A LITTLE ABOUT ME

Click here to view my CV and materials from my workshops and talks.

I am currently an Assistant Researcher on the EXCELScIOR project at the University of Coimbra. My work falls into two main themes: 1. replicability and generalisability, and 2. uptake of open science practices by students, researchers, and journal editors.

I am also currently Associate Director of the Journal Editors Discussion Interface and President of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science.

OPEN SCIENCE

My own research includes pre-registration, Registered Reports, replication studies, open data and materials, reproducible analyses in R, and Bayes Factor Analysis of null results. See my OSF page here.

I have written an 8-week course for the Open University on Open Research! This course is for all levels and all disciplines, and is completely free for anyone to take and receive a certificate of completion.

I have also authored papers on how to get started in open science as a graduate student [paper | talk] and as a journal editor [paper | full guide] and a guide on open research across disciplines (you can read it here).

I train researchers at all career stages in open and reproducible science. All materials from my previous talks and workshops are openly available.

Diversity is essential to good science -- I strive to increase access to and participation in science, for example through Nowhere Lab (see below).

MY RESEARCH

For a full list of my publications, see my CV.

REPLICABILITY | GENERALISABILITY

In my previous postdoc, we investigated generalisability and researcher predictions of generalisability in psychology. While working for the Center for Open Science, I worked on the SCORE project which looks at replicability, reproducibility, generalisability, and robustness of findings across the social sciences, as well as human and machine learning predictions of these outcomes.

OPEN SCIENCE PRACTICES

I have studied uptake of open science practices in researchers across the UK and Ireland using the COM-B model of behaviour change; see our Registered Report.

I have also looked at undergraduate students' understanding of open science across the UK as part of the STORM project.

DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE

My PhD was in infant social cognition -- specifically, whether and how infants come to understand that they're being communicated to. See my thesis for an overview, or each of the three papers I published: [1], [2], [3]. I also did a postdoc looking at the relationship between Lego construction ability and children's spatial and mathematical skills. We published one paper and another Registered Report.

UPDATES

What have I been up to?

SEPTEMBER

We published a Handbook for Reproduction and Replication Studies!

I gave a short talk for the University of Coimbra 2025 Summer School in Computation Biology on engaging in open science practices as a computational researcher.

I started my new position as Assistant Researcher on the EXCELScIOR project at the University of Coimbra!

JULY

I attended Metascience 2025 in London, UK.

JUNE

Our paper "Introducing the Journal Editors Discussion Interface" was published in IASSIST Quarterly.

I attended SIPS 2025 in Budapest, Hungary, gave my presidential address, and ran a session on "The Future of SIPS".

I gave a talk at The University of Coimbra "On Replication Studies".

For more, please see my CV.

NOWHERE LAB

I run weekly lab meetings for people who don't have a lab! My lab is called Nowhere Lab and anyone from any field is welcome to join who doesn't have a lab but would like the lab meeting experience.

Target audience includes but is absolutely not limited to: new faculty who have no one in their lab yet, ex-academics who now work in industry, freelance sci-commers/consultants, people who are in a toxic lab, people between jobs, & keen undergrads.

To join, just email me (see email address at top of page).

The name "Nowhere Lab" is inspired by the Beatles song "Nowhere Man" about Jeremy Hillary Boob, PhD.