Operational Research Society News

The United Nations’ Department of Peace Operations has collated operational data on peace and security missions into a new repository, simply called ‘The Data Hub’. This free public library of datasets on peace and security has been published by the UN with the aim of empowering ‘data consumers’ across the world.

In the last decade, France has provided €24.5 million to support 22 OR projects and 35 'research missions' to help improve the work of fighting HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria across francophone countries, many of which are in the developing world. Now there is a new call for the next phase of funding.

Experts from Cardiff University will lead a partnership studying the needs of rural communities to unlock innovations made possible with 5G technology.

The EPSRC is hosting four community engagement events to collect evidence in support of its review of doctoral education.

EPSRC has introduced an initiative to encourage the wider research community to submit "adventurous and exciting ideas" that are "ambitious and have the ability to transform the research landscape".