Open and transparent research is vital but relies on research professionals’ effective collaboration
UKRN and Jisc have released a set of case studies to help drive culture change in research. Our aim is to build mutual understanding of the contributions of professional and technical staff with researchers to open research. A smooth shift towards open research is...
Spotlight an ORCA: Alice Howarth
Alice is the ORCA at the University of Liverpool who is involved in a quite dizzying number of activities with the Open Research Programme, at Liverpool and beyond! Liverpool is heavily engaged in the Open Research Programme, playing a leading role in most of the...
UKRN is a founding signatory of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information
UKRN is proud to be a founding signatory of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information, launched today. Its aims – to promote transparency and reproducibility in the production and use of research information – align with UKRN’s vision, and with those of...
April 2024 LNL Newsletter
The April newsletter has just been published with lots of news, events and resources for our Local Network Leads and their network members. View complete newsletter...
New report explores aspects of rigour in psychology and arts practice research
The report, produced by the BPS, UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) and Practice as Research Advisory Group UK (PRAG-UK) explores how different terms are understood and used among psychology researchers and arts practice researchers. Its publication comes following a...
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...