Dr Jackie Thompson
PhD, BA
Expertise
My topic is meta-research: i.e., I study how research is done, and how the process of doing research, as well as funding and publishing it, can be improved. Methods include surveys and interviews.
Current positions
Senior Research Associate
School of Psychological Science
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Biography
I have always been fascinated with minds and how they work. This led me to study how brains process music and language during my undergraduate degree in cognitive science (Yale University), then synaesthesia and number cognition in my PhD (University of Oxford), and later social cognition, such as how fiction relates to empathy and understanding others.
Throughout this time, seeing the flaws and gaps in the way research is typically done led me to want to improve it. This was in the larger context of a growing 'reproducibility crisis' (or 'credibility opportunity') in psychology, where many researchers realized how misaligned incentives and unexamined research practices had led to research in the discipline as a whole being much less reliable than we would like. This led me to my current field of meta-research, which aims to study and improve how research is done.
Throughout this time, seeing the flaws and gaps in the way research is typically done led me to want to improve it. This was in the larger context of a growing 'reproducibility crisis' (or 'credibility opportunity') in psychology, where many researchers realized how misaligned incentives and unexamined research practices had led to research in the discipline as a whole being much less reliable than we would like. This led me to my current field of meta-research, which aims to study and improve how research is done.
Publications
Recent publications
14/09/2021A qualitative analysis of stakeholder experiences with Registered Reports Funding Partnerships
Wellcome Open Research
