https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7MX68dpyJs About the speaker Speaker's bio and any relevant social links can be found here. About the talk This seminar will demonstrate how to use R to produce statistical outputContinue reading "Working with R Markdown by Dr Jon McPhetres"

About the speaker Dr Brand is currently Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Sheffield with Prof. Tom Stafford investigating the use of argument maps and automated dialogue for fosteringContinue reading "The AccessLab by Dr Lotty Brand"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aUhFqDnk6o About the speaker To learn more about Dr Branney, visit his website. About the talk Despite (perhaps in-part because of) the mocking of expertise in recent elections and theContinue reading "Opportunities and challenges of open science for qualitative methods by Dr Peter Branney"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un33_M8NL_0 About the speaker I’m a Postdoc in the Adolescent Well-Being in the Digital Age program at the Oxford Internet Institute. Under the supervision of Andrew Przybylski, I study theContinue reading "Data visualisation in R by Dr Niklas Johannes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy19kRKsgWc About the speaker Corey Horien is an MD-PhD student in Todd Constable’s lab at Yale School of Medicine. His research focuses on individual differences in fMRI data in the developing brain in health and disease. He recently wrote “A hitchhiker’s guide to working with large, open-source neuroimaging datasets”. Twitter: @coreyhorien About the talk LargeContinue reading "Working with large, open-source neuroimaging datasets by Corey Horien"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9QRXA0vyYs About the speaker Theresa Elise Wege is a PhD student and PGTA for statistics at the Centre for Mathematical Cognition, Loughborough University. While her research is focused on preschool maths, she thinks about statistics pedagogy and introducing students to the philosophy of science as part of her teaching role. About the talk Where doContinue reading "The racial origins of the p-value by Theresa Wege"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP6ccNUU4ks About the speaker Dr Anthony Pelosi is a consultant psychiatrist at Priory Hospital Glasgow. Since the early ‘90s, Pelosi has published extensive critiques of the work of Hans Eysenck, In February 2019, Pelosi published a paper in the Journal of Health Psychology, in which he stated that the Eysenck case is “one of the worst scientificContinue reading "Hans Eysenck: personality and fatal diseases; exposing a scientific scandal by Dr Anthony Pelosi"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx0Dez5K4ig About the speaker Aaron is an exercise physiologist with a PhD in Health, Sport, and Exercise Science from the University of Arkansas. He is currently as ORISE Postdoctoral Fellow at the United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine where his current research projects are focused on human performance in extreme environments (heat, cold,Continue reading "Using Superpower R package to simulate power by Dr Aaron R. Caldwell"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HC7y3vi95s About the speaker Prof Chris Jackson is Chair in Sustainable Geoscience, at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Manchester. About the talk We assess research outputs and thus researchers by a range of metrics, often during job appointments and promotions. What tools do we use and are they fair?Continue reading "Research and researcher assessment; how do we do it, are we doing it right, and what is the role of preprints? by Prof Chris Jackson"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2nQd1lMIWg About the speaker Dr Charles Driver is a researcher at the Center for Lifespan Psychology at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin. He focuses on improving methods for mapping theories of change to data and applying these to different problems across the broad domain of human development. One of his projects included writing theContinue reading "Dynamic systems modelling and simulation – assisted thought experiments by Dr Charles Driver"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpLksFiyqn0 About the speaker Rhodri Leng is a quantitative sociologist of science. His research concerns developing understanding of how the structure of citation networks affects the spread of information across the scientific literature, how the spread of information affects the development of scientific opinion, and involves integrating this understanding into theories of scientific development. AnContinue reading "The matter of facts: Citation bias and distortion by Dr Rhodri I. Leng"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLowg32mdfE About the speaker Sagar Jilka is the co-ordinator for the patient and carer involvement and engagement theme within the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre. He has previous experience of research and applied science in academia and industry and facilitates service user-led projects. About the talk I will familiarise participants with the background, methods andContinue reading "Service user involvement in mental health research by Dr Sagar Jilka"