Opening of the Conference

In this highly interactive, practical session, we’ll introduce the COUNTER Code of Practice for usage for usage reporting and guide you through the ins and outs of obtaining and working with your reports. You’ll come away understanding the value of normalised metrics for comparing across publishers and over time, which metrics to use and when, and of course best practice for harvesting your data using automated tools

COUNTER-intuitive: up close and personal with usage metrics

PGRs are some of the most excited and driven researchers, eager to engage with open access and open research. However, they are also incredibly influenced by the environment in which they find themselves, particularly by their research supervisor’s own behaviours and opinions around open research. Their status as students often limits their access to tools and support available to employed researchers. Equally, their status as researchers can lead to the assumption that they already understand the research and publishing landscape. What can libraries do to support PGRs in becoming ethical and open researchers? Are the one-shot training courses, often voluntary, enough? This talk will discuss barriers and strategies around support for PGRs as they embark on their research careers.

Supporting postgraduate research students in scholarly communications and open research

How do we evidence the impact of inclusive library collections on the university community? How do we convince university leadership that the value-added potential of the library is worth the investment?

Raising the grade and closing the gap? Exploring the link between inclusive library collections and student success

We will talk about the development of the Metadata Team at the University of Leeds. Over the last seven years the team has evolved from a traditional, book-in-hand Cataloguing Team to a forward thinking, dynamic Metadata & Discovery Team. We are now involved in myriad projects ranging from internal Special Collections cataloguing to the development of international linked data and BIBFRAME partnerships. 

We will cover five key areas that have contributed to this development. We will share techniques, approaches and examples from the last few years that illustrate the value and importance of a people-centric approach to metadata and discovery.

From Cataloguing to Discovery: a journey of innovation and resilience

Inspired by colleagues’ work to embed the principles of DORA but frustrated by the snail-like pace at our own institution, we embarked on a plan of small workshops to Do DORAif/where we could. What developed over the next 12 months was in the spirit of our original plan but far beyond what we had envisaged. This breakout will discuss the ways in which circumstance actually embedded, promoted and advocated for DORA with a shoestring budget and time where available. We will discuss practical promotion, guerrilla good-practice, unexpected outcomes and embracing flexible opportunities when it comes to Doing DORA.

Doing DORA: A small-scale project to upscale research culture and research integrity

This session  showcases the work of African School Of Storytelling (AFRISOS) in collaboration with Indigenous communities in Tanzania, Kenya and Botswana. AFRISOS is a non profit organization dedicated to persevering the traditional knowledge and cultural heritage of communities through visual storytelling (film and video).  This workshop will go into key learnings from AFRISOS on how to best collaborate with communities. 

Afrisos, Film making

Globalisation processes have created new economic and educational structures, influencing cultural landscapes globally. These processes also influence the structures and dynamics of families, which play a crucial role in the socialisation of individuals into their cultures. 
Our research explores how these globalisation processes impact cultural change within Mauritian families by exploring the effects of 1) economic and educational development, and 2) outside cultural influences on family structure. We look at these changes in the multicultural transitioning society of Mauritius. As the island is undergoing fast-paced development and cultural change, this allows us to study processes underlying cultural evolution in this population as they are ongoing.
We present data from 14 semi-structured interviews and a quantitative survey. Interview themes explore the dominant family structures, role distribution in households, norm transmission, and how norms may be gendered. We examine the effects of education, economic status, and media exposure from other cultures on household structure, beliefs about fairness about household division of house labour, and social attitudes. 
This research helps explain how kinship structures are changing alongside other forms of development, contributing to our understanding of human socialisation processes and cultural change.

Live - Globalisation of Kinship Norms in Mauritius

Background and Objectives: Traditional rituals continue to face resistance stemming from missionization, the legacy of colonization, globalization, modernization, and Western-centric education. The suppression of these important cultural tools continues to advance ‘imported’ interventions for local communities, disregarding local indigenous knowledge. This study sought to examine the relevance of traditional mourning rituals in community morality and well-being. Anchored in cultural evolution theory, the study employed  quantitative ethnographic research design. Methodology: Data were collected from 45 community elders, 30 bereaved adults, 30 bereaved adolescents, and 8 religious leaders through focus group discussions and interviews from the Luhya community of Western Kenya. Further quantitative data was collected using psychometric survey with Prosociality scale and subjective well being scale. Results: The study established 25 mourning rituals practiced by the Luhya people, each serving an evolutionary function for community survival and wellbeing. Conclusions and implications: The study recommends integrating local cultural knowledge to address community challenges among indigenous communities globally and reducing overreliance on imported solutions from other regions.

**Social media handles** @ASATSAS [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-asatsa-phd-b119837a/)

Luhya Traditional Mourning Rituals

Live - Hunter Gatherer Education Working Group

In medieval Europe, Gregorian chant was everywhere. Its unaccompanied melodies were sung daily in huge cathedrals, parish churches, remote monasteries; it was an omnipresent musical expression of medieval religious life. It was also “globalized” across Europe, after Charlemagne demanded standardization of worship in his new empire after 800 AD. As a sacred tradition, it was strictly conserved. Yet, the melodies that came down to us from medieval manuscripts are rarely exact copies. Throughout the centuries, chant was surreptitiously changing, and by the mid-16th century, the Church decided that Gregorian chant should be strictly standardized — again.

Our project experiments with applying phylogenetic methods from bioinformatics in order to characterize this process of diversification. We aim to determine whether the variability seen in Gregorian melodies is systematic, or result merely of transmission noise (with memorization and manuscript copying both susceptible to mistakes). We show that the bioinformatics approach is indeed applicable, directly on the raw melodies. On our pilot Christmas data, the inferred phylogeny conforms very closely to musicological expectation, it shows that Gregorian melodic dialects indeed do exist, and in an example of what computational scholarship can bring to the humanities, led to re-evaluating existing knowledge about one of the sources.

Live - Genome of Melody: Studying the evolution of Gregorian chant with bioinformatics

**Abstract:**

Archeological findings indicate that around 400KYA-200KYA in the eastern levant, ancient humans followed a new type of habitation style, basecamp cave dwelling. This entailed multiple small groups living in the same environment for long stretches of time, foraging for resources in different parts of the environment during the day and meeting back at the cave for shelter. We suggest that this habitation pattern could support the gradual development of complex social learning skills. Initially, basecamp habitation allowed tracking different group members’ expertise in resource attainment, and the development of prestige bias. In addition, based on their knowledge of the common environment, individuals could infer where other individuals foraged that day, and gain counterfactual information about the richness of the environment. Intentional signaling using distinct local markers could increase information transmission fidelity. Using simulations of computational models, we show that material benefits gradually increase with the level of sophistication of social learning strategies. This increase was more distinct in larger environments with multiple foraging opportunities. Our work highlights the way habitation patterns and physical settings which humans occupied could support the development of complex social learning skills, and the way environmental characteristics could serve as a common framework for communication.

**Speaker's social media:**

@uhertz

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Opening of the Conference

COUNTER-intuitive: up close and personal with usage metrics

Supporting postgraduate research students in scholarly communications and open research

Raising the grade and closing the gap? Exploring the link between inclusive library collections and student success

From Cataloguing to Discovery: a journey of innovation and resilience

Doing DORA: A small-scale project to upscale research culture and research integrity

Afrisos, Film making

Live - Globalisation of Kinship Norms in Mauritius

Luhya Traditional Mourning Rituals

Live - Hunter Gatherer Education Working Group

Live - Genome of Melody: Studying the evolution of Gregorian chant with bioinformatics

LIVE - Ancient humans’ basecamp habitation pattern and the transition from experience-based to information-based social learning

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