Important

We are currently developing a new Trusted Research Environment (TRE). During this transition, some of the form links and online request pages you may have bookmarked will not work until the development work has completed.

If you need assistance, please contact the Research Computing Service team directly using this ASK form with Trusted Research Environment as the service name.

We appreciate your patience while we improve the TRE platform.


A TRE is a secure, cloud-based environment designed for data analysis and facilitating collaboration among researchers. ISO 27001 certification for ICT includes the TRE for the storage and processing of personally identifiable data, personal medical data, and commercially sensitive data.

Status: Service development. The TRE is in a development phase and is not currently available.
Hosted location:
UK data centre regions only

Facilities offered:

  • Supported by ICT.
  • Workspaces scale to the requirements from a single researcher to multiple researchers.
  • TRE user roles are modelled to user tasks and information governance requirements.
  • Cost reporting is available to help projects budget use of TRE resources.
  • Virtual machines (VMs) hosted in a secure workspace allocated to the group.