The Office of Research Outputs awards its Deposit of the Quarter Prize to Dr Torun Ezeigwe, recognising a repository deposit that keeps a replication's null result, its two claim forms, and its pre-registration in one complete record.
The Office of Research Outputs recognises Dr Torun Ezeigwe's deposit for a voucher-scheme replication, lodged whole with its registration and both claim forms.
The Office of Research Outputs has named its Deposit of the Quarter, and the record it has chosen is one that could be checked against its own plan without leaving the repository. The Prize goes to Dr Torun Ezeigwe, Senior Lecturer and Director, Master of Applied Measurement, School of Continuous Improvement, for the deposit behind Does an Accurate Headcount Still Shrink the Number Funding Depends On?
The study asked whether a counting-protocol effect seen in one council grants program reappears inside a state seniors’ home-maintenance voucher scheme. Across sixty-four providers, a standard claim form and a checklist claim form returned counts the analysis could not tell apart. The deposit files that null result as the study’s headline, with both forms and the pre-registration lodged alongside it, so a reader can see what was promised before the counts came in.
A result that did not appear is still a result, and it deserves an address where the plan that expected it is kept.
— Dr Torun Ezeigwe, Senior Lecturer and Director, Master of Applied Measurement
The Office reads each quarter’s deposits for how much of a study’s reasoning survives into the filed record, and regards this one as a fitting example of what the repository is for. The University is pleased to see a finding that came out flat handled with the completeness usually reserved for one that did not.
The Prize carries $27,381 and a place for the deposit at the head of the Office’s next intake guidance for replication studies. The full paper is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.na9l9v.
Deposit of the Quarter Prize: For a Deposit That Filed a Null Result Beside the Registration It Was Written Against · $27,381 · awarded to Torun Ezeigwe