Academic Life and Culture

 

Evading Open Science: The Black Box of Student Data Collection

While Open Science has arguably initiated positive changes at some stages of the research process (e.g., increasing transparency through preregistration), problematic behaviors during data collection are still almost impossible to detect and pose a …

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 …

Mentorship practices that improve the culture of peer review

The current system of peer review drives racial and gender disparities in publication and funding outcomes and can suppress the perspectives of marginalized scholars. Established researchers have an opportunity to help to build a fairer and more …

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 …

Opening Knowledge: Retaining Rights and Open Licensing in Europe

This report investigates the current landscape of non-legislative policy practices affecting researchers and authors in the authors' rights and licensing domain. It is an outcome of research conducted by Project Retain led by SPARC Europe, as part of …

Reshaping the training landscape by addressing cultural taxation

Minoritized doctoral students are subject to cultural taxation — disproportionate expectations and obligations based on their race or ethnicity — that negatively impacts their PhD studies. Faculty members and departments should counteract this …

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.
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