At The Inclusion Initiative (TII), we aim to produce open, rigorous, and transparent research. We believe that research transparency and open science practices contribute to the replicability and credibility of empirical research.
To contribute to the emerging call for more open and rigorous research practices across the Social Sciences, we aim to ensure the transparency, impact, and credibility of our research. This means encouraging independent verification and helping other scholars to access and build upon our findings in future studies to advance the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion literature.
To support this, we aim to adopt the following practices whenever feasible:
• Publish our research articles as open access via journals or publishing platforms.
• Make study materials and anonymised data, including scripts necessary to reproduce our results publicly available when we publish research articles.
• Pre-register experimental study designs, hypotheses and planned analysis or mark these explicitly as exploratory*.
• Determine sample sizes ‘a priori’, based on experimental design and planned analyses**.
You can find a list of our research and links to repositories where data and scripts are hosted here. In instances where these practices are not feasible (e.g., due to data confidentiality or contractual agreements) the reasons will be clearly noted. Researchers looking to replicate our work in these instances can contact the lead author(s), who will aim to support their efforts and requests for data. You can find out more about Research integrity at LSE here.
*Any pre-registered hypotheses not reported in published manuscripts will be made available in online supplementary materials, and any deviations from the preregistration noted.
**For empirical studies that use published or non-experimental data, post-hoc statistical power will be reported in published manuscripts.