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How do we create open social scholarship in the 2020s? 

Over the past several decades, academic work has evolved alongside substantial and far-reaching changes in communication and collaboration. One example of this evolution is the rise of open, digital scholarship: a movement that prioritizes access to information, social knowledge creation, and cross-community engagement. Now, in the 2020s, academics and other knowledge workers can produce, publish, and share their research findings much more openly and more publicly than previously possible. In a recent report for the Canadian Commission to UNESCO, Leslie Chan, Bud Hall, Piron, Rajesh Tandon, and Lorna Williams “offer a vision of Open Science that is just, fair and decolonial, but also realist and lucid. [The authors] have drawn attention to an understanding of science based on an inclusive universalism, open to Indigenous ways of knowing and all other theories, epistemologies and viewpoints” (2020). Such a vision is evidence of shifting attitudes and practices in academia. But how we actually go about creating research that is more open, more fair, and more social bears further examination and discussion. 

We would like to continue these conversations at Creative Approaches to Open Social Scholarship: Canada, the 11th Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) Partnership annual gathering in Montréal, QC, Canada, June 17-18 2024, occurring at the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences’ annual Congress.