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Metascience 2025: Call for Proposals is open!

Metascience 2025 will be a global summit for 650 speakers and participants, hosted by RoRI in the heart of London’s Knowledge Quarter

Metascience is exploding into the mainstream.

Its simple premise – that we should turn the methods and tools of science back towards analysing and improving the scientific system itself – is now widely accepted. Around the world, we see new initiatives and alliances being set up to make this happen.

Since its inaugural 2019 meeting at Stanford University, the biennial series of Metascience conferences has become an influential meeting point for this community, which now spans every academic discipline, and embraces governments, universities, R&D-intensive firms, research funders, foundations, publishers and infrastructure providers.

From 30 June to 2 July 2025, we are hosting the largest meeting yet.

Metascience 2025 will be a global summit for 650 speakers and participants, hosted by RoRI at UCL, in the heart of London’s Knowledge Quarter. Metascience 2025 aims to bring together the diverse metascience community to share ideas and the latest evidence and methods, and foster a culture of continuous experimentation and learning.

We are now inviting proposals for virtual pre-conference symposia, in-person panel sessions, and talks or posters on any topic related to metascience. 

We intend to explore a broad range of metascience topics, but the conference also has three headline themes, which reflect points of change and opportunity: institutions; innovations; and alliances.

  • Institutions – How are governments, funding agencies, foundations and universities supporting and strengthening metascience? Where do we see effective approaches in the public, private and third sectors to building metascientific capacity, and connecting this to decision-making? What metascientific possibilities are being created by new types of research institutions? How can metascience help us to understand and improve institutionalised research cultures?
  • Innovations – How are technological and methodological advances – particularly using AI – expanding the possibilities of metascience? How can these and other innovations help us to navigate and shape change in research systems (e.g. in support of new modes of publishing and peer review; high-risk research; or transdisciplinarity)? What can we learn and scale up from the latest advances in metascience?
  • Alliances – How can we build better long-term infrastructures for metascience that complement broader moves towards open data infrastructures? What role could a new Metascience Alliance play (alongside other collaborative networks) in support of community building, career pathways, matchmaking and experimentation?

We welcome proposals that address these themes (and their intersections). But we also warmly encourage proposals linked to new work and/or methodological advances across broad fields of metascience.

If there’s anything you think this community should be thinking and talking about, please submit a proposal! We especially encourage submissions from members of groups that are underrepresented in metascience, and research more generally, to foster an inclusive program.


The call for proposals is now open and closes on 7 February 2025.

We are inviting proposals for virtual pre-conference symposia, in-person panel sessions, and talks or posters on any topic related to metascience. For details and submission guidelines, see below.