Contents
- 1 Activities
- 1.1 Three Take-Aways from Leadership in Academia May 2022
- 1.2 Dorothy Bishop Early Career Researcher Prize 2022 Winner Announced
- 1.3 Dorothy Bishop Early Career Researcher Prize 2022 Shortlisted Nominees
- 1.4 Open Research Week 2022
- 1.5 Neil Jacobs Appointed Head of UKRN Open Research Programme
- 1.6 Event Report: Enhancing Research Culture
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.
Three Take-Aways from Leadership in Academia May 2022
Content by Nadine Aschaur, attendee at the Leadership in Academia workshop in May 2022. Blog: Three Take-Aways Being grateful about the opportunity of participating in the transformational UKRN Leadership Training 2022, I am delighted to share three take-aways:...
Dorothy Bishop Early Career Researcher Prize 2022 Winner Announced
Dr Amy Orben is the recipient of the 2002 UKRN Dorothy Bishop Prize. Dr Amy Orben received the prize consisting of a 'Doscar' and £500 at the UKRN Annual Meeting on 11 March 2022. Dr Amy Orben has been a champion of open research since early in her PhD, and is now a...
Dorothy Bishop Early Career Researcher Prize 2022 Shortlisted Nominees
Three nominees have been shortlisted for the UKRN 2022 Dorothy Bishop Early Career Researcher Prize. Dr Amy Orben Dr Charlotte Pennington Dr Samuel Westwood The UKRN Advisory Board shortlisted from a pool of 12 nominees and 30 nominations, based its assessment on the...
Open Research Week 2022
Marcus Munafo (Chair of UKRN Steering Group) and Andrew Jones (Local Network Lead for the University of Liverpool) will be taking part in Open Research Week 2022, hosted by the local Universities in Liverpool. They will be discussing the benefits of adopting open...
Neil Jacobs Appointed Head of UKRN Open Research Programme
We are delighted to welcome Neil Jacobs as the new Head of the UKRN Open Research Programme. Neil will be leading our Research England funded project “Growing and Embedding Open Research in Institutional Practice and Culture”. He has over 30 years of experience in the...
Event Report: Enhancing Research Culture
Emily Farran represented the UKRN at the recent UKRI online engagement event on Enhancing Research Culture.