PsyTeachR

The psyTeachR team at the University of Glasgow School of Psychology and Neuroscience has successfully made the transition to teaching reproducible research using R across all undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Our curriculum now emphasizes essential ‘data science’ graduate skills that have been overlooked in traditional approaches to teaching, including programming skills, data visualisation, data wrangling and reproducible reports. Students learn about probability and inference through data simulation as well as by working with real datasets.

This website contains our open materials for teaching reproducible research. See our GitHub for open data and code.

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Creating Open Source Textbooks

Lisa DeBruine and Helena Paterson ran a workshop on Creating Open Source Textbooks at the 2023 Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science.

Lisa DeBruine, Helena Paterson

Teaching Reproducibility: reflections on redeveloping a curriculum for teaching reproducible methods

Helena Paterson gave a keynote talk on the first day of the Teaching Reproducible Research and Open Science Conference at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Helena Paterson

Fake It Until You Make It: How and why to simulate research data

Lisa DeBruine was invited to give a talk and workshop on data simulation at the European Evolutionary Biology Conference in Millport, Scotland.

Data Visualization Using R for Researchers Who Don’t Use R

Emily Nordmann was invited by the Association for Psychological Science to give a workshop at the 2023 APA Conference introducing researchers who don’t use R to data visualisation using ggplot2.…

Teaching Psychology with an Open Science Perspective

Seminar given by Phil McAleer to the University of Newcastle, School of Psychology, on Thursday 27th February 2023.