Contents
- 1 Activities
- 1.1 Get Involved with UKRN: News, Events & Open Research Initiatives
- 1.2 UKRN launches first training for the sector
- 1.3 Researcher assessment and open research: more resources available
- 1.4 UKRN welcomes the release of major SCORE findings on research credibility
- 1.5 Computational Reproducibility: A Primer from UKRN
- 1.6 Registration opens for the UKRN Conference
- 1.7 Defining FAIR for UK Institutional Repositories: A Community Collaboration between FAIRsharing and UKRN
Activities
Catch up on the latest UKRN news and get involved in UKRN events and initiativesGet Involved with UKRN: News, Events & Open Research Initiatives
Stay up to date with UKRN’s latest activities, including news, events, and collaborative initiatives. Explore our five-year Open Research Programme and discover how UKRN is driving improvements in research quality, integrity, and transparency through workshops, tools, and community engagement.
Open Research Programme
UKRN has launched a five-year programme of work across our consortium of institutional members, supported by our project partners and Research England, to accelerate the uptake of high-quality open research practices, and the many benefits to research quality, integrity and public trust in research that will consequently flow.
Initiatives and Events
UKRN offers support for initiatives to promote robust and rigorous research, focusing on establishing conversations about reproducibility, providing tools and guidance to promote best practice, and encouraging professional development of researchers. UKRN runs and promotes events and regular workshops on the topic of reproducible research.
Events
UKRN hosts an annual meeting in March each year, and supports an annual conference in September: Reproducibility, Replicability and Trust In Science. We also run regular workshops on the topics of leadership, data management, research culture and methods.
Initiatives
UKRN supports initiatives to encourage appropriate methodology, accountability and the establishment of working groups, as well as promoting conversations around open science and open research, and providing tools that make reproducibility easier.
Latest News
We produce news to promote examples of reproducible research in the UK, as well as our events and initiatives. Do you want to write about reproducibility in your field? Please contact us about writing for our blog.
UKRN launches first training for the sector
Registration is open for Data Management for Reproducibility, the first UKRN training course to be offered to the sector. A flagship training course The course focuses on the practical role of data management in enabling reproducible research and is aimed at...
Researcher assessment and open research: more resources available
We are delighted to share the release of a new MetaArXiv preprint led by, among others, David Moher, Kelly Cobey, David Mellor, Tim Newton, Danny Smith, Banaz Jalil and Neil Jacobs, “Responsible Research Assessment of Faculty: maximizing quality, transparency, and...
UKRN welcomes the release of major SCORE findings on research credibility
UKRN welcomes today’s publication of the findings from the Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) programme—a landmark, multi‑method investigation into the credibility of social and behavioural science research involving more than 800...
Computational Reproducibility: A Primer from UKRN
The UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) has released a helpful new primer introducing the essentials of computational reproducibility, an increasingly important topic for anyone who uses a computer in their research. The guide explains why reproducing results using the...
Registration opens for the UKRN Conference
The UKRN Conference 2026 website is now live and Early Bird registration is opened for the UK Reproducibility Network conference taking place in Manchester, Wednesday 8 and Thursday 9 July 2026. Early birds fees close on May 15th. We're excited to bring together...
Defining FAIR for UK Institutional Repositories: A Community Collaboration between FAIRsharing and UKRN
This blog post has been jointly published by UKRN and FAIRsharing, and authored by Allyson Lister (0000-0002-7702-4495), Danny Smith (0000-0002-0724-2374), and Susanna-Assunta Sansone (0000-0001-5306-5690). The application of the FAIR Principles to digital research...