Get 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.

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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.

March 2024 LNL Newsletter

March 2024 LNL Newsletter

The March newsletter has just been published, let's find out what our Local Network Leads have been getting up to, as well as information on future events and activities.

Announcing the 2024 Dorothy Bishop Prize shortlist

Announcing the 2024 Dorothy Bishop Prize shortlist

We are delighted to report that we received 26 nominations for this year’s Dorothy Bishop Prize, a testimony to the many early career researchers doing great work around open research. The review panel were faced with a tough job because nomination letters for the...

UKRN releases a new working paper on the OR4 Project

UKRN releases a new working paper on the OR4 Project

Today, the UKRN’s OR4 project* releases a new report that describes the UK landscape of responsible researcher assessment, with a particular focus on open research. The evidence comes from a detailed survey, led by Robert Darby from the University of Reading, and is...

Spotlight an ORCA

Spotlight an ORCA

Spotlight an ORCA  is intended to highlight the significance of Open Research Coordinators and Administrators (ORCAs) within the Open Research Programme. ORCAs, alongside other staff members, are essential contributors responsible for delivering various program...

Open Research Champions Networks: a Primer from UKRN

Open Research Champions Networks: a Primer from UKRN

Today the UKRN releases a new primer and related materials to support institutions who are setting up or running networks of Open Research Champions. A Champion promotes and advocates open research, acts as a role model of open research practices, is knowledgeable of...

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