https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6VAwzwZ3K8 About the speaker I am a personality psychologist by training and my work covers a broad range of topics, including the effects of birth order, age patterns in personality, and the correlates and determinants of subjective well-being. My methodological interests include causal inference on the basis of observational data and data analytic flexibility. IContinue reading "A walk in the garden of forking paths by Dr Julia Rohrer"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB1Hk3c-lZY About the speaker Dr Eiko Fried is an Assistant Professor in clinical psychology at Leiden University working in the fields of clinical psychology, psychiatry, epidemiology and methodology. His main focus is on studying individual symptoms of mental disorders and their causal relations. Broader, his interests include measurement (how to best assess whether someone isContinue reading "Theory building and testing in psychological research by Dr Eiko Fried"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5F8e--2ef4 About the speaker Jack Taylor is a PhD student at the University of Glasgow. He is in interested in how we represent words, particularly how we represent and access concepts associated with words, like emotion and imageability. Jack is also interested in the extent to which we predict the visual features of words, givenContinue reading "Visualising variability and uncertainty in R by Jack Taylor"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYJzm4ktF2g About the speaker Courtney Soderberg is the Statistician and Data Scientist at the Center for Open Science. Before working at COS, she received her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of California, Davis. About the talk Open research practices around data, materials, code, and articles are becoming more common in many fields, butContinue reading "Open science with OSF by Dr Courtney Soderberg"

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"