UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) enables researchers and research-enablers, academic institutions, and organisations working in the UK research system to collaborate and to conduct and promote rigorous, reproducible, and transparent research.
Our Open Research Across Disciplines document is an example of resources we create and maintain to help researchers understand and engage in good research practices whatever their research discipline.
UKRN open research case studies provide real world examples from research institutions across the UK; from virtual materials testing in Engineering at the University of Manchester to Roman law and computational linguistics at the University of Surrey. There are also examples of open research practices, and links to resources to support open research (open methods, open data, open outputs etc.) The pages are adapted and extended from: Farran, E. K., Silverstein, P., Ameen, A. A., Misheva, I., & Gilmore, C. (2020, December 15). Open Research: Examples of good practice, and resources across disciplines (2026 edition).
The Open Research Across Disciplines resource can be used to find out more about good research practices within your own and other disciplines, to examine differences and similarities of approach within wider research fields, and to identify where different approaches can complement and enhance research questions.
For a shorter overview of open practices taking place in various disciplines, UKRN have produced video interviews with some of our Institutional Leads which are available on our YouTube channel.
Please signpost researchers to the Open Research Across Disciplines resource and share it within your research communities. These resources are freely available and regularly updated to ensure they stay relevant.
Promoting research transparency, reproducibility and rigour, and how sectoral organisations, institutions, and policy can support best practice for UK researchers and enablers from all disciplines, will be at the core of next year’s UKRN Conference with opportunities to discuss initiatives from across the UK and beyond.
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