Research area 03 · Developing
Psychology Replication Crisis
Methodological and statistical questions raised by replication failure, and what they imply for how student research is taught.
Overview
Question and approach.
Core question
What should replication failure change about the way psychological research is designed, analysed and taught?
Approach
A methodological interest rather than a funded programme: statistical practice, design and analysis decisions, and the translation of those lessons into research methods teaching and dissertation supervision support.
Focus
The practical question is what a student running a first study should be taught to do differently: pre-specification, power, effect-size reporting, and honest description of exploratory work.
This area is stated as an interest and a teaching concern. No claims of published replication work are made here; see the publications page for the actual record.
Evidence — Stated as an interest arising from research methods and statistics support in the current role. No outputs are claimed in this area.