Joining the UK Committee on Research Integrity

I’m delighted to share with you the news that I’ve been appointed to the UK Committee on Research Integrity.

The key endeavour and responsibility of the UK Committee on Research Integrity is to promote and drive research integrity in the UK.  It has just released its three year strategic plan; if you want to know more about the aims and scope of this plan, do please sign up for the upcoming webinar, where committee members will be discussing this strategy and highlighting opportunities for the sector to get involved.

This three-year strategic plan outlines four key pillars of work, which are as follows:

• Promote research integrity

• Support research integrity

• Define the evidence base

• Build new directions

Within these four pillars, the Committee has identified four projects to prioritise: to explore indicators of research integrity; to address poor research practice and research misconduct; to map the UK research integrity landscape; and to analyse research integrity annual statements.

It has been exciting to see the headway the committee is already making on these projects. And I am very much looking forward to working with my fellow committee members, both established and those newly appointed with me today, who all bring a wealth of complementary expertise and experience from across many academic disciplines and the wider research sector, and to working also with the committee’s engaged secretariat.

I look forward to learning from my fellow members of the Committee as we undertake this work programme together, to engaging with the wider research sector in the work we do, and to contributing to the Committee’s vitally important work to promote and drive research integrity in the UK.