This data set provides details from research projects funded through Premier's Catalyst Awards (2003 to the present).

This data set provides details from research projects funded through Premier's Catalyst Awards (2003 to the present).

Catalyst capacity building and match funding awards

Non-randomized pre/post evaluation of 5 piped water supplies in Dailekh district, Surkhet, Western Nepal. This data file contains the water quality data collected from 8 piped water systems based on sampling tanks and collection taps between June 2017 and January 2018. The work was supported by a REACH programme catalyst grant to organisations Eawag and Helvetas-Nepal.

Related publication: Tosi Robinson, D., Schertenleib, A., Kunwar, B. M., Shrestha, R., Bhatta, M., & Marks, S. J. (2018). Assessing the impact of a risk-based intervention on piped water quality in rural communities: The case of mid-western Nepal. International journal of environmental research and public health, 15(8), 1616. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15081616

This dataset contains 'Grants awarded since 2012 to December 2020' funded by London Catalyst with the earliest grant issued on 2012-01-18 and the latest grant issued on 2021-12-21. There are 1513 grants, totaling a value of £3,246,774.67. Individual grants range in value from £200 to £15,000.

The Students as Catalysts of City and Regional Growth: Employer Survey, 2008-2009 was conducted as part of a wider piece of research investigating the impact of higher education (HE) students on cities. The research examined how HE students impact on cities, neighbourhoods and disadvantaged communities, and collected data from five case study cities using both interviews and a telephone survey of employers. Responses were coded into a quantitative data file.

The survey provided for the first time a broad-ranging overview of employers' motivation in hiring students and their perceived advantages and disadvantages as employees. In accordance with the proposed approach a target list of business 'types' was developed (by sector and location) to target sectors known to be significant employers of students. Though difficult and extremely time-consuming in practice, 150 interviews were successfully completed with a broadly similar profile of employers in each city (including 79 retailers; 61 hospitality employers, and 5 each of call centres and stadia). Questions were a mix of closed and more open questions and the latter were recorded in detail to provide qualitative insights to supplement the quantitative summary measures (these are included in the quantitative data file). Responses were spread equally across the cities, with the exception of slightly fewer in Sunderland (24), simply because its smaller scale meant that categories of potential interviewees were exhausted more quickly. The sampling was purposive rather than representative of employers. It was designed to allow comparison of a similar set of employers between the case study cities (though ultimately few statistically divergent answers were found) and also to allow a comparison of views and experiences of employing students between the hospitality and retail sectors (the two most significant employers of student labour).

Further information about the project may be found on the Students as Catalysts of City and Regional Growth ESRC award page.

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This study contains data files describing elements of blight, social disorder, and development in Boston during the year 2011. This includes: fires, constituent requests for service (including complaints of deterioration), inspections violations, foreclosures and related housing information, 911 reports, and building permits. All data connect into the Geographic Infrastructure for the City of Boston included in the Boston Area Research Initiative's Dataverse. These data were submitted as a whole to TopCoder for the Catalyst grant award for the submission, "Identifying factors that predict neighborhood health concerns."

The data underling this published work have been made publicly available in this repository as part of the IMASC Data Management Plan. This work was supported as part of the Integrated Mesoscale Architectures for Sustainable Catalysis (IMASC), an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences under Award # DE-SC0012573.

The data are related to the NERC's Security of Supply of Mineral Resources Catalyst Grant NE/L002361/1: MM-FREE - Mineral-Microbe interaction role in concentration and Fractionation of Rare Earth Elements and consist of: 1. document on the research priorities from an industry/stakeholders viewpoint to devise a strategy for building biomining into a real opportunity for mineral extraction of rare earth elements. 2. poster reporting literature review on "Using microbes to recover rare earths with low environmental impact"