Job: Research Transparency Officer, end of play: Nov 07, 2022 | UCL

Duties and Responsibilities

This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant contribution to the University’s research strategy by communicating the benefits of, and enabling, Open Research practices across the range of disciplines at UCL. You will work across the University, and nationally with the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN), to accelerate the uptake of Open Research practices. Open Research refers to research which is practiced in a way that is suitably transparent for others to contribute and collaborate, and that enables findings to be reproduced. It engenders research improvement and ensures public trust in research. Empowering researchers to engage with better practice around research transparency, reuse and reliability, is key to the University’s research strategy.

You will have experience of Open Research practices or willingness to develop appropriate experience. You will have strong written and in-person communication skills, and use these to advocate for the benefits of Open Research with researchers at all career stages and across all disciplines. You will be responsible for the coordination and progression of the UCL strand of the 5-year Research England-funded project “Growing and Embedding Open Research in Institutional Practice and Culture”. This five-year, eighteen institution program will develop, share, deliver and evaluate researcher training in Open Research practices, to enhance research transparency, reliability, and reproducibility.

The specific objectives of this project are:

1: Developing and delivering innovative, multi-institutional, high-quality training in open and transparent research practice;

2: Developing and delivering a framework for ongoing evaluation of institutional practice and learning in open and transparent research, leading to the embedding of a culture of continuous research improvement;

3. Sharing effective practice among partner institutions and across the sector, and promoting the alignment of incentives, embedded in institutional practice, to drive uptake of open research.

This is a part time post funded to 30th September 2027 in the first instance, working 21.9 hours per week.