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    Bringing public data to life - competition to visualise UK publicly funded research

    09 January 2014

    … data to life - competition to visualise UK publicly funded research Posted by n.chuehong on 9 January … to visualise the data now avalable about publicly-funded research in the UK. Entry forms are available from 27 … is on 21 March 2014. Every year the seven  Research Councils , funded by UK tax payers, spend around £3 …

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    BBSRC encourage inclusion of Research Software Engineers into new grant proposals

    02 March 2017

    BBSRC encourage inclusion of Research Software Engineers into new grant proposals … By Mike Croucher , Research Software Engineer at University of Sheffield and … Institute  (these days its  funded by 3 research councils  including BBSRC and ESRC) and various other …

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    £840 million: the UK's investment in software-reliant research in 2013

    22 October 2014

    £840 million: the UK's investment in software-reliant research in 2013 Posted by s.hettrick on … working on improving our understanding of the size of the research software community . In previous posts , I’ve … early results. First of all, how much money do the Research Councils invest into research that relies on software? The …

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    Software Sustainability Institute to improve research software practices with £6.5 million UKRI funding

    26 February 2019

    Software Sustainability Institute to improve research software practices with £6.5 million UKRI funding … been awarded £6.5 million funding, from the seven UK Research Councils that are part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), …

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    Making data open: resources, gaps and incentives

    24 May 2017

    … worth noting that open data does not mean just posting your research dataset online with your publication. The FORCE11 … resources to help any researcher to get started with open research data: Decide which research data to … Higher Education Funding Council for England , Research Councils UK , Wellcome and Bill & Melinda Gates …

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    Researchers both rely on software - and overlook it

    31 October 2014

    … Director. This article originally appeared in Research Fortnight . With few exceptions, every significant advance in research over at least the past 30 years would have been … found that in the 2013-14 financial year, the UK research councils and Innovate UK spent at least £840 million on …

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    Mapping Research Council Data Policies to Support Digital Tools and Skills in the Arts and Humanities

    15 July 2021

    Mapping Research Council Data Policies to Support Digital Tools and … As part of a project for the Arts and Humanities Research Council we’re mapping policies and mechanisms … the information by navigating on the individual research councils themselves, by Google searching (using natural …

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    TICTeC 2018 – An Introduction to the World of Civic Technologies

    17 July 2018

    … for mapping and reporting street problems to the councils responsible for fixing them anywhere in the UK, … most interesting for me. MySociety’s Director of Research Rebecca Rumbul spoke about the need to … citizens feel towards technology. Doteveryone did some research on the subject , and found that 50% of the people …

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    Researchfish®: what can it tell us about software in research?

    18 January 2017

    Researchfish®: what can it tell us about software in research? Posted by s.hettrick on 18 … ® allows researchers to record the impact of their research outside of the standard metric of how many papers … broad range of funders, including the UK’s seven Research Councils. I recently had an interesting talk with the …

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    £158 million investment in e-infrastructure to power growth and innovation

    05 December 2011

    … technology keeping them at the cutting edge of research and development, as details of the Government’s … ARCHER, a new national supercomputer to support advanced research, such as complex chemistry and climate science, … million for high capacity data storage across the Research Councils, ensuring researchers can easily access complex …

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