Workshop on Solid Science Training

Workshop Goal: To provide hands-on training in open science. Topics discussed during the workshop include exploratory social psychological science (e.g., deep learning), confirmatory social psychological science (i.e., pre-registration), and other aspects of establishing a reproducible workflow. The workshop is primarily aimed at providing training to researchers with fewer financial resources.
Content Specifics: The last few years have seen social psychology in a crisis, ranging from outright fraud (e.g., Stapel) to considerable concerns about reproducibility (e.g., Open Science Collaboration, 2015). Yet, psychologists have also led the way in the quest to improve reproducibility. Sharing research materials and data, pre-registration, and separating exploratory from confirmatory data analyses are starting to become commonplace. However, the path to more solid science is not easy. This workshop therefore deals with the challenges that lie ahead. It will include active, hands-on sessions to help set up a lab workflow (Frederic Aust), conduct proper power analyses for both simple and complex study designs (Marco Perugini), search for open access software (Michèle Nuijten), integrate these new habits into undergraduate teaching (Mark Brandt), conducting exploratory analyses (Rick Klein), as well as confirmatory analyses (Kai Jonas), and initiating or participating in crowd-sourced research (Ben Jones). We will also discuss the changes to the new EU data security laws and how psychologists can prepare for these changes. The workshop will also have a special focus on how to reduce the costs of open science for the researchers, while at the same time gather resources to be able to meet the challenges of the Revolution 2.0 (Spellman, 2015). The workshop is co-organized by the Université de Bordeaux and Université Grenoble Alpes and is supported by EASP.

Participant Specifics: The workshop is primarily aimed at researchers with fewer financial resources. First preference will be given in access to the workshop to researchers from the European Union whose residence country spends less on research and development per capita. Second preference will be given to EU researchers without any active research grants. At least 50% (and likely more) of the workshop participants will be EASP members.

Registration link: https://goo.gl/forms/4UNKweQGHY30Z5iE2

Workshop costs: 100 euros. Workshop fees cover registration, two nights in a hotel in a shared room, two lunches, one dinner, and coffee breaks. A single room can be requested for an additional 170 euros

Projected Presenters:
Frederic Aust (University of Cologne): How to set up a lab workflow
Marco Perugini (Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca): Sample size calculations/Power
Michèle Nuijten (Tilburg University): Open access software
Mark Brandt (Tilburg University): Integrating new habits into undergraduate teaching
Rick Klein (Université Grenoble Alpes): Exploratory social psychological science: Deep learning
Kai Jonas (Maastricht University): Pre-registration, CRSP, and grants for pre-registered research
Ben Jones (University of Glasgow): Crowdsourced social psychological science and how to fund it.

NB: Workshop presenters were invited on the basis of their expertise, the domain of their research (i.e.., social psychology, or proximate to it), and gender. The workshop organizers initially invited a greater number of women than men to maintain a balanced gender ratio. Because a number of invited female scholars were unavailable for the workshop, the resulting distribution is lopsided.