Webinar: NERC Digital Solutions Hub (DSH) with Professor Richard Kingston

Join us to find out how the NERC Digital Solutions Hub (DSH) is developing new approaches to connect, discover, and analyse environmental data across the UK research landscape. In this webinar, Professor Richard Kingston introduces the DSH platform and demonstrates how emerging tools—such as AI-assisted data discovery and services built around Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRNs)—can help link environmental, infrastructure, and socio-economic datasets.

Drawing on real examples from the NERC Environmental Data Service, the session will explore how the Hub enables researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to find and use environmental data more effectively. The webinar will also highlight how DSH has collaborated with DAFNI to explore ways of connecting the DSH to Jasmin and other remote compute resources with opportunities for collaboration and user testing as DSH continues to evolve its next-generation digital infrastructure.

Richard Kingston is Professor of Urban Planning and GIS at The University of Manchester and Director of UoM’s Digital Futures Platform. He is Director of the £8m NERC Digital Solutions Programme (https://www.digital-solutions.uk/) which is developing a geospatial digital hub to make NERC’s peta-bytes of environmental data more accessible and usable to non-academics and integrating this data with other social, economic, health and other environmental data across the UK. For the past 25 years Richard’s research has focused on the role of GIS to support public participation in urban and environmental planning and he’s developed a number of award-winning toolkits like https://www.climatejust.org.uk/.