Deadline: 16-Jun-22
Apply for funding to develop research priorities for economic policy through the ‘ADR UK: Business Data for Research (BDR) Northern Ireland’ programme.
Challenges must support the Department for the Economy Northern Ireland economic policy, specifically their ‘10X Economy’ economic vision for a decade of innovation.
Themes
There are a number of potential EES research themes. These include, but are not limited to:
- factors influencing variation in median pay
- graduates and the workplace
- disparity in pay and migration
- public versus private jobs
- geography and pay.
Funding Information
- Total fund: £195,000
- Maximum award: £65,000
- Your project must run for up to six months.
What they are looking for
- They are looking to fund projects which use BDR to address research priorities covering areas within the Department for the Economy’s ‘10X Economy’: an economic vision for a decade of innovation.
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The de-identified datasets are being made available to a small number of research teams through this funding opportunity to:
- enable beta testing of the BDR in advance of making the dataset available to wider researchers
- provide feedback on the quality of documentation created by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) such as the metadata, synthetic data and other resources
- inform the future development of the BDR including identifying a programme of making future data available to all Administrative Data Research (ADR) UK researchers and increasing the volume of data from BDR that researchers can access.
Eligibility Criteria
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You are eligible to apply if you:
- meet standard ESRC eligibility criteria
- are based at a research organisation that has a recognised research capacity and is permitted to hold grants from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
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The legal gateway for making data available to researchers is through the Digital Economy Act. As such, the following conditions will also apply:
- researchers will be required to hold accredited researcher status under the Digital Economy Act (2018).
- successful applicants’ projects must be approved at the UK Statistics Authority Research Accreditation Panel (RAP)
- the data will be made available through the Office for National Statistics Secure Research Service (ONS SRS). The research organisation will have to have access in place with ONS SRS either through Assured Organisational Connectivity to the ONS SRS or through SafePods in advance of applying here.
For more information, visit Economic and Social Research Council.
For more information, visit https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/ideas-on-research-priorities-for-northern-ireland-economic-policy/