Psychologist, researcher & strategic advisor.
Dr John P. Mills' work explores leadership, behaviour, and systems – particularly how to build cultures that support well-being, transparency, and collaboration.
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Insights & Perspectives
Here are some of Dr Mills's recent thoughts about Leadership, Organisational Culture, and Open Science.
When I was a young child, my father was a butcher. He completed an apprenticeship six plus years before I was born and worked in the role for about ten years. Times changed and butcher shops struggled so he changed jobs.
Let me start by explaining the academic publishing system. If you’re not an academic, grab the popcorn, pull up a chair and consider how researchers found themselves freely giving away their labour and manuscripts only to then spend billions of dollars buying the latter back.
Projects
Here are some of Dr Mills's recent projects.
SportRxiv SportRxiv is the World's First Open Access Subject Repository for Sport, Exercise and Health Research. I founded the preprint repository in 2016 after reaching out to Prof Brian Nosek at the Centre for Open Science for his advice. Nearly ten years and hundreds of preprints later, the repository is still going strong. 
STORK The Society for Transparency, Openness, and Replication in Kindesiology was founded in 2019. I created the society around SportRxiv with a view of making the repository community owned and operated, which it remains today. 
Play Aid Play Aid was founded in 2020 at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and is a mental health non-profit that uses the power of play to connect with young people. Funded by Movember since 2021, the organisation has grown into running operations in the UK, Ireland and Australia. Play Aid projects with Movember include, Gamers vs. Depression and Game Plan Peer Endorsements
"Dr. Mills has been an open science pioneer."
Prof. Matthieu Boisgontier
University of Ottawa, Canada
"Few people are 'disruptive' in such a positive way."
Dr Zachary Zenko
California State University Bakersfield, USA
"Without John, it is difficult to imagine that the field would be as well-positioned as it is for advancing open science."
Prof. Brian Nosek
University of Virginia/Centre for Open Science, USA