Dr Amy Orben is the recipient of the 2002 UKRN Dorothy Bishop Prize. Dr Amy Orben received the prize consisting of a ‘Doscar’ and £500 at the UKRN Annual Meeting on 11 March 2022. Dr Amy Orben has been a champion of open research since early in her PhD,...
Three nominees have been shortlisted for the UKRN 2022 Dorothy Bishop Early Career Researcher Prize. Dr Amy Orben Dr Charlotte Pennington Dr Samuel Westwood The UKRN Advisory Board shortlisted from a pool of 12 nominees and 30 nominations, based its assessment on the...
Marcus Munafo (Chair of UKRN Steering Group) and Andrew Jones (Local Network Lead for the University of Liverpool) will be taking part in Open Research Week 2022, hosted by the local Universities in Liverpool. They will be discussing the benefits of adopting open...
We are delighted to welcome Neil Jacobs as the new Head of the UKRN Open Research Programme. Neil will be leading our Research England funded project “Growing and Embedding Open Research in Institutional Practice and Culture”. He has over 30 years of experience in the...
Emily Farran represented the UKRN at the recent UKRI online engagement event on Enhancing Research Culture. Emily was part of a discussion panel, which represented the views from four different Research England funded projects, including our recent own funded project,...
The December 2021 issue of the UKRN newsletter was published today. If you missed it, a PDF version is available to view here: UKRN Newsletter – December 2021. To sign up our mailing list and receive future newsletters by email, head to our newsletter sign-up...
Last week, the Science and Technology Committee held the first evidence session of its inquiry into reproducibility and research integrity. Topics explored included the extent and breadth of challenges related to the reproducibility of research from both a domestic...
Knowledge Exchange (KE) have published their latest report on research reproducibility in November 2021. In the report, you can read about current practices and barriers in this area and the role of technical and social infrastructure in supporting new developments....
Journal submission to publication typically takes 1 year, 96% of journals require specific formatting and the average cost of an APC is $2987. PeerRef is on a mission to solve these issues. They are a new journal-independent peer review service that organizes thorough...
Professor Emily Farran (UKRN) and Dr Neil Jacobs (UKRI) recently co-chaired a session on “Opportunities and challenges in improving research quality by drawing on lessons across sectors and disciplines” at the 2021 UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships Conference (October...
