About ABRIR

In response to the global need of increasing representation in how we conduct open science, a small working group came together to form a solution. At PSACON21, we first discussed the idea that researchers from developing nations face unique challenges when fulfilling participatory or leadership roles in big team open science networks. Notably, many Big Team networks like the PSA & ManyLabs struggle to recruit populations and display researcher leadership beyond WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialist, Rich & Democratic) populations. A key solution is to Advancing Big-team Reproducible Science through Increased Representation, thus the acronym ABRIR. 

Supported by the SIPS Grants-in-Aid to Reduce Barriers to Improving Psychological Science 2021, we are developing a workshop series to openly generate knowledge & training resources to bring more researchers from low-to-middle-income countries (LMIC) to the global stage. Check more details about the upcoming workshop series on our Events page.

Our long-term mission is to continue the work of identifying challenges uniquely faced by researchers from the Global South and devising best practices that can be shared within the academic community. We hope to build a collaborative network of psychological science researchers from LMICs to explore and answer questions of deep relevance to their local regions.