longley, and Lydia Hearn. 2021. ‘Toward Open Research: A Narrative Review of the Challenges and Opportunities for Open Humanities.’ Journal of Communication 71 (5): 827–53. APA PsycInfo (2022-60288-008). https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqab028.

- Ensuring open research – UKRI

- Knöchelmann, Marcel. 2019. ‘Open Science in the Humanities, or: Open Humanities?’ Publications 7 (4): 65–65. Directory of Open Access Journals (edsdoj.5fc9ac3e28c04ae8b32e598c5f86fb10). https://doi.org/10.3390/publications7040065.

- MORPHSS – Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities and Social Sciences

- Openness in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Documenting open research practices beyond STEM (A MORPHSS Project Report)

- Open Research - UEA Library at University of East Anglia

Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Credits
Music by Matthew Sillence.

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1. What was Peter's academic background and how did his initial interest in maps lead him to his current research project?
2. What was the significance of Greenvile Collins's atlas Great Britain's Coasting Pilot?
3. What were some of the key challenges that Collins faced in surveying the entire British coastline?
4. What insights have Peter uncovered from studying Collins's journals and observations?
5. How was Collins connected to influential networks and the intellectual environment of the time?
6. What was the impact of Collins's work on the development of modern hydrography?
7. How did the concept of "Great Britain" and national identity evolve during the period Collins was working?
8. Why did Peter decide to approach this research project as an academic literary biography?
9. What resources does Peter recommend for further learning about maritime history?

• Baigent, Elizabeth. "Collins, Greenvile (d. 1694), naval officer and hydrographer." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 23 Sep. 2004.
• Collins, G. (1693). Great Britain’s Coasting-Pilot Being a New and Exact Survey of the Sea-Coast of England from the River of Thames to the Westward with the Islands of Scilly and from Thence to Carlile ... With Directions for Coming into the Channel between England and France; the First Part. Printed by Freeman Collins and are to be sold by Richard Mount.
• Hollingsworth, M. (2004). The Cardinal’s Hat: money, ambition and housekeeping in a Renaissance court. Profile.
• The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.

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