Contents
UKRN Community Project
A one-year project supported by UKRI and Institutional partnersThe Community Project will support the UKRN Local Network Leads (LNLs) to enable them to be more effective both locally and nationally. It will provide institutions with the means to accelerate the uptake of high quality open research practices and provide funders and publishers with support to explore new opportunities to work together. The project will also work with national Reproducibility Networks, mainly in Europe, to support inter-Network activities. A range of resources, opportunities and activities will be created.
Research England funding for new UKRN community building project
We are delighted to announce that Research England has awarded funding to the UKRN team based at the University of Bristol. The ‘Ground-Up: Enhancing Rigour and Transparency in Grassroots Research Communities’ award will run from June 2025 – July 2026 and enable...
UKRN Replication Games event
On 5th December 2024 over 50 researchers from Bangladesh, China, Denmark, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland and across the UK took part in UKRN Replication Games. Led by Abel Brodeur, Derek Mikola, Juan Aparicio and Bruno Barbarioli from the Institute for Replication (I4R)...
Spotlight on the University of Portsmouth
Recently Diane Hird, the Local Network Lead (LNL) Community Project Coordinator, met with LNL Dr Stefana Juncu to learn more about open research activities at the University of Portsmouth. This blog is the result of that conversation. Stefana Juncu is a senior...
First in-person meeting for UKRN Stakeholder Engagement Group
Earlier this month twelve members of the UKRN Stakeholder Engagement Group (SEG) gathered in Bristol for their first in-person meeting. This included representatives from the British Neuroscience Association, European Bioinformatics Institute, Gorilla Experiment...
The October Community Project newsletter has lots of news and resources for Local Network Leads and their network members. There are details of webinars, conferences and recommended reading. There are also pumpkins. [button link=https://osf.io/e649z color="pink"...