Total Quality Management in Academia

This is a recording of the UKRN online workshop "Total Quality Management in Academia" held on Thursday 20 April 2023.

In order to ensure high quality outputs, many sectors do not focus on assessing carefully selected outputs but instead probe the day-to-day operations and procedures most critical to the quality and value of the work. Can we apply some of the methods of quality control used in manufacturing to research, for example to enhance reproducibility in certain disciplines? At the core of this approach, termed total quality management (TQM), is the proposition that if we take care of the process, the results will take care of themselves. This workshop will present pilots currently being conducted or set up at a range of UKRN institutions that are designed to explore this approach.

0:00:00 Introduction - Marcus Munafo (UKRN)
0:04:45 Quality Assurance in Pharma - Fiona Booth (University of Bristol)
0:22:05 Spot Checks for reproducibility in a University setting - Mark Kelson (University of Exeter)
0:44:27 Pre-submission certification of computational reproducibility - Reny Baykova (University of Sussex)
1:04:18 ReproduceMe: A pilot study on computational reproducibility - Daniel Baker (University of York)
1:24:28 Panel discussion and Q&A

Slides provided are available here: https://osf.io/re4zy/

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