NEXT Event
The Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication
From 10-14 November 2025
Prof Sabina Leonelli
Technical University of Munich
Sabina Leonelli is professor of philosophy and history of science and technology at the Technical University of Munich, where she co-directs the Ethical Data Initiative and the Public Science Lab, and leads a large project on the philosophy of open science. Until 2024 she was the Director of the Exeter Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences at the University of Exeter, where she holds a honorary professorship. Her research investigates the roles played by technology, data, models and collaborative methods within the life sciences and public health. She aims to contribute to an understanding of knowledge production that can support equitable, responsible, engaged and sustainable research practices.
All Sessions by Prof Sabina Leonelli
Research Integrity
November 14, 2025
15:30
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15:50
Placing Humans at the Centre of Open Research
Efforts to produce standards, guidelines, technologies and infrastructures that may boost sharing practices in science have resulted in great advances over the last few decades. However, they have also unintentionally boosted a technocratic, object-oriented vision of open research that is easy to appropriate for “open washing” and does not do justice to the very efforts of the humans at the heart of such work. The result is an open research landscape that fosters, rather than mitigate, existing inequities and divides in the production and use of scientific research. This talk reflects on the requirement of keeping social agency at the heart of open research practice, and what it means for the future development of policies, tools and services.
16:50
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17:00