Overview

Serving as a platform to convene the research community, drive broader collaboration, and solidify UKRN’s long-term sustainability plan, the UKRN conference will showcase the impact of its core initiatives and engage the research sector community as change agents to improve UK research.

Intended Audience

This conference is aimed at: Research leaders, researchers, policy community, publishers, funders, infrastructure providers, scholarly academies and societies.

Agenda

There are two keynote speakers:

• Day 1 (Wednesday 8th July) – Stian Westlake: Stian Westlake is Executive Chair of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). ESRC is the UK’s largest funder of social science and a part of UK Research & Innovation, where he plays a central role in shaping the research environment across UK higher education and supporting innovation in research culture and practice, and leads the organisation’s investments in metascience.
• Day 2 (Thursday 9th July) – Charlotte Pennington: Dr Charlotte Pennington is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Aston University. Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. As an experimental social psychologist, Charlotte’s research focuses on how people’s complex social environments impact upon health and wellbeing.

The rest of the conference programme can be found here: https://www.conference.ukrn.org/programme/

Conference Dinner

The conference dinner will be held nearby at Manchester Metropolitan University. Dinner will include a welcome drink, a 3-course meal with drinks, followed by tea and coffee. Please register for the conference dinner as you purchase your conference registration – Menu confirmation and a meal pre-order form will be sent to you following your dinner registration.

Accommodation

FAQs

A list of answers to questions can be found on the Conference FAQs page.

About UKRN

UKRN is a national peer-led consortium that aims to ensure the UK community produces world-leading research. We do this by investigating the factors that contribute to robust research, organising training, and disseminating best practice. Our members are a grassroots research advocate community, institutions committed strategically to improvements, and stakeholders across the wider research system.