DRMC Week - 11-14 May 2026! Please come along and support a week of Methods including the Christine Merrell Annual Methods Lecture. More information here - www.dur.ac.uk/research/ins...

Today we reached a milestone in our research data repository!
1,000 objects have been created!! 🎉🥳🎈

Time to plan ahead! Our next workshop on Writing a Good Data Management Plan will be held in person on Wed, 10 June. This will appeal to anyone applying for external grant funding and anyone going through the ethics review process. Please register on Inkpath:
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Congratulations to IMEMS' @tombhamilton.bsky.social, who has been awarded a @britishacademy.bsky.social Mid-Career Fellowship to work on 'The Social Roots of Religious Violence in Sixteenth-Century Paris'!🎉

Read Tom's recent article in French Historical Studies: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

🚨Five days to go🚨
⏰Registration for Durham #HPCDays26 closes on Monday, 20 April.
🔗hpc-days.github.io/Durham-HPC-Days-2026/reg...

We attended the 2026 Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) Retreat recently. Day 4 covered sustainable DRI. Should sustainability metrics (energy use, efficiency) be embedded in grant proposals? How would reporting estimated CO2 impact on every HPC job submission influence researcher behaviour?

We will be attending the DRI Retreat next week. More details:
n8cir.org.uk/training-and...

Piano Duo Recital 11th Mar Come along to a live piano duo recital and participate in the Music & Thought project! Sign up here to secure your seat for the concert.  Admission to this concert is free.  What's involved? Listen to...

Our PhD student, Fruzsi Szucs, is performing a FREE concert this Wednesday afternoon! This is part of a live audience study run by another PhD student in our lab, Nao Toyama, who will collect data about your experience during the performance. Sign up here! www.signupgenius.com/go/10C044EA5...

Durham Research Methods Café - Next session - Wednesday 4th March 2026 in person, 1100-1230. All PGR/PGT students and DU staff welcome. More information: www.dur.ac.uk/research/ins... #interdisciplinary #ResearchMethods

Research Methods Cafe Session 18 February 2026 - Durham University

📍 Research Methods Cafe – 18 February 2026 - 11.00-12.30 at the Nine DTP/DRMC Hub, Arthur Holmes Building.

Conversation Topic: Methods that Help Break Boundaries.

Open to postgraduate students and staff.

No need to sign up, just turn up!👇
www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Durham Research Methods Café - Next session - Wednesday 18th February 2026 in person, 1100-1230. All PGR/PGT students and DU staff welcome. More information: www.dur.ac.uk/research/ins...

Please register now for "Writing a good Data Management Plan"! In this workshop, you will learn to write a Data Management Plan that demonstrates your understanding of best practices in Research Data Management. Register on Inkpath:
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Durham Research Methods Café - Next session - Wednesday 4th February 2026 in person, 1100-1230. All PGR/PGT students and DU staff welcome. More information here:www.dur.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-...

Ten years of a ‘quiet culture war’: where does it stand now? | Insights

A new piece in Insights looks back at a decade-long “quiet culture war” in scholarly publishing.. Open access, library priorities, global vs local needs… it’s all in here.

Worth a few minutes if you publish research (or plan to).

👉 insights.uksg.org/articles/10....

Durham Research Methods Café - 1st session of term - Wednesday 21st January 2026 in person, 1100-1230. All PGR/PGT students and DU staff welcome. More information here: www.dur.ac.uk/research/ins...

Using agent-based models as a simulation tool to generate synthetic data — UK Data Service A comprehensive resource funded by the ESRC to support researchers, teachers and policymakers who depend on high-quality social and economic data.

UK Data Service will be running a course next month: Using agent-based models as a simulation tool to generate synthetic data. 18 Feb 2026 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm. More details:
ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/using...

We have published a new Library Guide today on sharing research data with others during a project:
libguides.durham.ac.uk/open_researc...

DRMC BULLETIN - Michaelmas term 2025!!!!! Please see our latest bulletin here - mailchi.mp/be2147638482...

Durham Research Methods Café - next session - Wednesday 3rd December 2025 in person, 1130-1300. All PGR/PGT students and DU staff welcome. More information here: www.dur.ac.uk/research/ins...

We will run training on Writing a good data management plan soon! We will cover: RDM best practices; planning data-related work before it takes place; describing different types of research data; short- and long-term storage options for research data; managing sensitive data etc
shorturl.at/YLiJC

Responsible Data Stewardship: Generative AI and the Digital Waste Problem

Publication by Vanessa Utz, Simon Fraser University

Access the paper here: doi.org/10.48550/arX...

🪅🎉 We're celebrating today because we've now minted 600 DOIs and just over 500 datasets! 🎉🪅

Register now on Inkpath for our next training course on "Writing a good Data Management Plan!" Link to Inkpath:
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Please mark your calendar for our next Research Methods Cafe!
Wednesday, 19 November, 11.30-13.00. Another great topic for discussion!

Read our most recent Open Research round up!

Check out our stats for last month and sign up to our upcoming sessions! 👇

libguides.durham.ac.uk/open_researc...

Our next cafe will be held on Wednesday, 05 November! All our cafes are informal and relaxed.

The N8 CIR group are running a workshop next week (23 October) on "Working with and Managing Sensitive Research Data". If you are interested in this topic, you can find more details about the event below:
n8cir.org.uk/events/worki...

Don't miss our next Research Methods Cafe to be held on Wednesday, 22 October in the Arthur Holmes Building!

Here's what the Open Research team have been up to over the past month 👇
libguides.durham.ac.uk/open_researc...

DRMC’s Research Methods Café

Wed 8th Oct 2025, 1130-1300

DRMC/Nine DTP Hub, 1st Floor, Arthur Holmes Building

This meeting is in person!

Conversation Topic: Suggest conversation topics for future meetings this term.

PGR/PGT Students and all DU Staff welcome!

No need to sign up, just turn up.