Work has been transformed by the coronavirus crisis with remote working now the norm for millions of workers. But distance from the office is also providing some opportunities to take a wider perspective of the data landscape and to scan business horizons using data sources that we might have overlooked or never investigated in detail.
The CDRC Data Store remains open for business, and our Open and Safeguarded data products are available as normal. Our Secure labs are closed for the duration of the crisis, but we are still accepting Secure data applications for access when things return to normal.
For students, our Masters Dissertation Scheme is still running with a record number of projects for students to complete in the coming months using business and CDRC data. The scheme gives Masters students registered at any UK university a unique opportunity to engage with horizon scanning or other business problems using novel datasets and interesting business perspectives on applied problem-solving. In the past, many participating students have carried out work at the businesses office, but this year students are being offered opportunities to work with businesses through homeworking for the duration of the crisis. The Scheme still brings together the best of academic and business perspectives upon applied problem-solving. Academic supervisors similarly gain the opportunity to collaborate on potentially high impact research with the business community.
So… if you are a Master’s student interested in collaborating with business, but can no longer do this through fieldwork or primary data collection, why not click here to see if any of the CDRC projects interest you? A number of the organisations that we work with are very keen to use part of their homeworking to coach students in the workings of business, especially if you have relevant skills and ways of working to offer!
We also have the CDRC Data Store which has a wide range of data sets available, some of which may be very useful in your dissertation or current research.