Mrs. Amanda Miotto1
1Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Biography:
Amanda Miotto is an eResearch Analyst for Griffith University, with 15 years of experience in the industry. She started off in the field of Bioinformatics and learnt to appreciate the beauty of science before discovering the joys of coding. She aims to bring innovations and resources to researchers to help accelerate their research projects.
Abstract:
Situation: We write research papers to contribute knowledge, insights, or perspectives to a field of study. By publishing research, we ask our audience to believe in what we say; to accept that the knowledge we have created is true.
One way we ensure our research credibility is reproducibility – can someone repeat a researcher's published work and end up at the same conclusion? Knowledge should be reproducible.
Training researchers in reproducibility is crucial to building trust, credibility and quality in an organisation's research outputs. But what do researchers need to know?
Task: Griffith University partnered with UKRN to expand training in Reproducible Research, as Train-the-trainer and self guided materials.
We built a course that was discipline agnostic, and does not focus on coding solutions. The workshop offers to take researchers 'further down the path', focusing on small, incremental changes, building reproducibility into everyday workflows.
This builds on principles from our previous workshop "9 Reproducible Research Things" written in 2018.
Action: The first cohort of instructors will be trained up in May 2024 through the UKRN, and go on to host Reproducible Research workshops across the UK. Leveraging the Carpentries template, this workshop can be done either as a self based tutorial or as a script for an instructor. Also integrated is instructions on how instructors can customise the tutorial for their own organisation.
Result: You can find the lessons available at https://amandamiotto.github.io/ReproducibleResearch. This workshop will soon be taught to instructors across the UK, to host in their own institutes.