In this making an impact special for 2024 myself and guest host Sarah Ellis the PGR Development Network Deputy Co-Lead chat with Alice about the challenges of reproducibility in research and how to enhance the impact of research by promoting open research practices.

Guest

Dr Alice Howarth (she/her) completed her PhD in cellular and molecular physiology in 2016 before working in several post-doc posts at the University of Liverpool. Now she works with the UK Reproducibility Network at the University of Liverpool to improve research culture and open and transparent research practices.

Guest Host

Sarah Ellis (she/her) is a PGR Development Network Deputy Co-Lead at University of Liverpool and the recipient of Newton Bequest Graduate Teaching Assistant Scholarship in Hispanic and Latin American Studies. Her current thesis working title is ‘Lexical Metamorphism of the Picaresque: Mapping Crisis, Criminality and the Castilian Question through its Evolving Identity’.

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Music & FX: This podcast uses sounds from ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://freesound.org/s/417560/⁠⁠⁠⁠ and music from ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.purple-planet.com⁠⁠

Recommended Reading:

• https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/library/research-data-management/essentials/data-protection-and-reproducibility/
• https://www.ukrn.org/open-research-programme/
• https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/open-research/
• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-016-0021