Special Interest Groups
The EHPS provide many outlets for collaborations based on joint interests
Open Science – SIG aims and upcoming events
The European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) Open Science Special Interest Group (SIG) was established in late December 2019, and in collaboration with the EHPS and other international organisations, we aim to:
Bring together health psychologists interested in Open Science behaviours
Share best practices/innovations in Open Science to health psychologists
Provide guidance and/or training on Open Science
Promote the role of health psychology for improving Open Science across disciplines
Liaise with organisations which promote Open Science
Encourage and reward replication and reproducibility within health psychology
Actions already made by this SIG
Established an Annual Early Career Open Science Award
Established an active SIG group of over 60 EHPS members
Open Science – Committee Details
Co-Chair
Dr Elaine Toomey
Ireland
Co-Chair
Dr Emma Norris
United Kingdom
Secretary
The Netherlands
Training Officer
Ireland
Training Officer
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Committee
Dr James Reynolds
United Kingdom
committee
Dr James Green
Ireland
Committee
Dr Alexandra Dima
France
Committee
Dr Sean Patrick Grant
United States
committee
Dr Keegan Knittle
Finland
Committee
Matti Heino
Finland
Committee
Dr Joanna Brooks
United Kingdom
Newsletter Rep
Tugce Varol
Turkey
Previous Committee Members
Social Media Lead
Dr Chris Noone
Ireland
Committee
Dr Charlotte Pennington
United Kingdom
Open Science – Early Career Award
Previous Winners
Early Career Award 2022
Rory Coyne
University of Galway
Early Career Award 2021
Dr Charlotte Pennington
Aston University
Eligibility:
Application Process:
Please complete the following Google Form by clicking here. The form requires:
A 250-word summary of why Open Science is important to you.
A 250-word summary of ONE Open Science practice that you are most proud of in your research e.g use of pre-registration, making your data and/or materials open, pre-print, using Open Science Framework etc
A 400-word summary of steps you are taking towards integrating Open Science into your current or future research (or teaching)
Up to 3 publicly accessible links to documentation/evidence in support of your summary. These may be links to documentation that evidence your use of Open Science within your research practice (such as links to pre-registration, Open Science Framework (OSF) pages, pre-analysis plans, data repositories, open data, open materials), or link to documentation that presents your research topic (such as the research publication or working paper) or innovation.
Your details including your EHPS membership number. Applications will only be considered from registered members of the EHPS (as per eligibility criteria).
Your consent for the information you provide to be processed for the purposes of the competition. Data will be destroyed after September 7th 2023.
All applications will be reviewed by two members of the EHPS OS SIG committee independently. Marks will be averaged across both reviewers. Where marks differ than more than 20%, a third reviewer will be involved and the marks will be averaged across three reviewers.
Applications will be marked out of 12 on evidence of applicant’s commitment to open science (5), impact of activities (5) and what sets your work in this area apart (2).
For any queries please contact elaine.toomey@universityofgalway.ie
Open Science – Training Events and Resources
Existing Open Science training:
Primers of the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN)
Centre for Open Science: Preregistration
PaPOR TraIL – Principles and Practices of Open Research
NUI Galway Open Science and Scholarship resources
Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training
Intro to Open Science:
Kathawalla, U-K., Silverstein, P., & Syed, M. (2021). Easing into open science: A guide for graduate students and their advisors. Collabra Psychology, 7(1).
Open Science Collaboration. (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349(6251).
ReproducibiliTea Introductory Reading List.
Open Science in Health Psychology & related fields:
Hagger, M. S. (2019). Embracing open science and transparency in health psychology. Health Psychology Review.
Norris, E., He, Y., Loh, R., West, R. & Michie, S. (2021). Assessing markers of reproducibility and transparency in smoking behaviour change intervention evaluations. Journal of Smoking Cessation
Shaw, R.L., Bishop, F.L., Horwood, J., Chilcot, J. & Arden, M.A. (2019). Enhancing the quality and transparency of qualitative research methods in health psychology. British Journal of Health Psychology, 24, 739-745.
Kwasnicka D, Ten Hoor GA, van Dongen A, Gruszczyńska E, Hagger MS, Hamilton K, Hankonen N, Heino MTJ, Kotzur M, Noone C, Rothman AJ, Toomey E, Warner LM, Kok G, Peters GJ, Luszczynska A. Promoting scientific integrity through open science in health psychology: results of the Synergy Expert Meeting of the European health psychology society. Health Psychol Rev. 2020 Nov 19:1-17.
Zečević, K., Houghton, C., Noone, C., Lee, H., Matvienko-Sikar, K., & Toomey, E. (2020). Exploring factors that influence the practice of Open Science by early career health researchers: a mixed methods study. HRB Open Research, 3.
Norris, E. & O’Connor, D. (2019). Science as behaviour: Using a behaviour change approach to increase uptake of open science. Psychology & Health.
O’Connor, D. B. (2020). The future of health behaviour change interventions: Opportunities for open science and personality research. Health Psychology Review, 14(1), 176-181.
Open Science in Health Psychology & related fields:
Norris, E., Prescott, A., Noone, C., Green, J., Reynolds, J., Grant, S. & Toomey, E. (2022). Establishing Open Science Research Priorities in Health Psychology: a research prioritisation Delphi exercise.