This autumn UKRN collaborated with Project TIER and FORRT to deliver a series of lectures and live Q&A webinars. These are all available as a playlist on the UKRN YouTube channel.
The lectures, delivered by faculty members from a variety of disciplines – Archaeology, Economics, Psychology and Sociology – provide different perspectives on teaching open and reproducible research methods, from first steps toward weaning students off point-and-click to writing editable scripts, comprehensive tools and workflows for ensuring reproducibility, and principles of research design that promote transparency and credibility.
The speakers are:
- Ben Marwick, University of Washington, USA.
Teaching reproducible research methods: Lessons from archaeology - Nick Huntington-Klein, Seattle University, USA
Turning Vague Student Curiosity into Well-Defined Research Questions - Anne Nurse, College of Wooster, Ohio, USA
First steps from point and click to reproducibility - Andrew Jones, University of Liverpool John Moores, UK
Breaking up with SPSS: Can we get students to move away from point and click?
The live Q&A sessions were moderated by members of the FORRT community. Huge thanks to Adira Daniel, Ebuka Ezeike, Amanda Woodward and Danny Garside for guiding us through engaging and thoughtful conversations. The discussions indicated that participants were eager to implement ideas from the symposium in their courses.
The final wrap-up Q&A session (not recorded) was a chance to reflect on the series and plan next steps.
“In addition to providing guidance to individual instructors, the symposium was a community-building event. UKRN, FORRT, and Project TIER have had numerous beneficial interactions over the years, but this was the first event to facilitate discussion among constituents of all three initiatives.”
Richard Ball, Project TIER
“The webinar series has served as a timely forum for connecting open-research practitioners, scholars of metaresearch, and those committed to equity and epistemic justice. The presentations generated not only a rich archive of resources, but a living invitation for the diverse communities to engage, reuse and build on the shared insights and materials in their own teaching, research, and reform efforts. I look forward to seeing how this series sparks further collaborations and sustained momentum for inclusive, rigorous research practices”
Flavio Azevedo, FORRT