WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.720 I have been a very brutal time keeper today and I suddenly feel bad about it, please don't 00:12.720 --> 00:14.720 be too hard on me. 00:14.720 --> 00:26.240 Hi, so my name is Deborah Udo and I have flown a couple of hours here from Nigeria to give 00:26.240 --> 00:27.720 this talk today. 00:27.720 --> 00:34.600 So I left my house at 5am yesterday and arrived in Migration, say 7am, so do the math. 00:34.600 --> 00:40.840 I am a nurse, me, the wife and public health practitioner from Nigeria, and I'm also a community 00:40.840 --> 00:47.400 manager for an organization called OLS where we teach people how to do open research. 00:47.400 --> 00:53.240 And just recently I have also become an SSI fellow and part of what I will be telling you 00:53.240 --> 00:58.640 now is what I will be doing as my fellowship project. 00:58.640 --> 01:07.640 So imagine a world where research was actually inclusive and accessible to everyone. 01:07.640 --> 01:14.240 And if you are seated here in this room it means that you care about openness and that 01:14.240 --> 01:20.560 in some ways you are actually working towards making openness a reality. 01:20.560 --> 01:26.160 But we tend to miss a critical step when we keep about the basics and we go straight 01:26.160 --> 01:32.000 to teaching people how to do, reproduce the ability to teach them how to make their software 01:32.000 --> 01:33.240 open. 01:33.240 --> 01:37.960 But how do we teach people to do open research when they don't even know what research 01:37.960 --> 01:38.960 is? 01:38.960 --> 01:45.260 So that's the fundamental step that my project hopes to cover hence the thought bubble 01:45.260 --> 01:48.760 research 101. 01:48.760 --> 01:55.760 This is called pre-seeds, pre-seeds is a beginner crash course and is designed to equip 01:55.760 --> 02:01.000 aspiring researchers, people who are often left out of the conversation. 02:01.000 --> 02:05.480 And the project is going to give them all the skills and knowledge and confidence that 02:05.480 --> 02:10.520 they need to even start their journey to get to a point where they now decide whether 02:10.520 --> 02:14.120 they want to do it in the open or not. 02:14.120 --> 02:20.920 This also serves the larger RSC or research software engineering community by becoming 02:20.920 --> 02:29.360 that's bridge where RSCs who have come from non-academic or non-research oriented backgrounds 02:29.360 --> 02:33.040 get a better idea of what research actually is. 02:33.040 --> 02:38.440 This is a modular self-paced course meaning you can take it on your own but it can also 02:38.440 --> 02:44.720 be delivered via workshops and these are the pillars on which the project is built open 02:44.720 --> 02:52.000 education research skills, community building and accessibility. 02:52.000 --> 02:55.000 I love this meme. 02:55.000 --> 03:01.040 Show of hands if you feel like your master's or PhD program equipped to enough with 03:01.040 --> 03:04.680 foundational research skills. 03:05.600 --> 03:15.600 Yeah, so this is the depiction of that experience and that's why pre-seeds is very necessary 03:15.600 --> 03:17.160 but don't take my word for it. 03:17.160 --> 03:23.880 We did a survey my team and I in Africa and for some people spread across different parts 03:23.880 --> 03:34.120 of the globe most of whom are either what's the word for that's refugees, right? 03:34.120 --> 03:35.800 Where are the words when I need them? 03:35.800 --> 03:44.120 So this next couple of slides will show you demographic data from these individuals. 03:44.120 --> 03:50.520 This is for age, most of them were between the ages of 18 to 24 and then the other parts 03:50.520 --> 03:57.560 25 to that 4 and I will stop reading it out loud because I believe you've seen that already. 03:57.560 --> 04:05.040 Another distribution was mostly female and with a lot of people neither identify as non-binary 04:05.040 --> 04:11.360 and with few people preferring not to ascribe because to call agenda there's some lessons 04:11.360 --> 04:16.800 in there and it does represent something about Africa which I do not have the time to unpack 04:16.800 --> 04:19.000 for now. 04:19.000 --> 04:24.240 For that, demographics most of the respondents were Africans and some from Asia you wrote 04:24.240 --> 04:34.080 not America and it begins to get very interesting really soon. 04:34.080 --> 04:41.440 So for people who identified as being under-represented in research, part of what the pointed 04:41.440 --> 04:47.200 out as the major factor they felt under-represented was the socioeconomic backgrounds and then 04:47.280 --> 04:50.280 geographical location where they were in the world. 04:50.280 --> 04:58.480 They are race, ethnicity, disability, gender and then nothing. 04:58.480 --> 05:04.480 For our respondents, these shows the level of exposure to research. 05:04.480 --> 05:08.080 Some of them have never ever been involved in research. 05:08.080 --> 05:14.760 Some of them have done small scale research and then the others have done intermediate work. 05:14.760 --> 05:16.200 This is my favorite one. 05:16.240 --> 05:18.960 So challenges faced in research journey. 05:18.960 --> 05:25.440 Sometimes when we talk about precedes, why do we even need a cost to teach the foundational 05:25.440 --> 05:27.440 things about research? 05:27.440 --> 05:32.800 Well, these are the challenges that people all over the world actually face when it comes 05:32.800 --> 05:36.200 to get in access to research education. 05:36.200 --> 05:41.540 Some of them have limited knowledge of the software tools, some lack access to affordable 05:41.540 --> 05:46.040 research training, something taken for granted mostly. 05:46.040 --> 05:50.720 We call it understanding the research concepts, no access to mentors, limited availability 05:50.720 --> 05:57.040 of programs in my region, lack of confidence to participate in research discussions, language 05:57.040 --> 06:04.600 or culture barriers, feeling excluded or unsupported due to their programs. 06:04.600 --> 06:09.480 Have you ever felt that research training programs are not tailored to your needs? 06:09.480 --> 06:14.600 These were the responses that we got. 06:14.600 --> 06:18.480 And I must mention that the data is available at any point. 06:18.480 --> 06:22.840 If I have to skip over in my 10 minute talk, please forgive me. 06:22.840 --> 06:28.760 And so the barriers to accessing former research training, lack of awareness, high cost 06:28.760 --> 06:34.960 of program limited opportunities, inflexible scheduling, language or culture barriers, feeling 06:34.960 --> 06:39.400 excluded, nothing. 06:39.400 --> 06:44.880 And of course, a lot of people want to pilot precedes, hopefully we can make that come 06:44.880 --> 06:47.800 through for the 65.9% of people. 06:47.800 --> 06:51.160 So who is precedes for after much ado? 06:51.160 --> 06:58.440 Well, Maria, for instance, 34 high school biology teacher in Madrid, Spain, very passionate 06:58.440 --> 07:05.520 about nature and wants to collect biodiversity data, collecting tons of species, but the 07:05.560 --> 07:11.680 problem lies in the fact that Maria has no former research training yet, she is very 07:11.680 --> 07:19.040 eager to make this meaningful and sound data. 07:19.040 --> 07:25.600 There's also Tajadine, 24-year-old biochemistry graduates from Cano Nigeria, has just started 07:25.600 --> 07:31.720 a PhD program and like some of you felt when you started your PhD program, Tajadine wants 07:31.760 --> 07:36.960 to embrace open science principles from the beginning, but finds that transition from 07:36.960 --> 07:42.040 what is taught in class and the practical thing that happens in the real world is quite 07:42.040 --> 07:43.040 different. 07:43.040 --> 07:48.920 And then there's Claire, 22, computer science on the graduate at Manchester University, 07:48.920 --> 07:54.040 UK, interested in research software engineering, but has no former exposure to open 07:54.080 --> 08:02.680 practices, feels lost when the professor mentions fair principles, these are personas 08:02.680 --> 08:10.120 for the precedes course and if you could get anything from this, well, precedes for everyone, 08:10.120 --> 08:12.640 really. 08:12.640 --> 08:19.720 This is a timeline overview of our project for the first third month we plan to be part 08:19.800 --> 08:24.920 of the Carpentries Collaborative Lesson Development Training, if you're someone who is 08:24.920 --> 08:30.280 passionate about open education, definitely recommend that and then within the four to six 08:30.280 --> 08:37.080 months we plan to develop the first module pilot and then revise that module on future models 08:37.080 --> 08:43.160 based on the data we collect from the pilot workshop and then we plan to expand our 08:43.240 --> 08:51.400 reach as well and build a larger community and finally in the 11th to 12th months we plan to 08:51.400 --> 09:00.120 set down some frameworks that will help us to test the effectiveness of the course, but we need you. 09:00.120 --> 09:07.320 And for some reason, my QR code has refused to display, it didn't display there either. 09:07.320 --> 09:11.400 Oh well, I'm standing here, you can always come get the link or just mail me. 09:12.200 --> 09:18.520 So we need people who are familiar with curriculum developments to assist us and we also need 09:18.520 --> 09:24.680 people who know to write grants to help us apply for grants because we cannot do this without resources. 09:25.560 --> 09:32.760 I looked at something but it's not the QR code and we also need funding. 09:33.320 --> 09:39.000 So if you've either got the funds to support us or know people who've got the funds 09:39.640 --> 09:46.040 will be lovely to chat with you afterwards and we also want partners who either 09:46.040 --> 09:51.640 wants this course to leave out at their institutions or they know people who would particularly 09:51.640 --> 09:54.680 need this course which is everybody like we've established. 09:56.280 --> 10:01.400 Please get in touch with us and we also need platforms to host this course. 10:01.400 --> 10:06.920 Beyond hosting it on the Carpentry is incubator we would also need other places where this course 10:06.920 --> 10:14.520 would live because if no one sees this course, if no one knows about it, then all our effort has 10:14.520 --> 10:22.600 been wasted. And finally we would like you to become the biggest fund gales and fund boys of our 10:23.400 --> 10:32.680 course and just tell everybody you know. And this is the team of people currently working on 10:33.560 --> 10:40.920 this project I could not do this without them. This person here to some was up all night 10:40.920 --> 10:47.320 until 4 a.m. this morning putting together the visualization you saw earlier. So thank you to some. 10:47.320 --> 10:52.840 And if you would like your face to be displayed somewhere around here next time I present three 10:52.840 --> 10:59.880 seats. Please come and have a chat with me. And these are supporters. 11:00.840 --> 11:07.560 I'm a particular about Peter Barron. That was the first person who ever donated to precedes and 11:07.560 --> 11:13.320 single-hundredly has made the biggest donation to precedes so far. So thank you Peter. 11:13.320 --> 11:20.520 I'm the Society of RSC. I also thank my organization OLS for always 11:20.520 --> 11:26.360 chairing me on and believing in the dream of precedes. I have my hoodie but I haven't won it. I've 11:26.440 --> 11:32.600 won first step instead. The SSI for giving me an opportunity to be their fellow and the 11:32.600 --> 11:40.520 cap entries for all their support. Thank you very much for listening to me and I will take questions at 11:40.520 --> 11:49.720 this point. 11:56.360 --> 12:02.920 Just by way of making stuff available are you going to file copies of the 12:02.920 --> 12:08.360 pictures that you do up on get harbors on the node or somewhere where it will definitely be the 12:08.360 --> 12:14.440 hey, you don't have to pay to host them but you have to control it. Yes, so that's a really good 12:14.440 --> 12:20.840 question and I'm going to repeat it for those online. So the question is is this available somewhere 12:20.840 --> 12:26.360 either on GitHub or the node? Yes, it is. It's a really won GitHub and the QR code that 12:26.360 --> 12:32.200 refuse to load was linked to the GitHub repository and the website as well. So yes, it's a really 12:32.360 --> 12:41.000 one line. Thank you. Thank you. 12:41.000 --> 13:01.000 Thank you so much. So the question is, is this available? Yes, it is. 13:01.000 --> 13:10.920 Yeah. Yeah. Thank you so much. So the question is, 13:11.480 --> 13:17.720 is this going to start from the beginning or would it be based on all the materials that exist 13:17.720 --> 13:23.880 currently? So it's actually two yeses. Yes, so it's going to start from the beginning and also yes, 13:23.880 --> 13:29.000 so it's going to be based on other materials. So we're taking those materials and adapting them to 13:29.000 --> 13:35.000 make a fresh course that's more basic than anyone can understand. Start makes sense. 13:35.240 --> 13:47.480 Yes. I promise I have the QR code. Thank you. 13:47.480 --> 13:51.480 Thank you. Fantastic. Thanks, Jim.