Concordat on Openness on Animal Research in the UK

Question to be addressed: Do institutions invite people in for debates? How do they steer the discussions and prevent it getting out of control? Do people ask questions? In particular, the chair had been approached to conduct a debate with Year 13 students (18 years old) …

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How do you hear about good examples from other institutions? People from different institutions have different experiences of hearing about what’s going on. Often relies on one person within an institution being ‘plugged in’ to what’s going on externally. Communication (externally) can often be 1:1. Depends …

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The group primarily discussed public/supporter engagement in relation to events and open days. A couple of useful themes arose when considering future engagement around animal research: It was generally considered not appropriate to deliver activity based solely around the topic of animal research, which can end …

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What are the differences between Key Stage 1 (under 7 years), Key Stage 2 (7-11 years), Key Stage 3 (11-18 years) and further education? It’s school time again! You’re probably feeling excited and maybe a little sad that summer is over. Some kids feel nervous or …

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If you are like most people, you have bad habits that are affecting your health. Many people have bad habits and they call them vices so that they don’t seem as serious as they actually are. In reality, these bad habits can have lasting effects on …

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There have been some examples of excellent, balanced coverage in UK media in recent months: The Sun: CAN RATS CURE FAT EPIDEMIC? We go behind the scenes at the animal research facility that could hold the secret to ending obesity – award-winning story featuring University of Leicester …

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Possible Problems: Different companies encounter different issues, sometimes due to their size and other times based on their funds. While small scale businesses can find a solution by visiting this page, to fix a large scale business issue will take a lot of resources. Multinational companies …

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Using social media to support Openness The consensus was that organisations should be using social media to talk about their animal research but that there was no need to talk about how their organisation was being open. Many organisations felt it was counterproductive to post “look how …

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Could help raise awareness of Concordat generally. Helping researchers engage with stakeholders on animal research: mandate such engagement? Peer review and application process may be rigorous but what happens with the funding afterwards? This could be explored more. ARRIVE guidelines and journals ask researchers to undertake …

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I began by explaining that I was from a medium sized medical charity that relied on voluntary donations to fund research. The charity is also a patient organisation. While we support the Concordat, and do lots of things to be open about the research we fund …

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