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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 …

L'autorat et "Noûs" : De la collaboration au rapport de force dans la production scientifique

La notion d’autorat est devenue incontournable dans le monde actuel de la recherche et le contexte d’évaluation principalement quantitative dans laquelle elle s’inscrit. Après un bref exposé des dérives que la notion exacerbée d’autorat peut …

Making lemonade out of remote teaching

2020 was a year of big changes for the whole world. For the academic community, it was not different. The need to rapidly switch from in-person to online teaching represented a big challenge for most educators. However, with new challenges come also …

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 …

Navigating Open scholarship for neurodivergent researchers

Who we are and why is this important? In academia, there has been much discussion about how open scholarship can benefit marginalised voices (e.g. Robertson, 2020; Pownall et al., 2020). However, neurodivergent individuals (e.g. dyslexic, autistic, …

Open and Reproducible Science Syllabus

To provide educators with an example of how they can draw resources from FORRT’s educational nexus to integrate open scholarship into their teaching, FORRT has developed an Open and Reproducible Science 101 syllabus. FORRT’s syllabus was developed …

Open and Reproducible Science walks into a classroom

Julia Strand is Associate Professor of Psychology at Carleton College and she teaches courses such as Introduction to Psychology, The Psychology of Spoken Words and Sensation and Perception. Julia has also recently prepared and taught a course on …
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