Case studies 2024

17 eligible case studies were submitted for the Open Research Award 2024. The three winners were randomly drawn.

Winner 2024 - An open-source solution for finding ancient viral integrations in genomic data

Nadja Brait (Faculty of Science and Engineering), Sebastian Lequime (Faculty of Science and Engineering) and Thomas Hackl (Faculty of Science and Engineering)

Winner 2024 - Identification of age-related CpG sites from longitudinal avian methylomes

Marianthi Tangili, Joanna Sudyka , Fabricio Furni, Per J. Palsbøll, Simon Verhulst (FSE/ GELIFES)

Winner 2024 - This Abled City: Participatory Research on Accessibility with People with Disabilities

Jenneke Blijdorp, Jeroen van Balkom, Leon Lodder, Lisa Tuin, Meinko Poel, Naomi Manuhutu, Tessa Meijer, Bettina van Hoven, Julia Munuera Garcia, Madelief Fisher, Julia Doornbos, Anna Lebedieva, Eveline Westra, Tanja Hendriks, Gerd Weitkamp, Sjoerd Kroon

Better understanding the causes of mass atrocities in an increasingly violent world.

Alette Smeulers (Faculty of Law and UCG) and Nicola Quaedvlieg (former BSS - now no longer at university but still involved in project)

Collaborative Writing of the Open Access Book for young people ‘Queer and in Care. Journeys through care being young and LGBTQIA+’

Mijntje ten Brummelaar (Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences), Mónica López López, Gaby Gallardo Lastra, Javiera Garcia-Meneses, Erin García Gutiérrez, Rodrigo González Álvarez, Daniel Herrero Eguino, Emi Howard, Elyse Jackson, Gary P. Mallon, Gaby Martínez-Jothar, Kevin R. O. van Mierlo Amezcua, Yanira Muñoz Lopes, Rory P. O’Brien, Samar Orwa, Luis A. Parra, Gab Siqueira, Selena Torsius, Eli Verdugo, Daylano Verwer, Leo Wieldraaijer-Vincent, Alejandra Yañez Cancino.

Empowering Social Studies Education: Open Access Handbook for Teaching Historical Contextualization.

Tim Huijgen (Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences/ Teacher Education)

Enhancing Policy and Research: An Open-Access Tool for Advancing Green and Digital Transition.

Milad Abbasiharofteh (Faculty of Spatial Sciences) and Lukas Kriesch (Department of Geography, University of Giessen, Germany)

Increasing the academic value and recognition of the European Law Blog.

Jonas Bornemann ( Faculty of Law)

OA Book Series: Visions of the Middle East and North Africa

dr. Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah (executive director) dr. Lucia Admiraal dr. Karim El Taki Hisham Hamad, MA dr. Mayada Madbouly dr. Pieter Nanninga Prof. dr. Karène Sanchez Summerer dr. Kiki Santing ( Faculty of Arts , Middle Eastern Studies Department)

Open-Access Digital Mapping Sylvia Plath’s Poetic Places: The Benefits of Co-creation and Collaboration in the Humanities.

Dorka Tamás (Faculty of Arts)

Open Source Science for Human-Machine Interaction: Helping machines understand and produce non-literal speech in multilingual contexts.

Xiyuan Gao ( Campus Fryslân)

PreFer: a data challenge for predicting fertility outcomes in the Netherlands.

Elizaveta Sivak (Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences),Gert Stulp (RUG), Malvina Nissim (RUG), Paulina Pankowska (UU), Adriënne Mendrik (Eyra), Tom Emery (ODISSEI), Javier Garcia-Bernardo (UU), Seyit Höcük (Centerdata), Kasia Karpinska (ODISSEI), Angelica Maineri (ODISSEI), Joris Mulder (Centerdata)

Sharing a new framework for engaging religion in foreign affairs with students and practitioners around the world.

Erin Wilson

The Shallow and the Deep - A biased introduction to neural networks and old school machine learning.

Michael Biehl (Faculty of Science and Engineering)

Transition to Open Research Practices in Spatial Analysis for Research in LMIC.

Rik Lubbers (Faculty of Medical Sciences)

Using Heritage in Adult Education

Todd H. Weir (Faculty of Religion, Culture and Society), Dr. Andrew Irving, RCS Dr. Mathilde van Dijk, RCS Tharik Hussain, fellow at the Center for Religion and Heritage

What is Structural Injustice?

Maeve McKeown (Assistant Professor of Political Theory)