Done
Recording things i’ve done which don’t go under Papers, Talks or Newsletter: https://tomstafford.substack.com/. For current preoccupations, see here.
2024
2023
December 2023 : joined the PsyArXiv Scientific Advisory Board and approved as chair of the public engagement subcommittee. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv
2023-11-10; Worked with Lingyu-Meng on a novel visualisation of how group discussion shifts people’s opinions : https://lingyu-meng.github.io/convergence-valence_space/
2023-11-07-: elected Chair of UKRN Institutional Leads group
Sept 2022 - Sept 2023 Coordinator for UKRN Open Research programme, workstream 1: training
2023 August made https://tomstafford.github.io/imdb/, showing change in crowdsourced ratings of summer movies:
2023 July Consulted on University of Sheffield Guidelines on Generative AI
2023-05-23 Analysis of Open Editors data: https://tomstafford.github.io/editors/
2023 onwards: member of University of Sheffield Research Culture Steering Board, which provides leadership and coordination for the development of institutional research culture.
2023-05-18 Chaired UKRN/RoRI panel on The Future of Peer Review. (Recording, Slides)
2023-05-05 Co-author on UKRN working paper on Open Research Training Resources and Priorities, (news item)
2023-05-10 Cited in Science, Innovation and Technology Committee report on Reproducibility and research integrity. Written evidence:Commercial involvement in academic publishing is key to research reliability and should face greater public scrutiny
2023-04-15 Chaired Straight to the Facts: Can we save public debate? A dialogue with Will Moy
2023-02-19 Updated my minimal working example of RMarkdown + papaja + tenzing for APA formatted manuscript preparation, to include a rights retention statement : https://github.com/tomstafford/rmarkdown_apa
2023-02-06 Teaching my MSc course in Data Management and Visualisation. Materials, all CC-BY, and containing many links and resources on all things research project management, data wrangling and #dataviz here https://tomstafford.github.io/psy6422/
2023-02-01 and forever: taking part in UCU strike action
2023-01-24 Attended launch of N8 Research Partnership stands up for researchers with new Rights Retention statement
2023-01-17 Celebrating University of Sheffield announcing rights retention policy
2023-01-16 Retired the Choice Engine bot
2023-01-09 Graduation for Psychological Research Method with Data Science MSc class of 2021
2023-01-06 Updated: Experiment Design Checklist https://tomstafford.github.io/psy-checklist/
2023-01-05 Christmas message 2022
2023-01-01 Archive of tweets 2008-2022
2021
2021 onwards: member, University of Sheffield Open Research Advsory Group, “providing strategic leadership in the ongoing development, promotion and implementation of the policies and practices supporting the University’s commitment to Open Research”
2021 to 2024: member of University of Sheffield Research Excellence Working group, which developed, consulted on and agreed a common definition and understanding of ‘excellence’ for use alongside the institutional research strategy.
2020
Led development and adoption of the University of Sheffield statement on Open Research
2020: The Letters of Pope Gregory VII - pilot project (with Charles West and George Litchfield)
2020 onwards: member, University Vice President for Research’s Strategy Group (VPSG)
2019
Animated Itinerary of King John, Mapping The Itinerary of King Edward I, Mapping Papal Letters (with Charles West)
2018
2018: @ChoiceEngine - an interactive essay about the psychology of free will
Earlier
2017 to 2021: member, University of Sheffield Open Access Advisory Group, representing Faculty of Science, providing strategic overview of scholarly communication
2017 Organised Mind Matters ‘a series of events based on various psychological research to bring knowledge to the general public and showcase Sheffield as a hub for psychology!’
2012 - 2017 Wrote a column for BBC Future
2012-09 I wrote some of the code in LongArm, a robot which draws labrynthine patterns, by Matthias Jones
2012: The Cognitive Science Safari was a street-tour of classic social psychology experiments, in Berlin as part of the BMW Guggenheim Lab.
2011: The Tea Taste Test – explaining why statistics are important to psychology, using a controversy of how to make a cup of tea.