Blog post on reproducibility and research integrity
Marcus Munafò has written a blog post for BMC (BioMed Central, a scientific open access publisher), titled ‘Reproducibility and Research Integrity – a call for content’. You can view the blog post on their website here.
The Inaugural UKRN Local Network Lead Summer Retreat
We have become enculturated to believe we can’t, whereas – actually – we can. – Marcus Munafò, Cumberland Lodge (10th August, 2021) A key component of the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) is its grassroots network of (at the time of writing!) 64 Local Network Leads...
University of Glasgow pilots the Resume for Researchers narrative CV format
Funders across Europe are increasingly moving towards adopting narrative CV approaches within funding applications. The narrative CV format aims to recognise diverse contributions, backgrounds, and careers, and discourages an overreliance on decontextualised metrics...
Northumbria joins UK Reproducibility Network
Welcome to Northumbria University who have officially joined UKRN. The main criterion for membership is that the University creates a senior academic role with responsibility for research improvement and integrity and to advance the adoption of open research practices...
UKRN position on supporting research transparency among research students
The UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) is committed to promoting transparency and rigour in research across all disciplines and to improving the ways in which we conduct research. Making the research process as open as possible is a core part of research transparency,...
UKRN position on research outputs
There is growing awareness of the value of making research artefacts – from data (broadly conceived) to final outputs (such as journal articles) – as open and available as they can be. Various benefits to this have been proposed, including improved accessibility to...
Wiley open research workshops: recordings now available
Wiley recently partnered with UKRN to host a series of open research workshops. Over 12 months, across 10 UK universities, and involving over 300 researchers, these workshops were tailored to university and researcher needs and transitioned to a virtual format over...
Learn how to set up and run an Open Research Award with our new primer
We have published a primer on Open Research Awards. The primer gives an overview of what an Open Research Award (or Open Research Prize) is, why you might wish to run one and how to get started. It also gives advice on shortlisting the winners and running the award...