Newcastle University’s new Biological Engineering: Wastewater Innovation at Scale (BEWISe) facility is the first of its type in Europe in large-scale wastewater treatment research using bacteria.  It is an international centre of research excellence and experimentation for wastewater management technology.

The facility is based at Northumbrian Water’s sewage treatment plant at Birtley, near Gateshead.  It will play a key role in improving how sewage is treated. It will do this by speeding up...

As the UK’s primary authority on protection from radiation, chemical and environmental hazards, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) represents a significant national resource for industry, education, research and medicine.

A specific function of UKHSA is to carry out research to advance knowledge about protection from the risks of radiation, chemical and environmental hazards. This includes providing laboratory and technical services, running training courses and providing expert...

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 Adolescent Data Platform (ADP) for Mental Health Research brings together a huge range of information relating to the mental health of young people aged 10-24 from across the UK.

With core funding from mental health research charity MQ, we provide an unprecedented resource for researchers and policy-makers to improve understanding of mental illness in young people, address historical service challenges, and tackle inequalities in mental health.

The platform, which launched in 2018...

The MTC was established in 2010 as an independent Research & Technology Organisation (RTO). Its primary focus is to ensure that great ideas become reality and don’t fall into the manufacturing abyss known as the ‘valley of death’.

It represents one of the largest public sector investments in UK manufacturing and, after four years of planning and a 16-month build, the facility opened at Ansty Park in Coventry at the end of 2011. It exists to prove innovative manufacturing processes and...

The Software Sustainability Institute is a national facility for building better software, founded in 2010. It provides guidance, training, tools, services and other resources to advance good practices for developing research software. These include a software evaluation service; guides for researchers, developers and managers; and data and analysis on research software. The SSI runs workshops and initiatives to support the development of communities of practice, including the SSI Fellowship...

DATAMIND is the Health Data Research Hub for Mental Health funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and Health Data Research (HDR) UK.

Our Mental Health Data Research Hub makes the most of the UK’s rich mental health data and enable coordinated research, with the ultimate aim of improving lives. The Hub will transform mental health research in the UK by providing a central, integrated data infrastructure with findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) mental health data sets...

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...

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...

Dementias Platform UK Data Portal  (DPUK Data Portal) holds detailed information on more than 2 million individuals from over 50 long-term health studies, known as cohort studies.

By joining data from all these cohort studies, we provide a secure, integrated and collaborative environment, where scientists from academia and industry can share knowledge and conduct joint research programmes, subject to strict governance permutations.

The portal is the technology hub of Dementias Platform UK...