Spotlight on University of Edinburgh Open Research
Recently Diane Hird, the LNL Community Project Coordinator, met with Emma Wilson and Dr Will Cawthorn to learn more about the Edinburgh Open Research Initiative (EORI). This blog is the result of that conversation. Huge thanks to Emma and Will for their time. EORI is...
UKRN Response to REF28 initial decisions and Research Environment
There is increasing attention on the research environment, culture and the importance of recognising and welcoming a wide range of talent in research. Just in the last few weeks, the Royal Society of Chemistry released their vision for science culture, the University...
Octopus.ac One Year In
Written by Alexandra Freeman, Octopus.ac founder. I always said that the hard bit of improving the publication (and hence incentive) system in research was not coming up with a better way to do it – after all, that’s quite a low bar – or even in building...
September 2023 Newsletter
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UKRN ORCC releases three primers on Open Research
UKRN is pleased to announce the release of three primers on Open Research. Open research is important because it ensures transparency across the research lifecycle, promoting rigour, reproducibility, and public trust in research. We are pleased that research...
2023 UKRN Local Network Lead Retreat
Written by Vicky Hellon and Alden Conner, The Alan Turing Institute, UK. The UKRN Local Network Leads (LNLs) are the network’s grassroots reproducibility representatives and points of contact at their respective institutions. There are 79 LNLs across 66 institutions...
Training on Open Source Hardware: A primer from UKRN
Open source hardware (OSH) refers to equipment and instrumentation whose designs are made available to anyone for use, modify, and distribute without restrictions in ways that are easily understood. OSH is part of the Open Science Ecosystem, intersecting with open...
UKRN members respond to report on reproducibility and research integrity
The House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee recently released the report of its inquiry into reproducibility and research integrity. It made 23 recommendations, many of which are directly relevant to the UKRN. A short survey of our members’ views...