Contents
- 1 Activities
- 1.1 Get Involved with UKRN: News, Events & Open Research Initiatives
- 1.2 Turning Talk into Action: OR4 Toolkit Powers Culture Change
- 1.3 ECR Metascientist Happy Hour
- 1.4 Not Just for REF: How Open Research Indicators Can Help Institutions Support Better Research
- 1.5 African and UK Reproducibility Networks meet to share best research practice
- 1.6 King’s Open Research Summer School Returns for 2025
- 1.7 More open for less work: Maximising the re-usability of research ethics for study preregistration
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.
Turning Talk into Action: OR4 Toolkit Powers Culture Change
It has been eight months since the Open and Responsible Researcher Reward and Recognition (OR4) project launched its Toolkit for recognising and rewarding open research, and we are continuing to evolve it, working closely with the OR4 Community of Practice to add...
ECR Metascientist Happy Hour
ECR Metascientist Happy Hour - A Global Gathering In this personal reflection, Tom Stafford - one of our Institutional Leads - shares insights from a UKRN-hosted satellite event he organised for Early Career Researchers, held on the eve of the Metascience2025...
Not Just for REF: How Open Research Indicators Can Help Institutions Support Better Research
At the ARMA conference on June 18th, around 80 attendees joined a workshop exploring how open research indicators can help institutions support better research -not just meet REF requirements. The session shared lessons from six UK Reproducibility Network pilot...
Members of the African and UK Reproducibility Networks meet next month in an event organised by the University of Liverpool ReproducibiliTea club. It will be held on Friday 11 July and is sponsored by the Institute of Population Health research culture fund. The...
King’s Open Research Summer School Returns for 2025
If you’re a troublemaker, then the King’s Open Research Summer School is for you. Running from 21st to 25th July 2025, workshops and talks will bring together researchers, reformers, and research culture champions to learning about how to support trustworthy science...
More open for less work: Maximising the re-usability of research ethics for study preregistration
Here are details of an initiative that I presented during the recent LNL retreat at LSE. If you would like more information please contact me. One of the main reasons that researchers give for not adopting open research practices is that they don’t have the time for...