UROP Project

Exploring Social Scientists’ and Humanists’ attitudes and perceptions towards “Open Science” practices

open science, qualitative, data analysis, semi-structured interviews, coding

Research Mentor: Kassidy Hof-Mahoney, She/her
Department, College, Affiliation: Unitersity Libraries, N/A
Contact Email: kh22p@fsu.edu
Research Assistant Supervisor (if different from mentor): Renaine Julian He/Him
Research Assistant Supervisor Email: rjulian@fsu.edu
Faculty Collaborators:
Faculty Collaborators Email:

Looking for Research Assistants: Yes
Number of Research Assistants: 1
Relevant Majors: Open to all majors
Project Location: On FSU Main Campus
Research Assistant Transportation Required:
Remote or In-person: In-person
Approximate Weekly Hours: 5-10, During business hours
Roundtable Times and Zoom Link:

• Day: Wednesday, September 3
  Start Time: 1:00
  End Time: 1:30
  Zoom Link: https://fsu.zoom.us/j/91060106930
• Day: Friday, September 5
  Start Time: 1:00
  End Time: 1:30
  Zoom Link: https://fsu.zoom.us/j/93069048211

Project Description

Open Science is the movement to make all aspects of scientific research more transparent and publicly accessible through actions like researchers publishing their work in an open access journal, sharing their full data set, participating in open peer review, and depositing a preprint in a repository. The prevalence of and researchers' attitudes towards these practices has been previously studied in the STEM field but has not yet been extensively examined among social science and humanities researchers.
We are interested in this gap in the existing literature and we will conduct semi-structured interviews with faculty in the Anthropology, History, Linguistics departments at FSU and FAMU to answer our research questions:
What are social scientists’ and humanists' attitudes and perceptions towards open science practices?
How do social scientists and humanists at FSU engage in open science practices?
What factors influence how social scientists and humanists at FSU engage in open science practices?
We will then transcribe and code the interviews to identify themes and concepts common among the interviewees that help to answer our research questions. The UROP student will be involved in each step of the research.

Research Tasks: Interview Transcription
Coding Interviews
Qualitative data analysis
Literature Review

Skills that research assistant(s) may need: Recommended:
Ability to work independently
Willingness to learn new skills and concepts