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Registered reports | Chris Chambers

Chris Chambers is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Cardiff University who focuses on the promotion and effectiveness of open research practices. He co-founded Registered Reports, Exploratory Reports, Verification Reports, the Transparency and Openness Promotion guidelines, the Royal Society Replications initiative, the UK network of open research working groups, the Peer Reviewers' Openness Initiative, the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN), the GW4 Undergraduate Psychology Consortium programme for promoting reproducible science, the Royal Society Rapid Review Network for COVID-19 Registered Reports, and the Peer Community in Registered Reports. He currently chairs the Registered Reports committee supported by the Center for Open Science, serve on the UKRN steering committee and sits on the Advisory Board of Nature Human Behaviour. He is the author of the Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology: A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific Practice, which won the 2018 British Psychological Society Book Award (Best Academic Monograph) and the 2018 PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers. OUTLINE: 0:00 - Highlights 2:19 - Intro 3:06 - Starting registered reports 5:44 - Blogosphere conversations that spawned registered reports 7:26 - Pre-registration vs. Registered reports 10:39 - Precursors to registered reports 17:10 - Reviewing the first registered reports at Cortex 21:25 - Initial reactions from neuroscience and psychology to RRs 25:26 - The growth of RRs across journals 27:54 - Peer Community In Registered Reports (Registered Reports 2.0) 33:30 - Stage 1 RR triage/snapshot solution to the wait time problem 36:57 - New challenges with Registered Reports 2.0 39:53 - Programmatic research at Peer Community In Registered Reports 43:26 - Clinical trials and registered reports 47:47 - Current conversations around registered reports 50:39 - Researcher evaluation in a hypothetical world where null data are embraced 56:01 - Forthcoming developments related to registered reports 59:49 - Advice for young scientists 1:03:32 - Outro

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Chris Chambers is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Cardiff University who focuses on the promotion and effectiveness of open research practices. He co-founded Registered Reports, Exploratory Reports, Verification Reports, the Transparency and Openness Promotion guidelines, the Royal Society Replications initiative, the UK network of open research working groups, the Peer Reviewers' Openness Initiative, the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN), the GW4 Undergraduate Psychology Consortium programme for promoting reproducible science, the Royal Society Rapid Review Network for COVID-19 Registered Reports, and the Peer Community in Registered Reports. He currently chairs the Registered Reports committee supported by the Center for Open Science, serve on the UKRN steering committee and sits on the Advisory Board of Nature Human Behaviour.


He is the author of the Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology: A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific Practice, which won the 2018 British Psychological Society Book Award (Best Academic Monograph) and the 2018 PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers.


OUTLINE:

0:00 - Highlights

2:19 - Intro

3:06 - Starting registered reports

5:44 - Blogosphere conversations that spawned registered reports

7:26 - Pre-registration vs. Registered reports

10:39 - Precursors to registered reports

17:10 - Reviewing the first registered reports at Cortex

21:25 - Initial reactions from neuroscience and psychology to RRs

25:26 - The growth of RRs across journals

27:54 - Peer Community In Registered Reports (Registered Reports 2.0)

33:30 - Stage 1 RR triage/snapshot solution to the wait time problem

36:57 - New challenges with Registered Reports 2.0

39:53 - Programmatic research at Peer Community In Registered Reports

43:26 - Clinical trials and registered reports

47:47 - Current conversations around registered reports

50:39 - Researcher evaluation in a hypothetical world where null data are embraced

56:01 - Forthcoming developments related to registered reports

59:49 - Advice for young scientists

1:03:32 - Outro

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