Make it Public 2024

Make it Public Week is a campaign dedicated to research transparency, founded on the Make it Public strategy and the vision that trusted information from health and social care research studies is publicly available for the benefit of all.

This year, the focus is on raising research registration rates. Research has shown that two thirds of the UK public would feel more confident in the findings of health and social care research if the project was added to a public register before it started.

The Health Research Authority (HRA) has been looking at how to support higher registration rates and increase visibility of studies taking place in the UK.  From this year onwards the data that is routinely collected about clinical trials the HRA has approved, and whether they have been registered on a publicly accessible database. They’ve also reviewed the current data held, and have contacted research teams where they do not have a record that their trial has been registered.

This Make it Public Week, the HRA want to bring the research community together for an online workshop to explore themes in research registration and address any barriers to registering studies.

This conference is being run by the HRA if you have any questions, please contact the event team.