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
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
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...
Openness as a tool for better research and development – Exploring the Open Research Technologies Hub at the University of Sussex
Andre Chagas leads the Open Research Technologies Hub at the University of Sussex and has recently co-authored the UKRN primer on open source hardware. In this piece, he outlines the background and rationale for the Hub, and reaches out to others who might want to...
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. View complete...
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...
UKRN releases a new working paper on the OR4 Project
Today, the UKRN’s OR4 project* releases a new report that describes the UK landscape of responsible researcher assessment, with a particular focus on open research. The evidence comes from a detailed survey, led by Robert Darby from the University of Reading, and is...
Spotlight an ORCA
Spotlight an ORCA is intended to highlight the significance of Open Research Coordinators and Administrators (ORCAs) within the Open Research Programme. ORCAs, alongside other staff members, are essential contributors responsible for delivering various program...