GCRI · Labs

Purpose and publisher

Labs is published by The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI). This page sets out what the platform is for, who is responsible for it and the limits of what a Labs result means. Return to the Labs home page for the platform overview.

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01Register

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Labs
  1. PublisherThe Global Centre for Risk and Innovation
  2. FieldResearch and evidence, Methods and modelling, Innovation
02Purpose

Experiments that others can inspect, repeat and challenge.

Labs exists to run interdisciplinary experiments on systemic risk in a way that keeps hypotheses, methods, data and uncertainty attached to every result. Its scope covers technical research, method development, testbeds and supervised innovation challenge programmes.

Its working method is set out in research protocols and reproducibility and negative results. Its thematic work is organised in labs for energy and water, health and biotechnology, work and media.

03Publisher

Who is responsible.

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PublisherThe Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Platform statusEstablished: the published root is preserved and existing activity is being checked against records
Service levelInformation and enquiries
Contactcontact@therisk.global for the Consortium Secretariat; research@therisk.global for research
AddressToronto, ON M4R 1V2
04Limits

What Labs does not do.

  • It does not regulate, certify, license or approve products, methods, sites or organisations.
  • It does not grant site permissions, ethics approvals or biosafety clearances; those come from the competent body for each site and study.
  • It does not publish a record, participant or result that does not exist.
  • A challenge programme is supervised learning and research, not employment or a professional qualification, unless a written agreement says otherwise.

Governance, corrections and integrity routes for all GCRI platforms are described on GCRI governance and trust and on the platform's Labs trust page.

05Questions

Questions and answers.

Is Labs a separate legal entity?
No. It is a platform published by GCRI. Agreements for any experiment or programme are made by GCRI Canada, GCRI US or another named organisation, as each agreement states.
Who reviews a Labs protocol?
Each protocol is designed to name its principal investigator, a subject reviewer independent of the team and, where people, animals, pathogens or field sites are involved, the external ethics or safety body that must approve it.
How are mistakes corrected?
A correction is recorded against the original result with its date and reason, and the original remains visible. Corrections can be reported through the routes on the Labs trust page.
Can a university or company run its own study under the Labs name?
No. A study appears as Labs work only when it follows a published Labs protocol and has a named principal investigator and reviewer. Using the name does not transfer any GCRI approval, because GCRI gives none.
Where are Labs results published?
On the platform's results page and, when they meet editorial standards, in the Reports Labs Evidence series. Each result is published with its protocol, data statement and any corrections.
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