ADR Wales brings together world-renowned data science experts, leading academics and specialist teams within Welsh Government to produce evidence that shapes future policy decisions in Wales. ADR Wales is the focal point for data-related research in Wales and a major player in UK-wide efforts to transform research and policy environments. ADR Wales is a core element of the ESRC’s, via UKRI, ADR UK investment.

ADR Wales unites specialists in their field from Swansea University Medical School a...

Using new data sources and novel methodologies, the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research analyses public sector data and explores what linking it in new ways can reveal. 

Comprising of researchers from a range of leading institutions across Scotland, the centre itself is hosted within the University of Edinburgh and directed by Professor Chris Dibben. Our research uses administrative data to examine issues from across society in Scotland and the UK, providing evidence-based...

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...

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...

CeLSIUS facilitates research access to the ONS Longitudinal Study ('the LS'), a secure data set based on the decennial censuses for England and Wales. It has operated in its current form since 2001 (and under the current institutional and management structure since 2012). The data were originally supported at the Social Statistics Research Unit, City University from 1982, with a support mechanism similar to the current arrangements since 1994. On this basis, we define the RII as 'long-term'. We...

CLOSER, the home of longitudinal research, is the interdisciplinary partnership of leading social and biomedical longitudinal population studies, the UK Data Service and The British Library. 

Our mission is to increase the visibility, use and impact of longitudinal population studies, data and research to ensure that longitudinal evidence is used to address the health, social, economic and environmental challenges facing the UK, now and in the future.

​Our work focuses on four primary...

Earth observation, climate and optical - improving the quality of data collected through Earth observation systems and satellites

As the UK’s National Measurement Institute, NPL has cutting edge capabilities in optical radiation metrology in the UV-Visible-IR range across a variety of applications. Our world leading expertise and SI tracible measurement facilities are applied to enabling new product development, quality assurance, health and safety, and compliance in applications as...

EPCC is the supercomputing centre at the University of Edinburgh. Established in 1990, it is the UK's National Supercomputing Centre in everything but name having hosted almost all of the UK's National HPC services over the past 30 years. Today it hosts the ARCHER2 National HPC service on behalf of EPSRC and NERC, the Research Data Facility, the CIRRUS Tier 2 HPC service on behalf of EPSRC, and the DIRAC service on behalf of STFC. It also operates the Edinburgh International Data Facility on...

Emissions and atmospheric metrology - Providing traceability and validation for emission and atmospheric measurements: improving confidence in environmental measurements for pollution, air quality and climate change

Pollution is responsible for ~29,000 premature deaths p.a and increased health costs of ~£20 billion a year in the UK alone. Industry, regulators and the research community are working hard to reduce emissions of pollutants, such as SO2, NOx, HCl and particulates. Similar...