Esther Plomp

Plomp, Esther

Position / Title

Postdoc/Research Developer

Email Address

esther.plomp@ua.aw

ORCID

0000-0003-3625-1357

Last updated January 15, 2026

Biography

Esther is an Open Science enthusiast and enjoys to contribute to a more equitable way of knowledge generation and to facilitate others in working more transparently. Esther started as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Aruba Research Center in January 2025. Here she works on improving the visibility of UA Researchers and their research outputs and provides support with funding opportunities, particularly regarding the data management component. Esther also works on several research projects, such as her eScience Fellowship project on tracking research objects (other than peer reviewed articles), and a Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship on facilitating contributions to open source/science communities, with a focus on The Turing Way. Her research field is Bioarchaeology, with a particular focus on Isotope Archaeology.

Publication Search Results

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Open Access
Publishing and Archiving
(2026-12-16) Plomp, Esther; Cooper, Natalie; Hsing, Pen-Yuan
Open Access
Supervising at the UA
(University of Aruba Research Center, 2026-01-15) Ascanio, Adamiris; Alofs, Luc; Plomp, Esther; Mijts, Eric; Ganga, Navin
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Peer Review 1 of Recognition of the contribution of research support staff to the production of research data in the CONICET open data repository
(2026-01-06) Plomp, Esther; van den Akker, Olmo
The registered study is of great interest, as it is important that all research contributions are taken into account in the research ecosystem. It looks like this study wants to evaluate whether a specific platform (CONICET-Argentina) is inclusive of (meta)data generated by Research Support Staff. Based on the specific objectives and research questions listed in the preregistration, I can’t conclude whether this is indeed the main objective. There are some inconsistencies where some of the objectives seem to focus on whether data shared on this platform would increase the integrity of the research data produced by Research Support Staff, whereas the second set of objectives/questions already seem to agree that this is indeed the case, and that therefore we need to increase the use of the platform and provide training and target barriers in using the platform. Based on the description of the work it seems that this last component is the focus of the study – and therefore I would rephrase some of the objectives and the main objectives to reflect this. The data collection and analysis parts of the study could do with some more details – right now it is difficult for me to assess whether this approach will indeed answer the research questions of the study.
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Eligible for funding ≠ inclusive funding
(2025-11-21) Plomp, Esther
Many small island states are eligible for research funding from external funding agencies (such as programmes like Horizon Europe (EU) or calls from the Dutch Research Council (NL) for the Dutch Caribbean). These external funding options provide potential opportunities for small island states to increase capacity to conduct research or boost nature/biodiversity preservation efforts. Unfortunately, the many options existing in this funding landscape are complicated to navigate and once an opportunity is identified it may be difficult to assess whether your institute is eligible for funding. There are also often additional or hidden requirements, which may have a detrimental impact for small island state institutes (bureaucratic administration, extensive reporting and accountability, non-eligible bank transaction costs, as well as required co-funding or in-kind contributions from institutes with already limited resources and capacity). Furthermore, even if small island institutes manage to navigate the funding landscape successfully and submit a proposal – additional hurdles will have to be faced in the process. Reviewers and other people involved behind the screens of these funding programmes are often not familiar with small island state contexts, imposing Global North standards upon the proposed (research) projects - which decreases the chances of success for small island state actors. This contribution will focus on the challenges faced by people from small island states interested in applying for external funding programmes. Tips will be shared on how to navigate the funding landscape hurdles, preventing the waste of valuable resources and providing insights in managing these inequitable systems.
Open Access
UARC Event: The Turing Way Book Dash
(University of Aruba Research Center, 2025-11-11) Plomp, Esther
Write something about the event + short summary after completion :)
Open Access
Contributing to The Turing Way - and the importance of institutional support
(2025-10-27) Plomp, Esther; Moopen, Neha; Wilczyńska, Aleksandra; Bartholdy, Bjørn Peare; Riemslagh, Fenne
Open Access
UARC/Library workshop: Open Access & Library Databases
(Univeristy of Aruba, 2025-10-23) Plomp, Esther; Boerkamp, Léonie
Open Access
Archaeological Sample Metadata Profile
(IGSN e.V., 2025-09-22) Edmunds, Rorie; Klump, Jens; Bartholdy, Bjørn Peare; Crook, Penny; Corns, Anthony; Hsu, Yiu-Kang; Keller, Christin; Novák, David; Plomp, Esther; Rose, Thomas; Ross, Shawn; Sessing, Jan
Open Access
IGSN–DataCite Archaeology CoP Crosswalk Recommendation
(IGSN e.V., 2025-09-22) Edmunds, Rorie; Klump, Jens; Bartholdy, Bjørn Peare; Crook, Penny; Corns, Anthony; Hsu, Yiu-Kang; Keller, Christin; Novák, David; Plomp, Esther; Rose, Thomas; Ross, Shawn; Sessing, Jan
Open Access
UARC Dialogue Session: Proposal Panic!
(University of Aruba, Research Center, 2025-09-16) Arias, Nurianne; Deogratias, Benedicta; López Márquez, Violeta; Mijts, Eric; Plomp, Esther; Proveyer, Liesje
On the 16th of September the University of Aruba Research Center organized a session on sharing experiences around working on and submitting research proposals, initiated by Benedicta Deogratias. The slides summarize the challenges and tips shared by the five presenters. Based on the discussions and questions during the session. The UARC will follow up with the following - For the NWO PhD call: suggest to NWO to provide options to share the information from the statements of intent from the PhD candidates more widely so that supervisors with the relevant expertise can reach out to these candidates. A lot of PhD candidates struggled with setting up their supervisory team for this call. - Based on the questions and interest around this session, we expect to organize a more practical/how to workshop on research proposals in early 2026, aligned with the NWO PhD Caribbean call. - Look into the possibilities of working with a team on shared documents (in collaboration with IT) - The Research Center can help with suggestions for supervisors and help with reaching out to them, but we may not have the expertise or connections for your research field. The Research Center can set up a database with potential supervisors who have already reached out to see if there are collaboration opportunities. - The Research Center can help with setting up budgets for research proposal. We will also set up information for research calls in Stone in a more transparent manner. - The Research Center will set up a database of potential supervisors that have already been in contact with the UA about being open to collaborate.