Upcoming:

• UK Reproducibility Network Course: Data Management for Reproducibility, 11 June & 2 July (sign up by 3 June), £250.
• Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2026 – Full Programme now available, 18 June.
• CaSDaR Hybrid Data Stewardship Conference 2026 – 17-18 November.

Catch up:

• Exploring the TRUST Principles and the importance of trustworthiness for data repositories
• How to make your open access books more accessible (and why it matters)
• ORCID Ask Me Anything: How We’re Building a Website That Works for Everyone

Of interest:

• REAMEBuilder is a Shiny application that walks researchers through building a high-quality README file for research datasets and code. It automatically describes tabular data columns (ranges, levels, NAs), detects R package dependencies from scripts, supports script run-order documentation, and exports a formatted README.md.
• New book! Doing Open Social Science: A Guide for Researchers
• Practice Research Framework: A Framework for Supporting, Integrating and Nurturing Practice Research sets out a shared approach to recognising, enabling and strengthening practice research within higher education.

Previous months’ Webinars and whatnots:

• April 2026
• March 2026 – none
• February 2026
• January 2026
• December 2025
• November 2025
• October 2025
• September 2025- none
• August 2025
• July 2025
• June 2025
• May 2025 – Midlands Innovation Open Research Week 2025
• April 2025
• March 2025
• February 2025
• January 2025
• December 2024
• November 2024