Fig 1.
Participants rank the sources of information that they use along a scale from Glorious Hoax to Reputable Sincerity.
Fig 2.
The advertisements for AccessLab gave participants prompts to see what they might get out of the day.
Free-text feedback from participants indicated that the aims of the workshop were met. ‘It’s brilliant… it’s a long time since I was part of a workshop that gave me so much in just one day. I feel I have fundamentally shifted the bounds of possibility.’—Policy sector participant, Plymouth 2018. ‘Confidence that researchers can be useful to other sectors in very direct ways! Plus to stand up for my open access principles.’—Researcher participant, Plymouth 2018. ‘I want to interact much more with local organisations/government. I realise we have much we could accomplish together, even if not directly related to my research.’—Researcher participant, Plymouth 2018.
Fig 3.
Feedback from participants indicated broad-ranging long-term benefits.
‘I found the AccessLab workshop really useful—it has helped me search for fisheries related projects/research, which I have then taken forward as examples to support investigations which I am currently working on. Delighted to be able to pull a more scientific strand into my investigations.’—Marine sector participant, Penzance 2018. ‘It has definitely made me think differently about academic publishing and how to get my research out there, which I hope will release me from what has been a major (potentially imagined) block to communication.’—Council/Community group participant, Redruth 2017. ‘Working with artists during AccessLab has given me more confidence approaching artists about collaborative work. Primarily, I think, because it gave me a better sense of an artist's perspective. What they might be looking for in a project, a better understanding of their unique approach and the importance of having such a different skill set.’—Researcher participant, Penryn 2017.