The project formally began on 1st January 2018 (although we allowed ourselves New Years Day off), and we’ve already made good progress. The make-up of the Advisory Board is now confirmed – details will be posted here shortly – and we had our first project meeting last week. Discussion was naturally quite broad, with some useful debate about how best we can approach the literature review, and how we can most effectively balance the two strands of the research (how theory has impacted OA practice, and what this tells us about the relationship between theory and practice more generally).
We will try to post regularly to this blog, so please do leave a comment – we’re very keen to hear what you think about our work, and your experiences of theory in OA research.