UKCEH DRI Futures: understanding attitudes, experiences and expectations

This work is part of the BOOST EDS project, funded by UKRI and supported by DSIT, aimed to pilot a range of measures to address issues of data findability, traceability, accessibility and interoperability, to improve data sharing and access across disciplines. Conducted from late 2023 to March 2025, the project consisted of five work packages, with one work package dedicated to user centred approaches in the context of environmental data services.

This case study details a programme of participatory research and co-design, led by the Environmental Data Science team at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH). It focuses on Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) for environmental science and aims to improve DRI so that it can better meet the needs of environmental science now and in the future.