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UKRIO

The UK Research Integrity Office, an independent advisory body providing confidential, expert advice on research integrity matters to UK research organisations and researchers. A query falls within UKRIO's remit if it concerns the conduct or governance of research in a UK context.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board
· Last updated 21 May 2026

Examples

Worked examples

  • Is an instance

    A UK university research-integrity office consulting UKRIO's Confidential Advice service when designing an investigation of an alleged authorship dispute.

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

  • Not an instance

    A US-funded investigation at a US institution, which would fall under ORI or the NSF OIG rather than UKRIO.

Editorial commentary

Founded in 2006 and constituted as a charity, UKRIO publishes the Code of Practice for Research (2009, updated 2022), the Procedure for the Investigation of Misconduct in Research (2008, regularly updated), and a Confidential Advice service. It is distinct from the UK Research Integrity Forum and from the Universities UK Concordat to Support Research Integrity (2012, 2019 revision), which is the sector-level commitment that UK institutions sign.

References

  • UKRIO Code of Practice for Research (2009, updated 2022)
  • Universities UK Concordat to Support Research Integrity (2019 revision)

Also known as

UK Research Integrity Office

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

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Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)
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