The Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology is looking at the UK Science Landscape. The aim of this project is to build a picture of the whole research landscape in the UK and to develop a stronger evidence base. This evidence base will be available to inform future strategic decision-making and help the UK to maintain and develop its excellence in research.

As part of this project, we wish to understand better how the UK’s research community defines itself and the links and interconnections that exist between research disciplines. To help to do this, the UK Knowledge Landscape Tool has been developed.
The Tool has been designed to gather data from the researchers on the disciplines, dependencies and key infrastructure they think make up modern research.

To be part of this exciting and experimental approach users can log on and create an account at www.ukknowledgelandscape.co.uk. We are interested in crowd-sourcing a large amount of data. The data will be analysed for statistically significant patterns across the whole body of responses and then used to produce outputs such as taxonomies or maps. The more responses the tool has, the better the mappings are likely to be. For this reason, we would be welcome your input.

Chris

Chris Lu | Government Office for Science
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Tel: 020 7215 4261 | Chris.Lu@go-science.gsi.gov.uk
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What does the UK science landscape look like? Help us map it by taking part at: www.ukknowledgelandscape.co.uk.
The UK Knowledge Landscape Tool is an experimental tool that has been developed for the Council for Science and Technology, to gather data from researchers on the disciplines, dependencies and key infrastructure they think make up modern research.