Date: Friday, 9 May 2025
Time: 11 am – 12:30 pm (Welcome reception will start at 10:30 am)
Venue: Digital Scholarship Lab, G/F., University Library

Speaker: Prof. Simon Mahony
Emeritus Professor of Digital Humanities,
Department of Information Studies,
University College London (UCL) 

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About the talk:

There has been a long established and traditional mechanism for the production and development of knowledge within the academic sphere. The affordances of the digital and of global connectivity are changing these mechanisms particularly with the moves towards openness and accessibility for all, as well as the need for common standards for access and reusability.  Changes in the modes of publication over recent decades and moves to publish material freely and openly have resulted in increased amounts of research and other scholarly material being openly available online. Making research outputs freely available online is praiseworthy but without the data on which that research is based, reproducibility and so verification, which are fundamental principles of scholarly methodology, are not possible. What are these new models and how might they impact on knowledge production? This talk has a focus on open access, open data, and open science.  What benefits and what difficulties do we encounter along this new pathway? How might these changes be managed?

About the speaker: 

Simon Mahony is Emeritus Professor of Digital Humanities, Department of Information Studies, University College London (UCL); Visiting Professor, Department of Information Management, Peking University. He is a Corresponding Member of the Sub-Committee on Education and Research, UNESCO Memory of the World Programme; Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Prof. Mahony was Programme Director of the MA/MSC in Digital Humanities at UCL (2011-2017) and Director of UCL Centre for Digital Humanities (2017-2020). He is a doctoral supervisor, and on the advisory and editorial boards of several journals and research groups. His research focus is on digital humanities with specific interests in education, communication, information studies, digital storytelling, equality, diversity, inclusion (EDI), and the open agenda.

This event is jointly organized by the Research Centre for the Human Values (RCHV) and the Research Institute for the Humanities (RIH), in collaboration with the CUHK University Library.