How do I...?

Check out WIN's PE webpages, including the PE blog and PE news pages. 

If you have an idea or just want to get involved without a pre-defined project please reach out to Carinne Piekema and Hanna Smyth for help.

If you have non-human or anonymous data it can be published on platforms such as OSF or zenodo. Both of these enable you to create a DOI for your data so it can be cited by others, and a Licence which makes it clear how you want others to re-use your work and give you credit.

If your data is not anonymous (i.e. includes information which is unique to your participants such as subject level brain structure), sharing and publication is restricted under GDPR. We are developing resources to support you in sharing this sort of data in GDPR compatible way. 

As a Wellcome Trust funded centre, you are strongly encouraged to publish your data where appropriate.

Further information about data sharing is available on the Open WIN Community Pages

See our WIN PE Upcoming Opportunities page, and watch the weekly WIN Monday Message emails for all the latest info. 

See the WIN PE Support for Researchers webpage for lots of resources to get started. WIN's public engagement team, Carinne Piekema and Hanna Smyth, are also happy to provide 1:1 support at any stage of the process, from idea development to grant application support to evaluation planning and on-the-ground delivery.  

WIN researchers are active in public, policy, and patient engagement, and support is available for all three of these (related) engagement fields. For more information about policy engagement at WIN, see the WIN Policy Engagement webpages or contact Jess Walsh or Laura Cini. 

Open science is a system of practices designed to make your research more transparent and reproducible. Transparency makes your work available for others to inspect, validate and learn from. Reproducibility means others can recreate your research in the same or different settings, with as little friction as possible, to understand how effects can generalise. You can learn more about all aspects of open science at WIN on the Open WIN Community Pages.

The Open WIN Community is a place for people who are interested in practicing or promoting open science. This includes the developers of our open science tools, contributors to our materials, and WIN Members who have contributed their feedback to help us ensure that recommendations around open science work for our researchers. The community exists to support and facilitate the normalisation of open science practice at WIN. It is supported by the Open WIN Ambassadors. Learn more about he Open WIN Community on the Open WIN Community Pages.

Code can be published on platforms such as OSF or zenodo. Both of these enable you to create a DOI for your data so it can be cited by others, and a Licence which makes it clear how you want others to re-use your work and give you credit.

Best practice is to first have a copy of your code on a version control platform such as GitHub or GitLab [link to GitHub/gitlab FAQ below]. 

As a Wellcome Trust funded centre, you are strongly encouraged to publish your code where possible.

More information and best practice guides, including materials you should publishing alongside your code, are available on the Open WIN Community Pages

There are tutorials and guides for using Git on the Open WIN Community Pages. We prefer WIN members to make use of our self-hosted instance of GitLab rather than commercial platforms such as GitHub, but we understand that there are features and benefits to both.

We run an annual “Introduction to GitLab” session as part of the WIN Reboot Camp, and are planning to hold in-depth practical training later in the year. All opportunities for GitLab training will be announced in the Monday Message.

Research Data Management (RDM) describes the processes and agreements you establish to ensure that your research data is collected, stored and communicated in compliance with your ethical and legal responsibilities. You are also encouraged to use best practice and community standards such as BIDS to ensure your data is well organised and structured in a way that others can understand. 

A data management plan (DMP) is a living document which describes your research data management strategies. It is often required at the grant application stage, but it can be useful to reference and update throughout a research project. It should describe your data from the point of collection through to publication where appropriate, and how you will address all relevant restrictions and constraints along the way.

You can find examples of DMPs created by WIN researchers on the Open WIN Community Pages.

You can also connect with Reproducible Research Oxford (RROx) to join a community of open research practitioners from all University Departments. Read more on Research Practice.

The UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) is the main hub for open research advocacy and support in the UK.