ABOUT THE WEBINAR
This webinar explores the principles of Open Science and their role in promoting transparency, reproducibility, and research integrity in the social and behavioural sciences. It will introduce emerging approaches to research evaluation, peer review, and replication, including the use of AI-powered tools, while highlighting opportunities for collaboration and strengthening Open Science practices in India.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Demystify Open Science: Provide a foundational understanding of the movement beyond just "open access."
Encourage Rigor: Explain the importance of replication and transparency in 'checking, maintaining, and improving the usefulness and trustworthiness of the scientific record'.
Innovate Evaluation: Introduce the concept of "living documents" and open, quantitative peer review, including AI-led evaluations.
Community Building: Serve as a "soft launch" for future in-person Evaluation and Replication Games in India.
MEET THE RESOURCE PEOPLE
LENKA FIALA, RESEARCH SCIENTIST, INSTITUTE FOR REPLICATION (UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA)
Lenka is a research scientist at the Institute for Replication (University of Ottawa). Her work focuses on the replicability and robustness of findings in social and behavioral sciences, often through large-scale collaborative projects and re-analyses of existing evidence. She currently leads two such projects: an interdisciplinary collaboration with Nature Human Behaviour, and a project on early childhood interventions in health and education.
DAVID REINSTEIN, Co-director, The Unjournal
David Reinstein is an economist and co-director of The Unjournal, a nonprofit commissioning public expert evaluations and ratings of research relevant to global priorities. His work focuses on improving research evaluation and incentives, alongside research on charitable giving, applied microeconomics, and field experiments. He holds a PhD in economics from UC Berkeley and previously worked at the Universities of Essex and Exeter and at Rethink Priorities. Through The Unjournal, he works to make research more rigorous, transparent, and useful for decision-making.
HANSIKA KAPOOR, research author, department of psychology, monk prayogshala
Dr. Hansika Kapoor is a Research Author at the Department of Psychology, Monk Prayogshala, Mumbai, India. She holds a PhD from IIT, Bombay in the area of dark creativity aka how people get good ideas to do bad things. She is the recipient of the Fulbright-Nehru Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (2019-2020) and is an Affiliate at the University of Connecticut. She won the 2025 Daniel E. Berlyne Award from Division 10 of the American Psychological Association for outstanding research by an early career scholar. She is a published author, practising psychologist, and has diverse experiences in research consultancy in behavioral and cognitive science. Her research interests lie in creativity, socio-moral psychology, and behavioural science. To know more, please visit: www.hansikakapoor.in
ANIRUDH TAGAT, research author, department of economics, monk prayogshala
Anirudh Tagat is a Research Author at the Department of Economics, Monk Prayogshala, Mumbai. Anirudh holds a joint PhD in economics from the IIT Bombay and Monash University Research Academy and an MSc in Economics from the University of Warwick, UK. Anirudh is also a visiting faculty member in economics at NMIMS’ Jyoti Dalal School of Liberal Arts, the School of Business Management, and the Meghnad Desai Academy of Economics. Anirudh’s work has been published in the Review of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Behavioural Public Policy, and has been awarded grant funding from the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP), National Council for Applied Economic Research (NCAER), and The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie). He is currently Deputy Editor at South Asia Research and Co-director at the Unjournal. His research interests include economics of the Internet, intra-household bargaining, and experimental economics.
AGENDA
eligibility
This webinar is open to early-career researchers (ECRs), PhD candidates, and undergraduate/postgraduate students in social and behavioral sciences, with a focus on the South Asian research landscape.
MODE:
Online
