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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.
UKRN Newsletter – June 2021
The June 2021 issue of the UKRN newsletter was published last week. If you missed it, a PDF version is available to view here: UKRN Newsletter - June 2021. To sign up our mailing list and receive future newsletters by email, head to this page, or you can also find a...
UKRN support for Local Network Leads
By Will Gawned, UKRN administrator The UK Reproducibility Network is committed to supporting its Local Network Leads, who represent the UKRN’s grassroots network of researchers, promoting open scholarship, open research and reproducibility. We are proud to be...
The UK Reproducibility Network, together with colleagues at the University of Glasgow, have been speaking to several UK funders about the possibility of configuring a formalised, and accredited, training course for PIs, postdoctoral researchers and postgraduate...
UKRN position on academic publishing
The UK higher education sector has invested approximately £1bn in academic publishing over the last decade (i). In our view, the principles guiding interactions between UK institutions and academic publishers should be: Value for money. Availability of output to all...
Reproducibility for Everyone’s June campaign
Reproducibility for Everyone (R4E) is a community-led education project which aims to increase adoption of open research practices at scale. R4E volunteer co-instructors run over twenty workshops per year at premier scientific conferences. Since 2018, R4E volunteers...
UKRN position on meta-research
Across many fields of research, it is now apparent that shortcomings in the design, conduct, analysis and reporting of research weaken our collective efforts and limit our ability to translate knowledge into societal benefit. In many fields the problem is well...