Awarded projects open science fund
2022-2023
2022-2023
Dr. Tali Spiegel and dr. Amy Nivette
While open science education is gaining a prominent role within the UU, we still know little about students’ knowledge and practice of open science principles. Since students are entering an increasingly “open” environment, whether in science, business, or government, there is a need for more research about the (open science) culture that students are embedded in. This project aims to gain insights into students’ knowledge and practice around open science principles during their (bachelor/master) thesis. This project can be valuable in understanding students’ needs when developing open science education for young professionals entering an “open” world.
2022-2023
Dr. Gerko Vink and Hanne Oberman
We can see the process of data analysis as a recipe. Every time we follow a recipe minutely, the same dish results: the process of generating thedish is thereby very standardized. What is not standardized, however, is the evaluation of the quality and flavour of the dish. The same holds for data analysis:although the computational process may be standardized, the interpretation and evaluation of the quality of the results often is not. We propose a generic tool for automatic standardized report generation and outline how to apply the tool on missing value analysis and missing data imputation.
2022-2023
Arjan Mossel, dr. Berit Janssen, Jelte van Boheemen, Julian Gonggrijp, Luka van der Plas, Mees van Stiphout, Sheean Spoel, dr. Tijmen Baarda, Jill Briggeman and Sander Prins
Over the eight years of its existence, the Utrecht Digital Humanities Lab has collaborated with a great number of humanities scholars, which has led to an extensive and diverse portfolio of research software for text mining, language processing and visualization. Even though much of this software is publicly available, a substantial part does not yet adhere to all standards for FAIR software (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) due to budget limitations. The aim of the FAIRer DH Software project is to meet these important quality standards, thereby increasing the visibility and reusability of our research software.
2022-2023
Sam Ali
We recently investigated the potential value of Doppler ultrasound to improve perinatal outcomes in low-resource settings. Important findings were summarized in six key manuscripts for dissemination to the scientific community. For public engagement, we shall translate the manuscripts into a series of mini-documentaries (of 3-5 minutes) to educate lay women in rural Ugandan communities about the essential role of ultrasound during pregnancy. This project will also engage and enlighten other stakeholders about the value of our research to the community through a livestream international symposium and multiple media platforms, and explore stakeholders’ inputs into our future research priorities.
2022-2023
Dr. Frank van Rijnsoever, on behalf of the Impact Coaches project
Open science implies creating societal impact trough research and education. The success of realising societal impactis strongly dependent on social impact skills of researchers and students. However, in our education programs, we develop little attention to the development of social impact skills. Therefore, the Department of SD will launch an ‘impact coaches’ program. Trained coaches will help master students to develop and reflect on their social impact skills. This project studies the effectiveness of this coaching program and gathers empirical evidence about the development of social impact skills. This evidence helps to scale-up the program within and outside UU.
2022-2023
Utrecht University plans to redesign the Heidelberglaan. The aim is to make this central axis of Utrecht Science Park a healthy urban environment that will stimulate to meet and relax. In a coalition with Data- en Kennishub Gezond Stedelijk Leven, RIVM, Province of Utrecht and IRAS institute, UU will set up a monitoring system to measure and evaluate heat stress, mobility streams, air quality through sensors. Data will be actively collected and shared with campus users, in order to engage them in local challenges in the field of healthy urban living.
2022-2023
Dr. Gery Nijenhuis and dr. Femke van Noorloos
Even in a highly internationalized field as Development Studies, knowledge production is still dominated by the global North. This project aims to challenge this, by applying Open Science principles to the MA-program International Development Studies, in order to increase awareness of Open Science principles and equal knowledge production; and promote collaborative knowledge creation and sharing with partners in Indonesia and Ghana. The outcomes of the project will be improved access to open materials for teaching, learning and research (OER) across the partners; better reflection skills of students; enhanced visibility of student thesis research; and strengthened collaboration between partner institutions.
2021-2022
2021-2022
Dr. Pieter Huistra, dr. Pim Huijnen and dr. Auke Rijpma
This project experiments with replication of historical research to achieve a more open and reliable knowledge production in the humanities. Although the data repositories that historians use are often open, the way historians actually select and interpret their data that in turn validate their findings remains opaque. By replicating cornerstone studies from three historical subdisciplines, we attempt to make this process more transparent and publicly accountable and thus in line with the principles of Open Science. The envisioned results are (i) replications, (ii) a methodology for doing replication in history and (iii) recommend dations to ensure replicability in the humanities.
2021-2022
Susanna Bloem and prof. dr. Bert Theunissen
According to a group of psychiatrists from the first half of the twentieth century (the Wengener Kreis) people live in four 'kinds of time'. World time (day and night, ebb and flow), clock time (measuring, science time), the I time (the time experienced which sometimes seems to go slowly and sometimes just goes fast) and human time, (your life story and the person who develops it). During the Weekend van de Wetenschap, Susanna Bloem will look for examples of these kinds of time in the lives of old and young visitors. With the first "research results": new compositions for string ensemble, she will explain the role of time in health.
2021-2022
Oliver Schmitz, Meng Lu, Derek Karssenberg, Edwin Sutanudjaja and dr. Ilonca Vaartjes (Julius Center, UMC)
High resolution land surface data with a global coverage is a key requirement as input to global simulation models of, for instance, water resources, air pollution, and land use change. Processing, reproducing and sharing inputs and derived products is a reoccurring challenge due to the amount of intermediate and final data, often implied by a hyper-resolution modelling requirement. Our project will provide a Python based and easy installable, executable and documented processing workflow for the creation of input data for raster-based global simulation models, allowing domain scientists to share the data generation workflow rather than large volumes of datasets.
2021-2022
Dr. Gertjan Plets and dr. Pim Huijnen, Richard Veenstra (Director Heritage board Province of Groningen), Cecile van der Tweel (Coordinator of Dutch heritage and earthquakes section RCE) and Goos de Boer (Journalist of regional media company RTV Noord)
The Netherlands is a “petrostate”: since the colonial period oil and gas has defined both economy and politics. Today, remnants of fossil fuel extraction are disappearing. Therefore, it is urgent to decide how we want to remember gas and oil as cultural heritage. However, to date the history of gas and oil extraction has written by the industry itself. In this project students and historians of the UU will rewrite Dutch fossil fuel history. Open science mechanisms such as podcasts, online platforms and community meetings will ensure that this contested past is explored in collaboration with the wider public.