If you’re a troublemaker, then the King’s Open Research Summer School is for you.
Running from 21st to 25th July 2025, workshops and talks will bring together researchers, reformers, and research culture champions to learning about how to support trustworthy science and to tackle academic misconduct.
Now in its second year, the 2025 programme has grown in scope and ambition – and is open to all.
Register here!The Summer School offers a modular schedule of in-person and online sessions, welcoming attendees from across disciplines and career stages. Sessions will cover everything from Bayesian statistics and equivalence testing to preregistration, Registered Reports, data simulation, and handling academic misconduct.
A series of talks and discussions form part of our launch event on Monday, entitled ‘The dark side of research: How to identify & counter academic misconduct’, which is unapologetically inspired by Dorothy Bishop’s blog post and call to arms. The whole day will cover the scale and nature of fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, and broader questionable research practices. Speakers include Ian Hussey, James Heathers, Nick Wise, Angelika Stefan, Alexandra Lautarescu, and others.
The rest of the week is for those interested in the realities of detecting and responding to misconduct and supporting open research practices. Further, given the gap between ideals and implementation, the programme combines skills-based workshops with first-hand insights from those who’ve navigated these issues in practice – whether building reproducible pipelines or calling out malpractice.
All talks will be available online, and we’ll make slides and recordings available where possible. Workshops, however, are in-person only at King’s College London, Denmark Hill Campus. As well as this being due to resource constraints, the in-person nature maximises the interactive, on-hand, and peer support space we aim to achieve. That said, all workshop materials will be made openly available for anyone who prefers to work through them independently at home without the guidance of facilitators.
Register Now while you can.
If you cannot make the full week, register for the opening event only (21 July): The dark side of research: How to identify & counter academic misconduct Tickets, Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 8:30 AM | Eventbrite