Matthew Sillence introduces open research and the Copyright Dough project, developed with colleagues at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and University of Essex. Guest Gabriel Baxter-Baker describes returning to UEA after performance work to pursue a PhD on transgender oral storytelling. They explain how storytelling traditions value sharing, adaptation, and tracing stories’ origins, challenging conventional copyright ideas. A Creative Commons workshop broadened their understanding of licensing options and inspired Gabriel to share research to build community. They hope their creative and critical work can invite reuse. This episode also describes the expansion pack’s paired play and chance cards, which explore licensing, collaboration, and responses to research reuse.

[00:00:06] — Open research project and the Copyright Dough resource and expansion pack.
[00:02:23] — Gabriel’s academic journey, from performance to doctoral research at UEA.
[00:05:34] — How storytelling’s shared, evolving traditions relate to copyright and attribution.
[00:09:22] — Learning about Creative Commons licensing and remixing.
[00:11:22] — Making creative and critical research available for reuse.
[00:13:02] — Open research practices, sharing work in progress, and building academic community.
[00:18:00] — A shared vision for a queer storytelling corpus.
[00:19:01] — Advice for researchers and Gabriel’s contact details.
[00:21:32] — Expansion pack features: paired play and chance cards about collaboration, licensing, and research reuse.

- Copyright Dough (Figshare.com)
- Copyright Dough Expansion Pack (Figshare.com)

Gabriel's Profile and Activities
- Gabriel Baxter-Baker (UEA research portal)
- The Folklore Society Rumour conference
- Get a Word in Edgeways Festival
Legendæry Nights (via Instagram - @thorn.lucid and @lucideers)
Lucid Cabaret

In this episode of PGR Matters, host Matthew Sillence explores how open research training is evolving, with a focus on the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Featuring Dr Samuel Moore (MORPHSS project, University of Cambridge) and Hannah Crago (University of Essex), the conversation looks at how traditional ideas of “open science” can be reframed for different disciplines, and how gamification—including the Copyright Dough game and escape rooms—can make open research concepts more engaging, practical, and accessible for researchers at all levels.

[0:00:00–0:03:15] Setting the Scene: Open Research Training & Series Recap

[0:03:15–0:07:17] Samuel Moore’s Path into Open Research

[0:07:17–0:12:42] Inside the MORPHSS Project

[0:12:42–0:25:57] Rethinking Openness: Broadening Concepts, Ethics, and CARE

[0:25:57–0:53:18] Gamification in Open Research Training (Hannah Crago)

[0:53:18–1:00:00] Adapting Games for Online Open Research Training

[1:00:00–1:03:00] Resources, OERs, and Future Directions

- Dr. Samuel A. Moore

- Publishing Beyond the Market | University of Michigan Press

- MORPHSS – Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities and Social Sciences

- Openness in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Documenting open research practices beyond STEM (A MORPHSS Project Report)

- Knowledge Commons - Open access, open source, open to all

- Hannah Crago | University of Essex

- Project - Copyright Dough - Figshare

- Gamified Research Support - Support for Researchers - Library & Cultural Services at University of Essex

Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Credits
Music by Matthew Sillence.

In this second episode of season 2, Matthew Sillence talks with Sean Andersson, Dr Alison Barker and Dr Sean Seeger about Open Access (OA) publishing for books and articles. Through our conversations, we unpack Green, Gold and Diamond OA routes, Creative Commons licences, image permissions, university OA funding, and how postgraduate and early‑career researchers can make their work more visible and accessible.

[00:00-04:15] – What is Open Access? Green, Gold, Diamond routes and CC licences.

[04:15-16:08] – OA at Essex: funds, repositories, and read‑and‑publish deals (with Sean Andersson).

[16:08-31.20] – Turning an art history PhD into an OA monograph and handling image permissions (with Alison Barker)

[31:20-35:38] – Images, third‑party copyright and choosing CC BY‑NC‑ND.

[35:38–43:51] – OA monographs, utopian studies and interdisciplinarity (with Sean Seeger).

Links
- Creative Commons Licenses

- Open Access Publishing - University of Essex

- Barker, A.C. (2025). The Dissemination of Saint George in Early Modern Art (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003454731

- Seeger, S. (2025). Utopian Variations. Utopia in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture. Peter Lang Verlag. https://doi.org/10.3726/b22926

Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Credits
Music by Matthew Sillence.