End-to-end support

We’ve supported hundreds of research projects with database management and administration, using technologies such as SQL Server and Microsoft Azure. We manage the secure transfer, hosting and use of sensitive data in secure research environments at LIDA. 

With years of academic experience on data-driven research projects, we collaborate with researchers on any data transformation, visualisation and analysis tasks. We can help implement statistical and machine learning methods using different programming languages such as R, Python and SQL. We can also help analyse datasets that are big or small, flat or relational, structured or heterogeneous, local or cloud-hosted. 

We are aligned with and supported by a wider group of Research Software Engineers (RSEs) from the Research Computing Group at the University of Leeds. The RSEs work with academics to develop software and champion best practices for research software development in the university and wider academic community. Our RSEs can help if you are programming for the first time, want to improve your coding and documentation skills, discover new tools, access computing facilities, or you want to turn your code into a published software package. 

Our team includes data security experts who ensure that LIDA’s infrastructure of secure research environments and LIDA’s research management process (RMP) meets all necessary information governance and data protection requirements. We support researchers working with sensitive data to meet their regulatory requirements, such as EU GDPR, ISO27001 information security standard, the Data Security and Protection Toolkit and project specific Data Sharing Agreements.