Annual conference: thank you to our amazing speakers and delegates

This week we’ve held UKRIO’s 9th annual research integrity conference, on the theme of ‘Good research practice: culture, environment and sustainability’ and we’d like to say thank you to our brilliant speakers and delegates who made it such an informative, insightful and lively event. It was great to see such passionate and in-depth discussion, both in the conference chat and on social media. Thank you to everyone who participated, it was great to hear from you.

Over a thousand people registered for the conference, to hear speakers from across the research community  discuss key topics in research integrity such as, how do we make sure research is high quality and of high ethical standards during these challenging times? How can we ensure rigour and reproducibility, adapt to new ways of working, reduce waste in research, and respond to the wider issues facing society?

Sir Patrick Vallance, Government Chief Scientific Adviser opened the second day of the conference, sharing his perspective on good research practice. Other keynote speakers were:

• Dr Elisabeth Bik, winner of the 2021 John Maddox Prize
• Professor Astrid Eichhorn, chair of the ALLEA Working Group Climate Sustainability in the Academic System
• Professor James Wilsdon, Director, Research on Research Institute (RoRI)

We have started putting slides up on the 2022 conference web page, so please do take a look.

Further slides will be added shortly, along with videos of the sessions. Please check back for updates!