2025 European ESA Meeting in Brno: Pre-conference Mini-course on Open Science & Meta-analysis
matteom...@gmail.com
Dear ESA
Community,
we are delighted to advertise a Mini-course on Open Science & Meta-analysis
for PhD students and early-career researchers, which will take place from
September 1 to September 3, 2025 at the Masaryk University in Brno (Czech
Republic) before the 2025 European ESA Meeting. The mini-course is jointly
taught by Felix Holzmeister
(University of Innsbruck) and Matteo M.
Marini (University of Bologna).
Content of the Mini-course
This mini-course offers a critical examination of the “rules of the game” in science, highlighting common issues that threaten the credibility of scientific findings. Relatedly, it presents key remedies such as power calculations, confirmatory research through pre-registration, and open and transparent research practices. The mini-course also covers the fundamentals of meta-analysis – a method for systematically combining results from multiple studies to assess consistency, resolve conflicting findings, and improve the precision of effect size estimates.
By the end of
the course, students will understand why and how common research (mal)practices
can lead to low levels of replicability and reliability. They will grasp the
value of confirmatory research and transparent research practices, and will be
able to perform power calculations, sensitivity analyses, and design
pre-analysis plans. They will learn to critically assess research projects for
integrity and ethics.
Students will also gain an understanding of the advantages of conducting
meta-analyses over narrative literature reviews, and will become familiar with
the procedures to select studies, choose summary statistics, moderators, and
models. Students will be able to conduct a meta-analysis using Stata, including
such steps as heterogeneity assessment, subgroup analysis, meta-regression, and
bias detection and mitigation.
Price & Link to Registration:
125 EUR (single rate)
Places are limited and will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.
Registration will
open on May 16 and close on July 31. Registration Link: https://esa2025.econ.muni.cz/summer-schools#Mini-course-in-Open-Science
Contact details:
Should you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us at felix.ho...@uibk.ac.at (Felix Holzmeister) and matteom...@gmail.com (Matteo M. Marini).
We look forward to seeing you in Brno!
Kind regards,
Matteo and
Felix
matteom...@gmail.com
this is a gentle reminder that the registrations are now open for the Mini-course on Open Science & Meta-analysis that will take place from September 1 to September 3, 2025 at the Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic), just before the 2025 European ESA Meeting. The mini-course is jointly taught by Felix Holzmeister (University of Innsbruck) and Matteo M. Marini (University of Bologna).
Price & Link to Registration:
- 125 EUR (single rate)
- Places are limited and will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.
- Registration will close on July 31. Registration Link: https://esa2025.econ.muni.cz/summer-schools#Mini-course-in-Open-Science
Contact details:
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us at felix.ho...@uibk.ac.at (Felix Holzmeister) and matteom...@gmail.com (Matteo M. Marini).
We look forward
to seeing you in Brno!
Kind regards,
Matteo and
Felix