https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq6n7AS_r8w About the speaker For details about the speaker, please see https://www.jessicakayflake.com. About the talk Questionable measurement practices are decisions researchers make that raise doubts about the validity of the measures, and ultimately the validity of study conclusions. They make it impossible to evaluate a wide range of potential validity threats to the study’s conclusions.Continue reading "Measurement schmeasurement: Questionable measurement practices and how to avoid them by Dr Jessica Flake"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Grw2vIMopM About the speaker Stephen R. Cole is a Professor in Epidemiology at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Stephen R. Cole works to build accurate and impactful knowledge, particularly population-health (epidemiologic) knowledge. Professor Cole is interested in study designs and analyses that accurately estimate parameters of central interest to population-health scientists, such asContinue reading "How do we ask better questions and get better answers? by Prof Stephen Cole"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PCzWHJfz0g About the speaker Gavin Buckingham was awarded his PhD in Psychology from the University of Aberdeen in 2008. Following the completion of his PhD, he moved to Canada to take up a position as a postdoctoral fellow in the Brain and Mind Institute at Western University in Canada working with Prof Mel Goodale. HisContinue reading "Drifting into the world of open science and reproducibility by Dr Gavin Buckingham"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoQWZo24vCU About the talk How can an open research working group help drive a research culture change at the institutional level? Reproducible Research Oxford a.k.a. RROx (“rocks”) has been working to achieve this by (i) building cross-disciplinary communities, (ii) providing training and promoting practices that are beneficial to research communities, and sustainable for researchers, andContinue reading "Reproducible Research Oxford by Dr Malika Ihle"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHen_0qEroQ About the talk Even with the best intentions and motivations, sharing your data in an open repository is not always as easy as it should be. Barriers can appear in a variety of forms, including uncertainty regarding copyright and data ownership, diverging interpretations of GDPR and ethical issues, and sheer lack of time andContinue reading "Conflicts and complexities on the path to open data by Prof Louise Connell"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc4nw7ripb0&t=1139s About the speaker A full autobiography is available here. About the talk On the 5th September 2011, aged 23, Alexandra Elbakyan created a PHP script that downloaded articles for free to make them open access to all. That script came to be known as Sci-Hub, “the first pirate website in the world to provideContinue reading "Open knowledge: A silent revolution in science by Alexandra Elbakyan"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQb8axUBeMk About the speaker Dr Willén is an independent researcher in psychology. Her main professional interests are research ethics, research methodology and investigative psychology (forensic psychology). She is the founder of IGDORE, an independent virtual research institute, and a strong proponent of open and replicable science. In 2016, she finished her PhD at University ofContinue reading "The IGDORE project: Reinventing academia with open (science) mind by Dr Rebecca Willén"

About the speaker Bio available here and here. About the talk Dr Jess Wade is a Research Fellow at Imperial College London investigating spin selective charge transport through chiral systems in the Department of Materials. As well as speaking on this work and her career thus far, Jess will talk on work outside the lab.Continue reading "Chiral materials and finding your voice as an early career researcher by Dr Jess Wade"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5F_aVz3J70 About the speaker Dr James Bartlett completed his PhD at Coventry University on the neurocognitive mechanisms associated with addictive behaviour in daily and non-daily smokers. James is a lecturer in psychology at Arden University and leads undergraduate and postgraduate modules on research methods. He specialises in quantitative research methods and his research focuses onContinue reading "Learning the hard way: Reproducible workflows by Dr James Bartlett"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3vLw5rnmY4 About the speaker I am a SSHRC Banting postdoctoral research fellow in the Affective Science and Health Laboratory (PI: Dr Brett Ford) at the University of Toronto.  My research takes an interdisciplinary approach to understand the factors that facilitate successful self-regulation and goal pursuit. I also have a strong interest in measurement (e.g., constructContinue reading "Introduction to preregistration and registered reports by Dr Kaitlyn M. Werner"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtPqcw8OPvs About the speaker Dr Oliver Pain is a postdoctoral research associate at the Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry (SGDP) Centre, King’s College London. His work uses statistical genetics to understand and predict outcomes related to mental health. About the talk This workshop will provide an introduction to Rmarkdown websites and how to host themContinue reading "Rmarkdown and Github: A walkthrough for sharing code and results by Dr Oliver Pain"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D42d9d9Eijw About the speaker Dr Ritchie is a psychologist with research interests in a variety of areas, including intelligence, individual differences in cognitive abilities, behavioural genetics, and more recently in the replication crisis. In 2014, he completed his PhD at the university of Edinburgh, staying on to become a postdoctoral research fellow investigating difference inContinue reading "Psychology in a crisis by Dr Stuart Ritchie"