The Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology (CST) is looking at the UK Science Landscape. The aim of this project is to build a picture of the whole research landscape in the UK and to develop a stronger evidence base. This evidence base will be available to inform future strategic decision-making and help the UK to maintain and develop its excellence in research.
As part of this project, the CST wish to understand better how the UK’s research community defines itself and the links and interconnections that exist between research disciplines. To help to do this, the UK Knowledge Landscape Tool has been developed and has been designed to gather data from researchers on the disciplines, dependencies and key infrastructure they think make up modern research.
Fellows are encouraged to take part in this exciting and experimental approach by logging on and creating an account at www.ukknowledgelandscape.co.uk. The CST are interested in crowd-sourcing a large amount of data which will be analysed for statistically significant patterns across the whole body of responses and then used to produce outputs such as taxonomies or maps.
The more responses the tool has, the better the mappings are likely to be; therefore, the input of Academy Fellows is very welcome.