Contents
- 1 Reproducible Research Workshop and Train-the-Trainer
- 1.1 Content overview
- 1.2 Learning objectives
- 1.3 Completion criteria
- 1.4 Audience
- 1.5 Level
- 1.6 Prerequisite skills, expertise and experience
- 1.7 Overall likely time commitment
- 1.8 Event dates and times
- 1.9 Registration deadline
- 1.10 Training partner
- 1.11 Location
- 1.12 Cost to institution per participant
- 1.13 Number of attendees
- 1.14 Application
Reproducible Research Workshop and Train-the-Trainer
Content overview
Session 1 (Reproducible Research Workshop):
Learn how to build Reproducible Research practices into your everyday project workflows.
The Reproducible Research workshop focuses on the acquisition of new skills and knowledge, and the development of attitudes and behaviours required to continually evolve robust reproducibility practices. The content will provide you with a practical path to travel further along your reproducibility journey, with steps appropriate for any level of maturity. By focusing on building knowledge trustworthiness and retention, these steps will form habits that embed reproducibility into your project.
Session 2 (Train-the-Trainer)
Become a trainer in Reproducible Research with this practical instructor training.
Ensuring that our research is reproducible builds trust in the knowledge derived from published papers. The Reproducible Research workshop (session 1) focuses on building skills and practices to ensure more robust reproducibility of a project. This session focuses on how to deliver the Reproducible Research workshop, and how to work with researchers to build these reproducible practices into their research groups.
Topics
Topics covered include:
- Building these lessons into real world scenarios and relatable case studies
- The background behind these lessons, and how these skills are used in industries outside research
- Identifying risks in knowledge management
- How topics of data management and sensitive data handling overlap reproducible practices
- Common questions and discussions that arise during training
Learning objectives
Session 1 (Reproducible Research Workshop)
By the end of this session, participants will have:
- an understanding of how knowledge management and trust builds our reproducible practices;
- built an understanding of reproducible research principles;
- gained a practical view on how business continuity practices can protect the research project and team;
- created a list of steps to make their everyday work more reproducible.
Session 2 (Train-the-Trainer)
By the end of this session, participants will have:
- gained the skills and knowledge to run training for Reproducible Research;
- an understanding of where the concepts behind the training originated, common questions that are asked and how to connect with other trainers to share ideas and input.
Completion criteria
Session 1 (Reproducible Research Workshop)
Upon completion, all participants should have a list of steps they can build into their operating procedures to make their research more reproducible. Attendees will also be expected to complete a short piece of work reflecting on what they learned and how it could be implemented (UKRN will provide a template for this).
Session 2 (Train-the-Trainer)
After session two, attendees should have a workshop customised for their institute, whether this be a clone from the main material with local information, a set of slides with local links or similar.
Audience
This course is open to anyone who wants to promote ways to build and retain knowledge in research groups. Suggested audiences are research support staff and researchers looking to change behaviours and culture of their teams.
While the first session is primarily researcher-focused, it is necessary for attendees to be familiar with the content to be able to deliver the training (as learned in session two).
Level
The training content is designed with multiple levels in mind. Wherever you currently are, our aim is to take you further along your reproducibility path.
However, the train-the-trainer session is at a more intermediate level as attendees are expected to have some experience in training design (more details given below). This is because the focus of the train-the-trainer session is on delivering the Reproducible Research workshop specifically, rather than on general training design skills.
Prerequisite skills, expertise and experience
The course is suitable for researchers and research support staff with any level of experience of research projects and research project lifecycles. However, it is recommended that attendees have some experience in building training content, for example they may have attended or be familiar with Carpentries Instructor Training and/or similar train-the-trainer courses (such as those delivered through the UKRN programme).
It is essential that attendees attend session one (Reproducible Research workshop) prior to session two (Train-the-Trainer).
Overall likely time commitment
Session 1 (Reproducible Research Workshop)
Two to three hours to attend training workshop
Session 2 (Train-the-Trainer)
- Around one hour prep work reviewing session 1 and further reading
- Three hours to attend the session itself
- If not completed during the session, additional time to find relevant information and customise the content to your own institute.
Event dates and times
May 2024 (exact date to follow)
Registration deadline
March 8th 2024
Training partner
Location
Online
Cost to institution per participant
Free
Number of attendees
30 – 40