Contents
- 1 Activities
- 1.1 Get Involved with UKRN: News, Events & Open Research Initiatives
- 1.2 King’s Open Research Summer School Returns for 2025
- 1.3 More open for less work: Maximising the re-usability of research ethics for study preregistration
- 1.4 Staff role updates across UKRN
- 1.5 Funding application workshop at LNL Retreat
- 1.6 2025 UKRN Local Network Leads Retreat – London School of Economics
- 1.7 UKRN Stakeholder Meeting: Data, Methods and Resources Sharing
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.
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...
Staff role updates across UKRN
We’re pleased to share some exciting updates about four of our colleagues who have recently taken on new roles within the UKRN network. Etienne Roesch has been with UKRN since the beginning. He was Local Network Lead and now Institutional Lead for the University of...
Funding application workshop at LNL Retreat
I found the Local Network Lead Retreat 2025 to be very inspiring and came back to Oxford feeling charged up. Alongside the nice lunches served in the LSE staff canteen, a highlight for me was that I was invited to run a "Sandpit on funding applications" on Day 2 of...
2025 UKRN Local Network Leads Retreat – London School of Economics
This year’s UKRN Local Network Leads (LNL) retreat brought together 34 LNLs from 28 institutions across the UK for two days at the London School of Economics. The LNL community continues to expand not just in size, but in diversity, with representation from a wider...
UKRN Stakeholder Meeting: Data, Methods and Resources Sharing
On 22 May 2025, the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) convened a cross-sector stakeholder meeting to explore how the research ecosystem can accelerate effective sharing of data, methods, and research resources. Co-led by Harv Virk (Only Good Antibodies), Helen Clare...