Introduction

Overview

Teaching: 40 min

UKRN Open Research Training

You’re here to get involved in helping your colleagues with preregistration and/or Registered Reports. We can help you put together a workshop which will make it easier to achieve real changes in your colleagues’ behaviour, and you can bring your specialist knowledge of the field and experience.

Approach

• Practical workflow change: we want to produce actual changes to how people work by tweaking their default workflow
• No homework for busy researchers (including you!)
• Better is good - we want everyone doing something a bit better by the end

Course structure

Today we’ll start with discussions about the pros and cons of preregistration (what it helps with and what it doesn’t), and think about what a workshop on preregistration might cover and how it will meet your colleagues’ needs. Some of you will be looking to teach your colleagues about Registered Reports – at some points they’ll split off into their own groups, but generally everyone will be on a similar page. We’ll be giving you some tips on how to deliver workshops, courtesy of our guest-presenter Louise from Bristol Institute of Teaching and Learning, and an introduction to our Workshop Builder Tool and our Resource List. At the end, there will be a large block of time for you to use the Workshop Builder Tool (or something else if you prefer) to build your own workshop to deliver to your colleagues.

What you’ll get out of this course

• A Workshop website you can use to help your colleagues with sharing data
• Some ideas for how to engage colleagues and manage the workshop
• Membership of an enthusiastic community of like-minded researchers in various disciplines

Preregistration

Preregistration is a bit different in practice between various fields - that’s why we can’t just produce a one-size-fits-all guide and be done with it!

Activity 10 min

Write a sentence or two in the Introductions section of the collaborative editing document that tells your fellow attendees a little bit about yourself, your field, and your background with preregistration/Registered Reports.

Key Points

• No homework for busy people

• We’re aiming for practical results!