query: open research and writing for research & publication
Catalina Neculai
Hello PubRen hivemind,
Could anyone recommend work on the intersections between Open Research (not just Open Access) and writing for research & publication, with reference to issues of equity/fairness, in particular?
thank you!
catalina.
Dr Catalina Neculai | Assistant Professor, SFHEA
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Catalina Neculai
Hi everyone,
Please see below an important CfP from Magnus Gustafsson – deadline approaching fast (May 19).
warmly,
cat.
Dear colleagues,
Please circulate (and consider for yourselves and collaborators!).
A note: We as organizers are keenly aware of the multiple disruptions, concerns, potential obstacles, and ethical reasons for not considering scholarly travel to the US right now. We are hopeful that by next spring the situation will have greatly improved and hope you will consider sending in a proposal.
For the nineteenth year, the International Researchers Consortium will host a full-day workshop at the annual College Conference on Composition and Communication (CCCC) conference, which will be located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 4-7 March 2026. We are inviting brief proposals for up to twenty-four researcher-participant roles focused on research about writing in higher education outside of the U.S. Apologies for the long email; this workshop takes a little explaining.
By research, we mean a project with a focused research question, an identified methodology (qualitative, quantitative, ethnographic, historical, discourse analysis, corpus, etc.), and the collection of data in some form. This research can be at any stage and does not need to be final, though it can be. For this US-based CCCC workshop, the project should be "international," by which we mean, here, carried out either by scholars in countries other than the U.S. studying writing there, or scholars collaborating deeply across borders, including U.S. borders. The research can be focused on the teaching, study, production, or circulation of writing in any language, and can use data in any language. We are willing to help with translation of a text into English as needed, if the paper is accepted for the workshop.
Your role in the workshop would be to provide a text (draft or complete) about the research by the end of fall 2025, to read the other workshop facilitators’ texts before attending the conference, and to participate in the day-long workshop March 4th by leading a discussion about your project and participating in discussions of a subset of others’ projects.
We hope to engage researcher-participants from many countries and research traditions in an equal exchange dialogue, learning from each other via these projects: the primary focus is on the writing research itself. We know that researchers around the world are interested in finding sites for serious cross-national conversation that includes multiple research traditions. This workshop is designed to make space available for extended time to read, process, think through, and discuss in detail each other’s work. We have seen, through offering similar workshops over the past 19 years, the benefits of these extended discussions, given that we inhabit many roles of differing discursive power across complex, multiple linguistic, institutional, political, geographic, theoretical and pedagogical spaces. This full day space permits us to get rich feedback on our own projects, as well as respond to each other’s work and understand other institutional, cultural, and political contexts. It is also a chance to include each other in our respective local contexts as a community, encouraging collective reflection on the nature and status of higher education writing research more broadly, and sponsoring collaboration as a network of writing scholars across these contexts. Here is a link to previous workshops.
We invite you to submit a brief proposal that describes a research project (in process or completed) that you would be interested in sharing with other facilitators and participants for discussion. This proposal should briefly explain your project and its goals and methods, then how you currently see your research fitting into a network of writing researchers. In other words, what connections do you expect to see with other kinds of research, and what do you think researchers from other contexts might learn from your study? When appropriate, describe what kind of audience, scholarly journal, or professional audience might be interested in your research.
After we’ve collected the brief project proposals, we’ll incorporate them into a draft of a full proposal for the workshop, which we will share with all potential workshop participants for comment before submitting it to the CCCC on June 1st, 2025.
Please submit your proposal by MAY 19 via this form. Apologies for the tight turnaround time, but the requested information should not take you more than 30 minutes or so to complete. This proposal can be quite informal (it serves to help us determine appropriate projects, and only the title will appear in the program), so please feel free to send something along without a laborious process. If we have questions, we’ll ask.
We strongly encourage you to submit a proposal to the CCCC as an individual presenter, as well: https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/call-2026. The CCCC format allows individuals to present at both a workshop and a concurrent session (but it does not allow individuals to present at more than one concurrent session).
The annual Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) will be taking place 4-7 March 2026 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. We hope you will join us in Cleveland for a day of sharing and discussing writing research with colleagues from around the world.
Please write with any questions at all: intlresearch...@gmail.com
Thank you!
Tiane Donahue and Magnus Gustafsson for the International Researchers Consortium
Magnus Gustafsson mag...@chalmers.se
Tiane Donahue Christiane...@dartmouth.edu”