https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krgiXW-zDIw About the speaker The research of Dr Johnny Downs focuses on combining epidemiological approaches with health informatics to improve outcomes for childhood neurodevelopmental and mental health disorders. His interests lie within several main areas – implementation of patient portals to enhance patient care, natural language processing to refine the data extracted from free-text electronicContinue reading "Big data and mental health by Dr Johnny Downs"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5u_9qcc3U4 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-controlContinue reading "Jasp and Jamovi by Dr Samuel Westwood"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLk_zQLkl_Y About the speaker Prof Daniel Stahl is lead of the precision medicine and statistical learning research group in the Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics. His main research interest is applying statistical and machine learning methods to identify predictors, mediators and moderators of treatment success and the development of robust risk prediction models. AboutContinue reading "Model selection using information criteria by Prof Daniel Stahl"

About the speaker Professor David Papineau is a British academic philosopher who has worked in metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophies of science, mind, and mathematics. He is one of the originators of the teleosemantic theory of mental representation, a solution to the problem of intentionality which derives the intentional content of our beliefs from their biological purpose. In 1990, David joinedContinue reading "Fetishisation of RCTs by Professor David Papineau"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEu7oGWnUKM About the speakers Emma Henderson Emma is studying for her PhD in Psychology at Kingston University. She is interested in the use of heuristics in every day judgements and decisions. She is also interested in psychological methods, meta-science and philosophy of science. Emma is passionate about improving the reliability of scientific research through usingContinue reading "Registered Reports & F1000 by Emma Henderson & Demitra Ellina"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL2dUA7PPeE About the speaker Before joining the Winton Centre in 2016, Alex Freeman had a 16-year career at the BBC, working on series such as Walking with Beasts, Life in the Undergrowth, Bang Goes the Theory, Climate Change by Numbers and as series producer of Trust Me, I’m a Doctor. Her work won a numberContinue reading "Octopus by Dr Alex Freeman"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDQguh9gp1g About the speaker Raised between France and the US, Martin started down the path of becoming a researcher in his university years, taking him to Canada, the US, and the Netherlands. This path was interrupted though when his passion for sustainability led him to become the UK's (and Europe’s) first full-time sustainable laboratory specialistContinue reading "Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF) by Dr Martin Farley"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjaxErc1DGA About the speaker Professor Roger Giner-Sorolla completed his undergraduate degree at Cornell University and was awarded his PhD in Social Psychology from New York University in 1996. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Virginia and two-year-long contracts, he joined the University of Kent in 2001. He was promoted to Professor in 2013Continue reading "Moral overreach and ethical failure in setting psychological research standards by Prof Roger Giner-Sorolla"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzIfKyqgiOM About the speaker Tal Yarkoni a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. His academic work focuses on developing new tools and methods for the analysis of psychology and neuroimaging data. Tal mostly builds open-source software tools and writes methods-y papers about reproducibility, data standards, and best practices. He also has aContinue reading "The generalizability crisis by Dr Tal Yarkoni"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWECJiIgqko About the speakers Professor Mitul Mehta Professor Mitul Mehta graduated from Cambridge University in Natural Sciences, where he also completed his PhD. An MRC Fellowship to train in positron emission tomography at Imperial College was followed by a Wellcome Trust Award to continue his research using magnetic resonance imaging at King’s. His investigations onContinue reading "Fast-tracked COVID-19 research: our experience by Prof Mitul Mehta & Dr Ndaba Mazibuko"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp1ocUuPWiU About the talk Psychological science has been at the forefront of improving research practices. Yet, psychology is also a strongly norm driven field, and we risk replacing old norms with new norms, without increasing true understanding or the ability to justify our actions. I will unsuccessfully try to prevent you from just adopting theContinue reading "The new heuristics: Jumping through hoops instead of improving our science by Prof Daniel Lakens"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4o_COfcJpU About the speaker With a BSc (Hons) Pharmacology (University of Liverpool), Nadia has returned to academia having served in both the regular and reserve of the British Army for over ten years. Since returning she has gained an MSc in Drug Discovery Skills (KCL) and MRes in Cellular and Molecular Biosciences and is inContinue reading "Leadership & research integrity by Nadia Soliman"