Academic Life and Culture

 

Supporting the next generation of psychologists

This month, we launch a new collection of pieces that highlight ways to improve doctoral education and support graduate student trainees to their fullest potential.

Symposium "Qualitative Open Science: Challenges, Opportunities, Tensions, and Synergies"

The Qualitative Open Science symposium, organised on the 28th of March 2025 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam featured plenaries and workshops dedicated to a wide range of qualitative OS topics with the aim of facilitating knowledge exchange and …

Teaching and Mentoring Open Science

A syllabi about mentoring and teaching open science

Teaching open and reproducible scholarship: a critical review of the evidence base for current pedagogical methods and their outcomes

In recent years, the scientific community has called for improvements in the credibility, robustness and reproducibility of research, characterized by increased interest and promotion of open and transparent research practices. While progress has …

Team Neurodiversity

This team is responsible for discussing how open scholarship can be used to support the neurodiversity movement and enhance connections between open scholarship and neurodiversity; and how neurodiversity and open scholarship can intersect to make …

Ten simple rules for pushing boundaries of inclusion at academic events

Inclusion at academic events is facing increased scrutiny as the communities these events serve raise their expectations for who can practically attend. Active efforts in recent years to bring more diversity to academic events have brought progress …

Ten Strategies to Foster Open Science in Psychology and Beyond

The scientific community has long recognized the benefits of open science. Today, governments and research agencies worldwide are increasingly promoting and mandating open practices for scientific research. However, for open science to become the …

Ten Strategies to Foster Open Science in Psychology and Beyond

The scientific community has long recognized the benefits of open science. Today, governments and research agencies worldwide are increasingly promoting and mandating open practices for scientific research. However, for open science to become the …

Ten Strategies to Foster Open Science in Psychology and Beyond

The scientific community has long recognized the benefits of open science. Today, governments and research agencies worldwide are increasingly promoting and mandating open practices for scientific research. However, for open science to become the …

The academic impact of Open Science: a scoping review

Open Science seeks to make research processes and outputs more accessible, transparent, and inclusive, ensuring that scientific findings can be freely shared, scrutinised, and built-upon by researchers and others. To date, there has been no …