[OSCE Lunch Meetup] Beyond Open Access: Towards a Fully Open-Source PhD

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Recent NWO publishing requirements have accelerated the push toward open-access publishing and sharing underlying data in open repositories. However, open access alone does not make research accessible to the general public. In the quest to make research truly accessible, replicable, and communicable, more steps need to be taken. In this lunch talk, I share my current journey towards creating a fully open-source PhD thesis. As a case-study, I take the domain of my PhD research, soft robotics, a field that holds great potential for democratisation due to its use of low-cost materials and accessible manufacturing technology. I will present examples of how democratisation is currently approached in soft robotics, share the steps I am taking to open-source my own doctoral work, and discuss the practical challenges of making academic research genuinely usable by others. This talk explores what happens when you push open science: a fully open-source PhD.