Workshops
Open research workshops and resources
Reproducible Research Workshop and Train-the-Trainer
Session 1 (Reproducible Research Workshop):
Learn how to build Reproducible Research practices into your everyday project workflows.
The Reproducible Research workshop 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 will provide you with a practical path to travel further along your 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 your project.
Session 2 (Train-the-Trainer):
Become a trainer in Reproducible Research with this practical instructor training.
Ensuring that our research is reproducible builds trust in the knowledge derived from published papers. The Reproducible Research workshop (session 1) focuses on building skills and practices to ensure more robust reproducibility of a project. This session focuses on how to deliver the Reproducible Research workshop, and how to work with researchers to build these reproducible practices into their research groups.
Topics covered 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
Learning Objectives
Session 1 (Reproducible Research Workshop):
By the end of this session, 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
Session 2 (Train-the-Trainer)
By the end of this session, participants will
- have gained the skills and knowledge to run training for Reproducible Research.
- have an understanding of where the concepts behind the training originated, common questions that are asked and how to connect with other trainers to share ideas and input.
Audience
This course is open to anyone who wants to promote ways to build and retain knowledge in research groups. Suggested audiences are research support staff and researchers looking to change behaviours and culture of their teams.
While the first session is primarily researcher-focused, it is necessary for attendees to be familiar with the content to be able to deliver the training (as learned in session two).
Prerequisites
The course is suitable for researchers and research support staff with any level of experience of research projects and research project lifecycles. However, it is recommended that attendees have some experience in building training content, for example they may have attended or be familiar with Carpentries Instructor Training (https://carpentries.github.io/trainer-training/) and/or similar train-the-trainer courses (such as those delivered through the UKRN programme).
It is essential that attendees attend session one (Reproducible Research workshop) prior to session two (Train-the-Trainer).
Completion Criteria
Session 1 (Reproducible Research Workshop):
Upon completion, all participants should have a list of steps they can build into their operating procedures to make their research more reproducible. Attendees will also be expected to complete a short piece of work reflecting on what they learned and how it could be implemented (UKRN will provide a template for this).
Session 2 (Train-the-Trainer):
After session two, attendees should have a workshop customised for their institute, whether this be a clone from the main material with local information, a set of slides with local links or similar.
Time Commitment
Session 1 (Reproducible Research Workshop)
- 2-3 hours to attend training workshop
Session 2 (Train-the-Trainer)
- ~1 hour prep work reviewing session 1 and further reading.
- 3 hours to attend the session itself.
- If not completed during the session, additional time to find relevant information and customise the content to your own institute.
Event Details
- Dates/times: 14/11/24; 15/11/24 - afternoons
- Location: Online
- Training Partner: Griffith University