Teams
TREvolution brings together multidisciplinary teams and experts from a range of institutions and backgrounds, including computer science, data analytics, and public involvement and engagement.
University of Nottingham
The team at the University of Nottingham are leading the TREvolution programme. They provide international leadership in the adoption of federated tooling and working collaboratively with trusted research environments, technology providers and standards bodies to seek interoperability between solutions.
Primary contact: philip.quinlan@nottingham.ac.uk
University of Dundee
The University of Dundee team is expanding the SATRE specification, integrating features like federation and the TREvolution profile to support comparison of TRE capabilities. The team is also developing K8TRE, an open-source, SATRE-compliant and platform-agnostic TRE for other organisations to use or adapt.
Primary contact: HIC-Ops@dundee.ac.uk
University of Manchester
The University of Manchester team brings their vast, internationally renowned expertise in Standardised Metadata to the TREvolution programme. They aim to design the metadata across the programme and integrate within the infrastructure. A key component is the Five Safes RO-Crate being developed to address this challenge.
Primary contact: ro-crate@researchobject.org
University of the West of England
The University of the West of England team brings expertise developing core governance concepts, such as the Five Safes framework and statistical disclosure control for research outputs (SACRO), which underpins governance for TREs in the UK and further afield. They are developing both governance concepts for application within TREvolution and Semi-Automated Checking of Research Outputs (SACRO) for timely checking of research outputs.
Primary contact: james.smith@uwe.ac.uk
Swansea University
Swansea University is one of the teams spearheading the federated analysis features of TREvolution. In recent years they’ve pushed boundaries in this area with successful prototypes that broke new ground. Within TREvolution the aim is to bring this learning together into a mature federated analysis platform to accelerate research.
Primary contact: simon@chi.swan.ac.uk
University College London
The University College London team brings extensive experience in architecture development and maintenance of software and infrastructure for research purposes. This expertise has been applied within their own TRE, giving them expert knowledge to contribute to the development of the K8TRE open-source TRE product and SATRE specification within TREvolution.
Primary contact: t.machin@ucl.ac.uk
Research Data Scotland
Research Data Scotland (RDS) is supporting the communications and public involvement and engagement components of TREvolution. Drawing on their experience supporting previous DARE UK Driver Projects, RDS is helping to ensure that TREvolution activities and outputs are transparent, inclusive, and well understood by stakeholders and the public.
Primary contact: info@researchdata.scot
Lancaster University
University of Lancaster created and run their own Kubernetes-based, cloud-native TRE for Lancashire Teaching Hospitals. This TRE is part of the North West Secure Data Environment. The knowledge and expertise gained during this process has made Lancaster a driving force in the development of the K8TRE cloud-agnostic open source TRE being explored as part of TREvolution.
Primary contact: t.machin@ucl.ac.uk
University of Basel
Primary contact: alexander.kanitz@unibas.ch
University of Queensland
Primary contact: d.gorse@uq.edu.au
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
The team from the NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre bring the understanding for the conditions in which software tools can be installed within NHS organisations. They have led the involvement of NUH in the federated programme of the NHS England Secure Data Environment programme and will bring this understanding to TREvolution.
Primary contact: alex.waldren-glenn1@nottingham.ac.uk
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NHS Scotland
Primary contact: simon.rogers@nhs.scot
University of Cape Town
Primary contact: mamana.mbiyavanga@uct.ac.za
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