David De Roure's introduction to the Digital Social Research project presented at the Collaborations Workshop 2012.

1. David De Roure

2. PolicyGrid
m Current Nodes
Rural communities
DE Hubs DAMES
Social Inclusion
highwire NeISS
CQeSS Genesis
m MoSeS Original Nodes
Obesity e-Lab
HUB
m DReSS Horizon
DE DTCs Creative Industries
Finance
MiMeG Healthcare mmm
Genesis Media
OeSS
m eStat m GeoVUE
Entertainment m
LifeGuide NCRM phase 2
ncrm
Web Science

3. PolicyGrid
m Current Nodes
Rural communities
Demonstrators
DE Hubs DAMESd
& Sustainability
ds
Harnessing advances in digital
Social Inclusion
technology and practice to
achieve world-class social highwire
CQeSS
NeISS
Genesis
s e-Social Science
research with maximum impact m MoSeS
m
Obesity e-Lab ss
HUB
m DReSS Horizon
DE DTCs Creative Industries
Finance
d MiMeG Healthcare mm Media
Genesis
mm eStat OeSS GeoVUE
m m d NCRM phase 3
Entertainment
Web Science
ncrm LifeGuide NCRM phase 2
www.digitalsocialresearch.net

4. Building a UK Foundation for the
Transformative Enhancement of
Research and Innovation
Dan Christine Julia
Atkins Borgman Lane

5. ocial science research is on the verge of being transformed ... in a
way even more fundamental than research in the physical and life
sciences.
..the ability to capture vast amounts of data on human interactions in
a manner unimaginable from traditional survey data and related
processes should, in the near term, transform social science
research.
robably the most important impact is the way in which the
e-Science investments have situated social scientists to respond to
the ESRC grand challenges.
he impact of social science on both economic and social policy could
be transformed as a result of new abilities to collect and analyse real-
time data in a far more granular fashion than from survey data.

6. Directorate David De Roure
Marina Jirotka
Rob Procter
Anne Trefethen
Megan Meredith-Lobay
www.digitalsocialresearch.net
megan.meredith-lobay@oerc.ox.ac.uk

7. ourSpaces

12. The Oxford e-Social Science Project
The OeSS recently organised a pair of events as part of the
culmination of the project
•12th March, an academic symposium on SOCIAL SCIENCE AND
DIGITAL RESEARCH: INTERDISCIPLINARY INSIGHTS will bring
together researchers interested in understanding how e-
research has influenced the foci, quality, and significance of
research.
•13th March, a policy forum on DIGITAL SOCIAL RESEARCH: A
FORUM FOR POLICY AND PRACTICE will focus on understanding
the adjustments to policy and practice that must occur for the
potential of e-research to be more fully realized.

13. New projects
Demonstrators Sustainability
Supporting the use of digital CartoGrammar
media in research with children Preparing MethodBox
and young people for National Service
Platforms for Issue Mapping: Sustainable Carbon
Demonstrating the Relevance for Counters
Participatory Social Research Developing
Digital Social Research Tools, Sustainability Pathways
Tension Indicators and Safer for Social Simulation
Communities Tools and Services
A 3d psychological face database
and tools

14. Mechanisms
• Demonstrator and Sustainability calls
• Partnerships Community Activities
• Visitors …apply for funding!
• Training and events
• Task forces / Agenda-setting workshops
• Deep-think workshops
• Software sustainability training

15. www.digitalsocialresearch.net