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Transparency in the Social Sciences

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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 …
Computational Tools for Interdisciplinary Research — Catalyst Workshop, Lima, Perú
Catalyst Jose Manuel Magallanes will hold a short course at the School of Governement on using various computational tools for carrying out reproducible research in …
Computational Tools for Interdisciplinary Research — Catalyst Workshop, Santiago, Chile
Catalyst Jose Manuel Magallanes will hold a short course at the School of Governement on using various computational tools for carrying out reproducible research in …
Optimal Methods and Strategies for Reproducible Research: How to Publish Faster with Less Stress!
2015 recipient of the Leamer-Rosenthal Prize for Open Social Science and BITSS Catalyst J. Scott Long is holding a week-long workshop at the ICPSR Summer Program in …

Research transparency in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons learned and ways forward
2 days ago
Guest post by Soazic Elise Wang Sonne (World Bank) Despite efforts by African governments to significantly raise public spending on scientific research, the continent, which is home to 14% of …
Interpretation of study results (Part 2/2): A reproducible method
4 weeks ago
Guest post by Arnaud Vaganay (Meta-Lab) This post is the second of two dedicated to the reproducible interpretation of empirical results in the social sciences. In my previous post on …
Interpretation of study results (Part 1/2): One reproducibility crisis may hide another
4 weeks ago
Guest post by Arnaud Vaganay (Meta-Lab) This post is the first of two dedicated to the reproducible interpretation of empirical results in the social sciences. If you are a regular …

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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