Durham Research Online

New research from our @durhampsych.bsky.social has discovered a link between loneliness and people’s light preferences. The research has been led by Professor @fuschia-sirois.bsky.social in collaboration with Dr Yanan Wang @ubishops.bsky.social.

Here Professor Sirois discusses the findings ⬇️

Research Methods Cafe Session 18 February 2026 - Durham University

📍 Research Methods Cafe – 18 February 2026 - 11.00-12.30 at the Nine DTP/DRMC Hub, Arthur Holmes Building.

Conversation Topic: Methods that Help Break Boundaries.

Open to postgraduate students and staff.

No need to sign up, just turn up!👇
www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Ten years of a ‘quiet culture war’: where does it stand now? | Insights

A new piece in Insights looks back at a decade-long “quiet culture war” in scholarly publishing.. Open access, library priorities, global vs local needs… it’s all in here.

Worth a few minutes if you publish research (or plan to).

👉 insights.uksg.org/articles/10....

We have published a new Library Guide today on sharing research data with others during a project:
libguides.durham.ac.uk/open_researc...

We will run training on Writing a good data management plan soon! We will cover: RDM best practices; planning data-related work before it takes place; describing different types of research data; short- and long-term storage options for research data; managing sensitive data etc
shorturl.at/YLiJC

💥 Congratulations to Dr Michael Loy, who alongside Katharine Hall has a new publication in 'Internet Archaeology'!

👉 This article proposes a methodology for restoring archaeological context to pottery sherds processed in the conservation lab.

🔗 Read here for free, open-access: tinyurl.com/6t8yhrjn

Read our most recent Open Research round up!

Check out our stats for last month and sign up to our upcoming sessions! 👇

libguides.durham.ac.uk/open_researc...

Our next cafe will be held on Wednesday, 05 November! All our cafes are informal and relaxed.

The chronological and geographical survival of manorial accounts, which include allowances for infirmity on the Ramsey Abbey estate.

'Sick Leave of Customary Tenants in Late Medieval England' – new article by Grace Owen, Alex Brown, and Tudor Skinner in the Journal of British Studies bit.ly/4hrVxCs (with colourful charts too!)

Open Access Week 2025 graphic.

Who owns our knowledge? 🤔

#OpenAccessWeek2025 invites us all to think about how research is shared, owned, and accessed 🔓

Find out more ➡️ openaccessweek.org

@drodurham.bsky.social

Here's what the Open Research team have been up to over the past month 👇
libguides.durham.ac.uk/open_researc...

🔔New research!

Dr Eva Fernandez-Dominguez, Dr Kelly Blevins and Prof Janet Montgomery are part of a worldwide team that analysed patterns of mobility of the first farmer societies of Southwest Asia. 👇

The Impact of Sewage Treatment Plant Discharges on the Water Quality of Receiving Rivers With increasing human populations, the need for sustainable management of wastewater becomes an ever-increasing issue, yet studies that consider the impact of the final effluent on the receiving rive....

Hanna's (Zihan Yang) first paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
paired data on 317 sewage works and 232 control reaches for 22 years to find out what impact of sewage has. What was getting worse or what was getting better with time and why? @durhamearthsci.bsky.social @jlaknapp.bsky.social

Read our most recent Open Research round up! 👇

libguides.durham.ac.uk/open_researc...

“If You don’t say It, It doesn’t Exist”: Using Timelines to Uncover Women’s Invisible and Complex Narratives of Multiple Exclusion - Joanne McGrath, Monique Lhussier, 2025 Equitable research practices with marginalised populations aim to centre participants voices and address inherent power imbalances. Timelines are one example of...

👏 Congratulations to Durham author @joanne-mcgrath.bsky.social on her recent publication:

📄 “If You Don’t Say It, It Doesn’t Exist”: Using Timelines to Uncover Women’s Invisible and Complex Narratives of Multiple Exclusion.

Read it here👇
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#DUresearch #OpenAccess

"Who Really Influences? A Theory-informed AI Framework For Tourism Influencer Selection Under Budget Constraints"

Co-authored by Business School's Zhibin Lin

You can read without a paywall in DRO: durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4280665

Published version: doi.org/10.1177/10963480251361951

Read our most recent Open Research round up!

Check out our stats for last month and hear from Nick, our Research Data Manager 👇

libguides.durham.ac.uk/open_researc...

peercommunityin.org/pci-network/

👏 We're pleased to see Durham University listed as a supporter of Peer Community In (PCI) — a step toward more open, transparent, and community-led peer review in academia. 📖🔍

Supporting initiatives like PCI reflects a broader commitment to improving how research is shared and evaluated.

Effective July 1, 2025: NIH‑funded research must be deposited in PubMed Central immediately upon publication—no more 12‑month embargo. Submit your Author Accepted Manuscript at acceptance via NIHMS to stay compliant 👍 #OpenAccess #NIH

grants.nih.gov/policy-and-c...

Please spread the word that the DRO (repository) team are working on really reduced staffing for the next 8 weeks due to paternity leave (baby DRO team member incoming! 👶), recent reductions in the team and annual leave.

We appreciate your patience, as always!

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Hot off the press! Open Access!

"Doxxing to destroy: The convergence of transphobic hate speech and non-consensual disclosure on X"

By Briony Anderson, Sociology

doi.org/10.1177/1741...

Here's what the Open Research team have been up to over the last month 👇

libguides.durham.ac.uk/open_researc...

Review of Education | BERA Educational Research Journal | Wiley Online Library Encouraging the idea of a growth mindset in which students believe that they can improve their ability, as opposed to a fixed mindset, has been suggested as an effective and relatively cheap approach...

#OpenAccess research report by Carolina Gazmuri

Can growth mindset interventions improve academic achievement? A structured review of the existing evidence

doi.org/10.1002/rev3.70066
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@durhameducation.bsky.social

⚠️ We're currently experiencing some issues with how outputs added to or updated in Worktribe are feeding through to authors' staff profiles. We're investigating the issue, and hope to have it resolved shortly, but please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused here.

‘We Don’t Ask For A Luxury Life, Just Basic Things’: The Experiences Of Mothers With Babies In The UK Asylum System.

#OA research. Corresponding author @helenball.bsky.social & colleagues from the Durham Sleep & Infancy Centre working with colleagues from Scotland:

doi.org/10.1016/j.ws...

Read our Open Research update for the last month!

libguides.durham.ac.uk/open_researc...

You've heard the term ‘fiercely egalitarian’ but some pop writers complain “it’s not clear what 'egalitarianism' should even mean.” We used thematic analysis of classic texts to identify six key mechanisms. Each was well-defined & consistent across four foraging societies. Open access & online now.

You can also read this research in Durham's repository:

durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3790358

Thank you so much, @mariannhardey.com for letting the DRO team know that this had been published so we could update it and make it available immediately!

New: From Virtual Rape to Meta-Rape: Sexual Violence, Criminal law & the Metaverse. Pleased it's finally out as it's been a few years in the making-always postponed by 'urgent' crises. But that’s the problem: we’re not doing enough to anticipate emerging abuses
academic.oup.com/ojls/advance...