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...

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...

The Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) is following 19,517 children born across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2000-01. This unique resource fills a major and unprecedented 30-year gap in longitudinal data on the UK population (previous national birth cohort studies were 12 years apart: 1946, 1958 and 1970). The cohort has been surveyed six times (9 months, 3, 5, 7, 11 and 14). The seventh survey is taking place in 2018 at age 17. At the time of its instigation, the key objectives...

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...

Next Steps is a nationally representative longitudinal cohort study following the lives of around 16,000 people in England born in 1989-1990. The cohort members were sampled through schools. It includes a major ethnic boost sample. It is a multi-disciplinary social science study which has collected information on education and employment, economic circumstances, family life, physical and emotional health and well-being, social participation and attitudes. The cohort members were surveyed at ages...

The 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) follows the lives of more than 17,000 people born in England, Scotland and Wales in a single week of 1970. Over the course of cohort members lives, the BCS70 has collected information on health, physical, educational and social development, and economic circumstances among other factors. BCS70 is fully documented http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/BCS70. The full sample was surveyed at ages: 0, 5, 10, 16, 26, 30, 34, 38, 42 and 46. BCS70 is part of the world-renowned...