{"id":18491,"date":"2026-10-07T12:56:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/?p=18491"},"modified":"2026-10-07T12:56:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:56:51","slug":"pre-announcement-esrc-future-data-services-joining-up-the-data-service-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/2026\/10\/07\/pre-announcement-esrc-future-data-services-joining-up-the-data-service-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-announcement: ESRC Future Data Services: Joining up the data service workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><a id=\"OWA2c43d686-46fd-7d79-d0a3-77ac24ce7b31\" class=\"x_OWAAutoLink\" title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/opportunity\/future-data-services-joining-up-the-data-service-workforce. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukri.org%2Fopportunity%2Ffuture-data-services-joining-up-the-data-service-workforce&amp;data=05%7C02%7CAlison.Brown%40newcastle.ac.uk%7C7d887aa61c574762a92808df22ca5e85%7C9c5012c9b61644c2a91766814fbe3e87%7C1%7C0%7C639267924733915203%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=UNEI2e8ixSAyfayWv5neblA2zEE4WDiLyXOVm8Cp0YY%3D&amp;reserved=0\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\"><b>Future Data Services: Joining up the data service workforce<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Call opens:\u00a0 11 January 2027 (information may change prior to the call opening)<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Closing date: 13 April 2027<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Awards: \u00a3110,000 &#8211; \u00a3280,000<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Funding is available for a number of awards for 42 months from 1 October 2027 to 31 March 2031<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">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.<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_Signature\" class=\"x_elementToProof\">\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">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.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">ESRC&#8217;s\u202fobjectives\u202ffor Future Data Services\u202fcommunity groups\u202fare to support collaboration and interaction amongst practitioners throughout the data services landscape\u202fby:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>bringing\u202ftogether\u202fcommunities of data service practitioners around\u202fcommunity\u202fidentified\u202fchallenges. Championing\u202fdata service practitioners\u2019 participation within cross-data service activities to build a wider community foundation<\/li>\n<li>enabling\u202fdata service practitioners to exchange\u202fknowledge about what they do\u202fwithin their respective infrastructure<\/li>\n<li>understand\u202faligned\u202fobjectives,\u202fadvance\u202fbest\u202fpractice and\u202fshare\u202fnew\u202fdevelopments\u202fand opportunities for improvement<\/li>\n<li>supporting\u202fdata service practitioners to\u202fidentify\u202fwhere\u202fequivalent\u202ffunctions within existing\u202fsocial science data service\u202finfrastructures could\u202fconvene\u202fand\u202fcoordinate delivery of services<\/li>\n<li>identifying ways that data services can be more effectively delivered and to create outputs which can make this a reality<\/li>\n<li>embedding learning and outputs within existing data service infrastructures to ensure long term sustainability<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">For further details on this pre-announcement, please visit the UKRI website at: <a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/opportunity\/future-data-services-joining-up-the-data-service-workforce. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukri.org%2Fopportunity%2Ffuture-data-services-joining-up-the-data-service-workforce&amp;data=05%7C02%7CAlison.Brown%40newcastle.ac.uk%7C7d887aa61c574762a92808df22ca5e85%7C9c5012c9b61644c2a91766814fbe3e87%7C1%7C0%7C639267924733966771%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=FHf7bPiyhufTPZQckrJHCRhXAk7ibquU2JO3IYy8mDs%3D&amp;reserved=0\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\">https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/opportunity\/future-data-services-joining-up-the-data-service-workforce<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Future Data Services: Joining up the data service workforce \u00a0 Call opens:\u00a0 11 January 2027 (information may change prior to the call opening) Closing date:&#8230; <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/2026\/10\/07\/pre-announcement-esrc-future-data-services-joining-up-the-data-service-workforce\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11659,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1273,1274,663],"class_list":["post-18491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-esrc-future-data-services","tag-joining-up-the-data-service-workforce","tag-pre-announcement"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11659"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18492,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18491\/revisions\/18492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}