Northumbria joins UK Reproducibility Network
Welcome to Northumbria University who have officially joined UKRN. The main criterion for membership is that the University creates a senior academic role with responsibility for research improvement and integrity and to advance the adoption of open research practices...
UKRN position on supporting research transparency among research students
The UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) is committed to promoting transparency and rigour in research across all disciplines and to improving the ways in which we conduct research. Making the research process as open as possible is a core part of research transparency,...
UKRN position on research outputs
There is growing awareness of the value of making research artefacts – from data (broadly conceived) to final outputs (such as journal articles) – as open and available as they can be. Various benefits to this have been proposed, including improved accessibility to...
Wiley open research workshops: recordings now available
Wiley recently partnered with UKRN to host a series of open research workshops. Over 12 months, across 10 UK universities, and involving over 300 researchers, these workshops were tailored to university and researcher needs and transitioned to a virtual format over...
Learn how to set up and run an Open Research Award with our new primer
We have published a primer on Open Research Awards. The primer gives an overview of what an Open Research Award (or Open Research Prize) is, why you might wish to run one and how to get started. It also gives advice on shortlisting the winners and running the award...
UKRN position on bureaucracy in research
We welcome efforts to identify ways of reducing research bureaucracy and unnecessary burdens placed on researchers, supporting them to focus on research itself (i). In particular, we are pleased to see reference to a “system-wide perspective”. However, we would also...
UKRN community shared resources page
We have created a community repository for UKRN members to share resources, intended to promote collaboration and shared development. This is a public page, available at: https://osf.io/x8j9q (hosted by the Open Science Framework). As this is a new page, there are no...
UKRN Newsletter – June 2021
The June 2021 issue of the UKRN newsletter was published last week. If you missed it, a PDF version is available to view here: UKRN Newsletter – June 2021. To sign up our mailing list and receive future newsletters by email, head to this page, or you can also...