Academic Life and Culture

 

A healthy PhD

PhD training in psychology asks people to receive training while simultaneously executing the essential work of a university. A healthy PhD approach that places student wellbeing ahead of productivity is a counterweight to these conditions.

Coping with common PhD challenges by making the implicit explicit

It is normal to deal with difficult situations during PhD studies. Students and their advisors can set themselves up for success and minimize potential challenges with foreknowledge and by making expectations and workflows explicit.

Good supervision and mentoring: a key part of responsible research cultures

Tamarinde Haven works as a postdoctoral researcher at the BIH QUEST Center for Responsible Research, Charité, Berlin, where she focusses on topics related to responsible supervision, responsible assessment, and Open Science. In her PhD, she focused …

Graduate students need more quantitative methods support

Graduate students in psychology need hands-on support to conduct research using quantitative techniques that exceed their curricular training. If supervisors are not willing or able to provide this support, student-led projects must be redesigned to …

Grand challenge: social psychology without hubris

In this editorial, the Founding Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Social Psychology expresses several ideas about the past, present, and possible future of social psychology, seeking to explain we need social psychology, why we need a new journal in …

Knowledge Rights 21

Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21) is focused on bringing about changes in legislation and practice across Europe that will strengthen the right of all to knowledge. It is built on our conviction that the free and open sharing of knowledge is essential for …

Open Research Reforms and the Capitalist University: Areas of Opposition and Alignment

There is a need for more nuanced and theoretically grounded analysis of the socio-political consequences of methodological reforms proposed by the open research movement. This paper contributes by utilising the theory of academic capitalism and …

Responsible Scholarship

Here we provide information on the ways through which the Institute of Psychology aims to foster responsible scholarship practices: conducting research with integrity, and meeting the needs for better quality and efficiency in psychological science.

Scandal in scientific reform: the breaking and remaking of science

This perspective explores the Scientific Reform Movement and its links to scandalized claims, such as ‘science is broken’. It delves into the pivotal role of scandal in shaping and sustaining this movement, both rhetorically and politically and …

Schools ‘should teach children how to spot conspiracy theories

Cambridge scholar says that lessons on identifying and debunking fake news should be on the national curriculum.
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