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Understanding Environmental Knowledge Controversies: the Case for Flood Risk Management, 2007-2010
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This is a qualitative data collection. The study is part of the Rural Economy and Land Use (RELU) programme.
This project was conceived in order to address the public controversies generated by the risk management strategies and forecasting technologies associated with diffuse environmental problems such...
MORI Omnibus Polls, January - December, 1994
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.These regular monthly polls are intended to probe political opinion in Britain.
Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in China and Japan, 2006-2007
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This is a qualitative data collection.
The bioethics of human embryonic stem cell research (HESR) is controversial, including in Asia. After the 2001 US-moratorium on the federal funding of HESR, some Asian countries jumped into the 'bioethical vacuum', claiming that Asian countries do not suffer from...
Strategic Science: Research Intermediaries and the Governance of Innovation, 2009-2011
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This is a qualitative data collection. In recent years a range of often debates about have demonstrated the potential for new technologies to become the focus of widespread concern and anxiety. The Strategic Science project considered the social ramifications of new technology through an examination of...
Interviews on Trials Transparency at Public Research Institutions in the UK, 2020-2021
Ensuring the reporting of clinical research is essential to informed evidence generation in medicine. The UK has seen politicians, funders, and other stakeholder focus on transparency which has translated to pressure on sponsors to ensure greater transparency of their research. This study aimed to collect the institutional perspective to transparency issues in clinical...
International Research Integrity Survey, 2021
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The International Research Integrity Survey (IRIS) is a large, cross-national survey of researchers in all EU member states and selected OECD countries on the topic of research integrity. The survey was fielded online in 2021 with a sample frame derived from the ISI Web of Science citation index. ...
Multilingualism and Science (SUF edition)
Full edition for scientific use. Non-probability survey among Austrian scientists on the impact and use of language in everyday life.
Data Sharing - 2020: Data sharing and data management in the social sciences (SUF edition)
Reduced edition for scientific use.
The survey study "Data Sharing - 2020: Data sharing and data management in the social sciences" was conducted in 2020 in cooperation between AUSSDA - The Austrian Social Science Data Archive and the Department of Empirical Social Research at the Institute of Sociology at Johannes Kepler University Linz. The aim of the survey was to gain a...
Identity of Finnish Social Medicine Practitioners 1999
The survey charted views of the members of the Society for Social Medicine in Finland on the field of social medicine and the identity of social medicine practitioners and researchers. Relating to the Society for Social Medicine in Finland, the respondents were asked when they had joined it, what was their reason for joining it, whether they had been a member or a deputy...
Secondary Use of Health and Social Care Data 2016
This survey charted Finnish citizens' as well as social and healthcare service professionals' attitudes and views concerning secondary use of health and social care data in research and development of services. The study contained two target groups: (1) persons who suffered or had a close relative or acquaintance who suffered from one or more chronic conditions, diseases or...
Innovations in the U.K. Since 1945
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aim of this research was to survey significant technical innovations (defined as the successful commercial introduction of new or improved products, processes or materials) which have been introduced into British industry and commerce since 1945. The survey was conducted for the purpose of providing...
Knowledge Production and Collaboration in the Life Sciences: Interviews with Scientists in Industry, Universities and the National Health Service, 2005-2006
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This is a qualitative dataset.
This study examined the human behaviour underpinning collaboration in the life sciences. It focused on collaboration between universities and industries; and regional collaboration. It sought to explain the incidence of knowledge production in terms of individual career...
Replication Data for "Teaching as part of Open Scholarship"
This research data is part of the publication "Teaching as part of Open Scholarship", which was submitted to the journal Scientometrics on November 10, 2023. In the article we discuss statistics for Open Educational Resources (OER). We conducted interviews with scientometrics experts. The transcripts of the interviews are available here (see: raw data files). We prepared an...
Interaction between Knowledge and Decision-Making 2017
This study surveyed the interaction between decision-making and knowledge production in Finland as well as the types of development needs that this interaction had at the time of the survey. The study was especially interested in the development of approaches that would help to solve complex challenges facing Finnish society. The survey was part of Finnish Innovation Fund...
Interviews of the Academy of Finland Research Professors 1994-1996
The data consist of 58 transcribed interviews of Academy of Finland Research Professors (nowadays Academy Professors) who held the post between 1975 and 1995. A permeating theme in the interviews was the internationalization of Finnish scientific research. Discussions covered the impact of the focus areas chosen in Finnish research policy, i.e. internationalization and...