UKRN Dorothy Bishop Prize 2026

UKRN Dorothy Bishop Prize 2026

Nominations for the 2026 Dorothy Bishop Prize are now open! Celebrating the contributions of early career researchers to research improvement   Have you, or has someone you know, achieved or contributed something special to improve research quality or promote...
The 2025 UKRN Replication Games

The 2025 UKRN Replication Games

Last week forty researchers across six countries gathered online for the 2025 UKRN Replication Games with the Institute for Replication (I4R). Guided by I4R’s Lenka Fiala and Abel Brodeur, eleven teams worked to replicate papers from several journals including Nature...
UKRN announces conference for July 2026

UKRN announces conference for July 2026

UK Reproducibility Network will be holding a conference in July 2026 to bring together researchers, institutions and research stakeholders from the UK and beyond to drive collaborative change within the UK research sector. The conference to be held in Manchester will...
UKRN Research Leadership training

UKRN Research Leadership training

Applications for the UKRN Research Leadership course have closed. UKRN are offering a 2-day residential course at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, Wednesday to Thursday, 10 to 11 December 2025 on Research Leadership. We last offered this course in 2022, and you can read...
What next for UKRN training?

What next for UKRN training?

Last week UKRN staff were delighted to collaborate with Vitae to run a workshop at the in-person Vitae conference in Bristol. Nearly 40 learning and development professionals helped us to build on a UKRN member event earlier this year, wherein we identified potential...
The 2025 UKRN Replication Games

Sign up for the 2025 UKRN Replication Games

The 2025 UKRN  Replication Games will be held on Thursday 13 November 9:30am – 5:00pm UK time.  This online event will be hosted by Lenka Fiala and Derek Mikola from the Institute for Replication (I4R). Researchers will work in small teams to replicate (or not!)...
UKRN funding and next steps

UKRN funding and next steps

UKRN comprises its communities: expert advocates for better research, and the networks and organisations they motivate and influence. We currently have no core funding; all UKRN’s income is for specific, time-limited projects, such as the Open Research Programme and...
The 2025 UKRN  Replication Games are on!

The 2025 UKRN Replication Games are on!

Following the success of last year’s event we’re delighted to announce that the 2025 UKRN  Replication Games will be held on Thursday 13 November. During this all day event researchers work in small teams to replicate (or not!) published papers. The games will be led...