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Attendees at the Mary Immaculate Workshop Image Credit: Department of Psychology, Mary Immaculate College.

Posted by Eimear Hanahoe

15 May 2026

Dr Dermot Lynott, project lead of the TROPIC project and chair of the Irish Reproducibility Network, presented at the Open Research and Research Integrity Workshop, hosted by the Department of Psychology, Mary Immaculate College. The event also included a focus on open research using qualitative methods with Dr. Madaleine Pownell (University of Leeds), and a book launch for Dr. Marek McGann’s recent publication “The Great Psychology Delusion: Missteps, Pitfalls, and How to Make a More Successful Psychological Science”, co-authored by Prof. Craig Speelman of Edith Cowan University, Australia

 

 

Dr Dermot Lynott of the Irish Reproducibility Network and TROPIC project presenting at Dublin Business School, with presentation materials featured on a screen to his left. Image credit: DBS.

Dr Lynott also gave a keynote presentation at the Practical and Applied Research 2026 conference, hosted by Dublin Business School. He spoke of the role that open research has to play in improving research quality, and the importance of local communities in bringing about system-wide changes.

 

Images from top:

  1. Attendees at the Mary Immaculate Workshop. Image Credit: Department of Psychology, Mary Immaculate College.
  2. Dr Dermot Lynott, mid-talk, at Dublin Business School. Image credit: DBS.

 

 

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