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Activity and momentum
Show what is happening between formal outputs.
Events and short updates give partners, participants and funders an accessible view of progress without turning the site into a project diary.
Project Atlas · working demonstrator
A digital home for research that stays useful.
Project Atlas brings a research project’s story, people, participation, activity, outputs and developing impact into one coherent, adaptable website for UK university research teams and funded projects.
The project shown here is fictional. It demonstrates the structure and experience without exposing a temporary development address.
The opportunity
More than a project noticeboard.
Research websites often begin as a funding requirement, then become difficult to update, fragmented across institutional systems or forgotten when the project ends.
Atlas is designed as a living project home. It can support participation during delivery, make outputs easier to discover, show how the work is developing and preserve a useful public legacy.
Inside the demonstrator
Follow the work from purpose to use.
These are genuine views of the working demonstrator, presented here without publishing its temporary development address.
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Public project story
Make complex research understandable and easy to follow.
Frame the challenge, approach and intended difference for specialist and non-specialist audiences, then connect that explanation to the people and activity behind the work.
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Emerging impact
Show how research is being used.
Capture engagement, adoption, influence and pathways to change as they develop, with evidence and language proportionate to the maturity of the claim.
Flexible core
Adapt the structure to the project.
Branding, terminology, content sections and selected features can change while the reliable core remains intact.
A clear project story
Explain the challenge, approach and intended difference in plain English, without flattening the research.
People and partnerships
Give researchers, funders, community partners and advisory groups a visible, coherent place in the work.
Living activity
Share events and concise updates between formal outputs, helping the project show momentum over time.
Outputs and findings
Bring publications, resources, evidence and accessible findings together, with routes to repositories and files.
Participation
Make opportunities to attend, contribute or collaborate easy to find and understand.
Impact in development
Capture engagement, use, influence and emerging outcomes while keeping claims proportionate to the evidence.
Private project management
A quiet advantage behind the public site.
Project Health uses the information already saved in the content system to flag gaps and keep the site useful.
- Incomplete people profiles
- Past activity needing an outcome or resource
- Outputs missing a DOI, repository link or file
- The latest recorded site-care check
The dashboard is private. It does not display participant data or give public visitors access to site administration.
How delivery can work
Start with a dependable structure, then make it yours.
- 01Shape the project home
Agree audiences, priorities, language, sections and any additional functionality.
- 02Adapt and populate
Apply the project identity, structure approved content and configure the content system.
- 03Test and launch
Check accessibility, routes, responsive layouts and project-owner workflows before release.
- 04Keep it useful
Use the private health view and optional ongoing support to maintain the project record.
Discuss a project
Could Atlas become the digital home for your research?
Tell us about the project, the audiences it needs to reach and what the website should help them do.