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Transparency in the Social Sciences

Upcoming Events

BITSS at the Association for Psychological Science Convention, San Francisco
BITSS will have a booth exhibit at the 30th Association for Psychological Science (APS) Annual Convention in San Francisco. Come by our booth to learn …
MOOC: Transparent and Open Social Science Research
Demand for evidence-based policy is growing, but so is recognition that limited transparency in social science research has contributed to what many have called a …
Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) – Los Angeles
BITSS invites applications to its Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) in Los Angeles, CA, September 5-7, 2018. RT2 provides participants with an overview of …

Open Science Comes To Policy Analysis
4 weeks ago
This post is co-authored by Fernando Hoces de la Guardia, BITSS postdoctoral scholar, along with Sean Grant (Associate Behavioral and Social Scientist at RAND) and BITSS Faculty Director Ted Miguel. …
Registered Reports: Piloting a Pre-Results Review Process at the Journal of Development Economics
2 months ago
This post, written by Andy Foster, Dean Karlan, and CEGA Faculty Director Ted Miguel, was originally published on the World Bank’s Development Impact blog. It can also be found on …
Open Science and a Culture of Health: You Two Should Talk
3 months ago
Guest post by Sean Grant and Kathryn Bouskill (RAND Corporation) The Open Science movement aims to advance scientific progress by making research more open and accessible. The Culture of Health …

Fiona O’ Donovan
Fiona O’ Donovan is completing a PhD in psychology in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Beaumont Hospital, Dublin. Her research is funded by the Irish Research Council and is in collaboration with the agri-technology company Devenish Nutrition. Broadly, her PhD is looking at how nutritional and genetic factors …

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