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Elevating research data stewardship at UCL

The job of curating and sharing research data is vital, but it has traditionally fallen to different groups of people. At UCL a dedicated team of Research Data Stewards has been assembled to work across a range of projects and services, as James Wilson explains.

AirGuide’s Dr Eric Numkam Fokoua inspecting a Photonic Band Gap Fibre preform for imperfections
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Fibre-optics World Record is No Hollow Victory

A whole array of game-changing, life-shaping technologies, from long-distance telecommunications to laser surgery, have a key component in common: fibre optics that carry pulses of light to their destination at incredible speed.

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SES Open: Data Mining – exploring the ethical dilemmas

Open Science is a contemporary and relevant theme across the UK research landscape. This year we’re hosting a series of exciting events that directly engage …

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Powering Up Research: Data Fuelled Innovation

Data Intensive Science is a rapidly emerging, cross disciplinary research challenge already traversing the fields of Materials Science, Bio-medical research, Computational Engineering and Digital Humanities …

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Reassessing Asthma: Biomarkers, Business and Big Data

Affecting millions and costing billions worldwide every year, asthma needs to be better understood to enable better treatment and management of this frequently distressing, sometimes …

Jill Dando Institute Research Laboratory (JDIRL)
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A Safe Haven for Data

The £1m Jill Dando Institute Research Laboratory at UCL combines state-of-the-art storage for sensitive datasets with the ability to use them to explore anything from consumer behaviour to crime patterns

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Innovative Doctoral Training Comes To Light

The science of light is the focus of a joint UCL-Cambridge University centre turning today’s PhD students into tomorrow’s industry innovators – and equipping them …

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Collaboration Casts New Light On Quantum Dots

As part of a close and fruitful collaboration dating back to 2003, Rachel Oliver, Professor of Materials Science at Cambridge, and Robert Taylor, Professor of …

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Bringing HPC Alive

Last Thursday 21st April, Oxford Advanced Research Computing (ARC) and SES hosted the annual ARC High Performance Computing Showcase at Oxford E-research Centre to feature …

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Prospects in Data Science: Going Digital in the New Forest

Last week, data scientists, researchers and students descended upon Carey’s Manor in the depths of the New Forest to attend the 2016 Data Science Symposium, hosted …

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Guest Post: Sinan Shi talks #SESBigData

Sinan Shi, Research Software Developer at University College London, was among the invited guests at SES’s Big Data event. He recaps the day and reflects …

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Solving unsteady fluid flows with Hyperflux

An Innovate UK- and EPSRC-funded project called Hyperflux is bringing together industry and academia to tackle the problem of modeling unsteady fluid flow. Peter Vincent, …