Pre-announcement: ESRC Future Data Services: Joining up the data service workforce
Call opens: 11 January 2027 (information may change prior to the call opening)
Closing date: 13 April 2027
Awards: £110,000 – £280,000
Funding is available for a number of awards for 42 months from 1 October 2027 to 31 March 2031
Aim of the funding is to establish new or support existing communities of practitioners to exchange knowledge, improve working practices and deliver better data services for social sciences researchers.
Funding will support the creation of collaborative community groups bringing together data service practitioners around common delivery themes, challenges and issues with the aim of identifying how data services can be delivered more effectively.
ESRC’s objectives for Future Data Services community groups are to support collaboration and interaction amongst practitioners throughout the data services landscape by:
- bringing together communities of data service practitioners around community identified challenges. Championing data service practitioners’ participation within cross-data service activities to build a wider community foundation
- enabling data service practitioners to exchange knowledge about what they do within their respective infrastructure
- understand aligned objectives, advance best practice and share new developments and opportunities for improvement
- supporting data service practitioners to identify where equivalent functions within existing social science data service infrastructures could convene and coordinate delivery of services
- identifying ways that data services can be more effectively delivered and to create outputs which can make this a reality
- embedding learning and outputs within existing data service infrastructures to ensure long term sustainability
For further details on this pre-announcement, please visit the UKRI website at: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/future-data-services-joining-up-the-data-service-workforce