A Strategic Advisory Team for Data Resources 2014-2016

在过去的九年里，ESRC通过对Peter Elias和John Hobcraft教授的研究奖励，支持了数据资源战略顾问这一职位。作为ESRC在数据开发领域的顾问，他们的工作支持了英国研究基础设施基金（大型设施资本基金）的许多成功应用，为理解社会、生命研究、CLOSER以及最近的行政数据研究网络提供了资源。此外，这些顾问还支持英国数据论坛——一个协调数据生产者和研究资助组织与数据和相关资源开发有关的活动的机构。它们还在国际一级开展工作，支持促进或加强跨越国界获取数据的活动。随着公共和私营部门数据领域的迅速发展，以及人们对促进更好地获取可在国际一级为社会科学研究提供信息的数据越来越感兴趣，现在需要扩大和深化这项咨询工作的范围。该提案描述了战略顾问团队——一个由五名高级社会和数据科学家组成的团队，他们正在合作提供相关领域的建议：有关人员和组织的行政数据；社交媒体数据；客户数据库;纵向数据和生物社会数据。这些顾问将与ESRC、政府部门、英国内外的其他研究资助机构、国家统计局和私营部门公司密切合作，促进英国社会科学研究界在数据获取、特定研究目的数据可用性知识和能力建设方面的改进。顾问将以英国数据论坛制定的《英国社会科学研究数据资源战略（2013-2018）》为指导，概述未来五年社会和经济研究数据发展的战略方向。

For the past nine years the ESRC has supported the post of Strategic Advisor for Data Resources via research awards to Professors Peter Elias and John Hobcraft. Their work as advisors to the ESRC in the areas of data development has supported a number of successful applications to the UK research infrastructure fund (the Large Facilities Capital Fund), providing resources for Understanding Society, the Life Study, CLOSER, and, most recently, the Administrative Data Research Network. Additionally, the advisors support the UK Data Forum -a body which coordinates the activities of data producers and research funding organisations relating to the development of data and related resources. They also work at the international level to support activities which promote or enhance access to data across national boundaries.With the rapid development of the data landscape in both the public and private sectors, and with growing interest in the promotion of improved access to data which can inform research in the social sciences at the international level, the scope of this advisory work now needs to be broadened and deepened. This proposal describes the Strategic Advisors Team - a group of five senior social and data scientists who are collaborating to provide advice in related areas: administrative data about people and organisations; social media data; customer databases; longitudinal data and biosocial data. The advisors will work closely with the ESRC, government departments, other research funding agencies both within the UK and beyond, the Office for National Statistics and private sector companies to promote improvements in access to data, knowledge about the availability of data for specific research purposes and capacity building among the UK social science research community.The advisors will be guided by the UK Strategy for Data Resources for Research in the Social Sciences (2013-2018), developed by the UK Data Forum and outlining the strategic direction for the development of social and economic research data over the next five years.