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GREAT BRITTAN: SCIENCE POLICY and RESEARCH ORGANISATIONS

Ministries

Intermediaries

LINKS

·     Governmental Organisations

·     Science intermediaries

·     Private Enterprise

·     Super Link pages

·     HEFCE: Higher

 

       REI Equipment list

Miscellaneous

 

 

The purpose of this document/file is to allow research oriented parties aquickscan of the 'landscape of science policy and research organisations' in the UK. Starting with the national Institutes, the responsible Ministry, the organisational lines and links are followed until the individual research organisations in successive appendixes. Blue underlined text signifies direct www access by hyperlink. The inventory may not be considered to be conclusive. (Universities were inspected for instance.)

 

All information is or was publicly available on the internet.

 

 

Last mutation 2017, April 22th

 

 

 

 

 

Ministries

·         Departement for Education and Employment: http://www.dfee.gov.uk/

·         Departement for Trade & Industry: http://www.dti.gov.uk/

 

Intermediaries

·         Foresight http://www.foresight.gov.uk/frame_publications.htm

·         The first six (Non-Departmental Public Bodies) are grant-awarding Research Councils established in 1994 following the White Paper, Realising Our Potential (Cm 2250) are:

1.     Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)

2.   Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

3.    Medical Research Council (MRC)

4.   Natural Environment Research Council NERC)

5.    Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC)

6.   Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

7.    Council for the Central Laborotary of the Reseach Councils

·         Framework Programme

1.     Fifth Framework Programme (FP5)

2.     Sixth Framework Programme (FP6).

3.     European Cooperation in the field of Science and Technology (COST).

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LINKS

·         Governmental Organisations

House of Lords etc.

  http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa

   pm      http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199900/ldselect/ldsctech/38/3801.htm

DIBS Department for Business, Innovation and Skills www.berr.gov.uk

                        

·         Science intermediaries

Office of Science and Technology (OST):

·         Council for Science and Technology (CST)

·         Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBRSC)

·         Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

·         Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

·         Medical Research Council (MRC)

·         Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)

·         British Antarctic Survey (BAS)

·         British Geological Survey (BGS)

·         Centre for Coastal and Marine Sciences (CCMS)

·         Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH)

·         Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC)

·         Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CLRC)

·         Scientific Research and Investment Fund (http://www.hefce.ac.uk/research/rsMain.htm

 

·         Private Enterprise

          Technopolis               http://www.technopolis.co.uk

 

·         Super Link pages

     Times Higher Education Supplement: http://www.thes.co.uk/links_directory/main.asp

 

·         Course centres

http://www.euroforum.nl

http://www.nsc.nl

 

 


·         HEFCE: Higher Education Funding Council for England

REI Equipment list at: http://www.hefce.ac.uk/initiat/jrei/2000/equip.htm (16-01-2001)

 

Institution

Equipment

Durham University

X-radiation Micro-Source with CCD detector, geniometer drivers and software

Guy's, King's & St Thomas' School of Medicine

Whole Body MR system, BV300 surgical c-arm X-ray system, supplied research software, MR compatible patient monitoring equipment

Imperial College

Profiler, Dual frequency sidescan sonar, digital recording system DGPS navigation unit, survey planning system, Boomer source inc cables, 60ch hydrophone array, recording system; scanner with powerdrive 350 gradients; Cardiovascular MR Scanner, Virtuoso Workstation; UltraSparc-III Server, Network Switches, Data Mining Software

King's College London

Mass spectrometer, Q-TOFT2 mass spectrometer, MASCOT protein identification system, precision workstations, Laserjet printer, Colour Inkjet printer, Nitrogen generator, LCMS10, Water chiller, HPLC system, FAMOS, PROBOT, Speedvac

UCL

Network Server, 30 PC's, Photocopier, 2 Network printers, AV Projector, Software, Desk mounted screens, Air cooling for lab; Advance Diffractometer, PSD detector for D5000; Print server, file server, Desktop Sparcs, Printers, PC Farm, PC Desktopds, Racks, Database server.

UMIST

600 NMR spectrometer, 400 WB NMR spectrometer

University of Bath

RS/6000 SP Computer Server, control workstation, external disk subsystem/tape backup, 36 month hardware maintenance, 3 year software subscription.

University of Bradford

multi-probe spectrometer system, windows/process machine fittings.

University of Bristol

Purpose built massively parallel computer, 7 x graphics workstations; Focussed ion beam etching system FIB 200xP (PN21166) workstation.

University of Cambridge

600 MHz NMR Spectrometer, computing infastructure and gel system; EBPG-5000

University of East Anglia

Large scale batch culture equipment, downstrean processing equipment, bacterial physiology equipment.

University of Exeter

Special HE3TL25S System. 15 T superconducting magnet with power supply. SMD10/15VSEX with anti-vibration support

University of Hull

Recirculating flume, 4 accoustic velocimeters, 6 miniature current meters, 32 pressure sensors, bed profiler, 3 digital video cameras, 3 computers, frame grapper for digital camera, analogue to digital converter.

University of Leeds

PAGE, blotting, staining, imaging and anlysis equipment, robotic spotcutter, MALDI system; Computer system with uninterrupted power supply

University of Liverpool

Mutli-photon confocal microscope, pascal confocal miscroscope, confocal plate reader, electron bombardment CCD camera, workstation and software for camera

University of Manchester

64 rack-mounted nodes, 1 64-way switch, associated software and 3 years maintenance; RS/6000 SP System, 38 Power 3 375 MHz Processors, 3 graphics workstations, 4 local workstations and software.

University of Oxford

66 Channel SQUID System; Heart and brain MR scanner; Mo-Flo Cell Sorter

University of Southampton

Geochirp profiler, Dual frequency sidescan sonar, digital recording system DGPS navigation unit, survey planning system, Boomer source inc cables, 60ch hydrophone array, recording system. VHS 50/20 mechanical testing machine, control upgrade with profiler advanced control module, capability enhancement; 300 MHz solid-state NMR spectrometer, digital oscilloscope, network analyzer, filters, workstation and spectrometer backup system, crygenic system for low temperature MAS NMR.

·         NOC National Oceanography Centre www.noc.soton.ac.uk

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University of Sunderland

Driver assessment equipment, software, motion analysis software

University of Warwick

Computer Hardware, Networking, LSF Cluster Software, 48 Way 10/100 MBit switch, 8 commodity graphics cards, compilers and support.

 

Miscellaneous

·         www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/ 

·         Prospect, a UK trade union over 60,000 scientists members www.prospect.org.uk  

·         www.youngfoundation.org