BU Research Blog

The Council for Science and Technology has launched a project to better understand how the UK’s research community defines itself and the links that exist between research disciplines.

Researchers are being asked to visit the UK Knowledge Landscape website to fill out information about themselves (such as: position, research interests and collaborators), their perceptions of how their research areas fit within the landscape of connected disciplines and the main pieces of research infrastructure in their areas of expertise.

Once a sufficiently large number of users have submitted their views, partial statistical analysis will be used to generate a ‘consensus view’ of how disciplines connect with and rely on each other. This output will then be made publicly available.

By gathering data about the research community in the UK, the Council for Science and Technology hopes to build a stronger evidence base for science in the UK.