[LMU-OSC News] Berlin | Oxford Summer School on Open Research 2019
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Tue Jun 11 08:33:25 CEST 2019
*[Please see this announcement from our friends at the QUEST Center
Berlin and University of Oxford's Robust Research Initiative:]*
Dear all,
we are very happy to announce the [Berlin|Oxford Summer School on Open
Research
2019](https://www.bihealth.org/en/notices/oxford-berlin-summer-school-on-open-research-2019/)
which will take place September 16 - 20th 2019 at Green Templeton
College at the University of Oxford, UK. The summer school is organized
by the QUEST Center and University of Oxford's Robust Research
Initiative, will be conducted in collaboration with Freie Universität
Berlin and Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin and is supported by the
Berlin University Alliance Oxford-Berlin partnership fund.
The number of places is limited and PhD and postdoctoral researchers are
eligible to apply until July 1st 2019. For details of the program and
the application process, please see the summer school's website and
below. Please feel free to distribute this information wherever you deem
fit.
With kind regards,
Verena Heise, Dirk Ostwald, and Ulf Toelch
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##Background
Transparency and reproducibility of research methods and results are
important hallmarks of high-quality research in areas from biomedical to
social and physical sciences. In the last few years, many novel, often
web-based tools and technologies have emerged that allow for a
comprehensive representation of the scientific process that goes far
beyond descriptions of research methods and results as found in
traditional journal articles. These novel tools and technologies have
the potential to revolutionise the way research methods and results are
communicated and facilitate research collaborations and sharing of
research data in an unprecedented manner. However, using these novel
tools and technologies in a qualified and responsible manner requires
knowledge and skills are not normally taught in undergraduate or
graduate degrees. To close this gap, we offer a five-day summer school
to guide early career researchers (PhD students and postdocs) towards an
open, transparent, and reproducible research workflow. These topics will
be embedded in a more general curriculum on research ethics and
stakeholder involvement.
##Program
The five-day summer school will consist of a series of lectures that
cover the following topics:
* Preregistration and registered reports, biases in research
* Reproducible workflows
* Statistics and reproducibility
* Publishing, Open Data and Open Materials
* Meta-research
* Ethics of reproducible research
* Citizen science
The lectures will be complemented by interactive workshops that
participants can choose based on their research interests. Workshops
topics are very diverse and range from workshops aimed at specific
research areas (e.g. neuroimaging or preclinical biomedical research) to
more general workshops (e.g. introduction to R, Jupyter notebooks and
python visualisation). Beyond the lectures and workshops, participants
will work, under supervision of the lecturers, on plans for their own
projects to increase reproducibility and openness in their current or
upcoming research project.
##Application
Interested participants should send a letter of motivation (300 words),
a project outline (300 words) and a short CV (2-3 pages). The letter of
motivation should contain a brief statement how the applicant has
applied or intends to apply open research practices in their current
work, if any other courses were attended, and what particular challenges
were encountered in their work that this summer school addresses. The
project outline should give a brief overview of future or recently
started research projects, in which participants would like to apply
open/ reproducible research practices. Applicants with projects in any
area of empirical research are encouraged to apply. If applicants are
accepted, we require a signed form from the applicant’s supervisor to
show that they will support the use of transparent and reproducible
practices in the applicant’s research project.
Applications should be in a single pdf and adhere to the file
format:FIRSTNAME_LASTNAME_APPLICATIONSUMMERSCHOOL.pdf
Please send your application to: summerschool_berlinoxford at bihealth.de
The application deadline is 1st of July 2019 at midday (GMT).
Candidates will be notified of the outcome by mid July 2019.
##Costs
The course is free to attend but participants will need to cover the
cost of accommodation and travel. We have secured bed and breakfast
accommodation with en-suite facilities at St Anne’s College for £92
per night for participants who require accommodation. We are able to
support travel costs for a limited number of applicants with up to 500
Euro if applicants cannot cover the costs from their own funding. For
participants from Charité - Universitätsmedizin, the QUEST Center for
Transforming Biomedical Research will support travel and accommodation
with up to 750 Euro for a limited number of participants. Please state
in your letter of motivation if you would like to apply for funding.
##Venue
The course will take place at Green Templeton College at the University
of Oxford, UK.
--
Prof. Dr. Dirk Ostwald
Arbeitsbereich Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience Berlin
Fachbereich Erziehungswissenschaft und Psychologie
Freie Universität Berlin
Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Raum JK25/230 Telefon +49 30 838 56860
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