The “Working with Citizens UK to Develop Impactful Research and Knowledge Exchange” event held on Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023, was a resounding success, with a packed room of enthusiastic attendees. Led by Daniel Mackintosh and Lucy Gardner, Community Organisers, and Tim Hall, Academic in Residence from Citizens UK, the workshop aimed to enlighten UoW researchers …
In order to record and demonstrate the impact beyond traditional metrics such as impact factors and citation scores, our research outputs have received, we have added the Altmetrics donut display to our WestminsterResearch institutional repository records. What are Altmetrics? Altmetrics (or alternative metrics) measure the impact of a scholarly research output based on online activity, …
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Are you a charity, social enterprise, or small business (under 250 employees), located in the London boroughs of Westminster, Brent or Camden? Would you like to reduce costs within your workplace? Are you concerned about your organisation’s carbon footprint? We can help! The Work Based and Placement Learning Project is a part of the University …
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Our final post for #OAWeek is a guest blog from Philippa Grand, Press Manager at the University of Westminster Press. You can find the Press on twitter @UniWestPress Since their launch in 2016 there has been much interest from universities and publishers in the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Many universities have structured research priorities around …
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Today’s post focuses on how practice-based research may benefit from being made more effectively shared. At Westminster we have prioritised improving our institutional repository (WestminsterResearch) to better support non-text based (also known as non-traditional) output types.See article : Evans, Jenny, Nina Watts, Taylor Mudd, and Tom Renner. 2022. “From Legacy to Next Generation: A Story …
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This is a guest blog post from Dr Sam Westwood, Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Westminster. Sam founded and runs the RIOT Science Club (https://riotscience.co.uk/), a forum where researchers can learn about Open Research reforms and practices. The RIOT Science club aims to foster Reproducible, Interpretable, Open & Transparent Science. Sam also runs ReproducibiliTea …
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International Open Access Week (October 24-30) is a time to advocate for openness as the default for research and to ensure that equity is at the center of this work. This year’s theme is “Open for Climate Justice” and seeks to raise awareness around how open enables climate justice. Climate Justice is an explicit acknowledgement …
Hello, I’m Abel Tesfai. I work in the Research Environment and Scholarly Communications team within the R&KE Office as the university’s Research Information Support Officer. With all the conversation ongoing around REF data, I wanted to take the opportunity to explain how we handle and manage research data, why we do so, and what your …
Westminster Community Consultancy Programme (WCCP) The Westminster Community Consultancy Project (WCCP) places a diverse range of University of Westminster students into consultancy teams, working with charities and businesses. WCCP allows organisations a cost-effective way to overcome challenges whilst providing a meaningful opportunity for students to use their skills and develop their employability and confidence. We …
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The results of REF 2021 will be published on 12th May. In advance of this, we caught up with two Westminster researchers who sat on REF panels this year, Roland Dannreuther and Ian Locke. Each share an interesting insight into the other side of the REF process. Roland Dannreuther is a Professor in the School …