UKRN Newsletter – September 2021
The September 2021 issue of the UKRN newsletter was published last week. If you missed it, a PDF version is available to view here: UKRN Newsletter – September 2021. To sign up our mailing list and receive future newsletters by email, head to our newsletter...
Local Network Leads are invited to apply for a place in the UKRN Supervisory Board
A place has become available in the UKRN Supervisory Board, and we are keen to use this as an opportunity to broaden representation within this part of UKRN by including a Local Network Lead as a member of the Supervisory Board. Supervisory Board members attend an...
Discussions on community-building and normalising open research practices
Marcus Munafò speaks to PLOS about how UKRN got to where it is today, what we do, and our plans for the future, and Cristiana Bercea and Robert Darby speak on Open Research Champions and normalising good research practices. Source:...
UKRN welcomes Sarah de Rijcke as new Chair of the UKRN Advisory Board
We welcome Sarah de Rijcke as new Chair of the UKRN Advisory Board. Sarah is a Professor in Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies and Scientific Director at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University, the Netherlands. She...
Our thanks and best wishes to Dorothy Bishop upon stepping down from the UKRN Advisory Board
It is fair to say that without Dorothy Bishop, there would not be a UK Reproducibility Network. Her support can be traced at least as far back as 2015, to a meeting held by the Academy of Medical Sciences at the Wellcome Trust on the reproducibility and reliability of...
Major funding boost for UK’s open research agenda
A consortium of 18 universities – members of the UK Reproducibility Network – has received significant funding to drive uptake of open research practices across the sector, furthering the UK’s position at the forefront of rigorous and reproducible research. The...
UKRN listed as an example of best practice in BBSRC report
In May, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) held a virtual meeting on artificial intelligence in the biosciences. The summary report from that meeting has now been published, and lists UKRN as an example of best practice for what could...
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.