What it does: we are the national lead on aerial investigation and mapping and set the standards for the professional, academic and volunteer sectors. We undertake, manage and provide expert advice on programmes of aerial reconnaissance and air photo interpretation in order to discover, record, characterise and monitor archaeological sites, historic buildings, and landscapes. We use sources including historic and modern aerial photographs, satellite imagery and airborne laser scanning data...

PRUK is a resource being established by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Medical Research Council (MRC) to maximise the use, innovation and benefit from the UK's rich collection of longitudinal population studies (LPS) across social and economic, and biomedical science.

The goal of PRUK is to enable a greater understanding of the complex interplay between the biological, behavioural, social, economic and environmental determinants that influence health and societal...

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...

UKHSA Porton is the UK’s largest capability for the handling of dangerous human pathogens and animal modelling of infectious diseases. The capability is used to understand pathogenesis, undertake preclinical development and assessment of new vaccines and therapeutics, undertake studies in microbiological aerobiology, decontamination and detection, and develop diagnostic assays for clinical use. Current studies are focused on high priority activities including: SARS-CoV-2, Ebola, Zika, Crimean...

EH cares for more than 400 landscapes, sites, properties and examples of statuary throughout England. Collectively these make up the National Heritage Collection (NHC). The sites have been selected against a variety of criteria over a period of more than a century, but are all deemed to be ‘nationally important’, including some of the most significant archaeological, architectural and historical assets in England. These sites are cared for in a variety of ways, either directly by EH, generally...

UKCRIC is a world-class integrated research capability with a mission to underpin the renewal, sustainment and improvement of infrastructure and cities in the UK and elsewhere. Our research partnership, currently involving fourteen UK Higher Education Institutions, engages with government, city and commercial policy makers, investors, citizens and wider academia in a joint venture to drive innovation and value creation in the exploitation of services provided by national infrastructure.

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