The fourth session of the Arqus Research Security webinar series will take place on Wednesday 8 July, from 11:30 to 12:30 CEST on Microsoft Teams. Researchers and research administration professionals working with research governance, compliance and international collaboration are invited to join.
Research security has rapidly become an important topic for universities, research organisations, companies and funding bodies, shaping international collaboration, institutional risk management and everyday research support. Maynooth University, in partnership with other Arqus universities, aims to strengthen awareness, understanding and institutional practice related to research security across the Alliance.
The webinar, titled “Striking the Balance between Research Security, Integrity and Openness”, is organised by the Maynooth University Research Development Office. It will focus on best practices for safeguarding research activities, while also exploring how research security can be aligned with research integrity and openness. During the session, expert speakers will discuss how good practice can support both research security and research integrity, as well as how the research community can navigate the tensions between open science and potential security risks.
The session will feature two leading Irish experts in the fields of research integrity and open research. Prof. Maura Hiney is an Adjunct Professor of Research Integrity at University College Dublin, where she works with the Research Culture team on the links between research integrity and research culture. She is a founding member of the Irish National Research Integrity Forum and has played a key role in developing the National Policy Statement on Ensuring Research Integrity in Ireland, most recently updated in 2024, as well as the 2022 Guidelines on Ensuring Integrity in Collaborative Research. She also chairs the All European Academies Research Ethics and Integrity Council and led the drafting group for the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity. In 2025, she was elected to membership of the Royal Irish Academy for her work on research integrity policy.
Lindsay Dowling is a research support manager currently working to develop Open Research Support Services at Technological University Dublin. She is an expert voice in open science, a former EARMA Open Science co-chair and a recent recipient of EU REINFORCING funding for work exploring attitudes towards open research and research security in Ireland.
Participants are invited to register by 7 July. More information and registration are available here.