What it does: based in Swindon, York and Cambridge, the teams undertake analytical field survey extensive landscape survey. We apply close observation, critical analysis and accurate measurement based on wide experience to support carefully considered interpretations. By doing this we help people appreciate the richness of place, make the obscure clear and encourage all to appreciate, value and protect historic places. We work with relatively small complexes of earthworks and ruined structures...

The University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) is a world-class centre for research into advanced manufacturing technologies used in the aerospace, automotive, medical and other high-value manufacturing sectors.

The AMRC has a global reputation for helping companies overcome manufacturing problems and is a model for collaborative research involving universities, academics and industry worldwide.

Combining state of the art technologies with the AMRC’s expertise in...

The NERC Field Spectroscopy Facility maintains and provides a pool of state-of-the-art spectroscopy instruments for use by the UK research community. We are also develop and deliver training courses, development and improve EO instrumentation and work with national bodies in support of calibration/validation exercises. 

Our equipment pool contains field spectrometers; logging and field portable sunphotometers; UAV sensors including a hyperspectral imager with LiDAR, Sentinel 2/WorldView...

The National Phenome Centre, initially funded by a 5 year grant from the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and led by Imperial College London and King’s College London, was founded in 2012 to deliver access to a world-class capability in metabolic phenotyping, to benefit the whole UK translational medicine community.

The Centre’s establishment enables us to take advantage of an unprecedented opportunity offered by the legacy of the 2012...

CPI acts as a catalyst bringing together academia, businesses, government and investors to translate bright ideas and research into the marketplace. We do this by connecting our customers with the right experts, equipment, facilities, networks, funding and more – joining the dots for effective innovation.

We are a leading independent technology innovation centre and a founding member of the UK Government’s High Value Manufacturing Catapult. Established in 2004, our teams tirelessly apply...

The NIHR Alder Hey Clinical Research Facility (CRF) is a state-of-the-art dedicated Clinical Research Facility, operated and housed within Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust (Alder Hey), which is one of Europe’s largest, busiest and most iconic children’s hospitals.

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is committed to creating a healthier future for children and young people – and they are at the heart of everything we do.

Based in Liverpool, we are the busiest children and...

The Energy Data Centre (EDC) is a part of the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) and provides a hub for information on all publically funded energy research happening in the UK.

The following types of information are held in the EDC:

• Data Catalogue - our collection of energy-related datasets; some are curated here at the Energy Data Centre, but there are links to others held elsewhere
• Project Catalogue - this contains information about publically funded research in energy derived from a...

Description: InterMine provides a software platform to integrate disparate biological data sources and query them effectively, enabling researchers to run analyses across data sets that otherwise might not have been cross-queryable. InterMine is open source, so any research group dealing in similar data sets can re-use it for their own data. A registry of existing InterMine instances can be found at http://registry.intermine.org.

Support: The core InterMine team in Cambridge provides support...

The Station has been open since 1991 when it was established and financed by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).  It is leased from Kings Bay a/s (a Norwegian Company) by NERC and currently delivered and operated by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), with support from the NERC Arctic Office. It sits as one of fourteen internationally operated stations that form part of this unique northernmost research community.

The Station provides excellent facilities and accommodation for...

The Physical Sciences Data-science Service is a National Research Facility which brings together tools and resources for UK researchers in physical sciences, including chemistry, crystallography, materials and related fields. It provides access to web-based data services are which are freely accessible for academic users from the UK.