The Archives Hub brings together descriptions of thousands of the UK’s archive collections. Representing over 350 institutions across the country, it is an effective way to discover unique and often little-known sources to support research. New descriptions are added every week, often representing collections being made available for the first time. Researchers can use the Hub to instantly scan the archival landscape and bring together diverse sources held in repositories across the country. The...

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 challenge policies. We provide open access public attitudes survey data, a comprehensive archive on material relating to the conflict in Northern Ireland (CAIN), detailed information...

The Ashmolean is the oldest purpose-built public museum in the world, opening within the University of Oxford in 1683. Its historic collections are an integral part of our intellectual heritage, playing an important role in generating and supporting research for over 300 years. The collections and archives at the Ashmolean are a global resource comprising over 1 million objects and works of art covering almost the entire span of human history. The breadth and quality of the collections make the...

The ATI Nano- Manufacture and Processing RII consolidates activities that design, process, fabricate, characterise and test novel materials and devices that rely on the nano/micro-scale. This leads naturally to themes in energy harvesting and storage, communications (wireless & optical), and sensors. These strands enable applications, such as self-powered sensor nodes on the Internet of Things. Electrochemistry and Formulations have major activities related to the synthesis of perovskite...

The AMF was established in April 2014, following a review of NCAS’s ground-based facilities and the service they provided to the community. Its remit is threefold: (i) to deploy instrumentation and provide a quality-controlled data product for field measurements; (ii) to provide underpinning laboratory facilities for calibration and experimentation; and (iii) to provide access to NCAS field sites for guest instrumentation. In 2018, under the direction of NERC, AMF merged with its sister facility...

Auchencorth Moss Atmospheric Observatory (AMo), is a research infrastructure sited on an ombrotrophic peatland at 270 m elevation in South East Scotland (55ᵒ47’36”N, 3°14’41” W), which is managed by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH). It is used primarily to carry out research on atmospheric composition, surface-atmosphere exchange of pollutants and studies in carbon catchments.

The landscape of Auchencorth Moss was first used in 1994 to study fluxes of methane (CH₄) gas. In 1995...

AIC will support low carbon, renewables and offshore wind sectors. Comprising 4 Innovation Accelerators, to rapidly develop and commercialise RDI projects; demonstration space and flexible spaces for events; and high-quality office space. It provides the opportunity for industry to coalesce, growing capability and capacity to boost regional economic development in the low carbon and offshore wind sectors, securing collaboration between industry and the research base. Innovation Accelerators...

The set of AAAI (Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting Infrastructure) services operated by Jisc provides a national framework for the management of access to RII resources across the UK. This framework includes authentication of an individual user of a RII; authorisation of that user to access RII resources; and, where appropriate, accounting for that use for charging or for auditing purposes (for instance where there are compliance implications such as those around access to sensitive...

ALSPAC is a multi-generational study that began as a pregnancy/birth cohort. In 1991 and 1992, 14,500 pregnant women living in and around Bristol were recruited into the study. Detailed data have been collected on these women and their partners (the original parents, known as G0) and their children (the index participants, G1). In recent years the study has also enrolled the children of the children (G2).

The overarching objective for ALSPAC is to maintain its position as the premier multi...

Hollin Hill Landslide Observatory, North Yorkshire At Hollin Hill a system of monitoring landslide movement has been developed by BGS by combining geomorphological mapping, terrestrial LiDAR and real-time monitoring with geophysics. Scientific research at this site has been designed to enable BGS to accurately monitor and eventually aid the forecasting of movement of the landslide. It brings together a combination of field surveying, geomorphological, geophysical, engineering and...