My first pre-registration: Hints and tips on how to implement pre-registration in your PhD

Abstract

‘Pre-registration is hard, and worthwhile… [and] improves with practice’(Nosek et al., 2019, pp.815–816)Pre-registration is one of the many new research practices brought in by the wave of open science to increase the integrity, transparency and reliability of scientific research. With the buzz around integrating pre-registration into our research practices and the piling list of new things to learn as a PhD student, it can be quite daunting to complete your first pre-registration. Here are some hints and tips on how to practically approach your first pre-registration that will hopefully show you it is both achievable and worth the investment.