The UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN)
The UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) is a national peer-led consortium that aims to ensure the UK retains its place as a centre for world-leading research. We do this by investigating the factors that contribute to robust research, promoting training activities, and disseminating best practice. Our members are a grassroots research advocate community, institutions committed strategically to improvements, and stakeholders across the wider research system.
We seek to understand the factors that contribute to poor research reproducibility and replicability, and develop collaborative approaches to counter these, in order to improve the trustworthiness and quality of research. These issues affect all disciplines, so we aim for broad disciplinary representation. We believe that ongoing efforts to address these issues represent an opportunity to improve our research by reforming culture and practice.
UKRN is coordinated by a Supervisory Board and supported by two Advisory Committees.
Ensuring the UK remains a centre for world-leading research.
Multi-discipline
UKRN works across disciplines, ranging from the arts and humanities to the physical sciences, with a particular focus on the biomedical sciences.
Meta-research
UKRN supports research improvement through the study of research itself, and promoting evaluation of innovations to improve research quality.
Training support
UKRN promotes training through the delivery of short courses, preparation of online materials and the coordination of virtual seminars and journal clubs.
Distributed network
UKRN follows a distributed model where Local Networks can be supported by individuals acting as advocates for the work of UKRN, or formally by their institution.