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October 2023
Hello there,
We hope this email finds you well. Welcome to FORRT's October newsletter!
With this newsletter, we hope to inform the larger community about FORRT's activities in the last month, and plans in the upcoming months. This digest is intended to help you cut through the noise and stay involved. If you missed our last newsletter, you can find it here.
We'd love to hear your feedback, email info@forrt.org if you have thoughts or questions.
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Newsletter Highlights
CERES training videos
FORRT members Madeleine Pownall, Luisa Fassi, and Sakshi Ghai were recently at the University of California to facilitate workshops on open research and record training videos for CERES.
FORRT were invited by Dr Amy Orben to continue the work we started last year on developing open science skills in the cohort of CERES scholars, who are early-career researchers in Educational Technology Research. FORRT also facilitated a workshop on open science terminology in EdTech, inspired directly by the FORRT glossary!
The team recorded training videos on:
- Questionable research practices
- Diversity in Big Team Science
- Positionality and reflexivity
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Featured Resources
FORRT Team Pedagogies just released a new Pedagogies with The Collaborative Replication and Education Project (CREP). We talked to Prof. Dr. Jordan Wagge, who shared with us her experience with CREP in conducting replications with students.
This Pedagogies feels extra special because it also includes the perspectives of two students on learning about Open Scholarship with CREP.
Check out the full interview with Prof. Dr. Jordan Wagge and her students Jasmine Beltran and Amy Hernandez along with links to all of CREP's open resources and materials here.
If you have suggestions of scholars and educators who are doing an outstanding work in integrating Open Scholarship into their teaching and mentoring, please nominate them for a future FORRT's Pedagogies here.
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Project Updates
Reversals website update
- The Reversals team have recently completed a big update of their website to list even more effects! Under each effect, you can find the summarised evidence on whether the effect has been found to replicate or not.
- You can still contribute to this resource by adding effects from your discipline. To contribute to this resource, join the Reversals Slack channel.
Outreach looking for new members
- Team Outreach is looking for members to help with all aspects science communication, such as our newsletter, social media accounts, and designing infographics to showcase FORRT's message.
- Outreach is also looking for someone with experience in LaTeX, or someone who wants to improve their skills in LaTeX, to help us update the official FORRT CV.
- Interested? Join FORRT's Slack, and introduce yourself on our Outreach channel, or send a direct message to Kelly Lloyd on Slack.
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Social media
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Events and Meetings
Event highlights
- On 3rd October, FORRT was invited by the European Health Psychology Society Open Science Special Interest Group, together with PaPOR Trial and Agape Open Science, to present the webinar: "Open Educational Resources about Open Science: What are they, and how can they help me?"
- FORRT Community Development Coordinator, Bethan Iley, recently presented at a Queen's University Belfast (QUB) School of Psychology departmental seminar, introducing the FORRT initiative. The seminar was well attended by QUB, well done Bethan!
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Get Involved
Regular meetings - everyone welcome!
Funding FORRT
- We are currently raising funds for a paid Community Manager, with the aim to accelerate FORRT's impact and ensure its sustainability as a volunteer organisation. The more we raise, the more we can sustainably run our community. All donations large and small welcome!
- We are also seeking broader funding to support this work. If you know of a funding opportunity which might be relevant to FORRT, please contact Bethan Iley on Slack or via email (bethan@we-are-ols.org).
Code of conduct
- We have a code of conduct to reflect an open, welcoming, diverse, and inclusive community mission. We ask everyone at FORRT to read our CoC and abide by it in all FORRT-related interactions and spaces.
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