Timetable

13:00 • Opening

13:10 • A missing piece of the puzzle: the hitchhiker's guide to reproducible research for postgraduate students • Dr. Brendan Palmer

13:30 • Instilling scientific rigour at the grassroots: collaborative student projects • Dr. Katherine Button

13:50 • Teaching and learning open research at the undergraduate and Master's level: the PaPOR TRaIL project • Dr. Karen Matvienko-Sikar

14:10 • Supporting and building a community of open educators: a framework for open and reproducible research training • Dr. Flavio Azevedo & Dr. Sam Parsons

14:30 • Question & Answer Session

About the Speakers

Dr. Brendan Palmer is Associate Statistician with the Clinical Research Facility - Cork, University College Cork, Ireland. His interests include facilitating research supports that are centred around dissemination of clinical trials results in a more transparent and readily accessible way. In addition to his core roles, Brendan has developed and delivers a postgraduate training module centred on research reproducibility where students can learn data management practices centred around reproducible scripted workflows.

Dr. Katherine Button is a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at the University of Bath, UK. She received her PhD from the University of Bristol, UK in 2013, where she held two post-doctoral fellowships, before taking up her current post in 2015. In addition to her primary research on the cognitive mechanisms that contribute to anxiety and depression, she is an advocate for the use of rigorous research practices to improve the reliability of experimental research and teaching.

Dr. Flavio Azevedo is a Fulbright fellow and a research associate at the Institute for Communication Science (IfKW) at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. Recently, he was named as one of the 100 most influential early career Portuguese via the “Global Shapers“ initiative by the World Economic Forum. One of Flavio's main interests is Open and Reproducible science, and he co-founded FORRT to provide educators with a pathway towards integrating open and reproducible science tenants into higher education. His other interests lie in investigating dispositional and situational processes underlying ideological subscription and its psychology.

Dr. Sam Parsons is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department for Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on adolescent mental health and cognitive-affective processes, with a side-interest in the psychometrics of cognitive measures. He co-founded FORRT, which aims to support educators in the integration of open research practices into their teaching. He also co-founded the ReproducibiliTea Journal Club initiative and chairs the ReproducibiliTea global steering committee.

Dr. Karen Matvienko-Sikar is a Lecturer and HRB ARPP Research Fellow in the School of Public Health, University College Cork, Ireland. Karen is a health psychologist with primary research interests in maternal and child health. She is a Catalyst for the Berkeley Initiative for the Social Sciences (BITSS) and is currently leading development of teaching and learning resources for undergraduate and Master-level students in the National Forum funded Principles and Practices of Open Research: Teaching, Research, Impact and Learning (PaPOR TRaIL) project.