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Is there a reproducibility crisis in science? by Dr Samuel Westwood
19 February 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm UTC+0
About the speaker
Samuel Westwood was awarded his PhD in Neuroscience from Aston University, Birmingham in 2018. He joined King’s College London in 2017 as a post-doctoral research associate in the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Department and is investigating the effectiveness of combining cognitive training and non-invasive brain stimulation in improving inattention and self-control in boys with ADHD. He founded and co-organised the RIOT Science Club and the King’s Open Research Group Initiative. Sam is also the local lead for the UK Reproducibility Network.
About the talk
Dr Samuel Westwood will give a talk on whether there is a reproducibility crisis in science, focusing on its causes: perverse incentives and questionable research practices.