The UCL recently published a "[Statement on Transparency in Research](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/sites/research/files/ucl_statement_on_transpa...)". *Kudos to UCL for taking such a leading role in committing to good scientific practice!* Some key excerpts:
UCL’s Research Strategy emphasises our commitment to responsible research, including a commitment to open research and ensuring open access to research outputs. [...]
Making research open is a core part of research transparency, and open research practices are rewarded in promotion decisions. [...]
The reproducibility of both research methods and research results (see Annex for definitions) is critical to research in certain contexts, particularly in the experimental sciences with a quantitative focus. Reproducibility forms part of UCL’s wider commitment to transparency and rigour in all of our research. [...]
UCL is committed to supporting transparency in research and to developing approaches to improve the quality of the research we produce. This includes:
- continuing to support open research (including through the Academic Careers Framework1) and the necessary cultural change, as discussed in LERU’s policy paper on open science - the development of governance processes to enable research outputs to be found, accessed, and reused appropriately when open sharing is not appropriate - the development of additional training, including in research methods, and consideration of how to promote transparency in academic teaching - improving the sharing of knowledge and best practice across UCL.
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