Teaching 7 Steps Towards Reproducible Research

About the Event

This train-the-trainer session will give you the material and skills to teach the 7 Steps Towards Reproducible Research workshop at your institute and how to work with researchers to build these reproducible practices into their research groups.

The 7 Steps Towards Reproducible Research workshop is designed to be wholly researcher-centred. It focuses on the acquisition of new skills and knowledge, and the development of attitudes and behaviours required to continually evolve robust reproducibility practices.

The content provides a practical path to travel further along the reproducibility journey, with steps appropriate for any level of maturity. By focusing on building knowledge trustworthiness and retention, these steps will form habits that embed reproducibility into one’s project. The workshop also examines:

• how reproducible research builds business continuity into research groups
• how the culture in an institute ecosystem can affect reproducibility
• how one can identify and address risks to one’s knowledge.

In partnership with the UK Reproducibility Network and Griffith University, the workshop was written to be discipline-agnostic, appropriate for researchers at any skill level and customisable for your own institute. The training has evolved from earlier work at Griffith, with the content rewritten for a wider audience and published in a Carpentries-style format.

Agenda

Topics for this train-the-trainer session include:

• building these lessons into real world scenarios and relatable case studies
• the background behind these lessons, and how these skills are used in industries outside research
• identifying risks in knowledge management
• how topics of data management and sensitive data handling overlap reproducible practices
• common questions and discussions that arise during training.

Speaker

• Amanda Miotto, eResearch Analyst, Griffith University

Who Should Attend

Research data skills trainers and broader stakeholders invested in data skill uplift in research are encouraged to attend. These include but are not limited to:

• people who train researchers
• NCRIS and compute facilities staff
• researchers, including supervisors of higher degree by research (HDR) students
• HDR students.

What You’ll Learn

By the end of this training, participants will:

• have an understanding of how knowledge management and trust builds our reproducible practices
• build an understanding of reproducible research principles
• gain a practical view on how business continuity practices can protect the research project and team
• create a list of steps to make their everyday work more reproducible
• be prepared to teach the 7 Steps Towards Reproducible Research workshop to a researcher audience.

Recording and Course Materials

This session will not be recorded, but course materials for the 7 Steps Towards Reproducible Research workshop are openly available.

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