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What is the Open Research Network

The Melbourne Open Research Network is a collection of researchers and research-associated workers in Melbourne, Australia. It aims to facilitate the growth of Open practices by bringing together independently motivated and like-minded people, and providing a platform for the sharing of resources. It is further supported by the Australia and New Zealand Open Research Network (ANZORN).

Not sure if you're an open researcher?
Check if there are networks close to you, join the mailing list, come along to an event, and find out. You can also join the ANZORN mailing list and Slack.

What is Open Research

Open research is a term describing a variety of practices directed at maximising the transparency of research, and ultimately leading to maximisation of public goods. These include: Open Access Publication, Open Data, Open Methodology, Open Source Software, Open educational resources & Open peer review.

Where should I start?

Check if there is an open science community at your workplace, and if not, fill in the survey. We might be able to help you start one!

What is the logo?

The logo represents a whole community, made up of individual actors, who stand back to back in support of each other. The circle is open to reflect our want to welcome new members. The Logo is black and white because... Melbourne. It is expected that new member communities will adapt this logo to their own colour schemes.

Network Steering Committee

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Mathew Ling

Steering Committee Chair

Mathew is a Lecturer in Psychology at Deakin University and is eager to share responsibility for MORN with other like minded radicals.

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Saras Windecker

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Quantitative and Applied Ecology Group University of Melbourne

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Hannah Fraser

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Postdoctoral Researcher working on reproducibility at University of Melbourne

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Caitlin Yolland

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PhD Student at Swinburne University of Technology

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Felix Single Thorn

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PhD Student at the University of Melbourne

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Rick Skarbez

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Lecturer in Interactive Visualisation at La Trobe University

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Jennifer Beaudry

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Jennifer Beaudry is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Swinburne University of Technology. In her capacity as the grad studies coordinator for the School of Health Sciences (Academic Director--Research Training), she is passionate about engaging postgraduate research students and their supervisors in open science.

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Lauryn Hagg

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Lauryn is a PhD Student in the School of Psychology at Deakin University. Her work is focussed on understanding exploratory behaviours in young people.

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Nick Tierney

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Nick Tierney is a Research Fellow in Statistics at Monash University, he focuses on improving workflows to reduce cognitive bottlenecks in data analysis.

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Matthew Johnson

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Matthew Johnson is a Senior Analyst at EPA Victoria. As part of EPA's Intelligence and Analysis Team he spends a lot of time ensuring both data and analysis are open, insightful and engaging.

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Tom Johnstone

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Tom Johnstone is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Director of Neuroimaging at Swinburne University of Technology. Tom is a member of Swinburne's open science taskforce, and overseeing development of open data and open analysis platforms for the Swinburne node of the National Imaging Facility.

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Jaye Weatherburn

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Jaye Weatherburn is based in the Digital Scholarship team in Scholarly Services at the University of Melbourne, working to improve and support data stewardship, digital curation, and digital preservation capability.