Contents
- 1 Activities
- 1.1 Get Involved with UKRN: News, Events & Open Research Initiatives
- 1.2 UKRN Responds to Draft UKRI Research Data Policy
- 1.3 Project TIER workshop on teaching transparent and reproducible research methods
- 1.4 Shaping Research Data: Insights from the UKRI Workshop
- 1.5 Announcing a new stakeholder for UKRN
- 1.6 Announcing the MetaScience Alliance and UKRN’s Role in Shaping It
- 1.7 In-person meeting of national Reproducibility Network representatives
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.
UKRN Responds to Draft UKRI Research Data Policy
In July 2025, the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) submitted detailed feedback to UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) on its draft research data policy. Drawing on insights from the UKRN community and evidence from initiatives like the STAR project and Open Research...
Project TIER workshop on teaching transparent and reproducible research methods
Last week, researchers from the Universities of Bath, Cambridge, Salford, Stirling and the West of Scotland attended a workshop delivered by Richard Ball on teaching transparent and reproducible research methods. Project TIER - Teaching Integrity in Empirical Research...
Shaping Research Data: Insights from the UKRI Workshop
On 12 June, stakeholders from across the UK research landscape gathered in Birmingham for a pivotal UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) workshop focused on shaping its evolving research data policy. Representing the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN), Dr Ian Lahart of...
Announcing a new stakeholder for UKRN
We’re excited to welcome a new member to the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) Stakeholder Group! Signals has joined our growing network of organisations, with Elliott Lumb as a representative. The work of Signals is closely aligned with UKRN’s mission to foster a...
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...