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PSI Webinar: Methodology and first results of the iRISE (improving Reproducibility In SciencE) consortium

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Date: Tuesday 24th June 2025
Time: 15:00 - 16:00 BST
Location: Online via Zoom

Who is this event intended for?: Researchers, professionals consuming and using research findings, and persons interested in research.

What is the benefit of attending?
: Be on top of the recent EU-wide development in reproducible science. 

Overview

This 1-hour webinar will be an opportunity to hear about the methodology and first results of the iRISE consortium. iRISE is working towards a better understanding of reproducibility and the interventions that work to improve it. At the end of the presentation there will also be the opportunity to ask questions.

Cost

This webinar is free to both Members of PSI and Non-Members.

Registration

To register for this event, please click here.

Speaker

Biography

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Rachel Heyard

Center for Reproducible Science, University of Zurich

Rachel Heyard holds a PhD in Biostatistics and is currently a postdoctoral fellow in meta-research at the Center for Reproducible Science, University of Zurich (UZH). After finalising her PhD at UZH in 2019, she left academia to join the data team of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) as a statistician. While working on diverse data and statistics projects informing science policy, she discovered her passion for meta-research - the interdisciplinary study of research itself. After a bit more than three years at the SNSF, she decided to go back to academia and started a postdoc in meta-research at the Center for Reproducible Science, where she teaches Good Research Practices and continues doing meta-research. Her research interests include developing and testing new approaches for allocating research funding, statistical methods in research, and improving reproducibility and the uptake of Open Science. In the EU consortium iRISE (improving Reproducibility In SciencE) she co-lead the theory work package. She is further the vice-president of the Swiss Statistical Society, part of the steering committee of the CoARA (Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment) working group on Responsible Indicators and Metrics, and the organiser of the Zurich ReproducibiliTea Seminar Series.
 

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