Open Research Programme

UKRN has launched a five-year programme of work across our consortium of institutional members, supported by our project partners and Research England, to accelerate the uptake of high-quality open research practices, and the many benefits to research quality, integrity and public trust in research that will consequently flow.

Initiatives and events

UKRN offers support for initiatives to promote robust and rigorous research, focusing on establishing conversations about reproducibility, providing tools and guidance to promote best practice, and encouraging professional development of researchers. UKRN runs and promotes events and regular workshops on the topic of reproducible research.

Conference audience

Events

UKRN hosts an annual meeting in March each year, and supports an annual conference in September: Reproducibility, Replicability and Trust In Science. We also run regular workshops on the topics of leadership, data management, research culture and methods.

Initiatives

UKRN supports initiatives to encourage appropriate methodology, accountability and the establishment of working groups, as well as promoting conversations around open science and open research, and providing tools that make reproducibility easier.

Latest news

We produce news to promote examples of reproducible research in the UK, as well as our events and initiatives. Do you want to write about reproducibility in your field? Please contact us about writing for our blog.

First UK Reproducibility Network Annual Report

First UK Reproducibility Network Annual Report

Today we publish the first UKRN annual report, outlining some of the wide range of work done by the UKRN communities over the past year. We hope this will be a useful document both for UKRN members but also for others wanting to get a flavour of our work. It’s...

Winners of the 2024 Dorothy Bishop Prize

Winners of the 2024 Dorothy Bishop Prize

The winners of the 2024 Dorothy Bishop Prize are Nicholas Wise, Alejandro Coca Castro and Lucy Timbrell. We were delighted to welcome Dorothy Bishop herself to the UKRN annual meeting to announce (in random order) this year’s winners. Dorothy said: ‘It's a huge...

Spotlight an ORCA: Adam Partridge

Spotlight an ORCA: Adam Partridge

The University of Sheffield is fortunate in having Adam Partridge as its Open Research Coordinator and Administrator – ORCA – within the UKRN Open Research Programme. Adam joined Sheffield after managing the Brain Stimulation Lab at CUBRIC, Cardiff University where he...

March 2024 LNL Newsletter

March 2024 LNL Newsletter

The March newsletter has just been published, let's find out what our Local Network Leads have been getting up to, as well as information on future events and activities.

Announcing the 2024 Dorothy Bishop Prize shortlist

Announcing the 2024 Dorothy Bishop Prize shortlist

We are delighted to report that we received 26 nominations for this year’s Dorothy Bishop Prize, a testimony to the many early career researchers doing great work around open research. The review panel were faced with a tough job because nomination letters for the...

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