BeOnline Pro­gramme 2018

All times are in British Sum­mer Time

#BeOnline2018

Ses­sion 1. Run­ning Exper­i­ments Online: Tools of the Trade

In this intro­duc­to­ry ses­sion we will intro­duce some of the key advan­tages and chal­lenges of run­ning exper­i­ments online and intro­duce some help­ful tools

• 09:50 Wel­come and Announce­ments Jen­ni Rodd, UCL
• 10:00 Online research is #trend­ing, but is it good sci­ence? Why Online? Jo Ever­shed, Caul­dron Science
• 10:20 The state of the art: a tech­ni­cal overview of what works today Nick Hodges, Caul­dron Science
• 10:40 [C]lick your screen: prob­ing the sens­es online Andy Woods

11:00–11.30 COFFEE

• 11:30 Online large-scale stud­ies with chil­dren out of the lab: the promise and the chal­lenge Kate Nation, Uni­ver­si­ty of Oxford
• 11:50 Recruit­ing Par­tic­i­pants for Online Stud­ies: Chal­lenges and Solu­tions Katia Damer, Prolific
• 12:10 Ensur­ing data qual­i­ty when you can’t see your par­tic­i­pants Jen­ni Rodd, UCL
• 12:30 The future of pub­lish­ing: An oppor­tu­ni­ty to con­tribute Cleo Ngiam, Springer Nature

12:40–13.40 Lunch

NB: Lunch will not be pro­vid­ed. There is a café in the build­ing and many oth­ers nearby.

Ses­sion 2. Appli­ca­tions of Online Meth­ods: Learn­ing from past Suc­cess­es (and Failures)

• 1:40 Using online resources to improve children’s lan­guage skills: Prospects and Chal­lenges Charles Hulme, Uni­ver­si­ty of Oxford
• 2:00 Online audi­to­ry train­ing and learn­ing stud­ies: promise and pit­falls Fred Dick, Birkbeck
• 2:20 The Uni­ty game engine for a large-cohort, devel­op­men­tal study Alex Irvine, MRC Cog­ni­tion and Brain Sci­ences Unit
• 2.40 Test­ing over 4 mil­lion par­tic­i­pants via a mobile app: Sea Hero Quest Hugo Spiers, UCL

3:00–3:30 TEA

• 3:30 Online data col­lec­tion in health psy­chol­o­gy research: what I have learned Suzan­na For­wood, Anglia Ruskin University
• 3:50 Doing mul­ti-per­son inter­ac­tive social cog­ni­tion stud­ies in psy­chi­a­try: suc­cess­es, chal­lenges and frus­tra­tions Vaugh­an Bell, Divi­sion of Psy­chi­a­try, UCL & Nichola Rai­hani, Exper­i­men­tal Psy­chol­o­gy, UCL
• 4:10 Mak­ing cog­ni­tive and lan­guage assess­ments avail­able online to prac­ti­tion­ers Mairéad Mac­Sweeney, UCL
• 4.30 Gen­er­al Discussions/  Ques­tions

5:00–6:00 DRINKS RECEPTION

Our spon­sors (Goril­la, Caul­dron Sci­ence and Pro­lif­ic) are kind­ly pay­ing for wine and nib­bles so that we can all chat about the future of online behav­iour­al science.