Navigating the OA landscape: reflections from a multi-country consortium of NGOs

I speak about navigating the Open Access landscape for consortium of NGOs based in low and middle-income countries at Publishers for Development 2017 conference (Oxford), hosted and filmed by INASP

Is Open Research really changing the world?

Much research claims to benefit communities globally, but are research outputs really available to everyone, even if they are made open access?

I had the privilege of being asked to deliver a presentation at Cambridge University's Festival of Ideas (October 2018).

Is open access helping or hindering the international development agenda?

Working with NGOs in an international health consortium has highlighted issues about the open access privileges afforded to academic institutions versus the access that is available for those based outside of academia. Despite efforts by Research4Life to enable developing country actors to access research findings, many sections of society remain on the outside of the access paywall due to their non-academic status and/or their lack of funding. In this presentation, I share some challenges faced by our consortium in ensuring our research findings are accessible to all sections of society within the countries in which we work. It draws on discussions with journalists in Nepal to highlight the need for citizens to access and interpret the research that is primarily for and about them.

Publishing in a larger world, or is it a smaller one?

In this panel of researchers from the Global South, I share the experiences of researchers who are on the periphery of the academic publishing system, particularly those working in NGOs.