Contact details for Smart Data Foundry
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At Smart Data Foundry, we unlock the potential of financial data to create social impact and drive economic growth. Based at the University of Edinburgh, we provide safe and secure access to high-value private sector data assets to deliver unique socioeconomic and policy insights “at scale” (e.g., near-real-time large-scale, integrated, linked data across all geographies).
Through our Trusted Research Environment (TRE), researchers can design bold, impactful research projects and find conclusions they can trust using near-real-time and longitudinal data. Our deidentified, granular private sector data “at scale” presents new research and policy decision-making opportunities. It creates a view of changing economic behaviours and how they correlate with other circumstances (e.g. health and climate).
Our TRE is securely held within the EPCC Data Safe Haven and is subject to rigorous data protection and information security controls and processes.
The EPCC Data Safe Haven is controlled in accordance with the ‘5 Safes’: Safe People, Safe Projects, Safe Settings, Safe Data, and Safe Outputs. It is trusted to operate the technical end of the Scottish National Safe Haven, which underpins public-benefit research with sensitive data in the country.
We also corroborate this security with our experienced information governance team, which works closely with data partners and regulators to ensure the safe, secure, and ethical use of sensitive information.
Through our portal, we also provide access to aggregate summary statistics, which can be used for research. These are supplemented with data dashboards. Our principal current offering is a dashboard examining income volatility, built in collaboration with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation as part of a larger data insights infrastructure.
While Smart Data Foundry is a non-profit organisation, we may request a fee to access data assets within a funding proposal to assist our cost recovery. This fee will vary based on the quantity of data utilised and the project timeframes. Please get in touch with us to discuss the best option for your needs.
As part of our collaboration with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, we have a number of seats available in our Trusted Research Environment for research projects directly related to economic insecurity. More information on this can be found through our portal.
Researchers can securely access data through different routes, depending on what data they want to access.
Data can be accessed:
Certain datasets may require that a research project's scope or aims align with topics or missions approved by the data providers.
Our data partners also ask for insights generated from their data to be shared directly with them; this may be before the publication of outputs, but these insights will only be made public once any research outputs have been published.
For access to our Trusted Research Environment:
For access to the derived data assets:
Smart Data Foundry can provide a range of support surrounding data governance, infosec or data science support, and marketing and disseminating research outputs.
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info@smartdatafoundry.com