Contents
- 1 Activities
- 1.1 Announcing the MetaScience Alliance and UKRN’s Role in Shaping It
- 1.2 In-person meeting of national Reproducibility Network representatives
- 1.3 Turning Talk into Action: OR4 Toolkit Powers Culture Change
- 1.4 ECR Metascientist Happy Hour
- 1.5 Not Just for REF: How Open Research Indicators Can Help Institutions Support Better Research
- 1.6 African and UK Reproducibility Networks meet to share best research practice
Activities
Catch up on the latest UKRN news and get involved in UKRN events and initiativesOpen 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.
Announcing the MetaScience Alliance and UKRN’s Role in Shaping It
We’re excited to share the launch of the MetaScience Alliance, a new global initiative bringing together organisations committed to improving how science is done, shared, and evaluated. Read the announcement in Nature: Meta-science alliance launches to improve...
In-person meeting of national Reproducibility Network representatives
Many Reproducibility Network (RN) representatives were London this month for the Metascience 2025 Conference. The UKRN team took advantage of this to convene an in-person RN meeting and to share updates on several EU-based research projects. Fifteen national RNs were...
Turning Talk into Action: OR4 Toolkit Powers Culture Change
It has been eight months since the Open and Responsible Researcher Reward and Recognition (OR4) project launched its Toolkit for recognising and rewarding open research, and we are continuing to evolve it, working closely with the OR4 Community of Practice to add...
ECR Metascientist Happy Hour
ECR Metascientist Happy Hour - A Global Gathering In this personal reflection, Tom Stafford - one of our Institutional Leads - shares insights from a UKRN-hosted satellite event he organised for Early Career Researchers, held on the eve of the Metascience2025...
Not Just for REF: How Open Research Indicators Can Help Institutions Support Better Research
At the ARMA conference on June 18th, around 80 attendees joined a workshop exploring how open research indicators can help institutions support better research -not just meet REF requirements. The session shared lessons from six UK Reproducibility Network pilot...
Members of the African and UK Reproducibility Networks meet next month in an event organised by the University of Liverpool ReproducibiliTea club. It will be held on Friday 11 July and is sponsored by the Institute of Population Health research culture fund. The...