On 7 July, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) held its inaugural Open Research Awards as part of the LSHTM Festival.
The awards were intended to recognize and celebrate the amazing work performed by LSHTM students and staff members to advance health research through the use of open methods and practices.
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This page contains open research profiles for members of the LSHTM Open Research Champions Network.
Kaitlyn Johnson+
Who you are?
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Dynamics. My work focuses on statistical modelling, nowcasting and forecasting, and real-time analysis, alongside open-source…
Get ready to show your data some love! This February, the Library, Archive & Open Research Services team are hosting a series of practical sessions designed to make your research smoother, safer, and more shareable. Whether you’re just starting your degree or managing a funded research project, there…
Who are Open Research Champions?
Open Research Champions are LSHTM members who provide advice and guidance on open research practices and support within the communities in which they participate.
The Open Research Champions Network is open to all LSHTM members, including MSc students, doctoral degree students, academic staff, and professional…
A fundamental feature of science is reproducibility and having study methods and data openly available enables researchers to replicate and verify their results. It is not just making methodologies fully open, they need to be fully documented and placed in a location that is accessible.
Open methodologies are concerned…
The LSHTM Open Research Champion Network is a new initiative designed to build expertise and promote a culture of open research across the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).
We’re inviting staff and students with an interest in open research to volunteer a few hours of their time to help champion open practices within their communities.
What Is Open Research?
Also known as Open Science, open research is a global movement to make scientific research more transparent, accessible, and collaborative. It supports practices that make it easier to: share and reuse research outputs, verify research findings, and collaborate across disciplines and institutions
You can learn more about LSHTM’s open research activities and resources on our Open Research and Open Science guidance pages.
What Is an Open Research Champion?
An Open Research Champion is a volunteer who actively promotes open research within a specific LSHTM community, such as a department, research centre, course module, or other peer group.
Champions form a supportive network across LSHTM, working together to raise awareness and build capacity for open research.
Who Can Join?
The network is open to all LSHTM staff and students with an interest in open research. You don’t need to be an expert—just enthusiastic and willing to contribute a few hours each month.
If you’re interested, please discuss it with your team or supervisor and complete the Expression of Interest form.
Read moreOpen Alex (the name Alex comes from the ancient Library of Alexandria) is a not for profit tool used to open up research for all. It is a free to use dataset containing over 250 million scholarly works. Unlike subscription databases it contains works from all over the globe, not…
THURSDAY MARCH 13, 2025. 13:00 – 14:00 BST
The widespread adoption of preprints provides opportunities to revolutionize how scientific discoveries are communicated with the wider research community. Preprints enable scientists to share the latest developments and findings in their research and obtain community feedback that can be used to support decision making on how it is be developed in the future. As a citable scientific output, they also provide authors with proof of progress and productivity, which can be used to advance their careers through grant and job applications.
This webinar, hosted by LSHTM in partnership with members of the bioRxiv and medRxiv team, will outline how the sharing of preprints can aid researchers in enhancing the impact of their scientific research and comply with established and emerging community requirements, such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s mandate on preprints.
Professor Kat Holt from LSHTM’s Department of Infection Biology will share some personal reflections from over a decade of posting preprints, and invite fellow academics to share their own experiences or concerns. Presenters from bioRxiv and medRxiv, two non-profit preprint services that host more than 200,000 preprints on topics spanning fundamental biology and clinical research and are visited by a combined figures of ~9 million readers every month, will provide an interactive demo of the platforms, and discuss potential gains for LSHTM academics and their research.
To help the presenters to tailor the session to your needs, please complete the Interest in Preprints survey form.
VeriXiv (pronounced Very-Kive) is a newly launched preprint server, through a collaboration between the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and F1000 publishers. The main drive from the BMGF to create this platform is to align with their new open access policy. From the 1st January 2025, the Foundation…
