The Consortium for Research Excellence, Support and Training (more commonly known as CREST), is an organisation that provides training and support for researchers and students in Britain. It is a sub-association of GuildHE.
CREST was established in 2010, and was the recipient of strategic development funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England, which was matched by phased subscriptions from members. It is currently self-sustained, receiving funding from member organisations.
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Activities
CREST is particularly focussed on providing support and training to researchers at smaller organisations who might otherwise have less access to training and networks. This builds upon the concept of there being "islands of research excellence", an idea that arose from the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.
The organisation organises symposia, organises training, and curates and disseminates information on research policy such as the Research Excellence Framework.
CREST is a signatory of concordats such as the Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers, the Concordat to Support Research Integrity, and the Concordat for Engaging the Public with Research.
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CREST, open access and open data
CREST have investigated how smaller institutions can make research available via open access and open data. In 2014, CREST was funded by Jisc to develop a research data management system to support smaller and specialist institutions. This was followed, in 2016, by CRESTs involvement in the pilot of a research data shared service.
Research outputs of CREST member institutions are made open access via the online repository CREST Collections.
Members
Members of CREST include:
References
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