This workshop begins by illustrating the main aspects of what preregistration can and cannot do for your research. Participants will be guided step-by-step through the preregistration process, both from a theoretical standpoint and a practical one. By introducing a few guiding principles and highlighting important considerations along the way, a worked example will be presented to illustrate the preregistration process. Participants are encouraged to work on their own preregistration in real time alongside the demonstration. By the end of the workshop, participants should have a good working knowledge of the practical aspects of the preregistration process. Participants will have the added benefit of creating a working-document which can be used to preregister their own research project.
Instructor:
Mark Adkins, MA. Mark is a doctoral candidate in the Quantitative Methods program within the Psychology Department at York University and a member of the Statistical Consulting Service. Mark attended the Oxford | Berlin Summer School on Open Research where he attended numerous workshops and discussions related to the promotion and adoption of open science practices. This summer school sparked Mark’s involvement in the open science community which lead to involvement with the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS), the Psychological Science Accelerator (PSA), leading workshops focused on open science practices, and starting a local open science journal club (ReproducibiliTea) which focuses on early career researchers (ECRs). He has years of experience as a statistical/programming tutor and has the ability to help students master complicated material regardless of their stage in the learning process.
