Sarahanne M. Field

About me

The other line concerns science reform practice and culture. In that research line, am interested in how the science reform movement develops and enacts reform practices, and how the broader scientific culture experiences reform-related shifts. Practices like replication, registered reports and preregistration, responsible research, and reflexivity are of special interest (as are any other metascience-adjacent things which start with the letter 'r').

In my role as an assistant professor at the University of Groningen, I teach on ethics, research practice, scientific knowledge production and its relationship to society, and qualitative research methods. I supervise various students in the bachelor and master's programs in pedagogy, and the master of orthopedagogy. I also co-supervise the PhD research of Roelie Kuijpers, which aims to investigate testing culture in the Netherlands using digital humanities methods.

I am the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Trial and Error, and I serve on the editorial boards of Collabra: Psychology and the Journal of Research on Research. I am a recommender for PCI-RR, a peer-communities initiative that handles registered reports, and an Open Science Ambassador for the BSS Faculty at the University of Groningen.

I am an educator and researcher situated at the University of Groningen, in Groningen, in the North of the Netherlands. I obtained my PhD and Research Master degree here, and returned after my postdoctoral research at CWTS, Leiden University.

My research at Groningen University broadly involves producing knowledge on how institutional and cultural forces shape behaviour and identity, through a critical lens. This orientation takes form in two different research lines.

One line concerns educational testing practices, with a special focus on the Dutch primary school education system. I am interested in a (mostly sociological) exploration of the role that early testing and tracking of primary school students has on their identity as a learner in later years. I consider the classroom and the home as sites of interest, where educational imaginaries are continually enacted; where they are produced, negotiated, and reproduced. I analyse the teacher-student and parent-child interactions that take place at these sites, as they can provide information about how being tested (and classified through the test results) affects children's sense of who they are and who they might become. I also explore the leerlingvolgsysteem technology - how it was intended for use by developers, and how it is used in practice by teachers in classrooms - and how it has a role in defining these imaginaries.

Education

Ph.D. in Behavioral Sciences

Thesis: Charting the Constellation of Science Reform

University of Groningen, the Netherlands
September 2017 - April 2022 (defended 25th August, 2022)

Supervisors: Maarten Derksen; Henk Kiers

Research Master (MSc) in Psychometrics and Statistics

Thesis: The Effect of Preregistration on Trust in
Empirical Research Findings (published in 2020 as an article in Royal Society Open Science)

Traineeship: The Subjective Route to Objective Research Practice: Exploring the Position of the Researcher in Scientific Research (published in 2021 as an article in the European Journal for Philosophy of Science)

University of Groningen, the Netherlands
November 2015 - August 2017

BA in Psychology (Hons. I)

Thesis: Global Priming does not Enhance Creativity: A Failure to Replicate (published in 2016 as an article in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General)

University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia
February 2010 - November 2014

Employment

Assistant Professor

Education in Culture research unit,

Department of Pedagogy and Educational Sciences

University of Groningen, the Netherlands
August 2023 - present

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Projects: Scoping Review, Delphi Project, Qualitative Study, Dimensions, Output

Joint appointment at CWTS (Center for Society and Technology Studies; Leiden University) and Maastricht University, the Netherlands
May 2022 - July 2023

Project PIs: Sarah de Rijcke; Marcus Munafò; Bart Penders

Project Description; OSF Page