Reflecting on Five years of the European Health Psychology Society’s Open Science Special Interest Group

Abstract

Since the establishment of the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) Open Science Special Interest Group (SIG) in 2019 (Norris & Toomey, 2020), we have been working hard to improve the awareness and uptake of Open Science practices within the European Health Psychology community. When we started, our aims were to 1) bring together health psychologists interested in Open Science behaviours, 2) share best practices/innovations in Open Science to health psychologists, 3) provide guidance and/or training on Open Science, 4) promote the role of health psychology for improving Open Science across disciplines, 5) liaise with organisations which promote Open Science and 6) encourage and reward replication and reproducibility within health psychology. Having now been established for five years and arriving back from successful SIG activities at the EHPS 2024 Conference in Cascais, Portugal, we wanted to reflect on our progress in recent years and share some of these developments.