The Prime Minister's Council for Science & Technology (CST) has announced a new project which aims to build a picture of the whole UK research landscape and develop a stronger evidence base. This evidence base will be available to inform future strategic decision making and help the UK maintain and develop its excellence in research.
CST wants to better understand how the UK's research community defines itself, and the links and interconnections that exist between research disciplines. To do this they have developed the UK Knowledge Landscape Tool, which is designed to gather data from researchers on the disciplines, dependencies and key infrastructure they think make up modern research.
CST is interested in crowd sourcing a large amount of data which will be analysed for statistically significant patterns across the whole body of responses, then used to produce outputs such as taxonomies or maps. The more responses the tool has the better the mapping will be, and NERC encourages its academic community to input as widely as possible.
To take part in this exciting and experimental project, please create an account on the UK Knowledge Landscape website.
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