Date
Location
A workshop for the
UKRN Community Project
About the workshop
The workshop will be delivered synchronously via Zoom, on 17 July 2025, from 14:25-16:00 BST.
Project TIER is offering this workshop to Local Network Leads participating in the UK Reproducibility Network's (UKRN)Community Project. It is intended primarily for faculty and staff who teach quantitative methods courses and/or supervise students conducting applied statistical research.
The workshop will give a condensed (1 hour and 45 minute) overview of the topics covered in a typical one-and-one-half-day Project TIER workshop. It will cover practical approaches to reproducible research, and strategies for incorporating them into taught courses and research supervision.
Workshop content
- Fundamental principles and practices of research transparency and reproducibility.
- The benefits of using reproducible methods–both from the point of view of good scientific practice and from a pedagogical point of view.
- Strategies for incorporating reproducibility into taught courses and research supervision.
- Building a community of practice focused on promoting reproducibility in quantitative methods education.
The research methods and pedagogical strategies presented at the workshop are flexible and adaptable: they can be introduced in the context of any kind of project, ranging from simple homework problems, to more involved exercises, to complete research papers, theses, or dissertations; they can be managed with whatever file-sharing platform the instructor prefers (e.g., Dropbox, Google Drive, the Open Science Framework, or GitHub); and they can be implemented with any scriptable software package (e.g., R, Stata, SPSS, Matlab); and they can be used at any level of the curriculum, from introductory courses through doctoral dissertations.
Please choose an exercise or lesson plan to bring to the workshop
Throughout the workshop, participants are encouraged to think about how they might integrate the methods being presented into their own teaching and research supervision. To help make that thinking concrete, we ask participants to choose an exercise or lesson plan they have used in the past, and keep it in mind as an example as they consider steps they could take to integrate reproducibility into their teaching.
There is an item in the registration form that asks participants to upload a copy of the exercise or lesson plan chosen for this purpose.
Who can benefit from this workshop?
- Faculty and staff who teach courses in some aspect of data analysis, statistics, or quantitative research methods and/or supervise students conducting research involving analysis of statistical data. So that they have an opportunity to put the methods presented at the workshop into practice, they should be expecting to teach a relevant course or advise appropriate student research within the next year or two. Graduate students who are nearing the completion of their degrees and expect to be in teaching positions within the next year or two may also benefit.
- Other staff who support instructors and/or students engaged in quantitative research or data analysis. Staff in libraries, or various kinds of centers for computing or quantitative methods, often play these kinds of roles.
- Faculty and staff with responsibilities for oversight of curriculum. An understanding of how reproducibility can be incorporated in teaching and research advising may be useful to department or program chairs developing curriculum for courses and degrees.
Important note about working with scripts
The methods introduced in these workshops involve writing editable scripts–files with sequences of commands that are executed by the software you are using. They are not applicable in contexts where students only work with their software interactively–pointing and clicking on menus, or typing and executing commands one at a time. Instructors who in the past have only used interactive methods in their classes are welcome and can benefit from the workshops, as long as their goal is to transition from interactive methods to scripting.
Follow-up and support after the workshop
After the workshop, we will hold virtual drop-in office hours for any participants who would like further support or guidance on how to integrate reproducibility into their teaching and research supervision, or who would like to have some additional discussion of any issues related to the workshop. The exact dates and times of these office hours are TBD, but they will be offered on two different days, approximately two weeks after the workshop.
If you have any questions about the course content please contact Project TIER director Richard Ball (rball@haverford.edu).
Commitment to inclusion and diversity
Project TIER is committed to serving members of underrepresented minorities, women, and low-income and first-generation college students.
We seek to collaborate with colleagues whose talents and perspectives reflect diverse backgrounds and life experiences, and value the distinctive perspectives they bring to Project TIER.
Individuals belonging to underrepresented groups, and/or whose teaching and advising will reach large numbers of under-served students, are especially encouraged to apply.