Contents
- 1 Activities
- 1.1 Get Involved with UKRN: News, Events & Open Research Initiatives
- 1.2 Pre-submission certification of computational reproducibility
- 1.3 STAR & METEOR Projects Introduced at UKRN Webinar
- 1.4 UKRN membership jumps by nearly 10% in a single day
- 1.5 January 2024 LNL Newsletter
- 1.6 Initiatives: UKRN & Octopus.ac – making change in publishing
- 1.7 Spotlight on open research at University of Liverpool
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.
Pre-submission certification of computational reproducibility
Dr Reny Baykova is a lecturer at the School of Psychology, University of Sussex, interested in improving open science and reproducibility practices in quantitative research. Quantitative research findings are relevant only if they are computationally reproducible –...
STAR & METEOR Projects Introduced at UKRN Webinar
The STAR and METEOR projects were introduced at the most recent UKRN Webinar: Nurturing change through growing UKRN projects. Project Coordinator Rosalind Strang spoke about our plans for the projects, including why these projects are vital in the current environment...
UKRN membership jumps by nearly 10% in a single day
Today we are delighted to announce that Nottingham Trent University, Leeds Beckett University and the University of Essex have all become institutional members of the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN). This brings the total number of institutional members to 36 and...
January 2024 LNL Newsletter
Initiatives: UKRN & Octopus.ac – making change in publishing
UKRN provides seed-funding and in-kind support to a range of initiatives aimed at improving open research practices. Alexandra Freeman from Octopus.ac explains what this partnership has meant to them. Octopus.ac is a publishing platform that is designed specifically...
Spotlight on open research at University of Liverpool
Recently Diane Hird met with LNL Dr Alexis Makin to learn more about his work and open research at Liverpool. This blog is the result of that conversation, huge thanks to Alexis for his time. The Liverpool Open Research Team are based in the Library and provide...