Sarahanne M. Field

About me

I am a metascientist, with a specific focus on science reform practice and culture. I am interested in how the science reform movement develops and enacts reform practices, and how the broader scientific culture experiences reform-related shifts. Practices like replication, registered reports and preregistration, responsible research, and reflexivity are of special interest (as are any other metascience-adjacent things which start with the letter 'r').

I am the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Trial and Error, and I serve on the editorial boards of Collabra: Psychology and the Journal of Research on Research. I am a recommender for PCI-RR, a peer-communities initiative that handles registered reports.

I am a co-director of Community at FORRT, and am an Open Science Ambassador for the BSS Faculty at the University of Groningen.

In my role as an assistant professor at the University of Groningen, I teach on ethics, research practice, scientific knowledge production and its relationship to society, and qualitative research methods. I supervise various students in the bachelor and master's programs in pedagogy, and the master of orthopedagogy.

I also co-supervise the PhD research of Roelie Kuijpers, which aims to investigate testing culture in the Netherlands using digital humanities methods.

Education

Ph.D. in Behavioral Sciences

Thesis: Charting the Constellation of Science Reform

University of Groningen, the Netherlands
September 2017 - April 2022 (defended 25th August, 2022)

Supervisors: Maarten Derksen; Henk Kiers

Research Master (MSc) in Psychometrics and Statistics

Thesis: The Effect of Preregistration on Trust in
Empirical Research Findings

Traineeship: The Subjective Route to Objective Research Practice: Exploring the Position of the Researcher in Scientific Research

University of Groningen, the Netherlands
November 2015 - August 2017

BA in Psychology (Hons. I)

Thesis: Global Priming does not Enhance Creativity: A Failure to Replicate

University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia
February 2010 - November 2014

Employment

Assistant Professor

Education in Culture research unit,

Department of Pedagogy and Educational Sciences

University of Groningen, the Netherlands
August 2023 - present

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Projects: Scoping Review, Delphi Project, Qualitative Study, Dimensions, Output

Joint appointment at CWTS (Center for Society and Technology Studies; Leiden University) and Maastricht University, the Netherlands
May 2022 - July 2023

Project PIs: Sarah de Rijcke; Marcus Munafò; Bart Penders

Project Description; OSF Page