This autumn, a series of webinars jointly organised by Project TIER, UKRN and FORRT will provide inspiration and concrete strategies to give transparency and reproducibility a more central place in quantitative methods training for undergraduate and graduate research projects. The symposium is also intended to build connections and foster continued interactions amongst researchers with an interest in reproducibility.
The symposium will consist of five live online sessions beginning on September 11, 2025.
The first four presentations will be by faculty members from a variety of disciplines who have developed innovative and effective tools for introducing reproducibility and related concepts into their research teaching.
About a week before each of the live Thursday sessions, the presenter will post a 30- 45-minute video describing the strategies they have adopted. At the live events, the presenter will give a brief recap of the highlights of the video, but most of the time will be reserved for discussion and questions from the audience. We therefore encourage symposium participants to watch the videos before the live events.
For the fifth live session, representatives from Project TIER, UKRN and FORRT will lead a discussion of the main lessons to be taken away from the four presentations, and explore strategies for developing a supportive and interactive community of reproducibility researchers and educators.
Webinar 1: Teaching reproducible research methods: Lessons from archaeology
Speaker: Ben Marwick, University of Washington, USA.
Date and time: Thursday 11 September 2025 2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Webinar 2: Turning Vague Student Curiosity into Well-Defined Research Questions
Speaker: Nick Huntington-Klein, Seattle University, USA
Date and time: Thursday 2 October 2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Webinar 3: First steps from point and click to reproducibility
Speaker: Anne Nurse, College of Wooster, Ohio, USA
Date & time: Thursday 9 October 2025 2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Webinar 4: Breaking up with SPSS: Can we get students to move away from point and click?
Speaker: Andrew Jones, University of Liverpool John Moores, UK
Date & time: Thursday 23 October 2025 2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Webinar 5: Wrap up and next steps
Speakers: TBC
Date & time: Thursday 6 November 2:00pm – 3:00pm
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