James Parry, Chief Innovation Officer

James is the Chief Innovation Officer at UKRIO. He joined UKRIO in 2006, and became the Chief Executive in 2008, overseeing UKRIO’s transition to a registered charity supported by over 110 research organisations. In 2023, James moved to the role of Chief Innovation Officer where he continues to spearhead new initiatives and innovate the charity’s growing services.

He supports UKRIO’s work programme and its advisory service, responding to queries and concerns about research practice from researchers and the public. He helped develop UKRIO’s Code of Practice for Research and many other key publications and outputs, used by many leading research organisations.

James works with UKRIO’s subscribers to provide them with tailored support on research practice. He regularly speaks on how to sustain and enhance good research practice and research culture & systems; audiences have included the Royal Society, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, the national research integrity bodies of many countries, and the World Conference on Research Integrity.

James has collaborated in numerous initiatives to support research integrity. He contributed to the Royal Society-UKRIO project Integrity in Practice, a tool kit examining ways to effect positive change to research culture, and is an Observer on the Concordat Signatories Group, helping with the ongoing development of the UK Concordat to Support Research Integrity. James is currently participating in a number of high-level reviews and initiatives exploring improvements to the UK’s research integrity landscape and has been called to give evidence to multiple Parliamentary inquiries into research integrity.

Prior to joining UKRIO James worked as an archaeologist and a university administrator. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology in 2023.