Mr Riad Akhundov1, Mrs. Amanda Miotto1
1Griffith University, Australia
Biography:
Amanda Miotto is an eResearch Analyst for Griffith University, with 18 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.
Riad Akhundov is an eResearch Analyst (QCIF) in the eResearch and Specialised Advisory department at Griffith University. His PhD focused on Computational Biomechanics (i.e., computer/data science applied to human motion). As a eResearch Analyst, Riad is involved in various projects and collaborations, including instructing/assisting with workshops, helping researchers and students with their coding/IT needs, and building an eResearch knowledge base.
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
Multiple cohorts have been trained 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 are instructions on how instructors can customise the tutorial for their own organisation.
Result
Now hosted in the Carpentries Incubator at carpentries-incubator.github.io/ReproducibleResearch/. This workshop has been taught to +100 trainers across UK and Australia, to host in their own institutes.