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Research Reproducibility and Research ReproducibiliTea Events

Research Reproducibility

UEA ReproducibiliTea Group and Code Clinics

You can follow the UEA ReproducibiliTea Group on Twitter #ReproTeaUEA and contact them by email at ukrn.team@uea.ac.uk Dr Stephanie Rossit is the institutional lead.

Recordings of Previous events are available below.

Code Clinics

For details of future events, contact code.clinic@uea.ac.uk

What is Research Reproducibility?

Reproducible research ... Authors provide all the necessary data and the computer codes to run the analysis again, re-creating the results.

Replication: A study that arrives at the same scientific findings as another study, collecting new data (possibly with different methods), and completing new analyses.

Attribution: University of Illinois Library

See also: Definitions of Reproducibility and Replication, The Turing Way 

Other resources

UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN)

ReproducibiliTea national initiative with local institutional branches

Garret Christensen, Jeremy Freese and Edward Miguel (2019), Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research : How to Do Open Science. Oakland, California: University of California Press. [Unlimited e-book access from UEA Library]

Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS), Transparent and Open Social Science Research (MOOC)

The Turing Way: Guide for Reproducible Research 

Reproducibility and Research Integrity EasternARC 

Events: Code clinics

UEA ReproducibiliTea Next event (scroll down to see full programme for the year)

Wed 24th January 2024 Transparent and Rigorous Political Research: Rationale, Contexts and Trends [Join via Teams 14.00-15.00], Dr Eike Rinke, University of Leeds   

Abstract 

Openness and transparency constitute a foundational principle for research integrity. Openness can promote rigour, constructive scrutiny, accountability and can enable others to build on research. However, it can also bring challenges. This talk will explore the reasons behind calls for openness and transparency in political research and what they can and should mean in this field. Eike will survey how the idea of open research has been adopted in political science and the larger trends in how political research is done it has precipitated. He will also point to important challenges in making political research more open and discuss specific qualitative and quantitative research practices that political scientists can use to make their own work more open.

Short speaker bio

Eike Mark Rinke is a Lecturer in Politics and Media at the University of Leeds. His research on political communication, journalism, citizenship and deliberative democracy and in meta-science has been published in Journal of Communication, Political Communication, the International Journal of Press/Politics, Communication Methods and Measures, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, among others. Rinke is active in the meta-research and open science movement and the University of Leeds Local Network Lead for the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) and a member of the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences’ (BITSS) Catalyst programme to promote research transparency, reproducibility, and openness. He is also Associate Editor of the journal Political Communication and Editorial Board member responsible for the area of political communication at the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication.

UEA ReproducibiliTea Monthly Programme

Recordings of previous events

Tuesday 14 November 2023 Achieving Reproducibility by Sharing Methods on protocols.io [Recording now available]Dr Emma Ganley, protocols.io  

Wed 1 November 2023  Assessing quality in qualitative research: Challenges and opportunities [Recording now available], Dr Rebecca Whiting, Birkbeck

Wed 28th June 2023  Democritisation Without Dimunition - opportunities in global publishing for promoting equity and excellence in scientific communication [Recording now available], Professor Kevin Tyler, UEA

Wed 31st May 2023 Replication and Credibility of Research - An Economist's Perspective [Recording now available],, Associate Professor, Dr Maren Duvendack, University of East Anglia

Wed 26th April 2023 Gazing into the Abyss of p-Hacking [Recording now available], Dr. Angelika Stefan, University of Amsterdam 

Wed 22nd February 2023 Robustness and Transparency in Scientific Methods, Statistics & Study Design [Recording now available], Dr. Daniel Lakens, Eindhoven University of Technology 

Wed 25th January 2023 Enhance your academic writing and peer review with reporting guidelines [Recording now available], Dr Jennifer de Beyer, UK EQUATOR Centre's Training Programme, University of Oxford

Wed 7th December 2022 The establishment of the Global Reproducibility Network [Recording now available], Professor Marcus Munafo, University of Bristol

Wed 23rd November 2022 FAIRsharing.org: scientific databases [Recording now available],  Dr. Allyson Lister, University of Oxford 

Wed 26th October 2022 Practice of Sharing Synthetic Datasets [Recording now available]Dr Dan Quintana, University of Oslo   

Wed 30th June 2022 Open Research Practice & Transparency in Arts and Humanities: A Talk on the creation of Intersex Narrative and Screen Works Database for Publishing Research [Recording now available]Dr Kamran Qureshi, UEA

Research ReproducibiliTea

ReproducibiliTea is a world-wide network of open research (journal) clubs that discuss ideas about improving transparency and reproducibility in research work, and the open research movement at a larger scale.

The UEA section of ReproducibiliTea was set up in November 2021 by PhD students and ECRs across all faculties who were local leads for the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN): Prerna Aneja; Dr. Ann-Kathrin Johnen; Dr. Amanda Burke; Dr. Kamran Qureshi; Dr. Gonçalo da Silva.

UEA joined the UKRN in 2021 and our institutional lead is Dr. Stéphanie Rossit.  The UKRN is peer-led consortium that aims to ensure the UK retains its place as a centre for world-leading research. They do this by investigating the factors that contribute to robust research, promoting training activities, and disseminating best practice.

The main aim of the UEA ReproducibiliTea sessions is to support researchers from all career stages (from students to professors) in navigating the possibilities and challenges that the open research movement brings about. Through these sessions, the organisers hope to encourage researchers to adopt more open research practices and show them the benefits of doing so on both an individual and community-level.

These events take place on the last Wednesday of the month. For more info, please contact ukrn@uea.ac.uk

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