Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Leeds Beckett University presents this PsyCen seminar with Dr Thomas Hostler discussing how the replication crisis in psychology helped to birth a growing grassroots science reform movement advocating for “Open Research”: public pre-registration of research plans, transparency of analysis decisions, and publicly available materials, data, and analysis code for every piece of research; enabling the reproducibility of results.
Hostler investigates the impact of this movement and how it is yet to be fully felt, although academic publishers and research funders have taken note and are increasingly requiring the use open practices in research they administer. There are concerns about the potential negative impact of these changes on individual researchers, as well as questions about the wider socio-political consequences on the organised system of scientific research.
Dr Thomas Hostler examines how the present research investigates some of these potential impacts using the theory of “Academic Capitalism”: the increasing tendency of universities to strategically manage their staff and the research they conduct to compete in league tables and rankings.
The Centre of Psychological Research (PsyCen), within School of Humanities and Social Sciences, supports research projects dedicated to improving psychological wellbeing for different communities in conjunction with a range of external collaborators and funders.
The centre’s work showcases diverse methodologies, from psychometric and experimental designs to qualitative and critical psychology approaches, to advance knowledge across different branches of psychological science, from social and community psychology to cognitive neuroscience and biological psychology.
Dr Thomas Hostler is a lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, Faculty of Health, Psychology and Social Care.
