Securing the Centre for Time Use Research

CTUR是世界领先的专家，收集和分析具有全国代表性的时间日记样本。它开创了一个独特的实地工作后协调跨国数据库（多国时间使用研究MTUS）。它进行社会学、经济学和其他方面的原创性研究（最初是在两性关系、养育子女和国民核算领域，最近是在公共卫生、交通和环境评估领域）。它为学术界、国家统计研究所和其他公共和私人用户提供资源和支持。目前的CTUR资金将于2019年9月结束;新的ESRC资金将持续到2021年4月。此遗留应用程序有两个目标：从2019年10月起的54个月内持续提供CTUR资源（当前ESRC中心名称的结束），并确保我们在时间使用数据收集和分析方面的专业知识得到适当的发扬。我们提出的遗产计划旨在确保ESRC在协调MTUS数据集方面的投资的本质，在时间使用数据收集方法方面积累的专业知识，以及在数据分析技能方面的经验，这些技能是我们在发现和交流时间使用方法的新应用方面工作的基础。为了实现这一目标，我们确定了遗产资金的三个要求：1。支持为研究生和博士后研究人员以及国家统计机构成员举办的关于实时数据收集和数据分析方法的年度讲习班方案。我们还预计，在公共卫生、环境可持续性和交通应用等其他新的时间日志数据应用领域，专业人士的需求将越来越大，这一计划将吸引他们。还支持继续实施我们的访问者方案，包括延长学术、商业或公共部门借调人员在CTUR的实习期，时间从一个月到一年不等，这使得能够进行更广泛的知识交流，并导致在借调机构内采用新技术和程序，同时更新和增加CTUR自己对用户问题和要求的了解。为一些工作人员提供资金，以支持和支持讲习班和访问者方案，并维持实时数据库、相关元数据文件以及数据下载、记录保存和数据访问控制机制的可行性。需要小规模的遗留基金支助非全时的指导、管理和技术人员投入，以便为技术和职业培训中心的数据维护、知识交流和传播活动提供协调、组织和激励。我们已经为未来两年的MTUS数据采集和维护活动获得了单独的资金，作为新的ESRC响应模式赠款CTUR（“时间使用研究新前沿”）工作计划的一部分。从2019年7月起，我们还同意再提供三年的NIH年度赠款（然而，NIH合同仅每年发放一次）。我们将寻求新的资金，无论是从惠康或跨研究理事会组（ESRC加MRC），主要支持增强日记加运动传感器的研究在全国代表性的规模，这也将提供长期支持MTUS的发展。

The CTUR is the world-leading specialist in collecting and analysing nationally representative samples of time diaries. It has pioneered a unique post-field-work harmonised cross-national data base (the Multinational Time Use Study MTUS). It produces original sociological, economic and other research (at first in the fields of gender relations, parenting and national accounting, more recently in public health, transport, and environmental assessment). It provides resources and support for academics, National Statistics Institutes and other public and private users. The current CTUR funding comes to an end in September 2019; new ESRC funding provides for the group until April 2021. This legacy application has two objectives: continuing CTUR resource provision for a period of 54 months from October 2019 (the end of the current ESRC Centre designation), and ensuring that our expertise in time use data collection and analysis is properly carried forward.Our proposed legacy program is designed to secure the essence of the ESRC's investment, in the harmonised MTUS dataset, in the accumulating expertise in time-use data collection methods, and in the data-analytic skills that underlie our work in discovering, and communicating, new applications for time-use methods. We identify three requirements for legacy funding to achieve this:1. Support for an annual programme of workshops, on time-use data-collection and data analytic methods, intended both for postgraduate and post-doctoral researchers as well as for members of NSIs. We also anticipate that there will be increasing demand from professionals in other new applications of time-diary data-in public health, environmental sustainability, and transport applications-will be attracted to this programme2. Support also for a continuation for our visitor programme, consisting of extended attachments to CTUR of academic, commercial or public sector secondees, for periods ranging between one month and one year, which allow for more extensive knowledge exchange, and lead both to the incorporation of new techniques and processes within the seconding institutions, and also update and increase CTUR's own knowledge of user issues and requirements.3. Funding for some staff to support and underpin the workshop and visitor programme as well as maintaining the viability of the time-use database, the associated meta-data documentation, and the data download, record-keeping and data-access control mechanisms. Small-scale legacy fund support for very-part-time directorial, managerial and technical staffing inputs is required to provide the co-ordination, organisation and motivational glue for CTUR's data maintenance, knowledge exchange and dissemination activities. We have already secured separate funding for the next two years of MTUS data acquisition and maintenance activity, as part of the work-programme of a new ESRC responsive mode grant to CTUR ("New Frontiers for Time Use Research"). We also have, from July 2019, three further years of annual NIH grants agreed (NIH contracts are, however, only issued annually). And we will be seeking new funding, either from Wellcome or a cross-Research Council group (ESRC plus MRC), primarily supporting the augmented diary plus motion sensor research on a nationally representative scale which will also provide longer term support for MTUS development.