2026-06-08 –, WS Room 2418
This workshop will introduce attendees to lifecycle open science and provide an overview of how to use the Open Science Framework, a free open-source software project that facilitates open collaboration in research, scholarship, and evaluation. Participants will learn about lifecycle open science and the basics of project management and sharing before being led through a hand-on demonstration of the Open Science Framework platform. As a part of this workshop, participants will also be directed to alternative platforms for managing and sharing their research materials and the circumstances under which someone may choose one platform over another.
This is an introduction to lifecycle open science and the Open Science Framework, which promotes collaboration among researchers and educators from all disciplinary and professional backgrounds and geographic locations. The OSF is free to use, which eliminates financial barriers to open scholarship. Any feedback obtained during the session will also be brought back to the Center for Open Science team to further improve the platform.
Please note any pre-requisite knowledge/expertise you will expect from attendees (i.e., is the session most appropriate for someone who already has experience with a topic?).:No prior experience is needed.
Crystal Steltenpohl is the Training and Education Manager at the Center for Open Science, spearheading initiatives to build awareness and skills in open scholarship through training and education.
As a community psychologist, Steltenpohl is passionate about improving individual and community well-being. Her goal as a mixed methods researcher is to use the best methods to ask the right questions and find feasible action steps.
Within open science, Steltenpohl has been particularly interested in encouraging open science advocates to have deeper conversations about what transparency and rigor mean, who we are being transparent with, and what assumptions are embedded within our conceptions of rigor. To this end, she is a founding member of Quala Lab, a collaboratively-run working group that works to find connections between the open science movement and qualitative and mixed methods research.
Steltenpohl has also worked in international contexts to improve scientific processes and disseminate research to diverse audiences through organizations like the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science, the Psychological Science Accelerator, and the Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training. She obtained her bachelor’s in English and Psychology at the University of Southern Indiana in 2011, her master’s in applied psychology from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 2013, and her PhD in community psychology from DePaul University in 2017.
