Bridging Academic landscapes. At Access 2 Perspectives, we provide novel insights into the communication and management of Research. Our goal is to equip researchers with the skills and enthusiasm they need to pursue a successful and joyful career. This podcast brings to you insights and conversations around the topics of Scholarly Reading, Writing and Publishing, Career Development inside and outside Academia, Research Project Management, Research Integrity, and Open Science. Learn more abo ...
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Rotating around the sun: The Helio-centric Model of Open Science
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Find more podcast episodes here: https://access2perspectives.pubpub.org/podcast Host: Dr Jo Havemann, ORCID iD 0000-0002-6157-1494 Editing: Ebuka Ezeike Music: Alex Lustig…
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Enhancing Research Visibility in Africa: Leveraging DOAJ for Open Access Publishing
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Speaker's Profile: Ina Smith, DOAJ Ambassador Southern Africa ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9710-3668 Ina Smith is a strong advocate for open science, especially in Africa and South Africa. With over 20 years of experience, she has worked at universities like the University of Pretoria and Stellenbosch University, focusing on repositories and journal publi…
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Resilience in Scholarly Publishing - A conversation with Haseeb Irfanullah
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Dr Haseeb Md. Irfanullah is a biologist-turned-development facilitator, who often introduces himself as a research enthusiast. Over the past 25 years, Haseeb has been working for different international environment/ development organizations, academic/ research institutions, funders, and government agencies in different capacities. Currently a Coun…
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Empowering African Researchers: Building Data and Coding Skills with The Carpentries
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Speaker's Profile: Angelique Trusler, Community Manager at The Carpentries ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2340-8538 Dr. Angelique Trusler, with a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, is the Community Manager at The Carpentries in Africa and a Researcher at North-West University in South Africa. She leads efforts to enhance researchers' data science skills across …
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Providing Access to Scientific and Research Knowledge - A conversation with Anja Harrison
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Anja Harrison, PhD Dipl.-Psych is a Lecturer and Applied Neuroscience Programme lead at King's College London, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and CEO at The Collaborative Library - an online platform dedicated to bringing scientific knowledge to the masses by providing a space for people to share plain language summaries of research article…
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Advocating for Preprint Sharing in Rwanda
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Speakers’ profile Roseline Dzekem Dine Founder, Rwanda Preprint Club ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8210-9258 Miss Dine Roseline Dzekem is a public health professional and social scientist in her early career. She has a background in sociology and anthropology from the University of Buea-Cameroon (2016) and a Master’s degree in public health from the Universi…
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Open Peer Review, Collaborative Preprint Review and Opportunities to Learn and Teach Others
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Speakers’ Profiles Vanessa Fairhurst (she/her) – Head of Community, PREreview ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8511-8689 Vanessa joined the PREreview team in November 2022. She studied her undergraduate degree in European Languages and Business Management before going on to study her Master’s in Applied and Professional Ethics. Chad Sansing (he/him) – Head of…
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Translate Science Panel Discussion No. 1 - A conversation with Lynne Bowker and Emma Steigerwald about Multilingualism in Accademia
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Welcome to this BONUS episode featuring the inaugural Translate Science Panel Discussion. About Translate Science Translate Science is an all-volunteer community of interest for multilingual open science. The community supports gatherings of its members to share opportunities and perspectives about the many ways in which a more multilingual and ope…
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Monitoring Open Science: A French Perspective - A conversation with Laetitia Bracco
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Laetitia Bracco is a curator in the Research Support Mission of the Université de Lorraine libraries. She is in charge of the "ADOC Lorraine" data workshop, the support service for research data, as well as the Bibliometrics unit. At the national level, she leads the research data working group of the Couperin consortium. She is also the project le…
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World Wellness Weekend & Academia webinar session/podcast anchored by Jo and Julie Wren
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Julie Wren is an experienced wellness consultant, nutritionist and self-care expert who offers transformative wellbeing solutions to individuals and organizations, so they can lead their best healthiest and happiest lives. With over 20 years of experience in the health and wellness industry, she uses her expertise to design healthy routines to meet…
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Diamond Open Access publishing in Africa
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Speakers' Profile: Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2064-3439 Iryna Kuchma has been managing the EIFL Open Access Programme (EIFL-OA) since 2008. Working in collaboration with libraries and library consortia in more than 60 countries in Africa, Asia and Europe, she advocates for open access to research results, f…
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Automating workflows and providing academic credit to data curators for F.A.I.R. research data archiving.
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Sonia Maria Barbosa is a passionate advocate for open research data and serves as a key figure at Dataverse, a renowned web-based repository dedicated to enabling researchers to share, preserve, cite, explore, and analyze research data. With a robust background in data management and a commitment to advancing open science principles, Sonia plays a …
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Ashley Farley is the Program Officer of Knowledge & Research Services at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In this capacity she leads the foundation’s Open Access Policy’s implementation and associated initiatives. This includes leading the work of Gates Open Research, a transparent and revolutionary publishing platform. Much of her work advocat…
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Exploring the Openness of Global Research Landscapes Using Open Data: The COKI Open Access Dashboard
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Dr. Kathryn Napier Dr. Kathryn Napier is a data scientist who bridges the analytics gap in transdisciplinary research. She is currently the Technical Lead of the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative, leading a team of data scientists and software developers who work with leading experts in open access and scholarly communication. Together, the COKI tea…
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Securing the future of African Innovation, Indigenous Knowledge and Cultural Heritage.
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Joy Owango is an award-winning Founding Director of the Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa), a registered trust in Kenya established in 2006. TCC Africa is the first African-based training center focused on teaching effective communication skills to scientists. Ms Joy Owango is also the project lead at the Africa PID Alliance, an organiza…
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Connecting African scholarly stakeholders across the continent
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Mofahloshi R.M. Chuene is a research scientist specializing in applied chemistry, with a focus on water treatment, nanotechnology, and sustainable energy solutions. She recently completed a Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry at the University of Johannesburg, where her thesis investigated the development and application of sawdust nano-adsorbents fo…
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Research integrity with a focus on reproducibility in Nanoscience - A conversation with Maha Said
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Maha Said is a post-doctoral researcher on the ERC-funded NanoBubbles project which asks the questions how, when, and why does science fail to correct itself. Originally trained in molecular and cellular biology and working close to science and technology studies especially science integrity, she is currently working in 2 sub-projects, the first be…
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Prototyping a new pathway for Open Science - A conversation with Cooper Smout
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Cooper Smout is on a mission to revolutionize scientific conduct and communication through the principles of Open Science. Unhappy with the costly, inefficient, and biased nature of scholarly publishing, Cooper saw the need for change. Thus, he founded Project Free Our Knowledge, an initiative dedicated to empowering researchers globally. With Free…
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Open Science with a focus on Diamond Open Access in Chemistry - A conversation with Wendy Patterson
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Dr. Wendy Patterson is a member of the board of management of the Beilstein-Institut where she serves as scientific director. She received various degrees in the field of physics, culminating in a doctorate degree in optics and then continued post-doctoral research in the areas of nanotechnology and materials for energy conversion and storage in th…
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Investing in [African] Open Infrastructure
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Jerry Sellanga currently works on the Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) team as Engagement Coordinator, Networks, where he uses his expertise to expand IOI's audiences through events, digital communications, and stakeholder management, especially in Africa. He specializes in strategic communications, graphic design, proposal development, and publ…
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Zendy - Accessibility, affordability, and discoverability for scholarly literature in Africa.
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Kamran Kardan ORCID: 0000-0003-4324-7620 Kamran Kardan is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Knowledge E. He founded Knowledge E in 2012, to provide unique, professional, and high-quality services to the information professionals in the Middle Eastern region and beyond. He is also the Co-founder and Managing Director at Zendy, an organiza…
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Reflections on Research Integrity - A conversation with Jigisha Patel
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Formerly a medical doctor, clinical researcher and medical journal editor, Jigisha Patel is an independent research integrity specialist and founder of Jigisha Patel Research Integrity Limited. She has extensive experience of a wide range of research integrity issues in publishing, including the investigation and management of complex cases such as…
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The ROSiE General Guidelines on Responsible Open Science - A conversation with Rosemarie Bernabe
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Rosemarie Bernabe is a Professor of research ethics and research integrity at the University of Oslo; and an adjunct professor of medical research ethics at the University of South-Eastern Norway. With her expertise and leadership, she is dedicated to advancing research ethics and integrity in various contexts and serves as the project coordinator …
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Knowledge Futures - Building public digital infrastructure that enables [African] communities to publish documents and data more effectively.
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Emily EstenORCID: 0000-0002-1120-1698 Emily Esten is the Project Lead at Knowledge Futures. In her varied work experience - from project lead to curator, educator to site developer - her primary focus has been on engaging with audiences, content, and tools to build better research and teaching communities. She has played an active role in shaping c…
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DRYAD - Data sharing best practices for researchers and institutions working with AfricArXiv
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Maria Guerreiro ORCID: 0000-0003-0010-6895 Maria Guerreiro is the Head of Partnership Development at Dryad. She is an open science enthusiast who enjoys working collaboratively with researchers and other stakeholders in scholarly communication to drive positive change. She is Head of Partnership Development at Dryad, where she leads the partnership…
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AOSP - Facilitating the implementation of Open Science practices across Africa
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Dr. Nokuthula Mchunu ORCID: 0000-0001-5156-9457 Dr. Nokuthula Mchunu holds the position of Deputy Director at the African Open Science Platform, which is hosted by the National Research Foundation in South Africa. With extensive expertise in academic outreach initiatives, science popularization, and the implementation of STEM activities within loca…
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Scholarly Publishing - A conversation with Damita Snow
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Damita Snow (ORCID 0000-0001-8757-6464), CAE, ENV SP, is the Director of Accessibility & Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Strategy, Publication, and Standards at the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). She was the founder and immediate past chair of ASCE’s Staff Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Council. In addition, she served as a co-chair fo…
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Crossref – Enabling African research item discoverability through the Research Nexus
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Johanssen Obanda ORCID: 0000-0002-2111-7780 Obanda joined Crossref in 2023 to work with Crossref Ambassadors to effectively engage their communities and support Crossref’s outreach initiatives. Obanda is passionate about building an inclusive research ecosystem where researchers across the globe can easily access scientific knowledge and make meani…
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Figshare - Enabling global reach and discoverability of African research data
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Mark Hahnel ORCID: 0000-0003-4741-0309 Mark Hahnel is the founder of Figshare, which he created whilst completing his PhD in stem cell biology at Imperial College London. Figshare currently provides research data infrastructure for institutions, publishers and funders globally. He is passionate about open science and the potential it has to revolut…
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Body Scan and Brain Nutrition for Research Productivity - A conversation with Julie Wren
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Julie Wren is an experienced wellness consultant, nutritionist and self-care expert who offers transformative wellbeing solutions to individuals and organizations, so they can lead their best healthiest and happiest lives. With over 20 years of experience in the health and wellness industry, she uses her expertise to design healthy routines to meet…
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Venomous snakes and the war in Sudan - A conversation with Rania Baleela
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Rania Baleela has been a dedicated Open Science and Open Access trainer since 2012. Rania is the Founder of the first Sudanese institutional repository (OASCIR), a platform for openly sharing research. As the EIFL Open Access Country Coordinator, she has played a key role in advancing open access in Sudan and has trained librarians in this area. Ra…
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Special: Introducing Community-sourced Peer Review Mapping // A joint event by Reviewer Credit and Access 2 Perspectives
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The topic of discussion for this event was, 'Open Resources for Peer Review: Where are they? Get involved!' It featured, Maria Machado, Johanna Havemann and Gareth Dyke. During the event, listeners were given the opportunity to ask questions around the topic of discussion and answers were provided. You can listen and share your thoughts too. Find m…
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Achieving academic goals & building authority in clinical research - A conversation with Jia Ng
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Dr. Jia Ng, MD MSCE is a Board-certified Nephrologist and Assistant Professor at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/ Northwell, New York. She is also the founder of PublishedMD, where she coaches clinicians on how to publish research papers, build authority, and achieve their academic goals without the overwhelm. Since 2020, she has been givi…
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The African Reproducibility Network (AREN) – Building gateways to Open Science in Africa
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Emmanuel Boakye holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana. He is an African Open Science champion who has worked with organizations such as the Center for Open Science in the USA and the Association of African Universities (AAU). He was part of the panel of experts invited …
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How to get your journal indexed in DOAJ - A conversation with Lucia Benkovičová
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Lucia Benkovičová was born in 1986 (in Galanta, Slovakia). She is a graduate in architecture from the Slovak University of Technology and in computer science from the Pan-European University, both in Bratislava, Slovakia. Lucia studied (in national languages) also in Austria, Germany, France, England, and Hungary. Today, Lucia works as a publisher …
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The UNESCO Open Science Toolkit - A Focus on Africa
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Dr. Ana Persic is the Programme Specialist for Science, Technology and Innovation Policies and Open Science at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. She is an ecologist by training with a PhD in Ecotoxicology, and she joined UNESCO in April 2006 in the framework of the UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere program within the Division of Ecological and Earth S…
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Signals to protect Research Integrity - A conversation with Elliot Lumb
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Elliot Lumb is the co-creator of Signals, a product that helps to promote research and publication integrity. In 2018, Elliott completed a PhD in medicinal chemistry at Monash University and the University of Nottingham. Following this, he held several roles at Frontiers, including a role within the Strategy and Planning team. In 2021 Elliott launc…
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Research Organization Registry (ROR) - the identifier for research institutions and universities - a spotlight on Africa
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Amanda French ORCID: 0000-0002-4325-1809 Dr. Amanda French is the Technical Community Manager for the Research Organization Registry (ROR) at Crossref, where she works to promote the adoption of ROR to make information about research organizations cleaner and easier to exchange between systems. Dr. French is a well-known project director and commun…
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Scholarly and patent literature as a public good to inform problem-solving in Africa feat. The Lens
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Mark Garlinghouse Director, Business Development @The Lens Mark Garlinghouse is responsible for business development at The Lens. He joined The Lens in 2019 to support its transition to financial sustainability. Mark has over 25 years of experience in the information industry, working with Information Handling Services (now S&P Global Engineering S…
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DataCite – Contributing to the PID infrastructure in Africa
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Bosun Obileye ORCID: 0000-0002-1200-0994 Bosun Obileye is the Regional Engagement Specialist - Africa for DataCite. His career spans the institutionalization of open science from policy development, infrastructural development and implementation, advocacy, engagements and adoption. He has a background in Computer and Information Research Science, C…
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Science Open - Utilizing persistent identifiers to provide services for researchers and publishers - A spotlight on Africa
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At AfricArXiv, we have been working with ScienceOpen since 2020 as one of our affiliate repositories, having set up a collection for African Languages and COVID-19 in Africa. You can easily request journal-independent Peer Review on your submitted works within their system. Stephanie will tell us what else they are doing to support African research…
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Leveraging AI for the discovery of complex molecular and cellular patterns from single-cell data - A conversation with Peter Nestorov
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Peter Nestorov earned his PhD in Genetics from the University of Basel, and he also holds a degree in Biochemistry from the University of Tübingen. With a background in both genetics and biochemistry, Peter has been actively engaged in the emerging field of single-cell analysis since 2015. This involvement has not only provided him with valuable ex…
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The journey of a science startup: Community building for academic services - A conversation with John Hammersley
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John Hammersley is the founder of Overleaf. He joins Jo on this episode to share his journey with the scholarly collaborative writing tool Overleaf and its flexibility in fitting into researchers' workflows, its support for multilingual documents, and the potential for linking data and papers. The conversation also touches on the importance of coll…
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Adoption of ORCID in Kenya, Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria, and across Africa
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In this webinar, our speakers were, Peninnah Musangi of Kenya Library and Information Services Consortium (KLISC), Cecile Coulibaly of Universite Virtuelle de Cote d'Ivoire (UVCI), Owen Iyoha of Eko-Konnect and Lombe Tembo of ORCID About the webinar series This webinar was co-organized by UbuntuNet Alliance and Access 2 Perspectives as part of th…
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FAIRsharing – A curated resource on data and metadata standards feat. African records.
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This session is part of a series of live webinars, where we discuss how the persistent identifiers ORCID, ROR, and DOI enable interoperability across scholarly digital services while also ensuring the discoverability of research from and about Africa. The slides are available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8406371 Persistent identifiers (PIDs) a…
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How to foster and uphold research rigor as a scholarly publisher - A conversation with Rebecca Lawrence
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Rebecca Lawrence is the Managing Director of F1000 Research Ltd. She joins Jo on this episode of our podcast to talk about fostering and upholding research rigor as a scholarly publisher. Rebecca was responsible for the launch of F1000Research in 2013 and has subsequently led the initiative behind the launches of many funder- and institution-based …
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Connecting Mental Health and D.E.I. - A conversation with Ana Faro
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Ana Faro is an Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI), Culture and Workplace Wellbeing specialist, with over 15 years of experience in the Higher Education sector and with the commitment to create positive social impact. She joins Jo on this podcast to talk about mental health and her work as a specialist in Diversity, Equality, & Inclusion (DEI). A…
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Behind the scenes: How this podcast is coming on air
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In this podcast episode, Ebuka Ezeike shares his insights and experience working as a freelance editor and podcast producer for clients such as Access 2 Perspectives and Africarxiv. He talks about the challenges and rewards of working in this capacity and shares his plans for the future, which include teaching others about podcasting and building h…
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Leaping like a Salmon from Academia to a career in the industry - A conversation with Matteo Tardelli
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Matteo Tardelli, a former research scientist turned life science consultant, shares his experience of transitioning from academia to industry. In this conversation with Jo, he emphasizes the importance of project management and communication skills, which he developed on the job. Matteo also discusses his books, "Salmon's Jumping: The Leaps of Fait…
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Co-creating a FORRT: The Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training - A conversation with Flavio Azevedo
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Flavio Azevedo shares with Jo about his work with the FORRT community, which focuses on open scholarship, diversity, equity, and inclusion. The members of the FORRT community have developed several initiatives, including a glossary of open scholarship terms, lesson plans, and a project on replications and reversals. They also have a team advocating…
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