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Interactional roles and social actions to foster translation within meetings of interdisciplinary research teams

This project uses conversation analysis to identify key social actions that support knowledge sharing in interdisciplinary science teams. By analyzing meetings within a neuroscience collaboration, the researchers identified six interactional roles, …

International collaboration to help implement open research

Research is global. This was clearly recognised recently when UNESCO released its Recommendation on Open Science, including a set of core values, guiding principles and areas of action, to which all UNESCO members have committed.

International initiatives to enhance awareness and uptake of open research in psychology: a systematic mapping review

Concerns about the replicability, reproducibility and transparency of research have ushered in a set of practices and behaviours under the umbrella of ‘open research’. To this end, many new initiatives have been developed that represent procedural …

Introducing a Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (FORRT)

Dramatic changes to the transparency, rigor, reproducibility and replicability of research practices have occurred in the last decade. Despite considerable progress towards the adoption of open science practices by researchers in many disciplines, …

Introducing Nowhere Lab

Nowhere Lab ( http://nowherelab.com/) is an online community for people who would like the lab meeting experience but don’t currently have one. We have members from across all populated continents and career stages: undergraduate students, master’s …

Introducing Open Science in Teaching Health Economic Modelling

Open Science is gaining ground in all research fields, including health economics and outcomes research (HEOR). However, teaching Open Science is still in its infancy. This paper describes the design, implementation and evaluation of a teaching …

Introducing the National Open Research Training Programme

In this blog post, Dr Dermot Lynott, Assistant Professor in Psychology at Maynooth University, and Lead Investigator on the NORF-funded National Open Research Training Programme introduces the work of the project and its overall goals for open …

Introduction to Open Science principles and practices (in Health Economics)

This series of lecture slides were used during the "Advanced Simulation for Health Economic Analysis" course at the University of Twente, which took place in February - May 2023. The following Open Science topics were introduced to the course …

Investigating the nature of open science practices across complementary, alternative, and integrative medicine journals: An audit

Background Open science practices are implemented across many scientific fields to improve transparency and reproducibility in research. Complementary, alternative, and integrative medicine (CAIM) is a growing field that may benefit from adoption of …