Curtis+Cartwright: recent work
We have worked for a variety of clients across the public sector and we strongly believe in the "cross-fertilisation" of ideas, principles and good practice across sectors. Our clients have included:
- Central Government: Cabinet Office, CSIA, Home Office
- Defence: Dstl, RAO (now DTIC), a range of IPTs, Hydrographic Office
- Education and research: JISC, SCONUL, RIN, British Library, RLUK, JANET(UK), The M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries (via LSE), Science Technology Facilities Council (STFC), the Higher Education Academy/JISC Collaboration and the Strategic Content Alliance
- Police: Bedfordshire Police, National Police Improvement Agency (NPIA)
Much of our work for the UK Government is not publicly available. However, listed below are some examples of work that we have undertaken in the education and research sector which are available:
- We are undertaking the evaluation of the JISC Institutional Innovation Programme. The evaluation, being led by Dr Geoff Curtis, runs until May 2011.
- We developed a website for librarians clarify and advance their understanding of what they are entitled to do with the bibliographic records which they hold within their institutional library catalogue.
- We produced a report on the costs (open and hidden) involved in the digitisation of content, considering costs across the project lifecycle from the selection of relevant material through to the delivery of the digitised content.
- We conducted a study to investigate how the education and research sector could personalise online services. See the DPIE2 report here.
- We undertook a HEFCE-funded shared service feasibility study for the M25 Consortium to pilot Walk-in Access to M25 Libraries (WAM25). See the WAM25 Feasibility Study.
- We mapped the UK security services to the international e-Framework for education and research. See the Landscape Study and completed security documentation on the e-Framework.
- We developed guidance on audience research for the SCA. The resulting Guide to Researching Audiences and various briefing papers can be found at the SCA publications.
- We developed an information paper on the international aspects of federated access management including an overview of major activities and an analysis of JISC's involvement in the international community.
- We have conducted numerous market research projects engaging HE and FE institutions (UK and beyond), learners, researchers, librarians, ICT staff, funders and representative bodies. For example, we investigated the readiness of UK HEIs and FEIs to adopt federated access management. See the JISC Institutional Preparedness studies 1 and 2.
- We developed a Business Case Toolkit to help institutions make decisions about access management in light of the (then) new developments in federated access management.
Examples of current projects in the education and research sector include:
- Evaluation of the JOS Work Programme.
- Supporting the SCA workshops to enhance professional understanding of audience research.