People

Open Science

I have been passionate about open science (open research) for many years now, including the contributions below:

Establishing and chairing the Open Science Committee at the MRC Cognition & Brain sciences Unit (CBU) in 2015 (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/openscience/)
Introducing (while Acting Director of the CBU) the sharing of data from all CBU publications since 2018 (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/publications/opendata/)
As President of the British Neuroscience Association, leading their “Credibility in Neuroscience” initiative (https://www.bnacredibility.org.uk/) from 2019-2023
In terms of policy, being consulted on MRC guidelines and on the 2017 Wellcome report for sharing neuroimaging data (https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4823029)
Co-Investigator on an MRC grant (led by Marcus Munafo) to train scientists in open research practices
Member of University of Cambridge working group on how to recognise and reward open research practices during promotion and recruitment

Co-inventing (with Roni Tibon) the concept of “pre-registration posters”, which have been adopted by multiple international conferences, as documented in Tibon et al. (2018; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2018.01.008) and Brouwers et al. (2020; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-0868-z)
Evaluated developments in peer-review (https://doi.org/10.1177/2398212821100657)
Co-author on international guidelines for both MRI (Poldrack et al, 2008; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.11.048) and MEG (Gross et al., 2013; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.10.001)
Contributed to BIDS specification for MEG (Niso et al., 2018; https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.110)

Curated and shared the Wakeman dataset that has been used for many methodological developments (https://openneuro.org/datasets/ds000117)
Lead the sharing of the large CamCAN multimodal imaging dataset on ageing (https://cam-can.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/dataset/), which has been requested over 3000 times from around the world
Shared code and several notebooks on statistical issues relevant to neuroimaging (such as how to design efficient fMRI experiments), as listed here: https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/rik.henson/personal/analysis/

Developed a complete python-based, open course on fMRI analysis, which he has run for several audiences (https://github.com/RikHenson/PythonNeuroimagingCourse)
Multiple talks on open science issues such as registration, power, Bayesian sequential designs and data/code sharing (e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTVtc7kjVQg, https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/rik.henson/mytalks)
Annual lectures on Open Neuroimaging in CBU Masters and PhD courses
Initiated and continues to co-lead the COGNESTIC summer school on open and transparent analysis of fMRI and MEG data, now in its fifth year (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cognestic-2025/)