All Outputs (335)

Barriers to the adoption of lean construction in the UK construction industry (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper

Purpose: The UK construction industry has long struggled with improving quality and efficiency, despite numerous reform efforts over the years. Persistent performance issues, compounded by recent crises, highlight the need for transformative solution... Read More about Barriers to the adoption of lean construction in the UK construction industry.

Future Data Services FDS Paper 4 Home and Remote Access (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Future Data Services is a two-year review by the ESRC into the operations and management of UK data services. This paper is published under the Data Access theme. Papers produced under this theme are reflections on the evidence gained during the revi... Read More about Future Data Services FDS Paper 4 Home and Remote Access.

Future Data Services Contextual positioning paper (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Future Data Services is a two-year review by the ESRC into the operations and management of UK data services. Briefing Notes produced as part of the programme of work are intended to provide a short explainer of a specific topic related to the provi... Read More about Future Data Services Contextual positioning paper.

FDS BN01 What is the point of a TRE? (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Future Data Services is a two-year review by the ESRC into the operations and management of UK data services. Briefing Notes produced as part of the programme of work are intended to provide a short explainer of a specific topic related to the provi... Read More about FDS BN01 What is the point of a TRE?.

FDS BN06 The data access spectrum (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Future Data Services is a two-year review by the ESRC into the operations and management of UK data services. Briefing Notes produced as part of the programme of work are intended to provide a short explainer of a specific topic related to the provi... Read More about FDS BN06 The data access spectrum.

FDS BN03 Researcher-created datasets (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Future Data Services is a two-year review by the ESRC into the operations and management of UK data services. Briefing Notes produced as part of the programme of work are intended to provide a short explainer of a specific topic related to the provi... Read More about FDS BN03 Researcher-created datasets.

FDS BN04 Orphaned datasets (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Future Data Services is a two-year review by the ESRC into the operations and management of UK data services. Briefing Notes produced as part of the programme of work are intended to provide a short explainer of a specific topic related to the provi... Read More about FDS BN04 Orphaned datasets.

FDS BN02 What is 'minimised data' for scientific research? (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Future Data Services is a two-year review by the ESRC into the operations and management of UK data services. Briefing Notes produced as part of the programme of work are intended to provide a short explainer of a specific topic related to the provi... Read More about FDS BN02 What is 'minimised data' for scientific research?.

FDS BN05 Types of trusted research environment (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Future Data Services is a two-year review by the ESRC into the operations and management of UK data services. Briefing Notes produced as part of the programme of work are intended to provide a short explainer of a specific topic related to the provi... Read More about FDS BN05 Types of trusted research environment.

Future Data Services FDS Paper 1 Forms and Process (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Future Data Services is a two-year review by the ESRC into the operations and management of UK data services. This paper is published under the Data Access theme. Papers produced under this theme are reflections on the evidence gained during the rev... Read More about Future Data Services FDS Paper 1 Forms and Process.

Future Data Services FDS Paper 2 Data holder perspectives (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Future Data Services is a two-year review by the ESRC into the operations and management of UK data services. This paper is published under the Data Access theme. Papers produced under this theme are reflections on the evidence gained during the rev... Read More about Future Data Services FDS Paper 2 Data holder perspectives.

Revisiting sample bias in the UK's Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, with implications for estimates of low pay and the bite of the National Living Wage (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) is based on an annual one per cent sample of employee jobs and provides many of the UK’s official earnings statistics. These statistics are generated using official weights designed to make the achieved... Read More about Revisiting sample bias in the UK's Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, with implications for estimates of low pay and the bite of the National Living Wage.

Peak complexity – Why nothing works any more (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

How many times have system failures – technical, human or both – caused you loss, frustration or wasted time? Have you ever dealt with customer services or technical support who seemed powerless to fix the problem? Could these growing frustrations of... Read More about Peak complexity – Why nothing works any more.

The impact of a rising wage floor on labour mobility across firms (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

In April 2016, a National Living Wage replaced the National Minimum Wage for employees in the UK aged 25 and above, raising their statutory wage floor by 50 pence per hour. This uprating was almost double any in the previous decade and expanded the... Read More about The impact of a rising wage floor on labour mobility across firms.

Design as emergent making design as emergent making (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Through design practice, this research seeks mutually beneficial possibilities and connections that can be made between making and architecture. It asks how space can be discovered and accrued through full scale making, rather than pre-imagined via s... Read More about Design as emergent making design as emergent making.

Exchange rates and sovereign risk: A nonlinear approach based on local Gaussian correlations (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Ghana ecological risks: A space law and science education approach to the management frameworks (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper

This article discusses what Ghana needs to do to progress its space programme to aid the development of legal and scientific education programmes for the management framework of biodiversity and the ecosystem. The first part of the article examines p... Read More about Ghana ecological risks: A space law and science education approach to the management frameworks.

Written evidence from Dr Emmanuel Nsiah Amoako (UKR0065) (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper

This is a written response to the House of Lords' Industry and Regulators Committee's inquiry into UK regulators, with a focus on their roles, remit, independence, and accountability. This submission focused on the role of the Forensic Science Regula... Read More about Written evidence from Dr Emmanuel Nsiah Amoako (UKR0065).

Issues, challenges and opportunities for trauma-informed practice (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper

This report was kindly produced by Dr Sarah Senker, Dr Anne Eason, Dr Chris Pawson and Professor Kieran McCartan, building upon previous Academic Insights papers and highlighting some of the key issues, challenges and opportunities for trauma-informe... Read More about Issues, challenges and opportunities for trauma-informed practice.

The CILIP Conference 2023: A report (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper

Discussion paper on the 2023 Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) Conference that took place on 12th-13th July in Birmingham, UK.
Speakers covered a range of topics currently affecting library and information service... Read More about The CILIP Conference 2023: A report.