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SUMMARY:Barriers to reproducible research (and how to overcome them) - Dr 
 Kirstie Whitaker\, Research Associate\, Department of Psychiatry\, Univers
 ity of Cambridge
DTSTART:20180927T113000Z
DTEND:20180927T123000Z
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CONTACT:Nicholas Morgan
DESCRIPTION:This talk will define reproducible research as analyses can be
  recreated in full by an independent scientist. Dr Whitaker will discuss t
 he perceived and actual barriers experienced by researchers attempting to 
 conduct reproducible research\, and give practical guidance on how they ca
 n be overcome. The talk will include suggestions on how to make your code 
 and data available and usable for others (including a strong suggestion to
  document both clearly so you don’t have to reply to lots of email quest
 ions from future users...or yourself when that revise and submit decision 
 comes through!). Kirstie will cover a brief guide to version control\, col
 laboration and dissemination using GitHub as well as a discussion of tools
  to help you work reproducibly from the start. Exercises and resources wil
 l be persistently available after the talk and all audience members will l
 eave knowing there is something they can do to step towards making their r
 esearch reproducible.\n\nKirstie Whitaker is a research fellow at the Alan
  Turing Institute (London\, UK) and a senior research associate in the Dep
 artment of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. She completed her Ph
 D in Neuroscience at the University of California\, Berkeley in 2012 and h
 olds a BSc in Physics from the University of Bristol and an MSc in Medical
  Physics from the University of British Columbia. Her postdoctoral work wa
 s conducted in the Brain Mapping Unit at the University of Cambridge from 
 2012 to 2017. Dr Whitaker uses magnetic resonance imaging to study child a
 nd adolescent brain development and is a passionate advocate for reproduci
 ble neuroscience. She is a Fulbright scholarship alumna and 2016/17 Mozill
 a Fellow for Science. Kirstie was named\, with her collaborator Petra Vert
 es\, as a 2016 Global Thinker by Foreign Policy magazine. You can find mor
 e information at her lab website: whitakerlab.github.io.
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, Herchel Smith Building\, Forvie Site.
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