September 24, 2019 | News | Rostock Open Science Workshop

Open access to demographic research

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The Rostock Open Science Workshop will introduce demographic researchers to the tools and practices of open science. The Workshop will be held at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) on October 10^th and 11^th, 2019.

Open science aims at making research results and materials open and reproducible. Its goals are to increase transparency and to make research accessible to a wider public. The Rostock Open Science Workshop will introduce demographic researchers to the tools and practices of open science. The Workshop will be held at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, on October 10-11, 2019.

This two-day event aims to introduce the basics of open science, giving both tools and practical advice to adopt open science practices in demographic research. The Workshop will cover motivations and strategies to make research reproducible and accessible to a wider public.

It will provide a space for participants to discuss and to reflect on their research practice. Keynote speakers for the Workshop are leaders of the open science movement and push the boundaries of open population science. Hands-on practical sessions with expert instructors from a variety of disciplines will enable the participants to use open science tools in their everyday work.

Speakers

Keynote speakers

• Prof. Philip N. Cohen, Univ. Maryland, http://www.terpconnect.umd.edu/~pnc/
• Prof. Monica Alexander, Univ. Toronto, https://www.monicaalexander.com/

Course instructors

• Dr. Rima-Maria Rahal, Univ. Tilburg, https://rimamrahal.wordpress.com/
• Dr. Haghish Ebad Fardzadeh, Univ. Göttingen, http://www.haghish.com/
• Dr. Tobias Heycke, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, https://tobiasheycke.github.io/

Program

October 10

11:00 – 12:30   Philip N. Cohen “Why we need open science in demography, and how we can make it happen.”, Suessmilch auditorium

 * lunch *

14:00 – 15:30   Monica Alexander “Reproducibility in Demographic Research”, Suessmilch auditorium

 * coffee *

16:00 – 17:30   Rima-Maria Rahal “Using the Open Science Framework for your own Scientific Contributions”, Suessmilch auditorium

October 11

10:00 – 12:00   Using Markdown to document your analysis 

Tobias Heycke, “Introduction to R Markdown” Lexis room 005

Haghish Ebad Fardzadeh “Introduction to Stata Markdown”, Nora Frederici room 400

 * lunch *

14:30 – 15:30   Systematic management of research materials with Git and GitHub

Tobias Heycke, Lexis room 005

Haghish Ebad Fardzadeh, Nora Frederici room 400

 * coffee *

16:00 – 17:30   Discussion: Open Science guidelines and policies for demographic research, Suessmilch auditorium

Organizing committee