How to engage with Open Science

Abstract

While the wave of scientific reform is influencing scientific practices and norms globally, the current model of higher education has much room for improvement with respect to Open Science. A lot of Open Science practices encourage higher standards for quality of evidence or accessibility of research outputs (such as articles, code, research materials, etc.) but fail to address how we teach, mentor, and supervise students through open science in higher education. Pedagogical reform towards integrating open science principles into courses across STEM, social sciences, and the humanities—including diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility—has the potential to improve future research practice and culture fundamentally.

1. talk (German): Open Science Working Group (Maximilian Frank and David Grüning)

In the first talk, the Open Science working group of the PsyFaKo outlines all the possible ways to get involved with Open Science as a student (i.e., Bachelor, Master) and early career researcher (PhD) in Germany. As a germany-wide initiative, we have already initiated many projects to teach Open Science practices through extracurricular activities as well written position papers for the reform of the psychology curriculum.

We will give guidance on what starting points exist for interested participants to engage with Open Science. Besides our own activities as part of the PsyFaKo (German representation of psychology students) we will provide you with information about self-organized Open Science Initiatives at local universities, the Network of Open Science Initiatives (NOSI), and related organizations. Our main goal is to provide you with diverse opportunities to discuss and shape the future in science.

2. talk: FORRT (Flavio Azevedo)
In the second part of the event, participants will get an insight into the internationally active Open Science community with FORRT. FORRT, short for Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training, focuses on advancing research transparency, reproducibility, rigor, and ethics through pedagogical reform and own metascientific research. FORRT addresses the underappreciated pedagogical aspect of open and reproducible science using Big-Team Science with more than a dozen initiatives. In this talk, Flavio Azevedo, representative of FORRT, focuses on how interested participants can, on an international level, learn about existing resources, participate in existing projects, and propose and lead new ones addressing existing gaps.

To learn more about FORRT visit: https://forrt.org/

Speakers

David Grüning studied adaptive cognition at the University of Heidelberg with additional specializations in measurement and statistical analysis. He is now doing his PhD in Heidelberg and at GESIS on basic cognitive biases in self-reports and researching metacognition, emotion(s) regulation and the effects of digital environments in various collaborations. As coordinator of the Open Science AG of the PsyFaKo, he is committed to the discussion and dissemination of open research methods, especially for students.

Maximilian Frank studied psychology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and the interdisciplinary Master's programme Human Factors in Engineering at Technische Universität München. He is doing his doctorate in the DFG priority programme META-REP on heterogeneity estimation in meta-analyses. As coordinator of the Open Science AG of the PsyFaKo, he is committed to the dissemination of open research methods and their communication in academic teaching.

Flavio Azevedo is a research associate at Cambridge University’s Social Decision-Making Lab (CSDMLab) and at the Saxony’s Center for Criminological Research (ZFKS). He did his Ph.D. in Political Science at the Graduate School of Cologne University, a German Excellence Center. He cofounded and directs FORRT – Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training. His work centers around research on the role of ideology and identity in justifying social and economic injustices.