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Caitlin Doley, Postgraduate Researcher, History of Art (co-founder and editor-in-chief, 2018-20)

_{Blair Apgar (co-founder and editor-in-chief, 2018-19), Dr Marte Stinis (editor-in-chief, 2019-20), Charlotte Davis (editor-in-chief, 2020-21), Katerina Perdiki (editor-in-chief, 2020-21), Eliza Goodpasture (editor-in-chief, 2021-present day). All other editorial board members are listed on the homepage of the issue(s) that they helped produce.}

Grace Murray, Postgraduate Researcher, English and Related Literature

Emma Marshall, Postgraduate Researcher, History

_{Dr Katherine Hunt, Lecturer in 16th and 17th Century Literature, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia}

_{This project was funded by the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (CREMS) at the University of York.}

Dr David Watson, Research Associate, Psychology

_{Prof Timothy Andrews (Supervisor)}

The researchers conducted a project using publicly available MRI datasets to investigate how connectopic mapping techniques may be used to reveal functional gradients in human primary visual cortex during movie watching. This project comprised an initial exploratory investigation of data from one publicly available resource (StudyForrest) and the researchers are now conducting a preregistered replication using a second independent dataset obtained from the Human Connectome Project. They have made all the analysis code publicly available on OSF and the research design and analysis plan have been strengthened by feedback provided through the registered report peer review process.

The researchers' positive experience with this process has encouraged other members of the lab, including postgraduate researchers, to adopt similar open research practices.

David Shaw, Research Associate, Environment and Geography

_{Prof Nicola Carslaw}

_{The development of this model has been funded by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, grant number 2018-10083. Conclusions reached or positions taken by researchers or other grantees represent the views of the grantees themselves and not those of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation or its trustees, officers, or staff.}

INCHEM-Py is an open-source box model for solving indoor air chemistry with time. From review to release the model has been focussed on being open and accessible (GitHub link). It has a strong copy left licence meaning that anybody may use, develop, and extract from the model, but must then must also publish anything they do with it under the same open licence. The software was submitted to the Journal of Open Source Software which advocates for open research practices and performs open reviews of submitted works

INCHEM-Py is currently being used by multiple research groups at multiple universities, including PhD and Masters level projects.

Vlad Ungureanu, Postgraduate Researcher, Electronic Engineering and Biology

_{Dr Andrew Mason (Supervisor)}

As a software engineer, Vlad believes that data and tools should be openly available to the scientific community and created with scalability in mind. Throughout the years researchers in the Jack Birch Unit group (JBU, Biology) have generated multiple datasets containing gene expression, but there has not been a centralised tool to visualise and compare the gene data. As a result, Vlad has developed a web app using Python that allows the researchers to compare the gene expression from various datasets between different tissue types and other metadata. The tool was designed with scalability & maintainability in mind, making it easy to add new datasets and improve the graphs and the stats displayed.

The tool is still in a testing phase, but it will be released openly to the general public once stable.

_{This project was also presented as a lightning talk at our York Open Research: Two Years On event}

Kirralise Hansford, Postgraduate Researcher, Psychology

_{Dr Catherine Preston, Dr Daniel Baker}

_{Supported by a scholarship from The Pain Relief Foundation}

Veniamin Shiron, Undergraduate Student, Psychology

_{Dr Silke Goebel, Dr Angela de Bruin}

_{Supported by an Experimental Psychological Society Undergraduate Summer Research Bursary}

In order to follow the most transparent research practices, the researchers spent the first few weeks of this project solely working on writing the preregistration and publishing it on OSF. This is an extremely important component as it requires in-depth descriptions of most aspects related to the project, which will later allow for replication of findings.

Veniamin presented this project, including its null results, to the wider community as a poster at the Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) conference (link to recording on YouTube). When writing up certain aspects of the project, the researchers made sure that all demographic and language background data that matches participants was reported. Sharing null results is just as important as sharing positive findings, especially with the addition of other experiments to understand where the null result is coming from.

Veniamin's supervisors have taught these core principles about how research should be executed and handled at every stage, and as an aspiring PhD candidate, it has been extremely helpful to learn at such an early stage of their career.

Angela de Bruin, Lecturer, Psychology

_{This initiative was supported by the Open Science Interest Group in Psychology, in particular Cátia Ferreira De Oliveira, Jamie Cockcroft, and Anna Guttesen}

Within the Department of Psychology, Open Research (OR) practices, including study pre-registration, sharing data and publishing open access, are commonly used. However, one of the key challenges remains increasing awareness and supporting use of these OR practices among researchers in all career stages. A crucial step in this process is ensuring early career researchers become familiar with different types of OR from the beginning of their research career and, most importantly, know how they can receive support if needed.

Angela has organised and been involved in various events that aim to increase this awareness and support, including departmental meetings to discuss new and ongoing initiatives, an insightful annual survey of open research awareness and engagement, and a new workshop, “Open Science: The What, Why, and How” (OSF link to slides and Panopto recording) which is attended not just by Y1 PhD students (for whom it is now mandatory) but also by other PhD and MSc students. Doing this as a group session provides them with an interactive environment in which they can discuss OR practices with their peers, which hopefully forms the start of a network.

Angela is working on other ways to facilitate ongoing support in the department, such as by including discussion around OR practices in students’ TAP (Thesis Advisory Panel) meetings, and developing a guide for supervisors including short introductions to various OR practices. This will be accompanied by an event in January for both new and current supervisors

Dr Alana Kluczkovski, Research Associate, Biology

^{Prof Sarah Bridle, Prof Katherine Denby,  Professor, Biology; Dr Belinda Morris, Anthonia James} 

^{Supported through multiple research grants - see acknowledgements page on the project website for details}

Combining understanding of different aspects of the food system, such as expertise in greenhouse gas emission calculations, nutrition, crop diseases, and data handling, the Take a bite out of climate change (Takeabitecc) initiative aims to communicate to school students, families and the general public a coherent message which conveys the message that individual choices can make a difference to tackling climate change.

The initiative started with an exhibit with outreach activities in various science festivals around the UK, such as the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition and Bluedot Festival in 2019 (see open access article in MDPI Sustainability). During the COVID-19 lockdown, Alana and the Takeabitecc team developed free online resources for school children aged 7–14 years, along with school teachers and parents/carers (see open access article in Nutrition Bulletin). Alana has also run projects engaging with teachers and students in North Wales on increasing awareness of food climate impacts, and  coordinated the development of the Pre-COP26 School Food and Climate Summit, an activity program for four secondary schools across the UK to increase students’ awareness of food climate impacts and providing them with an opportunity to set ambitious climate reduction targets.

Takeabitecc events and activities have reached more than 42,000 people, with open resources such as the Climate Food Challenge online game, flashcards and activity worksheets.

Scott Cairney, MRC Career Development Award Fellow, Psychology

_{Submitted on behalf of all members of his lab: Anna Guttesen, Emma Sullivan, Marcus Harrington, Dr Jennifer Ashton and Emily Madden}

_{Supported by an MRC Career Development Award Fellowship (MR/P020208/1)}

The overarching goal of this research is to understand the basic mechanisms through which sleep supports cognition and mental health. Open research practices and principles have been at the heart of this project since its inception in 2017, helping Scott and members of his lab to ensure that their outputs are characterised by the highest standards of scientific rigour and transparency.

They have gone to great lengths to engage with a variety of open science initiatives, including: a registered report (a secondary data analysis protocol using a large-scale and publicly available dataset obtained during the initial months of the pandemic, submitted as a registered report to the journal Cortex with their analysis scripts); preregistration of experimental paradigms, analysis methods and hypotheses (notable example on OSF, now published as an open access article in Cerebral Cortex); sharing research data and analysis scripts accompanied by data descriptors and metadata to facilitate new users’ analyses (example on OSF); sharing preprints of submitted manuscripts on psyarxiv.com, biorxiv.org and medrxiv.org; and seeking opportunities to develop individual skills in reproducible methods and share these with peers through the ReproducibiliTea journal club initiative (see list of last year's Awardees).

They have also reflected on potential issues or barriers to open research in their discipline, such as the investment of time required for registered reports, which can be problematic for PhD progression, and have pursued formalising changes to doctoral assessment criteria in their department to help incentivise such practices. 

Emre Deniz, Postgraduate Researcher, Education

_{Dr Gill A Francis, Research Fellow, Prof Carole Torgerson, Professor of Educational Evaluation, Dr Umar Toseeb, Senior Lecturer, Director of the Child and Adolescent Neurodevelopmental Diversity (CANDY) Group}

_{Supported by a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship}

The Child and Adolescent Neurodevelopmental Diversity Research Group (CANDY) are dedicated to the open-science movement and strive to make their research transparent and publicly available to increase reproducibility and replicability. Although researchers have previously reported the overall effectiveness of different types of play-based interventions on the social communication and language skills of autistic children, no previous systematic reviews have yet evaluated the effectiveness of parent-mediated play-based interventions in preschool autistic children. To address this gap in the literature, the group have preregistered a study protocol based on a proposed systematic review and meta-analysis study. This protocol reports their aims, research questions, study methodology and any conflicts of interest.

The study protocol was pre-registered with PROSPERO and uploaded as a preprint on PsyArXiv, making it publicly available for other researchers to openly use, reproduce, and replicate. Any data associated with the study protocol was and will be registered on OSF upon completion of the study. The protocol has so far been downloaded and read by more than 100 researchers on the OSF and has been submitted to an open access journal for publication.

Dr Gill Althia Francis, Research Fellow, Education

_{Dr Umar Toseeb, Senior Lecturer (Fellowship Mentor)}

_{Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship}

Gill's project straddles a new intersection of interdisciplinary research that involves the use of behavioural genetics research to study children’s playful practices, adopting open science practices to deliver this research in a transparent way.

The initial project idea was developed during her one-year ESRC White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership Fellowship and was preregistered on OSF. The project was redeveloped and extended in phase one of her Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, so the original preregistration has been updated (OSF link), forked from the original registration with an update provided (OSF link). This means that the same project DOI is used which ensures that this initial aspect of the research cycle remains open.

Subsequent outputs from this project (pre-prints, publications) will be added to the project registration. Data may not be shared due to restrictions with using cohort data, but the intention is to share R-scripts from the data analysis at the end of the project. Gill is also in the very early stages of developing a Github profile which will showcase work including this project. 

Yu Liu, Postgraduate Researcher, Education 

_{Leah Roberts (Supervisor)}