Academic Life and Culture

 

Mini course on reproducibility & open research

This mini course was designed to introduce Psychology undergraduate students at the University of Edinburgh (who are working on their dissertation in the academic year 2021-2022) to open research principles and practices. The course contains 5 …

Diversifying Research Methods Syllabi

This is a collection of research methodology articles, which are first- or senior-authored by women, to promote diverse perspectives in teaching students about research methods and contributing to improving research practices.

Open Science & Inclusive Psychology

This course is an introduction to the Open Science approach to psychology. We will investigate if how the field has experienced a “replicability crisis” and explore the potential structural and methodological factors that may be creating false …

Overcoming the Knowledge Barrier in Open Science

Getting started with open science and knowing where to go. This webinar will introduce participants to major practices in open science and then dive into the resources available to learn how to use these in your own work.

Rigorous & Reproducible Research Practices

How do you know whether the quantitative research you’re consuming and producing is rigorous and reproducible? This course will draw on contemporary perspectives to help you answer this question. We'll discuss the whys and hows of statistical …

Teaching and Mentoring Open Science

A syllabi about mentoring and teaching open science

Elsevier Title Level Pricing: Dissecting the Bowl of Spaghetti

INTRODUCTION This study will explore the issue of pricing opacity associated with prices paid by academic libraries that have recently unbundled from the Elsevier Big Deal journal package. Additionally, this study will provide metrics for assessing …

Joy and rigor in behavioral science

In the past decade, behavioral science has seen the introduction of beneficial reforms to reduce false positive results. Serving as the motivational backdrop for the present research, we wondered whether these reforms might have unintended negative …

Social Identity and morality lab teaching

I believe that higher education should be focused on developing passionate, critical, independent and creative thought, and the transmission of knowledge should be in the service of developing these skills. In the classroom, I try to communicate the …

How racist policing took over American cities, explained by a historian

“The problem is the way policing was built,” historian Khalil Muhammad says.
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