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ARK

ARK is Northern Ireland's social policy hub, and is a joint initiative across Queen's University Belfast and Ulster University. Our goal is to provide open access information on the social and political context in Northern Ireland, in order to support the research and evidence base, to support civic society, and to inform, monitor and challenge policies. We provide open access public attitudes survey data, a comprehensive archive on material relating to the conflict in Northern Ireland (CAIN), d...

Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a global initiative to build the world’s largest and most sensitive high-energy gamma-ray observatory with more than 100 telescopes located in the northern hemisphere (at the Roque de los Muchachos astronomical observatory on the island of La Palma, Spain) and the southern hemisphere (near the existing European Southern Observatory site at Paranal, Chile). With its superior performance, the prospects for CTA combine the in-depth understanding of known...

Gravity Research Lab

The Gravity Research Lab as part of the TEC section of the European Space Agency supports research and technology for gravity and space-flight related activities as well as access to research tools for micro-gravity simulation (clinostats, Random Positioning Machines) and hyper-gravity facilities (LArge Diameter Centrifuge (LDC) and MidiCAR centrifuge). Besides the gravity related activities the TEC-MMG lab also houses a high class clean room, facilities related for Planetary Protection and LG...

Historic England Archive and Library

The Historic England Archive contains over 14 million photographs, drawings, reports and publications from the 1850s to the present day relating to England's archaeology, historic buildings and social history.

We are making our records and images available through our website and currently have over 1 million images. You can also search over 1 million catalogue entries describing photographs, plans and drawings of England's buildings and historic sites; these including photographs dating from...

Human Brain Project

The Human Brain Project (HBP) is building a research infrastructure to help advance neuroscience, medicine and computing. It is based on one of the two largest scientific projects ever funded by the European Union. The 10-year Project began in 2013 and directly employs some 800 scientists at more than 120 universities, teaching hospitals and research centres across Europe. to research/innovation goals and objectives Six ICT research Platforms form the heart of the HBP infrastructure...

National Innovation Centre for Data

The National Innovation Centre for Data (NICD) is enabling organisations to gain insight from their data and improve their productivity, through efficiency gains or new products and services, therefore improving the overall economy of the UK. NICD transfers data skills into the UK workforce by engaging in collaborative projects focussed on a proprietary business problem and supporting progress with key data expertise, tools, methods and technologies. Goals and objectives: 1. To deliver insights...

Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study

The NILS is a 28% sample of the Northern Ireland population that links census data from 1981, 1991, 2001 and 2011 to administrative data on births, deaths, marriages and address changes. It is a unique data resource that permits the analysis of trends in wellbeing and health over a long duration with large sample numbers that would otherwise be impossible. Its allied data resource, the Northern Ireland Mortality Study (NIMS), allows the analysis of 100% of deaths between each census. There is...

Queen's University Belfast Polymer Processing Research Centre

PPRC infrastructure comprises some £2 million of industrial scale polymer processing and analytical equipment. The Centre provides a business friendly interface between companies and QUB Research aligned to industrial needs and takes a pragmatic approach to Intellectual Property and routes to exploitation using a range of funding mechanisms.