12:00 - 12:05 AEST: Welcome to Research Support Community Day 2026

Jayshree Mamtora (James Cook University) and Gabby Lamb (Monash University)

12:05 - 12:15 AEST: Welcome from our host institution, Executive Director, Research Services, Monash University

Ashley Keleher

Featured Speakers

12:15 - 12:40 AEST: Kia rere noa ngā awa mātauranga!: The development of the Universities New Zealand Open Research Statement 

Kim Tairi (Auckland University of Technology) and Hāwea Apiata (University of Waikato)

Kim Tairi (Waikato Tainui) is University Librarian and Kaihautū Tiriti (Treaty Strategist) at AUT. A career librarian with a rich and varied working life in academic libraries and leadership. She holds key governance roles on both sides of the Tasman, including as Chair of CONZUL (the Council of New Zealand University Libraries). A staunch wāhine Māori, kuia and artist, Kim is known for her warmth, bold style and unapologetic joy — she loves to dance and hardly ever misses a fit-check selfie. 

Hāwea Apiata (Ngāti Kura, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Toarangatira) is Poukōkiri Mātauranga Toi (Indigenous Arts & Research Specialist) at Te Iho o Te Manawataki|University of Waikato Library. He works across the open research and arts/collections spaces. His wider research interests include Māori & Indigenous literatures (with a focus on Māori-language writing), archival objects & spaces, and Indigenous curatorial practice. This research is coupled with an established creative writing practice, with Hāwea recently completing his term as the Samoa House Library Writer in Residence. 

Presentation

13:00 - 13:15 AEST: Access, process, and participation: relationality in open scholarly publishing 

Scout Bell and Kaitlyn Houston (Murdoch University) 

Break 13:20 - 13:30 AEST 

Lightning Talks

13:30 - 13:35 AEST: A snapshot of Open Access at JCU: survey results

Wayne Bradshaw (James Cook University)

13:35 - 13:40 AEST: Open Access week at Flinders: an experience memoir

Hannah Foster and Jess Miller (Flinders University)

13:40 - 13:45 AEST: Where should I publish? Redesigning a journal discovery tool to centre openness

Caitlin Savage, Marzieh Asgari, Ben Chadwick, Natalie Jablonsky (Deakin University)

13:45 - 13:50 AEST: Making open more visible: University of Melbourne's Journal Lookup Tool project

Julie Cohen (University of Melbourne)

13:50 - 14:00 AEST: Q&A for lightning talks presenters

Break 14:00 - 14:05 AEST 

14:05 - 14:20 AEST: Presentation and Q&A - Your roadmap to rights retention: new resources from Open Access Australasia

Janet Catterall (Open Universities Australia), Jane Bowland (Charles Sturt University), Danny Kingsley (Deakin University)

14:25 - 14:40 AEST: Presentation and Q&A - All the opens at once

Danny Kingsley (Deakin University)

14:45 - 14:50 AEST: Closing remarks 

12:00 - 12:05 AEST: Intro and Housekeeping 

Featured Speaker

12:05 - 12:50 AEST: AI slop is harming research

Professor Adrian Barnett (Queensland University of Technology)

Adrian is a professor of statistics who has worked for over 30 years in health and medical research. He works in the emerging field of “research on research” or meta-research. He has researched how research is funded and has worked with funding agencies to improve their processes. He also investigates bad practices in published papers, including identifying unreliable and fraudulent papers. 

12:50 - 13:10 AEST: Presentation and Q&A - Copyright in the age of Generative AI: challenges in providing guideance to researchers

Anna Troiano (University of Technology Sydney), Sarah Powell (University of Sydney), Ari Grant (University of New South Wales)

Break 13:10 - 13:20 AEST

13:20 - 13:40 AEST: Presentation and Q&A - Whose knowledge gets retold? Investigating digital colonisation in GenAI tools

Alissa Hackett (Auckland University of Technology)

13:40 - 14:00 AEST: Presentation and Q&A - Library guidance for researchers in AI environments: principled and practical

Fiona Russell and Kat Cain (Deakin University)

14:00 - 14:20 AEST: Presentation and Q&A - From hype to practice: how UTS is navigating AI in research

Anastasios Papaioannou (University of Technology Sydney)

Break 14:20 - 14:25 AEST

14:25 - 15:00 AEST: Presentation and Q&A - AI is not just a chatbot: how to use AI productively

Titus Tang (Monash University)

15:00 - 15:05 AEST Closing remarks

12:00 - 12:05 AEST: Intro and Housekeeping 

Featured Speakers

12:05 - 12:50 AEST: Indigenous Data Sovereignty and citational justice: a provocation

Professor Sandy O'Sullivan and Yanti Ropeyarn (Macquarie University)

Professor Sandy O’Sullivan (they/them) is a Wiradjuri person and the Director of Research and Innovation in the Centre for Critical Indigenous Studies at Macquarie University. They have been an academic for 35 years working across museums and archives, gender and queer studies, and across the ways that Indigenous Knowledges are appropriated or misappropriated across these areas. They recently completed an ARC Future Fellowship mapping the influence and power of Indigenous queer creativity, this follows on from a major ARC project on the capacity of 470 museums to reflect and engage Indigenous peoples.   They have a particular interest in citational justice and in archival practices across the GLAM sector and have created multiple lists of Indigenous writing and Knowledges, including the 2020 101 Links to Black Writers and Voices for Austlit’s BlackWords, and an updating list that centres Indigenous queer theorists found on the Queer As… website. 

Yanti Ropeyarn (she/her/they/them) is the Research and Ethics Training Program Coordinator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW), based at Macquarie University. Yanti recently completed a Master of Research in Critical Indigenous Studies, where her work focused on Indigenous citational practices and intellectual sovereignty. Her thesis, Righteous Rebellion: Asserting Indigenous Intellectual Sovereignty through a Blak Site’ation System, explores how citation practices can be reimagined to respectfully centre Indigenous epistemologies and Knowledge Systems. Yanti is a proud descendant of the Angkamuthi (West Cape York), Yadhaykenu (East Cape York), Meriam (Dauar), and Woppaburra (Kanomie) Peoples.   

12:50 - 13:10 AEST: Presentation and Q&A - Lunchbox learning: game based sessions for busy academics

Elizabeth Sturrock and Steph Cook (Massey University)

Break 13:10 - 13:20 AEST

13:20 - 13:40 AEST: Presentation and Q&A - Is bigger, best? Looking under the hood of Google Scholar citation counts

Aubrey Kirkpatrick (Victoria University of Wellington)

Lightning talks

13:40 - 13:45 AEST: Uplifting research reports at UTS utilising Figshare

Kevin Mai and Scott McWhirter (University of Technology Sydney)

13:45 - 13:50 AEST: Rethinking evidence-based practice training for today's research landscape

Blair Kelly (Deakin University)

13:50 - 14:00 AEST: Q&A for lightning talks presenters

Break 14:00 - 14:05 AEST

14:05 - 14:25 AEST: Presentation and Q&A - The impact of metrification on scholarly communication

Edward Luca (Charles Sturt University)

Lightning talks

14:25 - 14:30 AEST: From assessment to impact: how open publishing elevates undergraduate research

Sal Kleine, Michael Hawks and Gabrielle Hayes (Queensland University of Technology) 

14:30 - 14:35 AEST: Avoiding predatory conferences

James Savage (Southern Institute of Technology)

14:35 - 14:40 AEST: RES Hub: building a connected and engaged research culture at UTS

Jackie Randles (University of Technology Sydney)

14:40 - 14:50 AEST: Q&A for lightning talks presenters

14:50 - 15:10 AEST:  Presentation and Q&A - The RMIT Library's collaborative approach to HDR support

Huong Phan and Tristan Badham (RMIT University)

15:10 - 15:15 AEST Closing remarks