Dr. Anna van ’t Veer is an assistant professor at the Methodology and Statistics unit focusing on responsible research methods.

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Profile

I'm an assistant professor at the Methodology and Statistics unit of Psychology, with a focus on advancing responsible scholarship through values, methods, and practices that enhance research(er) integrity and an open equitable culture in science. As a teacher, researcher, policy-adviser, and Open Science Community manager I am actively involved in initiatives surrounding open science and scientific integrity, conduct meta-scientific studies in this area, and represent bottom-up experiences in strategy/policy-making.

My career has evolved towards connecting research and teaching with organizational leadership, policy development, and community-led culture change. This profile is guided by the conviction that responsible research depends not only on individual researchers’ choices, but also on the cultures, structures, relationships, and incentives shaping academic work. My aim is to connect insights from research with policy and practice, and to link bottom-up experiences with top-down institutional change. 

A defining feature of my profile is the interplay between researching research practices and contributing to the policies that shape them. My research and community-building inform policy development, while my involvement in policy-making reveals practical barriers and questions that need further investigation.

• Google Scholar page
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/annavantveer/ 

Research

In my research, I work on theory and implementation of methodologies and practices that shape responsible scholarship and self-correcting processes within science, such as replication, preregistration, open publising, and collective efforts that are value-driven, collaborative, equitable, and transparent. 

My active involvement in communties and culture change allows me to bring experiences from research communities into national decision-making while translating policy developments back into institutional practice, all the while informing these efforts with research-on-research. For example, in collaboration with CWTS colleagues, I study how Open Science evolves at Leiden University through policy analysis and qualitative interviews.

Nationally, I am a co-applicant on metascience grants investigating the effectiveness of Dutch data- and code-sharing policies, alternative publishing models, and efforts to normalize preregistration in animal research. These collaborations build on my research into practices such as preregistration and my experience facilitating culture change.

Another line of work I did is on replication, both doing replications and sharing knowledge on how to do them well, for instance in a 'Replication Recipe' paper in 2024. This work continued in my PhD supervision and collaborations focussed on how replication can most efficiently help towards correcting and updating the scientific record. We proposed a method to decide which of many original claims in the literature are most valuable to put our replication efforts towards (see theoretical foundation paper, Exploratory Report on feasibility of our proposed method, a checklist for transparent reporting of replication target selection, preprint with a quantitative operationalisation of our selection method and our call to invite open critical discussion on our work in commentaries to be published alongside our paper).

Teaching

I teach courses in the bachelor's programmes of Psychology (Good Research Practices), in the (research) master's programmes of Psychology (e.g., Responsible Research in Practice, fMRI Data and Statistics), and in the Graduate School for Social Sciences (Scientific Conduct for PhD's and Postdocs). Furthermore, I serve on the Research Master Educational Committee of my institute, and as part of the Research Committee I review Training and Supervision plans for our institute's PhD candidates.

I strongly believe we not just need to educate our students about responsible research, but our staff as well. In 2023, I co-developed an educational model to foster a culture of responsible scholarship amongst academic teams (see news item; interview on making mistakes in science). 

Co-supervision of PhD candidates

• Peder Isager, dissertation (2017-2022)
• Ana Parrón Cabañero (2023-current)
• Andrea van Langerak (2025-current)

Community management and service

As a community manager for the Open Science Community Leiden, I am commited to reaching and engaging researchers and research supporters to learn more, to inspire and enable them to adopt new practices, and to empower and support them to shape the future together, at our university and on a broader scale (see interview). On the national level, I serve as a board member and chair of the board of the Dutch network of Open Science Communities (OSC-NL).

In this role, I also serve on advisory boards, gather and provide input to policy (e.g., to the national open science ambitions), and write grants to accelorate the open science communities through funding dedicated to community management, knowledge exchange, open scholarly publishing (e.g,. modular publishing), and open science events (e.g., the Open Science Retreat).

International service: Member Advisory Board PsyArXiv (preprint server for Psychology); member assembly ResearchEquals.com (publishing infrastructure).

Former editor at Collabra: Psychology; member Psychological Science Accelerator Ethics Committee, and Society for Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) Code of Conduct Committee. I am often active at national events as a Code of Conduct Committee member, for instance at the national Open Science festival.

Grants and awards

Leo Waaijers Open Science Award (2024). Recognizing career impact in sustained and daring contributions to further Open and Responsible Scholarship.

The jury report: ‘Anna van ‘t Veer has been an advocate of Open Science since her PhD and has personally stuck her neck out for this during her entire career, both within and outside her field. With her commitment and personal daring, she mobilises and activates many others. [...]’

Research on Open Science grant (2026; €250k). Co-applicant. Collaborated with a national group of metascientists to prioritise a research question for funding, co-develop the grant proposal, and jointly supervise a postdoctoral researcher investigating the effectiveness of data- and code-sharing policies across Dutch research organisations.

Open Science NL Open Science Infrastructure Grant — PRIOR project (2026; €680k). Co-applicant receiving .03fte ‘26-’29. Consortium project to strengthen Preclinicaltrials.eu as an international open-science infrastructure for animal research, improving preregistration workflows, integration with research systems, reporting quality, and adoption of responsible research.

Open Science NL Open Science Infrastructure Grant (2026; €1.5m) — “Next-generation publishing: Advancing the publish-review-curate model”. Co-applicant and ambassador for this community-led publishing project to advance transparent, community-oriented scholarly publishing through the publish–review–curate model. 

Impulse Open Science Community Leiden (2023; €100k). This grant finances my role as community manager for .2fte, from 2024-2027; I have successfully acquired an additional year (‘27-’28) of funding from Leiden centrally to further embed this role (€32k).

Open Science Meeting Fund (2025; €7.5k): “Making Scholarship Look Like the World Looks—A Day on Openness, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Academia.” Grant to bring together researchers and research supporters working towards culture change, exploring how equity, diversity and inclusion can strengthen a responsible research environment.

Impulse Open Science Communities-NL (2024; €400k). As chair of OSC-NL I co-authored this grant to strengthen our national network.

Open Science Fund (2023; €50k). Fostering a national community-led network to accelerate Open Science practices: Foster OSC-NL; a grant I wrote to support my role as chair of OSC-NL and to organise the first Dutch ‘Open Science Retreat’.

KIEM grant, Leiden University (2025): Empowering Academics as Climate Leaders: An Evidence-Based Workshop Series. 

InfraCoalition: A coalition to transform an alternative platform into infrastructure - invited to Full Proposal stage (2024; €1.5m not awarded): Co-author of the proposal to transform an alternative scholarly communication platform into sustainable publishing infrastructure. 

Center for Open Science Replication Grant (2013). 

Additional awards: Graduate Student Travel Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology (2015); European Association of Social Psychology travel grant (2014); Best Research Idea Award, International Summer School in Affective Sciences (2013).

Selected Publications

On replication:

• Isager, P. M., van Aert, R. C. M., Bahník, Š., Brandt, M. J., DeSoto, K. A., Giner-Sorolla, R., Krueger, J. I., Perugini, M., Ropovik, I., van 't Veer, A. E., Vranka, M., & Lakens, D. (2021). Deciding what to replicate: A decision model for replication study selection under resource and knowledge constraints. Psychological Methods. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000438 
• Brandt, M. J., IJzerman, H., Dijksterhuis, A., Farach, F. J., Geller, J., Giner-Sorolla, R., Grange, J. A., Perugini, M., Spies, J. R., & van 't Veer, A. E. (2013). The replication recipe: What makes for a convincing replication? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 50, 217-224 see: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103113001819
• Open Science Collaboration. (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349, 6251, 943. aac4716. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aac4716 see: https://osf.io/447b3


On preregistration:

• Nosek, B. A., Beck, E. D., Campbell, L., Flake, J. K., Hardwicke, T. E., Mellor, D. T., van 't Veer, A. E., & Vazire, S. (2019). Preregistation is hard, and worthwhile. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2019.07.009
• van ‘t Veer, A. E., Giner-Sorolla, R. (2016). Pre-registration in Social Psychology—A discussion and suggested template. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2016.03.004 see: https://osf.io/sn6by/
• van den Akker, O. R., Weston, S., Campbell, L., Chopik, B., Damian, R., Davis-Kean, P., Hall, A., Kosie, J., Kruse, E., Olsen, J., Ritchie, S., Valentine, K. D., van ’t Veer, A., & Bakker, M. (2021). Preregistration of secondary data analysis: A template and tutorial. Meta-Psychology, 5. https://doi.org/10.15626/MP.2020.2625

About open science / open data:

• Urai, A. E., van ’t Veer, A.E., Fried, E. I., & Kelly, C. (2026). How to change research culture with participatory workshops. Nature Human Behaviour, 10, 209–211. Doi: 10.1038/s41562-025-02391-3
• Bakk, Z., Boy, J., Mons, B., & van 't Veer, A. E. (2022, October 11). Young Academy Leiden - Summer of Data Diversity podcast. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7220703 
• Armeni, K., Brinkman, L., Carlsson, R., Eerland, A., Fijten, R., Fondberg, R., Heininga, V. E., Heunis, S., Koh, W. Q., Masselink, M., Moran, N., O Baoill, A., Sarafoglou, A., Schettino, A., Schwamm, H., Sjoerds, Z., Teperek, M., van den. Akker, O. R., van ‘t Veer, A. E. & Zurita-Milla, R. (2021). Towards wide-scale adoption of open science practices: The role of open science communities. Science and Public Policy, 48(5), 605-611. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scab039 
• van ’t Veer, A. E., Sleegers, W. W. A. (2019). Psychology data from an exploration of the effect of anticipatory stress on disgust vs. non-disgust related moral judgments. Journal of Psychology Data , 7(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.5334/jopd.43

Supporting bottom-up work for culture change, using modular publishing:

• Edited collection of artefacts/outputs from the 2nd edition of the Open Science Retreat, https://www.researchequals.com/collections/mrhg-9r
• Selection of summaries of some of the collaborative work during Open Science Retreat 2024, the Netherlands (#OSR24NL) & list of contributors, https://www.researchequals.com/modules/g6hr-cn36

Publications