Tuesday 11th June 2024, 1-2 pm, Online

Open Science for Early Career Researchers: Opening the Door

with Dr. Elaine Toomey 

Dr Elaine Toomey is a Lecturer at the University of Galway and Programme Director of the MSc in Evidence-Based Future Healthcare. She is also a Health Research Board ‘Applying Research into Policy and Practice’ Research Fellow. She is a Cochrane Ireland Research Associate and a member of the Centre for Health Research Methods (University of Galway), and the Health Behaviour Change Research Group (University of Galway). Elaine’s research has two main strands – 1) utilising health behaviour change for chronic disease prevention and management, and 2) enhancing the methods used for the implementation of health research into policy and practice. She has specific methodological expertise in evidence synthesis, implementation science/knowledge translation, process evaluation, and fidelity/adaptation of behaviour change interventions. She is the Co-Chair and co-founder of the European Health Psychology Society Open Science Special Interest Group, a Catalyst for the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS), a member of the Health Research Board Open Research National Steering Committee, and a keen advocate for open science.