https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhvfgJC2ZWY About the speaker Zoltan Dienes is a Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Sussex. His research interests are in exploring ways of changing common practice in statistical inference by using Bayesian methods. He is also interested in the distinction between conscious and unconscious mental states, as well as hypnosis, a way ofContinue reading "How do I know what my theory predicts? by Prof Zoltan Dienes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWe9bnnU89A About the speaker Prof Gerome Breen is a Psychiatric Geneticist at King's College London who works on the genetics of affective (mood) disorders, psychosis and eating disorders. One of the most important goals for his research is to discover the biological basis of common psychiatric disorders, which will allow better drug discovery and biomarkerContinue reading "Reproducibility in psychiatric genetics by Prof Gerome Breen"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyT1lATMx4M About the speaker Robert Plomin is MRC Research Professor in Behavioural Genetics at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London. In 1994 after positions in the US at the University of Colorado and Pennsylvania State University, he came to the Institute to help Professor Sir Michael Rutter launch the Social, GeneticContinue reading "Why results from behavioural genetics have replicated by Prof Robert Plomin"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2CxXPVnqw0 About the speaker Dr Verena Heise is based at the University of Oxford and uses advanced neuroimaging techniques, mainly magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), to investigate how genetics and lifestyle measures affect human brain structure and function. She is particularly interested in promoting Open and Reproducible Research and improving research methods to make the resultsContinue reading "Robust research: A practical guide by Dr Verena Heise"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQI218wKDWw About the speaker Dr Alexandra Hendry is a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the Experimental Psychology Department, University of Oxford. Dr Hendry's research centres on the development of executive functions; those skills that help us control our attention and behaviour in order to achieve goals. She completed her PhD at the Institute of Psychiatry, PsychologyContinue reading "Pre-registered self-replication of data-driven analysis by Dr Alexandra Hendry"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9pzORPTXFU About the speaker Anne studied psychology at the University of Heidelberg and psychological research methods at the University of Glasgow, and worked in a developmental psychology lab at LMU Munich for two years. Her background is in infant research, but since she first learned about the "replication crisis" in psychology, she devoted more andContinue reading "Equivalence testing for psychological research by Anne Scheel"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVzg0A5j4fY 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 "Preprints, registered reports & Bayes by Dr Samuel Westwood"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYXqNqhRwdo About the talk Dr Ben Bleasdale and David Carr talk about various initiatives Wellcome trust are championing, including funding for open research projects and support a culture shift in how we conduct research in a way that will protect individual researchers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMJIGSVzJf4 About the speaker Dr Stephen Eglen is currently a Reader in Computational Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. His undergraduate degree was in Cognitive Science, Psychology and Computer Science (Nottingham), followed by a doctorate in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (Sussex). His research interests focusContinue reading "Bullied into Bad Science by Dr Stephen Eglen"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwB_-N1RImI About the speaker Dr Nick Brown was recently awarded his PhD at the University of Groningen, Netherlands for his work investigating social claims from positive psychology. He is, however, better known as a 'data thug', detecting anomalies in reported statistics along with Dr James Heathers (check out James’ awesome podcast, Everything Hertz). Drs BrownContinue reading "Exploring published research results without the data by Dr Nick Brown"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufp-CSklNFM About the speaker Dr Ewan Carr joined King’s College London’s Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics in 2017. Prior to this role, Ewan was based in Epidemiology and Public Health Department at University College London. Ewan holds an MSc in Social Research Methods and Statistics and a PhD in Social Statistics from Cathie MarshContinue reading "R Markdown: Make your computer do your work for you by Dr Ewan Carr"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8FzzOReA88 About the speaker Max Davie is a consultant community paediatrician, working in Lambeth as part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital NHS Trust Community services. He has a special interest in the assessment and diagnosis of neurodevelopmental conditions in school-age children, and in the mental health of paediatric patients more generally. He is pastContinue reading "Perverse incentives in diagnosis: neurodevelopmental disorders by Dr Max Davie"