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...

Royal Holloway offers creative businesses cutting edge innovation infrastructure to develop ground-breaking ideas, pilots and prototypes in collaboration with academic researchers. We are home to the StoryFutures Creative Cluster, and hosts a cutting edge immersive innovation facilities, as well as performance infrastructure, cultural archives, and information security labs. Immersive R&D - Immersive Lab: facilities to upskill creative professionals through our Labs programme (Immersive...

Apocrita is a 5000+ core heterogeneous high performance computing cluster owned by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). The cluster is managed by the Research IT team of IT Services. It was established in 2012 by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) as one of the 5 regional Tier-2 Computing Centres of Excellence, through the MidPlus consortium (the universities of Birmingham, Nottingham, Warwick and QMUL) The cluster has been repeatedly expanded through smaller...

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...

BLPES builds, curates and makes publicly accessible an international collection of material to support research and teaching in social science. It consists of over 4 million items in physical and digital form including books, journals, pamphlets, official publications, statistical series, archives, manuscripts and museum objects, with associated services to enable their discovery and use. Its research objective is the facilitation of social science scholarship through the curation of unique and...

The British Sign Language (BSL) Corpus is a collection of video clips showing Deaf people using BSL, together with background information about the signers and written descriptions of the signing in the multimedia annotation tool ELAN. The video clips were collected as part of the original BSL Corpus Project, funded between 2008 and 2011 by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The BSL Corpus is based at the Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre (DCAL), University College...

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...

The National Child Development Study follows the lives of an initial 17,415 people born in Great Britain in a single week in March 1958. At birth 98% of all babies born in the target week were enrolled. The study was further augmented in childhood with immigrants into GB. The study is the second oldest of the UK’s national birth cohort studies, which follow people from birth and across the whole of their lives. It forms one of four national longitudinal studies at the Centre for Longitudinal...