OPEN FOR BOOKING:

UKRIO 2024 Subscriber Day

Virtual event Thursday 23 May 2024

Delegate price: FREE

Subscriber day description

Representatives of UKRIO’s subscriber institutions are invited to attend their exclusive annual virtual meeting, 10:00-13:00. The agenda for this free event includes presentations and discussions on key research integrity issues, a peer networking session, and the opportunity for our subscribers to inform the future work of UKRIO and discuss the issues that matter to them.

Confrimed Speakers

Professor Dame Jessica Corner, Executive Chair, Research England part of UK Research and Innovation.

Dr Ed Gerstner, Director of Research Environment Alliances, Springer Nature

Dr Diego Baptista, Wellcome Trust

Tracey Brown, OBE, Director of Sense about Science and UKRIO Trustee

Professor Rachael Gooberman-Hill , co-chair of the UK Committee on Research Integrity

Keynote session description

Research Integrity: the big and small changes to improve research quality

This keynote panel discussion will look at the key issues facing research integrity and research culture in the UK, and how to safeguard and enhance rigor, ethical standards and public trust in research. Expert speakers will share their perspectives on challenges to good research practice and set out what the research community and policy makers can do to address them.

Target audience:

Pro-Vice Chancellors (Research)

Directors/ Heads of Research Offices

Research Integrity Officers and equivalent roles

Academic and professional services staff working on issues of research culture, research integrity or related topics such as reproducibility or open research

Academic and professional services staff working in research governance or in addressing research misconduct
Chairs of Research Ethics Committees
Heads of Faculties, Departments or Schools
Research managers and other professional services staff in research support roles

Please note that this event is strictly for members of UKRIO subscriber institutions only. If you’re unsure whether your organisation is one of our 120 subscriber institutions, please see the list here. If your institution would like to learn more about the benefits of supporting UKRIO, please contact us at info@ukrio.org.

Programme

10.00 am EVENT OPEN

10.00 am Introduction and welcome

Sir Ian Boyd, FRS FRSE FRSB, Chair, UKRIO Stephanie Neave, Chief Executive, UKRIO

10.10 am Keynote

Professor Dame Jessica Corner, Executive Chair, Research England

10.25 am Keynote

Tracey Brown OBE, Trustee, UKRIO; Director, Sense About Science

10.40 am

Research integrity: the big and small changes to improve research quality

Panel discussion

Tracey Brown OBE, Trustee, UKRIO; Director, Sense About Science (Panel Chair)

Professor Rachael Gooberman-Hill , co-chair of the UK Committee on Research Integrity

Dr Diego Baptista, Head of Research and Funding Equity, Wellcome Trust

Dr Ed Gerstner, Director of Research Environment Alliances, Springer Nature

11:25 am Comfort break

11.30 am

BREAK-OUT GROUPS

Challenges and good practice: subscriber forum

AI in research

Co-production in research

Research culture
Research ethics

12:15 pm Comfort break

12.20 pm Update on the work of UKRIO

12.35 pm Facilitated discussion: listening exercise

Projects
Training offer
Thought leadership and the research landscape

12.55 pm Closing remarks

Stephanie Neave, Chief Executive, UKRIO

1.00 – 1.30 pm Optional informal peer networking session

UKRIO staff and delegates

Please register using your institutional email address. We regret that registrations from persons who are not affiliated with a UKRIO subscriber institution will be cancelled.

For further information on this event or future events at UKRIO please follow the UK Research Integrity website.