Practices

Open research is an umbrella term for a range of practices aimed at making the processes and outputs of research more widely available. Its aims and purposes include addressing knowledge inequities, democratising research processes and conversations, supporting collaborative efforts to address social and scientific problems, and enabling greater scrutiny of research findings. This catalogue was created in 2025-6 as part of the MORPHSS project (Materialising Open Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences). It is a living showcase of exemplary open research practices within the humanities and social sciences disciplines that are not necessarily visible through the science-led open 'access' lens. Click to know more

11 examples

Collaborative Translation (Co-translation, Collaborative translation, Community translation, Collective translation, or Commoning translation)

2 examples

Catalogue of Open Research Practices in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

PRACTICES

Academic/Scholarly Podcasting

Annotation for Transparent Inquiry

Applying the CARE Principles to Data from Marginalised Communities

Authorship (Collective, Collaborative or Communal)

Co-production

Collaborative Translation (Co-translation, Collaborative translation, Community translation, Collective translation, or Commoning translation)

Community-Based Participatory Research

Data Papers

Digital Enumerative Bibliography

Documenting and Disseminating Failure

Experimental Longform Publishing (Multivocal, Combinatorial, or Epistolary Monographs)

Linked Open Data

Member Checking / Member Sharing

Open Documentation of Creative Methods

Open Documentation of Methods

Open Longform Scholarship

Open Materials

Participatory Action Research (PAR)

Positionality (Foregrounding of)

Pre-registering Qualitative Research

Preprints and Working Papers

Public Scholarship

Reflexivity

Research-Practice Partnerships

Sharing Creative Practice Outputs

Sharing Creatively Refigured Data

Sharing Ethically Fabricated Data

Sharing Qualitative Data

Virtual Exhibitions