UK Regions Digital Research Facility (UK RDRF)

英国区域发展研究基金汇集了过去十年在DET、EPSRC和ESRC投资组合下资助的多个研究机构，以创建一个国家机构，以解决地区竞争力和英国经济再平衡的棘手问题。苏格兰公投后，要求更多权力下放给地区和核心城市的呼声再次高涨。该设施将汇集大数据，并构建支持国家、地区和地方各级政策制定者所需的高分辨率模型。它将创新，建立包括住房、商业、仓储和制造在内的固定建筑存量的模式，以及关键基础设施的网络模式。这将使人们能够分析哪些政策调整有望克服英国历史地理中存在的惰性。它将使希望评估政策选择的区域和地方政策专业人员能够使用一个共同的数据和证据框架。整个设施建立在CDT Funding创造的机会之上，以发展一批基于证据的政策专业人士和分析师，以支持更下放形式的规划的需求。我们的目标是支持建立一个以获取大数据和开放源码分析和建模工具为基础的“实践共同体”。我们将举办研讨会和网络，以传播最佳做法，并在有关人员中建立一些机构粘合剂。最后，我们将让当地社区参与到辩论中来，并通过大众科学和野外研究活动将同样的证据和工具带给广大公众。

The UK RDRF brings together a number of research strands funded under the DET, EPSRC and ESRC portfolios over the last decade to create a national facility to tackle the vexed question of regional competitiveness and rebalancing the UK economy. Following the Scottish referendum there have been renewed calls for greater devolution to regions and core cities. This facility will bring together the big economic data and construct the high resolution models needed to support policy makers at national, regional and local level. It will innovate by building together a model of the fixed stock of buildings, including housing, commercial, warehousing and manufacturing, with a network model of key infrastructure. This will allow analysis of which policy nudges might be expected to overcome the inertia present in the historic geography of the UK. It will allow a common framework of data and evidence ti be used by regional and local policy professionals wishing to evaluate policy options. The whole facility is built on the opportunity created by CDT funding to develop a cohort of evidence based policy professionals and analysts to support the needs of a more devolved form of planning. We aim to support the creation of a 'community of practice' based on access to big economic data and open source analysis and modelling tools. We will host workshops and networks to spread best practice and create some institutional glue amongst the people concerned. Finally, we will engage local communities in the debate and bring the same evidence and tools to the public at large through crowd science and in-the-wild research engagement.