In: Journal of sport and social issues: the official journal of Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society, Band 36, Heft 4, S. 410-421
This article explores how the London Olympic Bid Committee (LOBC) sought to gain the popular support required for London's bid for the 2012 Olympic Games by attempting to influence the journalists of the U.K. newspaper with the greatest readership to communicate their discourse to the host urban population. The research draws on Michel Foucault's concept of discourse to investigate whether and, more importantly, how the journalists of the Sun articulated the key statements that the LOBC sought to convey to the U.K. public in their coverage of London's bid for the 2012 Games in order to discover how collusion and tension between the discourses and practices of bid committees and those of journalists affect the statements articulated to the reader.
IntroductionModern team science requires effective sharing of data and skills. The DPUK Data Portal is a collection of tools, datasets and networks that allows for epidemiologists and specialist researchers alike to access, analyse and investigate cohort and different modalities of routine data across UK and international sources.
Objectives and ApproachThe Portal is housed on an instance of UKSeRP (UK Secure eResearch Platform), that allows customisable infrastructure to be used for multi-modal research (thus far live in genetics, imaging and clinical data) for researchers across the world using remote access technology whilst allowing governance to remain with the data provider. A central team at Swansea University is responsible for data curation and processing, and runs an access procedure for researchers to apply to use data from multiple sources to be analysed in a central analysis environment. Other modalities are similarly hosted, with input from partner sites in Cardiff and Oxford.
ResultsDPUK facilitates data access and research on 49 cohorts, 40 UK-based and 9 international. The centralised repository model including remote access and ability to store and make available different modalities of data, from phenotypic data, to genetic and imaging data, has allowed DPUK to begin to support research of varying topics, from those studying cognitive decline and Dementia as a disease, to those maturing analytical models. By providing access to data platforms specialising in genetics, imaging and routine clinical data, as well as to specialists in disease and biology to aid with its understanding, DPUK has realised a large-scale research exercise combining major data modalities on a central platform, and allow access to such rich data across the world under an umbrella of robust governance.
Conclusion/ImplicationsGlobally, cohorts are pooling data, expertise and desire to enrich their own aims in partnership with a federated research community to enable in-depth scrutiny of the biological origins of dementia and the development and evaluation of novel approach to disease prevention and cure.
The Dementias Platform UK Data Portal is a data repository facilitating access to data for 3 370 929 individuals in 42 cohorts. The Data Portal is an end-to-end data management solution providing a secure, fully auditable, remote access environment for the analysis of cohort data. All projects utilising the data are by default collaborations with the cohort research teams generating the data. The Data Portal uses UK Secure eResearch Platform infrastructure to provide three core utilities: data discovery, access, and analysis. These are delivered using a 7 layered architecture comprising: data ingestion, data curation, platform interoperability, data discovery, access brokerage, data analysis and knowledge preservation. Automated, streamlined, and standardised procedures reduce the administrative burden for all stakeholders, particularly for requests involving multiple independent datasets, where a single request may be forwarded to multiple data controllers. Researchers are provided with their own secure 'lab' using VMware which is accessed using two factor authentication. Over the last 2 years, 160 project proposals involving 579 individual cohort data access requests were received. These were received from 268 applicants spanning 72 institutions (56 academic, 13 commercial, 3 government) in 16 countries with 84 requests involving multiple cohorts. Projects are varied including multi-modal, machine learning, and Mendelian randomisation analyses. Data access is usually free at point of use although a small number of cohorts require a data access fee.
The Dementias Platform UK Data Portal is a data repository facilitating access to data for 3 370 929 individuals in 42 cohorts. The Data Portal is an end-to-end data management solution providing a secure, fully auditable, remote access environment for the analysis of cohort data. All projects utilising the data are by default collaborations with the cohort research teams generating the data. The Data Portal uses UK Secure eResearch Platform infrastructure to provide three core utilities: data discovery, access, and analysis. These are delivered using a 7 layered architecture comprising: data ingestion, data curation, platform interoperability, data discovery, access brokerage, data analysis and knowledge preservation. Automated, streamlined, and standardised procedures reduce the administrative burden for all stakeholders, particularly for requests involving multiple independent datasets, where a single request may be forwarded to multiple data controllers. Researchers are provided with their own secure 'lab' using VMware which is accessed using two factor authentication. Over the last 2 years, 160 project proposals involving 579 individual cohort data access requests were received. These were received from 268 applicants spanning 72 institutions (56 academic, 13 commercial, 3 government) in 16 countries with 84 requests involving multiple cohorts. Projects are varied including multi-modal, machine learning, and Mendelian randomisation analyses. Data access is usually free at point of use although a small number of cohorts require a data access fee.
In: Bauermeister , S , Orton , C , Thompson , S , Barker , R A , Bauermeister , J R , Ben-Shlomo , Y , Brayne , C , Burn , D , Campbell , A , Calvin , C , Chandran , S , Chaturvedi , N , Chêne , G , Chessell , I P , Corbett , A , Davis , D H J , Denis , M , Dufouil , C , Elliott , P , Fox , N , Hill , D , Hofer , S M , Hu , M T , Jindra , C , Kee , F , Kim , C H , Kim , C , Kivimaki , M , Koychev , I , Lawson , R A , Linden , G J , Lyons , R A , Mackay , C , Matthews , P M , McGuiness , B , Middleton , L , Moody , C , Moore , K , Na , D L , O'Brien , J T , Ourselin , S , Paranjothy , S , Park , K S , Porteous , D J , Richards , M , Ritchie , C W , Rohrer , J D , Rossor , M N , Rowe , J B , Scahill , R , Schnier , C , Schott , J M , Seo , S W , South , M , Steptoe , M , Tabrizi , S J , Tales , A , Tillin , T , Timpson , N J , Toga , A W , Visser , P J , Wade-Martins , R , Wilkinson , T , Williams , J , Wong , A & Gallacher , J E J 2020 , ' The Dementias Platform UK (DPUK) Data Portal ' , European Journal of Epidemiology , vol. 35 , no. 6 , pp. 601-611 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-020-00633-4
The Dementias Platform UK Data Portal is a data repository facilitating access to data for 3 370 929 individuals in 42 cohorts. The Data Portal is an end-to-end data management solution providing a secure, fully auditable, remote access environment for the analysis of cohort data. All projects utilising the data are by default collaborations with the cohort research teams generating the data. The Data Portal uses UK Secure eResearch Platform infrastructure to provide three core utilities: data discovery, access, and analysis. These are delivered using a 7 layered architecture comprising: data ingestion, data curation, platform interoperability, data discovery, access brokerage, data analysis and knowledge preservation. Automated, streamlined, and standardised procedures reduce the administrative burden for all stakeholders, particularly for requests involving multiple independent datasets, where a single request may be forwarded to multiple data controllers. Researchers are provided with their own secure 'lab' using VMware which is accessed using two factor authentication. Over the last 2 years, 160 project proposals involving 579 individual cohort data access requests were received. These were received from 268 applicants spanning 72 institutions (56 academic, 13 commercial, 3 government) in 16 countries with 84 requests involving multiple cohorts. Projects are varied including multi-modal, machine learning, and Mendelian randomisation analyses. Data access is usually free at point of use although a small number of cohorts require a data access fee.
In: Bauermeister , S , Orton , C , Thompson , S , Barker , R A , Bauermeister , J R , Ben-Shlomo , Y , Brayne , C , Burn , D , Campbell , A , Calvin , C , Chandran , S , Chaturvedi , N , Chêne , G , Chessell , I P , Corbett , A , Davis , D H J , Denis , M , Dufouil , C , Elliott , P , Fox , N , Hill , D , Hofer , S M , Hu , M T , Jindra , C , Kee , F , Kim , C H , Kim , C , Kivimaki , M , Koychev , I , Lawson , R A , Linden , G J , Lyons , R A , Mackay , C , Matthews , P M , McGuiness , B , Middleton , L , Moody , C , Moore , K , Na , D L , O'Brien , J T , Ourselin , S , Paranjothy , S , Park , K S , Porteous , D J , Richards , M , Ritchie , C W , Rohrer , J D , Rossor , M N , Rowe , J B , Scahill , R , Schnier , C , Schott , J M , Seo , S W , South , M , Steptoe , M , Tabrizi , S J , Tales , A , Tillin , T , Timpson , N J , Toga , A W , Visser , P J , Wade-Martins , R , Wilkinson , T , Williams , J , Wong , A & Gallacher , J E J 2020 , ' The Dementias Platform UK (DPUK) Data Portal ' , European Journal of Epidemiology , vol. 35 , no. 6 , pp. 601-611 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-020-00633-4
The Dementias Platform UK Data Portal is a data repository facilitating access to data for 3 370 929 individuals in 42 cohorts. The Data Portal is an end-to-end data management solution providing a secure, fully auditable, remote access environment for the analysis of cohort data. All projects utilising the data are by default collaborations with the cohort research teams generating the data. The Data Portal uses UK Secure eResearch Platform infrastructure to provide three core utilities: data discovery, access, and analysis. These are delivered using a 7 layered architecture comprising: data ingestion, data curation, platform interoperability, data discovery, access brokerage, data analysis and knowledge preservation. Automated, streamlined, and standardised procedures reduce the administrative burden for all stakeholders, particularly for requests involving multiple independent datasets, where a single request may be forwarded to multiple data controllers. Researchers are provided with their own secure 'lab' using VMware which is accessed using two factor authentication. Over the last 2 years, 160 project proposals involving 579 individual cohort data access requests were received. These were received from 268 applicants spanning 72 institutions (56 academic, 13 commercial, 3 government) in 16 countries with 84 requests involving multiple cohorts. Projects are varied including multi-modal, machine learning, and Mendelian randomisation analyses. Data access is usually free at point of use although a small number of cohorts require a data access fee.