The European Social Survey (ESS) is an academically driven cross-national general social survey that has been conducted across Europe since its establishment in 2001. Every two years, face-to-face interviews are conducted with newly selected, cross-sectional samples. The survey measures the attitudes, beliefs and behaviour patterns of diverse populations in more than thirty nations. The main aims of the ESS are: to chart stability and change in social structure, conditions and attitudes in...

The FAIRsharing is a curated, informative and educational resource on data and metadata standards (for identifying, reporting, and citing data and metadata), databases (repositories and knowledge-bases) and data policies (from journals, publishers, funders and other organizations), ranging from the generic and multi-disciplinary, to those from specific domains.

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The D H Lawrence Collection at The University of Nottingham forms one of the major international research resources for the study of D H Lawrence (1885-1930), the well-known Nottinghamshire born writer, who was briefly a student at University College Nottingham in the early 20th century. The collection includes printed editions of his writings, literary manuscripts, correspondence by and about him, a small number of artworks, newspaper cuttings, reports, photographs and a wealth of supporting...

As the UK national library, the British Library is one of the greatest research libraries in the world. The British Library provides world-class information services to business, general public, research and scientific communities, supporting researchers from every country and in every discipline. The Library holds over 200 million items including some of the UK’s most important heritage collections, from the Magna Carta to the Lindisfarne Gospels, which sit alongside the latest scientific...

The Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) is the most advanced international laser user facility. With facilities in the Czech Republic and Hungary, ELI is the European flagship at the centre of this innovative field, strengthening the European Research Area in terms of research, technology and human resources development.  It provides access to a broad range of unique high-intensity, short-pulse laser sources and secondary sources that push the limits of the present state-of-the-art.

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SHRN is a transdisciplinary policy-practice-research partnership between Cardiff University, Welsh Government, Public Health Wales and Cancer Research UK and 100% (n=210) of secondary schools in Wales. SHRN aims to improve young people’s health and wellbeing in the school setting through evidence informed practice. To achieve this it (i) provides timely and robust health and wellbeing data for schools and national/regional stakeholders; (ii) builds capacity for evidence-informed practice in the...

Founded in 1889 as the first English gallery in a park, the Whitworth has been transformed by a £15 million development. This is a gallery whose visitor numbers have climbed spectacularly in the past five years, whose contemporary exhibitions programmes have given new life to international collections, and whose risk-taking curatorial team has gained global attention. Part of the University of Manchester, the Whitworth is a gallery that is a place of research and academic collaboration, and...

Time and frequency - The home of UK time

We provide customers and partners with access to trusted and reliable time, and push the boundaries of timing technologies. NPL operates the UK primary frequency standards and uses these to contribute to global timekeeping. We also create the UK national timescale (UTC(NPL) and disseminate accurate time and frequency to users across the UK, via services such as the MSF radio time signal, our internet time service, and NPLTime®.

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Understanding Society is the largest household panel study in the world which addresses the key scientific and policy questions of the 21st century. It collects high quality annual longitudinal data on individuals of all ages in households representative of the UK population. Such data enables researchers to explore the experience, causes and consequences of changes in people's lives - their family structure, health, income, expenditure, employment and education - key issues for policy makers...

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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