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Changes to the ESRC Secondary Data Analysis Initiative

As of 17 May 2018, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) introduced some key changes to the ESRC’s Secondary Data Analysis Initiative (SDAI) to encourage more high quality applications using secondary data from researchers working across all disciplines of social sciences and economics.

These changes to some of the eligibility criteria were:

  • Applicants are permitted to use any major data resource funded by the ESRC or other agencies, national or international, given sufficient justification and appropriate access
  • The maximum funding threshold for applications has been raised from £200,000 (100% fEC) to £300,000 (100% fEC)
  • The maximum duration of proposals has increased from 18 months to 24 months

The inclusion of an Early Career Researcher (ECR) as either Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator is no longer mandatory, although the inclusion of ECR’s is still encouraged.

The ESRC seeks applications with the potential to deliver high-quality and high-impact, policy and practitioner relevant research in social sciences and economics through the deeper exploitation of any major data resource. Many of the ESRC-funded eligible sources of data are accessible via the UK Data Service.

SDAI operates as an open call alongside ESRC’s Research Grants open call and proposals are considered by a distinct panel of experts specifically constituted to support this initiative.

For further information on the ESRC Secondary Data Analysis Initiative please contact the sdai@esrc.ac.uk mailbox.

For more information and details of how to apply, see the ESRC website.

New Data Available – Airbnb rentals and reviews across London and Leeds

We have recently made a dataset on Airbnb rentals and reviews across London and Leeds available via our safeguarded service.  The dataset, which is supplied by AirDNA LLC, contains 125 data points for over 200,000 Airbnb rentals across London and Leeds to provide unique insights into the performance of each property and host.

The dataset includes:

  • Total historical data (monthly and daily listing performance) for London and Leeds
  • Total host data for London and Leeds
  • Property data for London and Leeds
  • Total review data for London and Leeds

Further information, including detail on the quality and temporal extent, is available in the data profile.

Applying to access

These data are classified as Safeguarded and are available via application only.  You can find out more about the application process or make an initial application on the CDRC website.

About AirDNA

AirDNA provides data and analytics to vacation rental entrepreneurs and investors.  By tracking the daily performance of over 4.5 million listings across 60,000 markets worldwide, AirDNA presents market reports and other data products that feature occupancy rates, seasonal demand, and revenue generated by short-term rentals.

 

CDRC student passes her PhD viva!

The Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC) are delighted to announce that our student, Alyson Lloyd, passed her PhD viva!

Dr Lloyd’s thesis – “The Applications of Loyalty Card Data for Social Science” – looked at the applications of loyalty card data in population research and the extent to which insights can be inferred about people and places from consumer activity patterns.

Examiners Prof Alex Singleton (University of Liverpool) and Dr Adam Dennett (University College London) were hugely impressed by the amount of data processing and analytical work that went into Alyson’s thesis, whose research has already had a big impact on the way the CDRC deploy consumer data in research.

Alyson is also in high demand in the retail industry, where she now works as an analyst for the fashion retailer, ASOS.

Congratulations to Dr Lloyd!