Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
About the speaker
Leslie is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Critical Development Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough and the director of the Knowledge Equity Lab. Leslie’s teaching and professional interests center on the geopolitics of knowledge production and circulation, with a focus on how networking technologies are enabling new forms of collaborations, while also amplifying and reproducing embedded power relations and inequality. In particular, Leslie has been exploring the dynamics of university-community partnership and the patterns of meanings around knowledge co-creation, participatory research, and how community-engaged modes of knowledge production could contribute to different frameworks of research impact assessment. Since 2000, Leslie has served as the director of Bioline International, an open access platform for scientific journals from the global south.
About the talk
Debates about the how and why of Open Science have tended to focus on the technicality, standards, and conditions about what is and what isn’t “open”. More importantly, the guidelines and principles on open science that have been proliferating are centered on largely Western and Global North perspectives. The more crucial questions of by whom and for whom should science be open, and who has the power to set the agenda of open science are often not addressed. In this talk, I like to highlight some of the values and benefits of openness to knowledges and ways of knowing from communities and knowledge makers who have been historically excluded from “main-stream science.” I like to share ideas on how a pluriversal open science commons based on epistemic justice principles and solidarity, drawn from Indigenous and other knowledge traditions, can be sustained and governed by communities and for communities in various contexts.
Resources and suggestions for further reading:
Chan, Leslie, Hall, Budd, Piron, Florence, Tandon, Rajesh, & Williams, Wanósts'a7 Lorna. (2020, July 15). Open Science Beyond Open Access: For and with communities, A step towards the decolonization of knowledge (Version 1). Zenodo. zenodo.org/record/3946773#.YEYL9pP7Tlw
More on Zenodo: zenodo.org/communities/ocsdnet/?page=1&size=20
About Open Research: A vision for the future:
Recent years have seen greater adoption of practices aiming to improve the reproducibility and transparency of research. These practices, however, are still not universally endorsed. Moreover, issues surrounding the research culture, its openness and diversity, persist. This free half-day conference intends to highlight the importance of open research in improving the academic ecosystem. We will hear from a diverse set of speakers, ranging from early career researchers to senior academics, from around the world discussing the future of open research practices. This event is interdisciplinary and open to all.
About the RIOT Science Club:
The RIOT Science Club gives talks/workshops on Reproducible, Interpretable, Open & Transparent Science. This talk was hosted by RIOT Science Club Durham @Durham_Riots
Slides and/or recordings of all past and future RIOTS Clubs are stored on our Open Science Framework Page: https://osf.io/5629t/?view_only=d23ff.... You can also subscribe to our mailing list, to receive regular information on upcoming talks and workshops, any local events and vacancies for positions in open and reproducible research.
You can also find us on Twitter @Durham_Riots.
If you would like to give a talk or workshop for The RIOTS Club, please email riotscienceclub@kcl.ac.uk.
About the speaker
Leslie is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Critical Development Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough and the director of the Knowledge Equity Lab. Leslie’s teaching and professional interests center on the geopolitics of knowledge production and circulation, with a focus on how networking technologies are enabling new forms of collaborations, while also amplifying and reproducing embedded power relations and inequality. In particular, Leslie has been exploring the dynamics of university-community partnership and the patterns of meanings around knowledge co-creation, participatory research, and how community-engaged modes of knowledge production could contribute to different frameworks of research impact assessment. Since 2000, Leslie has served as the director of Bioline International, an open access platform for scientific journals from the global south.
About the talk
Debates about the how and why of Open Science have tended to focus on the technicality, standards, and conditions about what is and what isn’t “open”. More importantly, the guidelines and principles on open science that have been proliferating are centered on largely Western and Global North perspectives. The more crucial questions of by whom and for whom should science be open, and who has the power to set the agenda of open science are often not addressed. In this talk, I like to highlight some of the values and benefits of openness to knowledges and ways of knowing from communities and knowledge makers who have been historically excluded from “main-stream science.” I like to share ideas on how a pluriversal open science commons based on epistemic justice principles and solidarity, drawn from Indigenous and other knowledge traditions, can be sustained and governed by communities and for communities in various contexts.
Resources and suggestions for further reading:
Chan, Leslie, Hall, Budd, Piron, Florence, Tandon, Rajesh, & Williams, Wanósts'a7 Lorna. (2020, July 15). Open Science Beyond Open Access: For and with communities, A step towards the decolonization of knowledge (Version 1). Zenodo. zenodo.org/record/3946773#.YEYL9pP7Tlw
More on Zenodo: zenodo.org/communities/ocsdnet/?page=1&size=20
About Open Research: A vision for the future:
Recent years have seen greater adoption of practices aiming to improve the reproducibility and transparency of research. These practices, however, are still not universally endorsed. Moreover, issues surrounding the research culture, its openness and diversity, persist. This free half-day conference intends to highlight the importance of open research in improving the academic ecosystem. We will hear from a diverse set of speakers, ranging from early career researchers to senior academics, from around the world discussing the future of open research practices. This event is interdisciplinary and open to all.
About the RIOT Science Club:
The RIOT Science Club gives talks/workshops on Reproducible, Interpretable, Open & Transparent Science. This talk was hosted by RIOT Science Club Durham @Durham_Riots
Slides and/or recordings of all past and future RIOTS Clubs are stored on our Open Science Framework Page: https://osf.io/5629t/?view_only=d23ff.... You can also subscribe to our mailing list, to receive regular information on upcoming talks and workshops, any local events and vacancies for positions in open and reproducible research.
You can also find us on Twitter @Durham_Riots.
If you would like to give a talk or workshop for The RIOTS Club, please email riotscienceclub@kcl.ac.uk.
