NCeSS Nodes
MeRC builds on five years’ experience of operating the coordinating Hub of the UK–wide National Centre for e–Social Science. The Hub team, under the direction of Peter Halfpenny and Rob Procter, was responsible for the design and oversight of NCeSS’s research and dissemination strategies. The Hub prepared the specification for both of the two phases of calls for research Node proposals and played a key role on the commissioning panels, ensuring that the selected proposals formed a coherent portfolio and that the individual Nodes’ workplans were well–articulated and feasible.
The Hub promoted synergies between the Nodes and between NCeSS and the National Centre for Research Methods, and also aligned the work of NCeSS with that of other analogous initiatives such as the National e-Science Centre, the National Grid Service and OMII–UK. The Hub closed on 30 September 2009. The work of the eight second phase Nodes, each of three years’ duration, continues. Find out more about them from the links below:
- DAMES: Data Management through e–Social Science: Case Studies, Provision and Support (Director: Paul Lambert, Stirling) [http://www.dames.org.uk]
- DReSS II: From Digital Record to Population Observatory (Director: Andy Crabtree, Nottingham) [http://web.mac.com/andy.crabtree/NCeSS_Digital_Records_Node/Welcome.html]
- GENeSIS: The GENerative e–Social Science Project (Co-Directors: Mike Batty, UCL and Mark Birkin, Leeds) [http://www.genesis.ucl.ac.uk]
- LifeGuide: Development and Evaluation of a Behavioural Intervention Grid (Director: Lucy Yardley, Southampton) [ http://www.lifeguideonline.org]
- Obesity e-Lab: e–Infrastructure for Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research into Obesity (Director: Iain Buchan, Manchester) [https://www.nibhi.org.uk/obesityelab/default.aspx]
- OeSS: The Oxford e–Social Science Project: Ethical, legal and Institutional responses to Emerging e-Research Infrastructure Policies and Practices (Director: Bill Dutton, Oxford) [http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/microsites/oess/]
- PolicyGrid II: Supporting Interdisciplinary Evidence Bases for Scientific Collaboration & Policy Making (Director: Pete Edwards, Aberdeen) [http://www.policygrid.org]
- e-Stat: Quantitative e–Social Science Research Node (Director: William Browne, Bristol) [no URL]
Previous Nodes
- CQeSS: Collaboratory for Quantitative e–Social Science (Co-Directors: Rob Crouchley, Lancaster and Rob Allan, STFC Daresbury) [http://e-science.lancs.ac.uk/cqess/]
- MiMeG: Mixed Media Grid (Director: Mike Fraser, Bristol) [http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/esrcinfocentre/viewawardpage.aspx?awardnumber=RES-149-25-0033]
These two previous Nodes merged to form GENeSIS
- MoSeS: Modelling and Simulation for e–Social Science [no URL]
- GeoVue: Geographic Virtual Urban Environments [http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/projects/projectDetail.asp?ID=57]
