The National Archives (TNA) is the official archive of the UK government and for England and Wales, making available to the public a vast collection of historical records dating back over 1,000 years and including the UK Government Web Archive and legislation.gov.uk. Our goal is to be an archive for everyone, and we are taking an entrepreneurial, disruptive, and inclusive approach to reaching this aim. One important sector we serve is research, and as a UKRI Independent Research Organisation, we...

The National Timing Centre Programme - Resilient Timing for the Future

The National Timing Centre Programme provides the UK's first distributed timing infrastructure.

The NTC programme will provide the resilience needed to protect critical national infrastructure, keep essential services running and ensure trust in new technologies. It will enable the UK to move away from reliance on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), like GPS, and leverage a range of time and frequency...

The 14CHRONO Centre analyses a wide variety of carbon containing samples using Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) 14C to provide radiocarbon ages or fractions of modern carbon. We also provide AMS 14C analyses for archaeological companies, forensic investigations and industries interested in monitoring bio- vs. fossil based components. We collaborate with researchers around the world to construct radiocarbon calibration curves to convert radiocarbon ages to 'calendar' ages. We also provide...

UAL has over 120 archives and special collections across its sites. These include material relating to book art, film, fine printing, performance, product design, screen, tailoring, typography and women's art. They support international PhDs and post-doctoral research and they are used in a wide variety of teaching and learning activities across many subject disciplines and courses at Foundation, BA and MA level. The importance of these collections was recognised by the HEFCE/UKRI Museums...

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...

Biometrology - measuring biological systems to support the development of new bioproducts and services

NPL, as the UK's National Measurement Institute, is the prime deliverer of the UK Measurement Strategy. NPL is a world-leading centre of excellence in developing and applying the most accurate measurement standards, science and technology available. For more than a century, NPL has developed and maintained the nation's primary measurement standards. These standards underpin an...

The ISMB Protein Crystallography & Biophysics (BiophysX) Centre provides coherent and supported access to a range of methodologies for the characterization and quantitative analysis of biomolecules and their interactions. The ISMB BiophysX Centre supports semi-automated screening of proteins and protein complexes for structural study including crystallization (robotic sample handling, Mosquito and crystal hotel system). We seek to enable accurate analysis of biomolecular interactions that...

CABI manages a collection of 30,000 living strains including the UK National Collection of Fungus Cultures. This collection contains over 6,000 species isolated from environmental and agricultural systems, making it one of the most significant in the world. Our range of organisms, collected from 142 countries, consists of filamentous fungi, yeasts and plant pathogenic bacteria. Strains are publically available for research, development and commercial use and are authenticated through our...

The UK is world-renowned for its unique portfolio of national birth cohort studies. The Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) is home to four multidisciplinary, nationally representative longitudinal cohort studies, which form a vital part of the UK’s data infrastructure. These studies are: Millennium Cohort Study (MCS, b.2000/1), Next Steps (b.1989/90), 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70), National Child Development Study, (b.1958, NCDS). The Centre is responsible for the scientific direction and...