EPC 2018 symposium

Learning emerging best practices

Learning emerging best practices

Organiser: Professor Alex Holcombe, School of Psychology, The University of Sydney (alex.holcombe@sydney.edu.au)

Venue: Law 132 Seminar Room, Faculty of Law Building, Sandy Bay Campus, The University of Tasmania

Date: Wednesday 4th April 2018.

Time: 1pm – 5pm

New methodological practices can help ensure that study results are reproducible and robust. Some of these practices are being adopted rapidly, in part because journals and research funders are incentivising them. An additional reason is that some of the practices can actually make our research lives easier! This symposium will be a how-to session covering study preregistration (“Preregistration is cramping my style… is it worth it?”, presented by Kim Ransley), reproducible data analysis with R and RMarkdown (Charles Ludowici), and doing Bayesian statistics with JASP (Chris Donkin). Attendees are encouraged to bring their laptops and will receive details of what software to install for any interactive bits of the symposum. Specifics will be posted at https://alexholcombe.github.io/EPC18sympos/index.html

1.00ish (start time depends on how long it takes people to find the place). Improving how science is done and the changing academic landscape - Alex Holcombe (the University of Sydney) will speak for 30 min or less, followed by discussion and some help with installing software (see below - RStudio with rmarkdown and JASP)

2.00 Preregistration is cramping my style… is it worth it? - Kim Ransley (PhD student, the University of Sydney)

3.00 Reproducible data analysis with R and RMarkdown - Charles Ludowici (PhD student, the University of Sydney) CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS

4.00 Doing Bayesian statistics with JASP - Associate Professor Chris Donkin (UNSW Australia)

Preparing to attend

You are encouraged to bring your laptop, and if you do please install:

  • JASP
  • Follow these steps to install rMarkdown
    • Install R
    • Install RStudio
    • Open RStudio and run this command install.packages('rmarkdown'). Make sure you’re connected to the internet.

If you happen to be associated with an Australian university (or many UK universities), you should have wi-fi access through eduroam (before leaving your home university, make sure you have eduroam working there). If you cannot get eduroam, if you contact the conference organisers well in advance (e.g. Helen Derbyshire helen.derbyshire@utas.edu.au) with your name, email, and mobile number, they will attempt to get you a login for the university wifi.