UK Regions Digital Research Facility (UK RDRF)

英国RDRF汇集了在过去十年中由DET，EPSRC和ESRC投资组合资助的许多研究链，以创建一个国家设施，以解决区域竞争力和重新平衡英国经济的棘手问题。在苏格兰公投之后，人们再次呼吁向地区和核心城市下放更多权力。该设施将汇集大量经济数据，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。它将通过建立一个包括住房、商业、仓储和制造业在内的固定建筑物存量模型和一个关键基础设施网络模型来进行创新。这将有助于分析哪些政策推动有望克服英国历史地理中存在的惯性。它将提供一个共同的数据和证据框架，供希望评价政策选择的区域和地方政策专业人员使用。整个设施是建立在CDT资金创造的机会，以发展一批以证据为基础的政策专业人员和分析师，以支持更下放的规划形式的需要。我们的目标是支持建立一个基于大经济数据和开源分析和建模工具的“实践社区”。我们将主办讲习班和网络，以传播最佳做法，并在有关人员中建立某种体制凝聚力。最后，我们将让当地社区参与辩论，并通过人群科学和野外研究参与将相同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.