The first ReproducibiliTea Galway journal club workshop for semester 1, 2026 will focus on the MORPHSS project - Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Join Dr. Jen Smith from the Library Research Services team and Dr. Jenni Adams, MORPHSS Research Associate, for our hybrid session on the 7th October. The ReproducibiliTea Galway journal club takes place on the first Wednesday of each month for October, November and December 2026. Researchers at all levels who are interested in open research, open science, and open scholarship are welcome to participate.
While most researchers in the STEM disciplines have a basic understanding of what "data" means in their work, it can be harder to define the term for the humanities and social sciences (HSS), which has meant that open "science"/research practices have evolved in different ways. The MORPHSS project (Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities and Social Sciences) which "showcases what ‘openness’ could mean for HSS research and how it can benefit its researchers and institutions".
This interdisciplinary project led by Dr Samuel Moore (Scholarly Communication Specialist, Cambridge University Library) is a collaboration between University of Cambridge Library, Cambridge Digital Humanities, Coventry University, the University of Sheffield and the University of Southampton. Their Project Deliverables will devise ways to encourage and embed innovative open research practices within humanities and social science disciplines.
Dr. Jenni Adams is a Research Associate on the MORPHSS (Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities and Social Sciences) project. This collaboration between the Universities of Cambridge, Coventry, Sheffield and Southampton is surfacing and documenting open practices in the arts, humanities and qualitative social sciences to create guidelines and frameworks to encourage adoption of open practices in these disciplines. As well as contributing to the project as a whole, Dr Adams's role has a particular focus on investigating open practices in the social sciences, especially around the sharing of data generated through qualitative and mixed methods research. Their wider research interests include slow scholarship, critical-theoretical approaches to open research and open science, notions of discipline and disciplinary boundaries as they relate to research openness, and the intersection of feminism and open research.
We look forward to welcoming Dr. Adams as a guest introducer at the ReproducibiliTea Galway journal club.
Reading material: Adams, J., Pinfield, S., Barnes, M., & Moore, S. (2026). Qualitative Data Sharing with Care: A Concise Guide. MORPHSS project. https://doi.org/10.17613/khvv7-qy347
Registration link: ReproducibiliTea Galway journal club - MORPHSS Project
Location: Library Archives & Special Collections Training Room.
Contact us at researchservices@universityofgalway.ie with any queries.
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