Contents
- 1 Activities
- 1.1 Get Involved with UKRN: News, Events & Open Research Initiatives
- 1.2 REF new policies and guidance update, December 2025: UKRN response
- 1.3 Demonstrating the Value of Research Professionals
- 1.4 UKRN Dorothy Bishop Prize 2026
- 1.5 Incorporating rigour, transparency and reproducibility into research teaching
- 1.6 UKRN supports open research practice across disciplines
- 1.7 The 2025 UKRN Replication Games
Activities
Catch up on the latest UKRN news and get involved in UKRN events and initiativesGet Involved with UKRN: News, Events & Open Research Initiatives
Stay up to date with UKRN’s latest activities, including news, events, and collaborative initiatives. Explore our five-year Open Research Programme and discover how UKRN is driving improvements in research quality, integrity, and transparency through workshops, tools, and community engagement.
Open Research Programme
UKRN has launched a five-year programme of work across our consortium of institutional members, supported by our project partners and Research England, to accelerate the uptake of high-quality open research practices, and the many benefits to research quality, integrity and public trust in research that will consequently flow.
Initiatives and Events
UKRN offers support for initiatives to promote robust and rigorous research, focusing on establishing conversations about reproducibility, providing tools and guidance to promote best practice, and encouraging professional development of researchers. UKRN runs and promotes events and regular workshops on the topic of reproducible research.
Events
UKRN hosts an annual meeting in March each year, and supports an annual conference in September: Reproducibility, Replicability and Trust In Science. We also run regular workshops on the topics of leadership, data management, research culture and methods.
Initiatives
UKRN supports initiatives to encourage appropriate methodology, accountability and the establishment of working groups, as well as promoting conversations around open science and open research, and providing tools that make reproducibility easier.
Latest News
We produce news to promote examples of reproducible research in the UK, as well as our events and initiatives. Do you want to write about reproducibility in your field? Please contact us about writing for our blog.
REF new policies and guidance update, December 2025: UKRN response
UKRN welcomes the renewed focus on strategy and collaboration in the policies and guidance released last week by the REF team. For example, institutions will be able to use their Strategy, People and Research Environment statements to highlight collaboration, such as...
Demonstrating the Value of Research Professionals
In October, the UKRN Stakeholder Group came together for a Virtual Café focused demonstrating the value of research professionals. The session brought together diverse voices and perspectives to explore how roles supporting research are evolving, and what steps are...
UKRN Dorothy Bishop Prize 2026
Nominations for the 2026 Dorothy Bishop Prize are now open! Celebrating the contributions of early career researchers to research improvement Have you, or has someone you know, achieved or contributed something special to improve research quality or promote...
Incorporating rigour, transparency and reproducibility into research teaching
This autumn UKRN collaborated with Project TIER and FORRT to deliver a series of lectures and live Q&A webinars. These are all available as a playlist on the UKRN YouTube channel. The lectures, delivered by faculty members from a variety of disciplines -...
UKRN supports open research practice across disciplines
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...
The 2025 UKRN Replication Games
Last week forty researchers across six countries gathered online for the 2025 UKRN Replication Games with the Institute for Replication (I4R). Guided by I4R’s Lenka Fiala and Abel Brodeur, eleven teams worked to replicate papers from several journals including Nature...