Management of research data is globally being seen as part of good research practice. As a result of this, funders are increasingly insisting on proof of good research data management (RDM) practices when funding proposals are submitted. This study aimed at establishing the data management practices of emerging researchers at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa. With no official RDM procedures currently being implemented at the CSIR, it was hoped that by gaining information about the RDM practices of emerging CSIR researchers, as well as insight into the RDM challenges experienced by them, this researcher would be able to put forward recommendations enabling the establishing of an RDM regime at the CSIR. The study aimed at answering several research questions. The main research question was: How can an organisation like the CSIR ensure that future researchers apply best practices when managing the CSIR’s research data? Five research sub-questions were identified: 1. What are the international RDM requirements, standards, best practices and expectations that are being developed? 2. What data practices need more formalised support: at CSIR, nationally, internationally? 3. What data are collected and held by emerging researchers in the CSIR? 4. What are the current RDM practices and themes among emerging researchers in the CSIR? 5. What are the RDM-related challenges, issues and concerns facing emerging researchers at the CSIR? A total of 48 emerging researchers from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa completed an online survey investigating their RDM practices. RDM practices investigated included the use of data management plans, data storage and backup locations, creation of metadata, metadata standard adherence, and data sharing practices. Challenges faced when managing research data, as well as RDM needs and requirements, also formed part of the survey. Results of the online questionnaire revealed that the RDM practices of the group studied do not show to differ significantly from experienced CSIR researchers, or from researchers studied elsewhere on the globe. Findings enabled this researcher to put forward several recommendations which would assist in the implementing of a formalised RDM structure at the CSIR. Recommendations addressed, but were not limited to: formalization of RDM procedures, RDM marketing, and RDM training. / Dissertation (MIS)--University of Pretoria, 2016. / Information Science / MIS / Unrestricted

Yes / Open research practices seek to enhance the transparency and reproducibility of research. Whilst there is evidence of increased uptake in these practices, such as study preregistration and open data, facilitated by new infrastructure and policies, little research has assessed general uptake of such practices across psychology university researchers. The current study estimates psychologists’ level of engagement in open research practices across universities in the United Kingdom and Ireland, while also assessing possible explanatory factors that may impact their engagement. Data were collected from 602 psychology researchers in the UK and Ireland on the extent to which they have implemented various practices (e.g., use of preprints, preregistration, open data, open materials). Here we present the summarised descriptive results, as well as considering differences between various categories of researcher (e.g., career stage, subdiscipline, methodology), and examining the relationship between researcher’s practices and their self-reported capability, opportunity, and motivation (COM-B) to engage in open research practices. Results show that while there is considerable variability in engagement of open research practices, differences across career stage and subdiscipline of psychology are small by comparison. We observed consistent differences according to respondent’s research methodology and based on the presence of institutional support for open research. COM-B dimensions were collectively significant predictors of engagement in open research, with automatic motivation emerging as a consistently strong predictor. We discuss these findings, outline some of the challenges experienced in this study, and offer suggestions and recommendations for future research. Estimating the prevalence of responsible research practices is important to assess sustained behaviour change in research reform, tailor educational training initiatives, and to understand potential factors that might impact engagement. / Research funding: Aston University. Article funding: Open access funding provided by IReL.

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / Este trabalho descreve a experiência de uma pesquisa em psicologia social sobre a prática da burla dentro do ambiente da tecnologia da informação. Segue caminhos que essa prática percorre em meio a minha própria experiência de ator participativo desde seus momentos iniciais, passando pelo crescimento do uso da tecnologia e as suas construções e articulações. Ao usar o método de seguir os atores construtores da prática no campo, a teoria se funde com a prática e as ferramentas do método vão se performando dentro da escrita descritiva do texto. Todas as questões envolvidas são vistas por perspectivas variadas, fugindo da dicotomização do certo ou errado. / This paper describes the experience of research in social psychology about the practice of possible ways within the environment of information technology. Follow ways that this practice runs through my own experience of participatory actor since his initial moments, through the increased use of technology and its buildings and joints. By using the method of builders to follow the actors in the field of practice, theory merges with the practical tools and method will be performing in the descriptive writing of the text. All the issues involved are viewed by different perspectives, escaping the dichotomy of right and wrong.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-23T14:02:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Felipe Ferreira Barros Carneiro - Parte 1.pdf: 175726 bytes, checksum: 774b290c0237b6ac301b12027e9493a1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-02-23 / Objetivou compreender como foi produzido o conhecimento sobre a temática escola que, sob a chancela do Colégio Brasileiro de Ciências do Esporte (CBCE), ganhou circulação no campo da Educação Física. As fontes privilegiadas foram os trabalhos veiculados nas comunicações orais do GTT Escola, durante os Congressos Brasileiro de Ciências do Esporte (CONBRACE), realizados no período de 1997 a 2009. O corpus documental foi composto pelos 177 textos publicados nos anais desse congresso durante o período investigado. O CONBRACE é um evento realizado pelo CBCE a cada biênio e representa um marco de troca e/ou manutenção das diretrizes que guiarão a instituição. Compreendendo anais desse congresso como um dispositivo editorial de conformação de sentidos, parte-se do entendimento de que os diretores dessa entidade valem-se do seu lugar de poder para definir o que merece circular na área e ser preservado no campo científico. A pesquisa foi elaborada tomando como referência as ferramentas procedentes da História Cultural francesa e da Micro-história italiana. Assim, utiliza como referência as proposições de Chartier (1988) sobre as lutas de representação pela disputa da autoridade científica em um campo permeado por estratégias que partem de um lugar de poder (CERTEAU, 1994) qual seja: o CBCE. As teorizações de Michel de Certeau serviram como elo entre as escolas da História mobilizadas nesta pesquisa, de modo que a noção de usos e apropriações também foi utilizada. A base metodológica foi alicerçada no paradigma indiciário de Ginzburg (1989), a partir do qual foram investigados os pormenores negligenciados pelo dito e pelo não dito pelo objeto. A pesquisa salienta as mudanças no suporte de leitura dos anais, bem como na ação dos dispositivos. Indica que a produção do conhecimento no campo tem buscado seguir as diretrizes das agências de fomento à pesquisa. Demonstra os usos e apropriações do referencial teórico-metodológico, apontando para os limites e possibilidades dessa produção. Por fim, salienta a complexidade das práticas de controle científico que se reproduzem nas instâncias do CBCE / Aimed to understand how was produced the knowledge on the school subject that, under the seal of the Colégio Brasileiro de Ciências do Esporte (CBCE), was broadcasted in the Physical Education area. The privileged fonts were the works broadcasted in the oral communications of the GTT Escola, during the Congressos Brasileiro de Ciências do Esporte (CONBRACE), occurred between 1997 and 2009. The documental corpus was compound by the 177 published texts in these congresses annals during the researched cycle. The COMBRACE is a biennial event promoted by the CBCE and represents a boundary of changes or maintenance of the institution guidelines. Understanding the annals of this congress as an editorial device for senses conformation, we also understand that the directors of this entity avail themselves of their power place to establish what deserves to be broadcast and preserved in the scientific field. The research was elaborated taking as reference the tools from the French Cultural History and the Italian Micro-history. Thus, it uses as references the proposals of Chartier (1988) on struggles of representation in the scientific authority contest in a field permeated by strategies from a power place (CERTEAU, 1994) the CBCE. The theorizations of Michel de Certeau worked as links between the History schools mobilized in this research, so that the uses and appropriations notions were also used. The methodological support was found in the evidentiary paradigm of Ginzburg (1989), from which were investigated the neglected details by what was said or not by the object. The research underscores the changes in the annals reading supports, as also in the action of the devices. Indicates that the production of knowledge in the field has attempted to follow the guidelines of the agencies for research funding. It demonstrates the uses and appropriations of the theory and methodological referential, pointing out to limits and possibilities of that production. At last, underscores the practices complexity in the scientific control that are reproduced in the CBCE instances

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / Este trabalho descreve a experiência de uma pesquisa em psicologia social sobre a prática da burla dentro do ambiente da tecnologia da informação. Segue caminhos que essa prática percorre em meio a minha própria experiência de ator participativo desde seus momentos iniciais, passando pelo crescimento do uso da tecnologia e as suas construções e articulações. Ao usar o método de seguir os atores construtores da prática no campo, a teoria se funde com a prática e as ferramentas do método vão se performando dentro da escrita descritiva do texto. Todas as questões envolvidas são vistas por perspectivas variadas, fugindo da dicotomização do certo ou errado. / This paper describes the experience of research in social psychology about the practice of possible ways within the environment of information technology. Follow ways that this practice runs through my own experience of participatory actor since his initial moments, through the increased use of technology and its buildings and joints. By using the method of builders to follow the actors in the field of practice, theory merges with the practical tools and method will be performing in the descriptive writing of the text. All the issues involved are viewed by different perspectives, escaping the dichotomy of right and wrong.

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Using a uniquely developed research methodology called ‘feminist virtual ethnography’ this thesis explores female adolescent subculture on the social network site Facebook, looking specifically at a group of four girls who are ‘Facebook friends’ with each other as well as friends at the same high school in a large metropolitan city in south-western Ontario in Canada. The thesis is guided by research questions that focus on how these girls virtually-represent their bodies on Facebook, and develops a theory of concurrent identity formation (CIF) as a way to understand the translatability and conversion between the ‘real’ and the ‘virtual.’ Built as a collaborative inquiry between the researcher and research participants, I invited the girls to analyze screenshots of their own (and each other’s) virtual self-representations during a series of virtual conversations and to express their understandings of femininity and beauty as they problematize their identities on Facebook and in ‘real’ contexts such as at school and at home. Overall, findings reveal an interplay of body, image, and text within the girls’ systems of imagery and language. I suggest that the female adolescent body is virtually self-represented in negotiated as well as discursive ways, and that the girls’ identities are always in flux. While CIF provides a good basis for understanding these girls’ identities as ‘in flux,’ further investigation into virtual representation and CIF is needed to understand how and why adolescents display their bodies and articulate their identities in certain ways. Pedagogical implications are also discussed in my concluding chapter, where I call for a reconceptualization of literacies and methodologies, especially when dealing with girls on/and Facebook.

Current practices in study design and data analysis have led to low reproducibility and replicability of findings in fields such as psychology, medicine, biology, and economics. Because gifted education research relies on the same underlying statistical and sociological paradigms, it is likely that it too suffers from these problems. This article discusses the origin of the poor replicability and introduces a set of open science practices that can increase the rigor and trustworthiness of gifted education’s scientific findings: preregistration, open data and open materials, registered reports, and preprints. Readers are directed to Internet resources for facilitating open science. To model these practices, a pre peer-review preprint of this article is available at https://psyarxiv.com/nhuv3/.

Cette thèse s’intéresse aux données de la recherche, dans un contexte d’incitation croissante à leur ouverture. Les données de la recherche sont des informations collectées par les scientifiques dans la perspective d’être utilisées comme preuves d’une théorie scientifique. Il s’agit d’une notion complexe à définir, car contextuelle. Depuis les années 2000, le libre accès aux données occupe une place de plus en plus stratégique dans les politiques de recherche. Ces enjeux ont été relayés par des professions intermédiaires, qui ont développé des services dédiés, destinés à accompagner les chercheurs dans l’application des recommandations de gestion et d’ouverture. La thèse interroge le lien entre idéologie de l’ouverture et pratiques de recherche. Quelles formes de gestion et de partage des données existent dans les communautés de recherche et par quoi sont-elles motivées ? Quelle place les chercheurs accordent-ils à l’offre de services issue des politiques de gestion et d’ouverture des données ? Pour tenter d’y répondre, 57 entretiens ont été réalisés avec des chercheurs de l’Université de Strasbourg dans différentes disciplines. L’enquête révèle une très grande variété de pratiques de gestion et de partage de données. Un des points mis en évidence est que, dans la logique scientifique, le partage des données répond un besoin. Il fait partie intégrante de la stratégie du chercheur, dont l’objectif est avant tout de préserver ses intérêts professionnels. Les données s’inscrivent donc dans un cycle de crédibilité, qui leur confère à la fois une valeur d’usage (pour la production de nouvelles publications) et une valeur d’échange (en tant que monnaie d’échange dans le cadre de collaborations avec des partenaires). L’enquête montre également que les services développés dans un contexte d’ouverture des données correspondent pour une faible partie à ceux qu’utilisent les chercheurs. L’une des hypothèses émises est que l’offre de services arrive trop tôt pour rencontrer les besoins des chercheurs. L’évaluation et la reconnaissance des activités scientifiques étant principalement fondées sur la publication d’articles et d’ouvrages, la gestion et l’ouverture des données ne sont pas considérées comme prioritaires par les chercheurs. La seconde hypothèse avancée est que les services d’ouverture des données sont proposés par des acteurs relativement éloignés des communautés de recherche. Les chercheurs sont davantage influencés par des réseaux spécifiques à leurs champs de recherche (revues, infrastructures…). Ces résultats invitent finalement à reconsidérer la question de la médiation dans l’ouverture des données scientifiques. / The thesis investigates research data, as there is a growing demand for opening them. Research data are information that is collected by scientists in order to be used as evidence for theories. It is a complex, contextual notion. Since the 2000s, open access to scientific data has become a strategic axis of research policies. These policies has been relayed by third actors, who developed services dedicated to support researchers with data management and sharing.The thesis questions the relationship between the ideology of openness and the research practices. Which kinds of data management and sharing practices already exist in research communities? What drives them? Do scientists rely on research data services? Fifty-seven interviews were conducted with researchers from the University of Strasbourg in many disciplines. The survey identifies a myriad of different data management and sharing practices. It appears that data sharing is embedded in the researcher’s strategy: his main goal is to protect his professional interests. Thus, research data are part of a credibility cycle, in which they get both use value (for new publications) and exchange value (as they are traded for other valuable resources). The survey also shows that researchers rarely use the services developed in a context of openness. Two explanations can be put forward. (1) The service offer comes too early to reach researchers’ needs. Currently, data management and sharing are not within researchers’ priorities. The priority is publishing, which is defined as source of reward and recognition of the scientific activities. (2) Data management services are offered by actors outside the research communities. But scientists seem to be more influenced by internal networks, close to their research topics (like journals, infrastructures…). These results prompt us to reconsider the mediation between scientific communities and open research data policies.

Sierra Leone is in transition to peace and development, from a previous decade long civil war. Educated Muslim women appear to have a great deal of expression, interest and passion to offer the process. The study investigates the new emerging social sub group of professional Muslim women in Sierra Leone society and explores their views and experiences of identifying and attempting to overcome the burdens of patriarchy, oppression and exploitation perpetrated by religious, social and cultural beliefs. The research and thesis consider in what ways these women and their views ‘fit’ in or challenge society and their perceptions of the potential they have as models to impact on the lives of Sierra Leonean Muslim women nationwide. Using feminist influenced research practices in order to focus on the stories and voices of these women, the study contributes to the growth of knowledge related to the emergent changing roles and perceptions of Muslim women in present day Sierra Leone. This qualitative and interdisciplinary research develops a critical focus and deliberately combines literary sources in an informative context, with feminist research methods of interviews and focus groups on issues of gender equality and empowerment. Through the interviews and focus group discussions conducted, the research portrays the perceptions of the emerging social sub group of professional Muslim women, a cross section of grass-root Muslim women and a selection of male Muslims regarding empowerment, knowledge, culture, independence and oppression. These are also illustrated as the ways the participants embrace the concept of feminism and adapt it by drawing on their Sierra Leonean, Islamic, cultural and social traditions. The research examines the various ideologies that stifle the growth of Sierra Leonean Muslim women from their perspective and it analyses the strategies used by the professional women to tackle the oppressive and repressive customs and stand up against patriarchy. It was discovered through the findings that the research gives an insight into the determination and the conviction of professional Muslim women in advocating for social change and in making their voices heard. As an outcome, it is evidenced that this emerging social sub group of Muslim women appear to be inspiring self-development moves and changes not only among the uneducated grass-root majority, but in the fold of their Muslim men-folk, resulting in a visible impact of self development and self empowerment among Sierra Leonean Muslim women.