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DARE UK Phase 1 Sprint Exemplar Projects
During the first year of the DARE UK programme, UK Research and Innovation awarded over £2 million to fund nine research teams to deliver a programme of Sprint Exemplar Projects for eight months from January to August 2022.
The purpose of the Sprint Exemplar Projects was to uncover and test early thinking in the development of a joined-up and trustworthy national data research infrastructure to support cross-domain analysis of sensitive data at scale for the public good. The projects developed potential use cases, demonstrated the technology and explored best practice for the governance, ethical and public engagement and involvement aspects of developing a more coordinated data research infrastructure. Each of the projects crossed different research sectors and UKRI research council remits.
The funding was awarded as a result of an open call for proposals which ran from September to November 2021. All applications received in response to the call – of which there were 25 in total – were assessed by an independent panel of experts, with the nine successful projects scoring highest in terms of excellence, novelty and diversity. The projects ran for eight months from January to August 2022.
A number of the projects focused on the development of a more coordinated network of trusted research environments for the UK. You can find out more about trusted research environments on the HDR UK (Health Data Research UK) website.
At the end of the delivery period, DARE UK assessed the activities and final outputs of the projects, including the Public Involvement and Engagement (PIE) components, and identified key learnings captured in the detailed reports below:
Explore the projects and their final reports
TREEHOOSE: Investigating the use of trusted research environment enclaves for hosting open, original science exploration, led by researchers at the University of Dundee
PRiAM: Exploring privacy risk assessment methodology, led by researchers at the University of Southampton
STEADFAST: Education outcomes in young people with diabetes – innovative involvement and governance to support public trust, led by researchers at Cardiff University and Diabetes UK
Creating a federated, cloud-based trusted research environment to facilitate collaborative research between existing institutions, led by researchers at the Francis Crick Institute
Overcoming technical and governance barriers to support innovation and interdisciplinary research in trusted research environments, led by researchers at the University of Edinburgh
FED-NET: Creating the blueprint for a federated network of next generation, cross-council trusted research environments, led by researchers at University Hospitals Birmingham
Multi-party trusted research environment federation: Establishing infrastructure for secure analysis across different clinical-genomic datasets, led by researchers at the University of Cambridge
FAIR TREATMENT: Federated analytics and artificial intelligence research across trusted research environments for child and adolescent mental health, led by researchers at the University of Cambridge
GRAIMatter: Guidelines and resources for artificial intelligence model access from trusted research environments, led by researchers at the University of Dundee
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