RIOT Science Club

Some attempts to correct bad science by Dr Stuart Ritchie
2019-04-18 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), 16 De Crespigny Park, London, London, SE5 8AF, United Kingdom
About the speaker
Dr Stuart Ritchie is a psychologist and science communicator known for his research in human intelligence. He has served as a lecturer in the Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London since 2018. His research interests include understanding how and why people’s intellectual abilities develop and change across their lives. His forthcoming book, Science Fictions, is about how fraud, bias, error, and hype undermine scientific research.
About the talk
Dr Stuart Ritchie gives us a tour through his successful (and often unsuccessful) attempts to correct bad science.

The renaissance of EEG by Dr Grainne McLoughlin
2019-04-11 12:00 - 13:00
About the speaker
Dr Grainne McLoughlin received her PhD training and initial postdoctoral fellowship in quantitative genetics and EEG at the Social, Developmental and Genetic Psychiatry Centre. Her further postdoctoral training in computational neuroscience took place at the Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience at the University of California San Diego and the Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego. Dr. McLoughlin has a faculty position at King’s College London since 2013 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2017. Her main research interests include investigation of abnormal brain function in multiple psychiatric disorders, with a particular interest in Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorders using mobile EEG.
About the talk
Dr McLoughlin talks about the new developments in EEG and their uses in psychiatric research.

Research Integrity at King's College London by Dr Natasha Awais-Dean & Annah Whyton
2019-04-04 12:00 - 13:00
About the speakers
Dr Natasha Awais-Dean and Annah Whyton are members of the Research Integrity Office at King’s College London, which supports the promotion of good conduct in research within the King’s community.
About the talk
King’s College London is committed to excellence in research and is a signatory to the Universities UK Concordat to Support Research Integrity, to ensure that we meet required national standards. The Research Integrity Team promotes good conduct in research among all those engaged in research in the College, through policies and procedures, training, support, and guidance. The Research Governance Office (RGO) provides high-level support to researchers with particular focus on data protection requirements under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act (2018). The RGO also supports researchers in determining the research governance requirements for research projects.
