ESRC researchers

As an ESRC award holder, under the ESRC Data Policy, your contract requires you to offer all research data generated from your award for deposit with the UK Data Archive. This applies to all kinds of ESRC awards - individual research grants, fellowships, Research Centres investments and awards under Research Programmes.

The offering data process is administered by the ESDS, which you must contact within three months of completing your ESRC grant to offer data for archiving. The UK Data Archive, a service provider for the ESDS, is where research data are processed, physically stored and disseminated.

Guidance on managing and sharing data should be sought before, or at the start of your award, especially if you anticipate any difficulties in archiving your research data at the end. You and your research team should be familiar with the information set out in the best practice guidance on Managing and Sharing Data before the start of fieldwork and before offering data to ESDS for deposit.

ESDS provides additional advice and support for ESRC Research Centres and ESRC Research Programmes.

Advice for ESRC applicants is available to help ESRC grant applicants answer specific questions on data preparation and archiving for their Joint electronic Submission (Je-S).

Our support staff can be contacted for advice at any stage of your project. Contact acquisitions@esds.ac.uk or telephone: +44 (0)1206 872974.