Open Science Webinar #2
We are excited to announce our Open Science Webinar Series this June, featuring short talks from researchers across Cambridge working on reproducibility, preregistration, statistics, and AI-enabled research practices.
Each webinar will last approximately 1 hour and include: 15-minute talks, Q&A/discussion and opportunities to connect with the local open science community. See the attached posters and information below for details.
WEBINAR 2: JUNE 15TH 2026
Open Science in Cambridge: Spotlight 2
Dr Alexia Cardona
Title: "Reproducible Research Training: Strengthening Research Quality”
Professor Florian Markowetz
Title: “We talked the talk, now AI is walking the walk - how AI breathes new life into research data management and reproducibility”
Dr Fiona Love
Title: "Challenges to Reproducibility in Bioimage Analysis"
→ REGISTER HERE: https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b26Aq3Fm56L7jJY
Open Science Webinar #1
We are excited to announce our Open Science Webinar Series this June, featuring short talks from researchers across Cambridge working on reproducibility, preregistration, statistics, and AI-enabled research practices.
Each webinar will last approximately 1 hour and include: 15-minute talks, Q&A/discussion and opportunities to connect with the local open science community. See the attached posters and information below for details.
WEBINAR 1: JUNE 5TH 2026
Open Science in Cambridge: Spotlight 1
Professor Alexander Bird
Title: “Is null hypothesis significance testing a questionable research practice?”
Professor Rik Henson
Title: “(Pre)Registration: a personal experience”
Dr Matthew Evans
Title: "Beyond the dataset with datalab: Data capture as a bottleneck of AI4Materials"
→ REGISTER HERE: https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b26Aq3Fm56L7jJY
Reproducible Research Fellowships 2025/26: Applications Open
RRCam is excited to announce our inaugural Reproducible Research Fellowships for the 2025/26 academic year.
This scheme offers researchers, technical professionals, postgraduate students, and academics the opportunity to design and deliver short training courses as part of the University of Cambridge’s Reproducible Research Training Programme. Training courses can focus on technical/non-technical skills, reproducible practices in your discipline, or any other training that you believe will support the reproducibility of research in your target audience.
Up to three Fellowships are available, each offering funding of up to £1,500 to support the development and delivery of the training.
Application deadline: 3 May 2026 (23:59 UK time).
Applicants are required to submit a CV and a brief outline of the proposed training.
Find out more and apply: https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3XkeSilIJrc6mAm
Professor Dorothy Bishop Lecture & Drinks Reception
We will be joined by Dorothy Bishop, Emeritus Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology at the University of Oxford. Details on the talk will be updated closer to the date.
Professor Marcus Munafo Lecture
Lecture by Professor Marcus Munafo, Founder of the UK Reproducibility Network and Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost at the University of Bath.
Love Data Week 2026: "Connecting research data and software communities: sharing experiences and creating opportunities"
This event brings together practitioners from across the research software and research data communities to share experiences, strengthen connections, and explore opportunities for collaboration. Whether you identify as a Research Software Engineer, Data Steward or Researcher, or are simply interested in research data or software, we welcome you to join us.
Find out more and register here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/stepupproject/1945329