Worksheet 04: MeSearch and Open Science

Walking the walk (1 of 2)

A VERY simple worksheet this week

Have a look at the Open Science Foundation website

If you have a topic in mind, have a peek for any repositories relevant to that topic.

Have a look for Open Materials and Open Data

OSF | When Research is Mesearch: How Researchers’ Motivation to Pursue a Topic Affects Laypeople’s Trust in Science https://osf.io/phfq3/

Keep working on your Critical Proposals

If you have checked your target paper with your Lab Tutor.. Great.

If not, do so. Use the Materials in the Coursework Information section of the VLE to scaffold your reading and re-reading of the paper. Apply some careful thought. Discuss!

Next week we will discuss Open Science

In your mini-dissertation submissions, you are required to submit both Open Materials and Open Data

Some of you will not bother, or not remember. You cannot get a first if you omit these elements.

Find the mainstream, for now…

It is perfectly normal if you are trying to find solid ground with regards to how your topic is researched. Finding the ‘mainstream’ is the right point to be at.

Think about any names that keep cropping up. Look at whether techniques are consistent. Use tools from the Library or ResearchRabbit.ai to identify network effects or citation patterns.

Very shortly, once you’ve seen the mainstream, the humdrum, the middle of the road, you may start to see the rebels, the disruptors, the innovators, the people that Steve Jobs called ‘The Crazy Ones, the MisFits’ - the ones you can’t ignore https://youtu.be/-z4NS2zdrZc?si=DYq92lRNRBir9IMg

Are you going to be a troublemaker?

I’ll be disappointed if you’re not!

Have a great week and keep cracking on.