Special Interest Groups

Bringing people together informally around a shared interest.

Special Interest Groups (SIGs) provide opportunities to work together to network, create resources, develop funding proposals, and share best practice. The groups allow reflection, focus and responsiveness in both established and emerging areas.

Local Network Leads, Institutional Leads, Stakeholder Group representatives and UKRN-associated individuals are all welcome to join SIGs.

Arts research

A positive space for arts and interdisciplinary practice-based researchers, collaborators, and research enablers to share and advance open research practices, explore terminologies, cross-disciplinary approaches, and address shared challenges and opportunities.

Computational reproducibility

Addresses challenges of reproducibility and replicability in research, with a focus on computing infrastructure and software practices. Our work is designed to be relevant across all disciplines.

Games-based approaches

A focus on games-based approaches and game-based learning. What’s out there that helps researchers learn about open/reproducible research and how can we evaluate game-based approaches to training and learning.

Meta research

Brings together diverse efforts to examine how research is conducted and how it can be improved, by applying research methods to both the process itself and the systems that support it.

Sharing protocols and methods

Brings together stakeholders to share initiatives, challenges, and solutions for improving the openness, usability, and coordination of research methods, protocols, and resources.

Qualitative research

We invite colleagues from diverse methodological approaches and across philosophical traditions to join us in exploring open qualitative research across these varied perspectives.