Dr Priya Silverstein’s talk on ‘Easing into Open Science’ provides PhD students and postdocs in Psychology with a roadmap for engaging in open science practices. The talk suggests eight open science practices that novices could begin adopting today. The topics covered include journal clubs, project workflow, preprints, reproducible code, data sharing, transparent writing, preregistration, and registered reports. The talk provides a difficulty rating of each practice (easy, medium, difficult), presents them in order of suggested adoption, and follows the format of what, why, how, and worries. The talk will also provide PGRs with ideas on how to approach conversations with their supervisors/collaborators and specific resources on how to engage with each open science practice. The talk emphasises that engaging in open science behaviours need not be an all or nothing approach, but rather that PhD students and postdocs can engage with any number of the practices outlined.

If you would like to attend the event, then please submit the form here by 12:00 noon, Tuesday 13th February.

Hope to see you all there!

Speaker: Samuel Forbes, Durham University

Title: Pointing a way forward for navigating early word learning

Abstract: Infants learn words with great speed, and such apparent ease, that it can be easy to forget the hard work that goes into that process. In fact the infant vocabulary is highly variable, and disruptions to a number of processes can disrupt early word learning, with ramifications for future language learning, literacy and educational attainment. Here I will highlight some recent and ongoing work, where we look at the role of attentional processes and individual differences in word learning, and at the same time highlight how gesture and motor development helps bootstrap the infant vocabulary. I will also discuss the recent methodological advances that may point a way forward in understanding how – and when – infants learn their first words.