﻿This readme file was generated on [2025-09-26] by [WILL BURTON]

GENERAL INFORMATION

Title of Dataset: Appendices for WB PhD Thesis 2025 - How is Offshore Wind Industry Expansion Transforming the UK North Sea?

Author/Principal Investigator Information
Name: Will Burton
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-6999-5127
Institution: Durham University
Address: Department of Geography, Durham University, Lower Mountjoy, South Rd, Durham DH1 3LE
Email: william.f.burton@durham.ac.uk / willbu.burton@gmail.com

Author/Associate or Co-investigator Information
Name: Professor Gavin Bridge
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1145-4895
Institution: Durham University
Address: Department of Geography, Durham University, Lower Mountjoy, South Rd, Durham DH1 3LE
Email: g.j.bridge@durham.ac.uk

Date of data collection: 2023-06-01 to 2024-09-30.  

Geographic locations of data collection: Durham, Hull, Sheffield, Grimsby, Online

Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data: Aura Centre for Doctoral Training; which is funded by EPSRC and NERC.


SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION

Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: Open Access

Links to publications that cite or use the data: N/A

Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: N/A

Links/relationships to ancillary data sets: N/A

Was data derived from another source? 
If yes, list source(s): 

Recommended citation for this dataset: Burton, W.F. (2025) Appendices for: How is Offshore Wind Industry expansion transforming the UK North Sea?, Durham Theses, Durham University. 


DATA & FILE OVERVIEW

File List: <list all files (or folders, as appropriate for dataset organization) contained in the dataset, with a brief description>

App_01 Focus Group Structure
App_02 Focus Group Participant information sheet
App_03 Focus Group Consent Form
App_04 Focus Group SES presentation
App_05 All Components Categories PI
App_06 AURA FCM Component Glossary
App_07 FCMmatrices
App_07 Olazabal_2018 based FCM aggregation script
App_08 Generic Interview Structure
App_09 Transcript Analysis Examples
App_10 Index
App_10 F1FCM
App_10 F2FCM
App_10 F3FCM
App_10 F4FCM
App_10 interview_add_FCM_mean
App_11 Augmented FCM Glossary
App_12 Expert model outputs

Relationship between files, if important: App_1 = Appendix 1, etc. Files within the same appendix are related.


METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION

Description of methods: All methods are detailed in the thesis that is associated with these appendices: Burton, W.F. (2025) How is Offshore Wind Industry expansion transforming the UK North Sea?, Durham Theses, Durham University. 


Instrument- or software-specific information needed to interpret the data:

App_7 R code was run using R version 4.3.3 (2024-02-29 ucrt) -- "Angel Food Cake", 64-bit. It requires the following libraries: 
library(tidyverse)
library(readxl)
library(Matrix)
library(reshape) 

App_10 data are .mmp files, which must be read through Mentalmodeler: https://www.mentalmodeler.com/#about  
From there, access can easily be granted to the online tool, which reads the .mmp files once they are loaded onto it. 


People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission: 
Will Burton, Durham University
Professor Gavin Bridge, Durham University
Doctor Tom Webb, The University of Sheffield
Professor Will Coombs, Durham University

