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The UK Committee on Research Integrity has responsibility to promote and support research integrity in the UK and has been charged with producing an annual “state of the nation” report. Finding reliable indicators for good research practice is a challenge, and there is no central collection of data on research misconduct in the UK. There is however a rich source of evidence in the annual statements on research integrity published by UK universities.

These statements contain a wealth of data about organisations’ approaches and activities related to research integrity but they are not centrally collected or analysed. For their first annual report in 2023, the UK Committee on Research Integrity, working in partnership with the Concordat Signatories Group, commissioned the first full analysis of the statements, looking at 280 statements produced between 2019 and 2022.

This presentation will explore the findings of the analysis, and discuss in more detail some of the examples of good practice for supporting research integrity highlighted in the report. The committee are keen to discuss with the ARMA community the questions that the analysis raises about national reporting that is accessible and transparent for government and the public whilst respecting institutional autonomy and reducing bureaucracy.