https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHSCyC6V-2g 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 "Is there a reproducibility crisis in science? by Dr Samuel Westwood"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvqAl6nuNAg About the speaker David Shanks is Professor of Psychology and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Brain Sciences at University College London (UCL), and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Previously he was Head of Psychology at UCL from 2003-17. His research falls across a number of topics in experimental cognitive psychology,Continue reading "The unconscious mind by Prof David Shanks"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smkE4tdp4Nc About the speaker Alexandra Lautarescu is a PhD student based in the Department of Perinatal Imaging and Health at St Thomas’ Hospital. She earned a BSc(Hons) in Psychology from University of Exeter in 2011, followed by an MPhil in Medical Sciences (Psychiatry) from the University of Cambridge. Her current research focuses on maternal mentalContinue reading "Open science for early career researchers by Alexandra Lautarescu"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtuNtK02yaQ About the speaker Dr Isabel Yorke completed her MSc at the SGDP, and was awarded her PhD investigating environmental factors that contribute to additional mental health problems in people with ASD. About the talk Dr Yorke will give a basic introduction to key meta-analytic techniques, using the R package Metafor. She will cover organisingContinue reading "Meta-analysis in R by Dr Isabel Yorke"

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"