Covid research and resources

• Ethics for online research
  In this document we outline some of the key ethics issues which researchers and research ethics committees are advised to keep in mind when considering implementing or evaluating an IMR study, as well as what special considerations may apply.

• Ethics for research during Covid-19
  This document outlines the considerations and aims to assist researchers in recognising ethical practice issues during these unique circumstances.

• Tips on maintaining wellbeing for qualitative researchers - Cook & Woof
  This article, which originally appeared in the Spring 2020 issue of QMiP Bulletin, presents a number of anonymised quotes from wellbeing group members along with some tips, tricks, guidance and advice for maintaining wellbeing as a qualitative researcher.

• Conducting qualitative research during a global pandemic - Victoria Woof
  This articles outlines some of the issues surrounding qualitative research during the current pandemic, as well as offering some workable solutions and appraisals of data collection methodologies.

• Conducting/Supervising Community-Oriented Psychology Research During Covid-19
  This document comprises (1) pedagogical guidance, (2) research design resources, and (3) signposting to key ethics policies for use by student researchers and supervisors of community oriented psychology research.

• Conducting High Impact Research With Limited Financial Resources (While Working from Home)
  This paper discusses a range of ways in which high-quality research can be conducted without funding and face-to-face interactions.

• Covid-19 Research Protocols
  These protocols cover movement around the department and use of the laboratory and office space. They originated from the need to resume laboratory testing but are also applicable to staff and students who are entering the department for other purposes.

• Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for Testing of Healthy Participants
  This document outlines the SOPs to be followed when testing healthy participants under the age of 70. It accompanies the Risk Assessment for Testing of Healthy Participants. These procedures refer to testing in ALL Psychology Department labs. All those running or supervising in person research within the department should familiarise themselves with this document while preparing to submit their ethics application to (re)start their projects.

• Laboratory Clean-Down Procedures
  This document provides a guidance template for the cleaning of all surfaces, furnishings, and equipment, along with how to keep an accurate cleaning record and allow sufficient time between lab sessions.

• Psychology Department Re-Opening Information
  This document outlines the principles and protocols that will enable the Psychology department to be reopened for research and teaching, commensurate with the timescale and operational constraints imposed by the on-going coronavirus situation, in addition to the established health and safety processes.

• Request to Resume Face-to-Face Testing
  This document provides a template which can be used by departments whose researchers wish to return to performing face-to-face assessments.

• Restarting Research with Human Participants
  This document provides guidance and a template for university departments whose students wish to apply for an exception/exemption to restart research with human participants.

• Adapting Research Methodologies in the Covid-19 Pandemic: Resources for Researchers
  The resources contained in the document are intended for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers in social research at the stage of research design or data collection, and particularly for those involved in the research on ocean equity issues. Researchers at this stage may have originally relied on face-to-face forms of human interaction to collect their data and they can no longer do so due to the mobility restrictions in place worldwide. This document offers guidance on potentially useful methods to help redesign their projects.

• Changing Social Research Practices in the Context of Covid-19: Rapid Evidence Review
  The Rapid Evidence Review synthesises evidence available in academic publications from 2020 with the aim of charting how social research methods have been successfully adapted for, or designed for use within, the pandemic conditions of Covid-19.

• Cochrane Training
  Cochrane has some excellent resources to support systematic reviews.

• Covidence
  Covidence offers great software to support reviews (subscription may be needed).

• ChildrenHelpingScience.com
  A repository of online experiments for kids. Anyone can request to have an experiment uploaded here.

• OSF Library of Remote Assessment Designs for Developmental Psychology
  OSF library that aims to provide a place for researchers to share freely available and validated methods for the remote (e.g., online, phone, app etc.) collection of data from children and families.

• Gorilla - Musings On Online Behavioural Research
  A clearly laid out comparison of decision making around online tools.

• PsyArXiv - The timing meda-study: comparing a range of experiment generators, both lab-based and online
  A report on a wide-ranging study looking at the precision and accuracy of visual and auditory stimulus timing and response times, measured with a Black Box Toolkit, comparing comparing both lab-based and online experiments.

• Cognitive Psychology Practicals Online Resource
  Designed by George Lovell and Ken Scott-Brown of Abertay University.

Strengths

• Runs in browser
• Video recording and eye-tracking available simultaneously
• Infant friendly ET available
• Free online support via chat
• Allows multiple sessions for same participant with reminder sent by email
• You can import other studies and use them as templates
• There are several guides and displays
• User-friendly and compact GUI

Price

• Different prices for different packages
• Free user version comes with limitations

Visit Labvanced

Strengths

• Runs on different operating systems
• User-friendly and compact GUI (similar to E-prime)
• Tree-displayed experiment structure
• You get links to the server hosting the experiment

Price

• Free

Visit OpenSesame

Strengths

• Runs on different operating systems
• Good GUI
• Many options selectable from GUI (more than OpenSesame), but need to know how to use them
• Linearly-displayed experiment structure

Price

• Free, however payment is needed for Pavlovia Participant Credits (£0.20 per participant)
• Site License: £1500 per year

Visit Psychopy

Visit Pavlovia

Strengths

• Runs entirely on a browser (designed for online experiences!)
• Good GUI
• Promising for reaction time
• Possibility to include external libraries type Webgazer for eye-tracking
• Possible to collaborate with others
• You can build both tasks and questionnaires that can be grouped in a single experimental protocol
• There are several guides and video tutorials

Price

• Academic: number of respondents (Ns): N = 100 €91,00 + €20,02 VAT; +10 extra tokens free

• Commercial: number of respondents (Ns): N = 100 €242,00 + €53,24 VAT; +10 extra tokens free

Visit Gorilla

Strengths

• Open source
• Intuitive language
• Technical support of the team for Java script et similar
• Possibility of greater support with payment
• Possibility to pay participants

Price

• Free but also premium option available (10$ al mese)

Visit FindingFive

Strengths

• Allows you to program online experiments using E-Prime 3.0

Price

• Need to pay

Visit E-Prime Go

Strengths

• Experimental webcam-based platform

Price

'Who can create studies on Lookit? Any researcher with questions about how kids learn and grow can propose a Lookit study. Each institution using Lookit has to sign a contract with MIT where they agree to the terms of use and certify that their studies will be reviewed and approved by an institutional review board. Studies are also subject to approval by Lookit. As of June 2020 we have agreements with 20 universities.' (see FAQs on their website)

Visit Lookit

Examples of Lookit studies

Strengths

• Webcam eye-tracking
• Integrated in Gorilla platform (and integrate them in any site with some JavaScript lines)
• Designed for studying the position of the users' gaze in web pages

Price

• Free

Visit Webgazer

Strengths

• Converts motion video to motion capture information

Price

• Free

Visit DeepLabCut

Strengths

• Real-time human pose estimation in browser

Price:

• Free

Visit PoseNet

Overview of PoseNet models

Strengths

• Automatic coding of video captured with webcam
• Ok for looking versus not looking
• Identify objects, people, text, scenarios and activities in images and videos

Price

• Free for a certain period (about 12 months, depending on the package) but with restrictions in terms of the amount of data analysed. Otherwise, payment needed

Visit Amazon Rekognition