Centre for Science and Technology Studies

When it comes to making sense of data, visualizations rule. But what about translating data into sound? This blog post explores the origins of ‘data sonification’ and its many applications in science and demonstrates how even bibliometric data can be turned into sound.

Support for Open Science in the Netherlands has led to institutional programs across universities to promote open research practices. This blog post discusses a workshop where those program representatives met to explore opportunities for monitoring and evaluating Open Science within Dutch research.

The development of open research data has generally been from the perspective of producers sharing data; we argue that it is vital to include the consumer perspective. In this blog post, we report insights gained from a workshop held in November 2024 exploring data reuse from different perspectives.

On 28 January 2025, Philip Purnell successfully defended his PhD thesis at Leiden University.

As of 1 December 2024, Uta Wehn is a professor by special appointment of the chair "Citizen Science and Sustainability".

Dutch knowledge institutions are taking steps to recognise and reward open science.