The UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) is a national peer-led grassroot initiative that now represents 80 local networks in research institutions in the UK. Our aim is to improve research. We do this by investigating the factors that contribute to robust research, promoting training activities, and disseminating best practice. Our members are a grassroots research advocate community, institutions committed strategically to improvements, and stakeholders across the wider research system. We seek to understand the factors that contribute to poor quality research, across all disciplines, and develop collaborative approaches to counter these, in order to improve the trustworthiness and quality of research. These issues affect all disciplines, so we aim for broad disciplinary representation. We believe that ongoing efforts to address these issues represent an opportunity to improve our research by reforming culture and practice.

Submission Guidelines

UKRN 2026 is our first conference. We are only able to accept submissions for posters. Posters will be installed at the beginning of the Conference and remain visible throughout the Conference. They should be on topics relevant to the broad UKRN community, representing any piece of work that aims to improve how  research is conducted, across all disciplines. Submissions can be made by anyone, research students, researchers or research enablers, or sectorial partners, across all disciplines.

Submission

Please submit an abstract (500 words maximum, this is a maximum wordcount, not a target). The abstract should clearly explain the context of the work and the contributions being made. They will be made available to all attendees before the conference, on the conference website.

Abstracts will be reviewed by the Conference Organising Committee and selected for relevance (reverse alphabetical order). We apologise in advance as we are only able to display 50 posters in total:

• Huajin Wang (Carneggie Melon University, USA)
• Etienne Roesch (Chair, University of Reading)
• Nikki Osborne (Responsible Research)
• Tom Morley (Lancaster University)
• Will Gawned (University of Bristol)
• Nik Bessis (Edge Hill University)

Key dates

• Submission deadline: 1st of May (same closing date as the Conference bursaries)
• Outcome: 8th of May
• Closing day for Early Birds registration: 15th of May

Format

Posters should be no bigger than A0 (maximum 1m wide), and presented in Portrait. We aim to collect PDFs of all posters, and make them available on the website. Contributors whose poster has been selected for display at the conference will be contacted with further instructions.