Platforms

At the Psychology Department at Wrexham University, we are committed to the values of Open Science. Following the practices set out by the Open Science Framework (OSF) , we aim to make our teaching, research, and experimental resources accessible to both students and the wider scientific community.

This section provides open access materials that you can freely view, use, and adapt:

• JISC Online Surveys - Account Request Form - Submit your request here to get access to the JISC Online Surveys. Please make sure to get your supervisor’s permission before doing this.
• Gorilla.sc - Account Request Form - Submit your request here to get access to the Gorilla.sc Experimental Design Platform. Please make sure to get your supervisor’s permission before doing this.
• Gorilla Open Materials – Example experiments, task templates, surveys (English and Welsh) and teaching resources created using Gorilla Experiment Builder.
• Experimental Materials – Experimental code for studies, specific equipment, and technologies will be stored here via GitHub.
• Open Day Materials – Any materials you’ve seen on an Open Day will be shown here if you wish to use it!

By sharing these resources openly, we hope to encourage transparency, collaboration, and innovation in the psychological sciences for our students and external colaborators.

What We Offer

OSF

Start using the open source framework (OSF) to begin your journey as a 21st century scientist!

Gorilla.sc

Use Gorilla.sc for your disseration/module project for creating online experiments.

SONA - Recruitment Page

(CURRENTLY IN-DEVELOPMENT). Learn what you can do on this page to get as many participants as possible for your dissertation project in your final year.

Panopto

Use panopto to begin your video recording for your interviews/focus groups.

JISC

Start collecting psychometric data using questionnaires on JISC Online Surveys!

GitHub

Learn what we have in our open source repositories for what we use across our modules and open days.

What we do not provide can be found elsewhere!

At the moment on this site we do not provide specific guidance over SPSS or NVIVO, as we outsource those types of guides to our psychology staff which you will find on the Psychology Technician Moodle Page. However, If you wish to get a link to a quick guide on installing SPSS or NVIVO then please do visit this site that the Digital Skills Team has developed for all the guides on installation: click here.