Open Seeds Impact Research
Funded by Wellcome Trust Open Research Fund 2021, this research investigated the long-term impact of Open Science training and mentoring interventions, particularly by Open Seeds, from a qualitative angle.
Highlights from this research will be added here along with the publication, which is under peer-review.
Outputs
- Pre-print: Bernaldo, P., Pereyra Irujo, G., Yehudi, Y., van der Walt, A., Iley, B., Míguez, M. P., Ramos, I., Plomp, E., & Sharan, M. (2025). Examining the impact and limitations of Open Science training: a case study of the “Open Seeds” programme. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14930711
- Supporting data: Bernaldo, P., & OLS. (2025). Supporting materials for “Examining the impact and limitations of Open Science training: a case study of the “Open Seeds” programme” [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15024935
Credit authorship contribution statement
- Paz Bernaldo: Conceptualisation, Data Curation, Formal Analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing - original draft, Writing – review & editing https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3129-9020
- Yo Yehudi: Project Administration, Conceptualisation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing - review and editing. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2705-1724
- Gustavo Pereyra Irujo: Conceptualisation, Writing - original draft, Writing - review and editing. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2261-6928
- Anelda Van der Walt: Methodology, Writing - review & editing. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4245-8119
- Irene Ramos: Writing - review & editing. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3315-2281
- Bethan Iley: Writing - review & editing. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5813-3303
- Paz Miguez: Methodology. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1099-4347
- Esther Plomp: Writing - review & editing. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3625-1357
- Patricia Herterich: Writing - review & editing. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-9906
- Malvika Sharan: Conceptualisation, Funding acquisition, Writing - review and editing, Project administration. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6619-7369
Researchers
Role in OLS:
Community Researcher & Programme Coordinator (contract)
Chilean worker and researcher. Social scientist (wannabe). I am an immigrant, not an expat. Open science hardware was my entrance to the world of critical open science. “Critical” as in: it matters who gets to be involved in science.
Role in OLS:
Executive Director, Business and Development Lead
Yo is the executive director and a co-founder of OLS. As an EngD student at the University of Manchester, Yo is studying pathogen-related data sharing and sustainability of open source software.Yo is a founder of Code is Science, and previously, they were editor for the PLOS Open Source Toolkit, editor emeritus at the Journal of Open Source Software, board member of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a software developer at the University of Cambridge, working on an open source biological data warehouse called InterMine.