Working with and accessing sensitive data has always come with a bureaucratic burden, but both the barriers to and opportunities of data-fuelled research are rapidly shifting, the Digital Universities UK conference has heard.
Speaking at the Times Higher Education event, Richard Gunn, programme director for digital research infrastructure at UK Research and Innovation, described the efforts being taken by the funding body to rethink the national digital research infrastructure for a new age.
This presented an opportunity to address problems with the current landscape, such as the inequality that exists between different disciplines.
“In the past you’ve had siloed provision, with state-of-the-art digital research infrastructure tied to particular research communities,” he told the event, held in partnership with the University of Exeter.
