Contents
- 1 Activities
- 1.1 University of Surrey launches Open Research Position Statement
- 1.2 Dr Aneta Piekut awarded prestigious Fellowship by Project TIER
- 1.3 UKRN is partnering with Project Free Our Knowledge to accelerate the collective uptake of open and reproducible research practices in academia
- 1.4 UKRN & Open Research Calendar Cobadge
- 1.5 King’s College London Joins UKRN
- 1.6 Rewarding Open Research
Activities
Catch up on the latest UKRN news and get involved in UKRN events and initiativesInitiatives 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.
University of Surrey launches Open Research Position Statement
The University of Surrey has launched its Open Research Position Statement, which publicly supports the values of openness, transparency and reproducibility in research. The position statement was written by Surrey Library’s Open Research team and Professor Emily...
Dr Aneta Piekut awarded prestigious Fellowship by Project TIER
Read here to find out more about Project TIER and Dr Piekut’s plans for promoting reproducibility practices at the University of Sheffield in partnership with the Sheffield Reproducibility Network.
UKRN is partnering with Project Free Our Knowledge to accelerate the collective uptake of open and reproducible research practices in academia
The problem Open research practices have the potential to benefit the entire research community, but could be perceived by some researchers as a threat to their career under the ‘publish-or-perish’ paradigm. For example, the widespread sharing of data and code could...
UKRN & Open Research Calendar Cobadge
The UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) is teaming up with the Open Research Calendar to help collate open research events under a single accessible resource. An ever increasing number of conferences, seminars, and courses are being organised around topics of open...
King’s College London Joins UKRN
King’s College London has become a formal institutional member of the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN), a network of UK universities collaborating to promote robust research practices, such as open research and reproducibility. Visit King's College website for...
Rewarding Open Research
Here’s a story about sharing practice in rewarding Open Research. The University of Groningen has launched an Open Research Award competition. It was inspired by and directly modelled on a competition run at the University of Reading. This came about because people at...