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.
This is the first of a six-part online programme, bringing together funders, publishers, infrastructure providers, researchers, and research professionals to drive coordinated cross-sector action and make open research a reality in the UK. This session explores research data planning and review, focusing on the upstream practices that shape how research data and materials are managed, shared, and reused across the research lifecycle. Using the recent Sustainable and TrAnsparent Research data (STAR) Study Report as a starting point, this session will bring together perspectives from across the sector to reflect on the report’s recommendations, paying particular attention to its concluding recommendation on the need for formalised open research review mechanisms.
Join us to learn more about UK Data Service from our guest speakers, Sam Campbell, Hina Zahid, and Maureen Haaker, who will give an overview of the UK Data Service, including the data, impact, and support for the social sciences research community. The session will introduce our extensive range of research-ready surveys, longitudinal, census, qualitative and international data collections available for free for secondary analysis.
IDCC27 will take place in Lisbon in February 27th. The call for submissions is now open!
The 21st edition of the International Digital Curation Conference(IDCC27) will take place in Lisbon, Portugal from 9 - 12 February 2027. The main theme of the conference is ”FAIR DO's: Centring People in the Stewardship and Curation of Digital Objects.” The FAIR principles emphasise machine actionability, but the increasing integration of artificial intelligence systems into data infrastructure carries the risk of marginalising people in the planning, management, and practice of digital curation. The theme of this year’s conference acknowledges the crucial role of people in making digital objects FAIR.
