Every year in June we hold the Annual ReCon Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. The conference is designed specifically for early career researchers and we address a new theme each year ranging from how to publish your work through to peer review, metrics data visualisation and impact. The event is always fully booked with researchers from a range of disciplines and research institutes.
Our previous events include:
2017 – ReCon Conference – Publishing for early career researchers: immortalisation, recognition & impact
2016 – ReCon Conference – Research communication and data visualisation
2016 – ReCon hackday – Data & information visualisation
2015 – ReCon Conference – Research in the 21st Century: data, analytics & impact
2015 – ReCon hackday – Scholarly communication hack
2014 – The Edinburgh Publishing Conference – – Disruption in the publishing industry: digital, analytics & the future
2013 – The Edinburgh Publishing Conference – Publishing: evolution, disruption & the future
2013 – Open [access, data, source]: science & data in the 21st Century
Our speaker list (to date) is as follows:
ReCon 2017
- Pablo De Castro, University of Strathclyde
- Stuart Lawson, Birkbeck, University of London
- Gemma Milne, Co-Founder of Science: Disrupt
- Michael Markie, F1000
- Anna Ritchie, Mendeley
- Becky Douglas
- Lewis MacKenzie
- Rachel Lammey, CrossRef
- Phill Jones, Digital Science
- Charlie Rapple, Co-Founder, Kudos
- Jean Liu, Product Development Manager, Altmetric
- Nicola Osborne, EDINA
- Laura Henderson, Frontiers
(Co-organisers: Joanna Young, Graham Steele, Jan Wessnitzer)
ReCon 2016
- Geoffey Bilder, CrossRef
- Jeroen Bosman, Utrecht University
- Bianca Kramer, Utrecht University
- Andrew Tattersall, University of Sheffield
- Ian Calvert, Digital Science
- Mike Jones, Mendeley Data
- Dr Joanna Young, The Scientific Editing Company
- Dr Cuna Ekmekcioglu, University of Edinburgh
- Isaac Roseboom, deltaDNA
- Rebecca Kaye, NumberTelling
- Pawel Jancz, NumberTelling
(Co-organisers: Joanna Young, Graham Steele, Jan Wessnitzer)
ReCon 2015
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- Steve Wheeler
- Dr Ian Viney, Medical Research Council
- Scott Edmunds, Executive Editor GigaScience
- Euan Adie, Founder & CEO, Altmetric.com
- Prof Stephen Curry
- Peter Burnhill, Director of EDINA
- Stephanie Dawson, CEO, ScienceOpen
- Anna Clements, University of St Andrews
- Arfon Smith, Chief Scientist at Github
- Martin Fenner, PLOS
- Kaveh Bazargan, River Valley Technologies
(Co-organisers: Joanna Young, Graham Steele, Jan Wessnitzer)
EPC 2014
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- Cory Doctorow
- Ian Ritchie CBE
- Timo Hannay, Managing Director, Digital Science
- John Gilbey, @John_Gilbey
- Jan Velterop, OA & publishing consultant
- Mark Hahnel, CEO, figshare
- Michelle Brook
- Rachel Willmer, Luzme
- Brennan Dunn
- Peter Armstrong, Co-Founder Ruboss, Leanpub and Dashcube
(Co-organisers: Joanna Young, Graham Steele, Jan Wessnitzer, Rachel Willmer)
EPC 2013
- Cameron Neylon, PLOS
- Tom Pollard, Ubiquity Press
- Matt McKay, STM Association
- Mark Lester, Open University
- Rachel Willmer, Luzme
- Linda Gillard
- Mark Coker, Founder, Smashwords
- Bill Jamieson, ScotBuzz
- Alex Porter, Scottish Times
- Brendan Miles, The List
- Andrew Price, GOOD Magazine
(Co-organisers: Joanna Young, Graham Steele, Jan Wessnitzer, Rachel Willmer)
Open [access, data, source] 2013
- Martin Eve, Open Library of Humanities
- Eva Amsen, F1000Research
- Jason Hoyt, PeerJ
- Dominic Tate, University of Edinburgh
- Heather Piwowar, Impact Story
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