CoSeC has joined the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) as a part of their external stakeholder group. 

Launched in 2019, UKRN seeks to understand the issues that contribute to poor research reproducibility and replicability and develop new collaborative approaches to counter these. Ongoing efforts to address these issues represent an opportunity to improve the trustworthiness and quality of research by reforming culture and practice. 

As a national and peer-led consortium it aims to ensure the UK retains its place as a centre for world-leading research, UKRN aims to investigate the factors that contribute to robust research, promoting training and best practice. 

In July 2021, UKRN were awarded £4.5 million by Research England to continue their endeavours for a further 5 years, focused on embedding open research practices across partner institutions and, ultimately, the wider sector. 

CoSeC Director Stephen Longshaw says:

“At their core, the activities of CoSeC and the communities we work with represent a significant element of the UK’s efforts related to domain-specific computational research. This encompasses research software and ultimately leads to curated and managed data of significant national value.  

These underpin the quality outputs that so well define why the UK is a leading country for research and innovation. Reproducibility is a cornerstone consideration for all computational research and, as such, are a key consideration for CoSeC. 

We will engage with the UKRN directly but also serve to signpost its networks and approaches across our communities with a view to both embedding in, and exchanging knowledge and best practices from, the collaborative computational communities that we champion.”