Laura Morales

Laura Morales is a Professor of Comparative Politics at Sciences Po, a research-led university specializing in the Social Sciences based in Paris. Her areas of expertise within political science are varied and in the fields of comparative politics, political behaviour, public opinion, migration politics and survey research. Between 2017 and 2021 she was the Chair of COST Action 16111 - Ethmigsurveydata (https://ethmigsurveydatahub.eu/) and an active participant in the H2020 research infrastructure cluster project SSHOC, where the main data infrastructures of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) have joined forces to ensure the inclusion of SSH in EOSC a reality. The work she has coordinated in the context of both the COST Action and SSHOC (see https://zenodo.org/communities/ethmigsurveydata/) has allowed the creation of a number of FAIR resources to enable the discovery and the reuse of survey data on the inclusion and integration of ethnic and migrant minorities across Europe: the Ethnic and Migrant Minorities (EMM) Survey Registry and the EMM Question Data Bank (see: https://ethmigsurveydatahub.eu/ethmig-survey-data-hub/). She is a member, since 2018, of several RDA Working Groups and Interest Groups (see her member profile here: https://www.rd-alliance.org/user/13874).

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FOCUS
The main goal of the project for Morales’ Ambassadorial role is to achieve a greater level of awareness of, engagement with and adoption of (1) RDA activities, groups, recommendations and outputs, and (2) EOSC as an overall structure and set of tools and services for the research community working on ethnic and migration studies across Europe. While most researchers in the social sciences - including those undertaking research on ethnic and migration studies - are aware of the main aspects of the Open Science and Open Data agenda, very few are actually aware of the FAIR principles and movement and what this entails in practice for their everyday research activities and undertakings. Very few researchers are aware of the existence and work undertaken by RDA and of the existence and strategic value of EOSC. The main overarching objective of this RDA/EOSC Future Ambassador project is to actively contribute to the integration of both individual researchers and key research organisations in the ethnic and migration studies field into the universe of Open Science in Europe.

Country
France

Talks, Publications and Outputs

• 2023-09-20 Participation in the EOSC Symposium 2023 in Madrid, 20-22 September
• 2023-09-19 Participation in the Tripartite event day organised by the Spanish presidency before the EOSC Symposium
• 2023-09-14 Participation in the EOSC-A Task Force REA meeting
• 2023-09-04 Participation in the ECPR General Conference in Prague, 4-6 September
• 2023-07-29 Creation of a Zenodo community for my ambassadorship outputs
• 2023-07-26 Feedback to Geta Mitrea on the update of the social sciences disciplinary page
• 2023-07-10 Explaining FAIR alignment at DESY
• 2023-07-05 Tweets on Open Data Maturity and the Open Science Fair
• 2023-07-04 Side event talk at the IMISCOE Conference in Warsaw: “Everything you always wanted to know about Open Science* (*But were afraid to ask)”
• 2023-07-03 EOSC and RDA information stand at the IMISCOE conference in Warsaw (3-5 July)
• 2023-07-02 Informal conversations with PhD and early career researchers on migration studies at the IMISCOE pre-conference networking meeting
• 2023-06-30 Talk at SGH (Warsaw) on Open Science for researchers in the social sciences, also broadcast as a webinar by CIVICA Research
• 2023-06-29 Blog post for the IMISCOE Bulletin #7 on Open Science and Migration Studies
• 2023-06-26 An introduction to Open Science for researchers of migration and ethnicity: resources, tools and opportunities for engagement. Webinar organised with the European Consortium for Political Research Standing Group on Migration and Ethnicity.
• 2023-06-19 EOSC and RDA information stand at the PolMeth conference in London (19-20 June)
• 2023-06-16 Preparation with Arctik of promotional posters for ambassadorship activities
• 2023-06-06 Dissemination of Laura Morales' ambassadorship by the CNRS monthly newsletter
• 2023-06-06 Filled in EOSC Future survey on research catalogue and networking platform connected to user profile
• 2023-05-29 Meeting with CSIC leadership to discuss Spanish side-event before EOSC Symposium in Madrid
• 2023-05-29 Disseminated info on the EOSC Portal webinar of 30 May organised by EOSC Future
• 2023-05-10 Nomination as the Migration collection co-editor for Open Research Europe (the Open Access publication sponsored by the European Commission for Horizon projects)
• 2023-05-09 Two-hours meeting with Data Librarians of the London School of Economics (LSE) to plan activities with PhD students, early career researchers and faculty in the context of their Open Science activities
• 2023-05-04 Creation of a web page in my university on the RDA/EOSC Future Ambassadorship grant and activities
• 2023-04-25 Planning meeting with the coordinators of CIVICA Research Open Science, an initiative of the CIVICA alliance of social science universities in Europe, with the aim of organising events where I can speak to faculty, students and research support staff about EOSC
• 2023-04-24 Participation in the 1st General Assembly of SSHOC, the SSH Cluster within the EOSC and ERA landscape. Exchanges about the needs for community engagement.
• 2023-04-24 Twitter thread after SSHOC General Assembly disseminating the role of SSHOC and its connection to EOSC
• 2023-04-20 Dissemination of Laura Morales' ambassadorship in France
• 2023-04-13 Meeting with a representative of CIVICA (the alliance of universities in the social sciences) coordinating Open Science
• 2023-04-05 One-hour meeting with IMISCOE (the largest organization on migration studies in Europe) to coordinate on Open Science activities sponsored by my ambassadorship.
• 2023-03-31 One-hour meeting with the President and Vice-President for International Relations of CSIC (Madrid, Spain) to discuss involvement of CSIC on EOSC and RDA as well as possible collaborations in the context of my RDA/EOSC Future Ambassadorship
• 2023-03-20 Participation in the RDA P20 panel on Ambassadors - Pathways to Community Engagement
• 2023-02-22 Shared RDA survey link with the EMM studies research community on Twitter and through email
• 2023-02-03 Filled in the RDA survey about EOSC awareness
• 2023-01-19 Various tweets on OpenAire
• 2023-01-13 One-hour interview with Beth Knazook and Joan Murphy on EOSC and research community awareness of EOSC
• 2023-01-09 Tweets about OpenAire Research Graph
• 2022-12-22 Tweets about RDA/EOSC Future Ambasadorship

See also
Laura's profile on the EOSC Future grants platform
Laura's RDA profile on the RDA website, ORCID and Twitter/X
Background information: EOSC Future open call programme

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