We would like to cordially invite you to another Open Science Education Coffee Lecture. This time, the focus will be on how reproducibility can be taught in economics and what significance it holds for research, professional qualifications and career development.

Teaching Reproducibility for Professional Development and Intellectual Growth

23 April 2026 | 15:00 – 16:00 CEST

Online | in English

Organised by: ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics

Reproducibility has long been more than just a methodological detail. It plays an increasingly important role in the quality of academic work and in how research is taught and learned today. But how can this topic be effectively conveyed in teaching?

In this Open Science Education Coffee Lecture, Richard Ball, Professor of Economics at Haverford College (USA), will provide insights into the work of Project TIER, which he has helped shape for many years. As a member of the Executive Committee, he is one of the individuals who help shape the project’s content and strategy. His talk is therefore not only an introduction to the approaches of Project TIER, but also an opportunity to explore the development of reproducible research from a perspective that closely integrates teaching and research.

Richard Ball will demonstrate how transparency and reproducibility have been systematically integrated into the teaching of quantitative methods in the economic and social sciences since 2013. This involves specific teaching approaches, methodological and professional skills, and the question of how the standards of scientific research have changed in recent years – for example, through data and code policies and the establishment of replication archives.