Welcome to the UK Data Service

Experts from the UK Data Service will be delivering a series of talks at the 50th annual conference of IASSIST (International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology) in Bristol on 3-6 June.

Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) organisations that work across the UK collect a wealth of data, highlighting the needs and experiences of the people they serve. Join a series of facilitated online discussion groups in June, offering participants the chance to share their insights.

In this issue we are delighted to announce our re-accreditation by the UK Statistics Authority, for the provision and preparation of data under the Digital Economy Act. We also highlight five key conferences taking place this summer and share updates on our latest projects.

In this Data Impact blog post, Rebecca Florisson, from the Work Foundation, discusses the issue of long-term insecure work.

This case study looks at the importance of social factors in mitigating disparities in the lives of young people in areas such as poverty, health, housing and discrimination.

The Children’s Society’s Good Childhood Reports provide an annual overview of the current state of children’s subjective well-being. Read about how they make use of data from our catalogue, in this case study.

Watch and learn all the latest data skills from our free webinars, training and video tutorials.

An introductory workshop designed to help participants understand the basics of managing research data effectively and responsibly. The workshop covers the key data principles FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) and CARE (Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics).

This workshop is an introduction to computational social science. A chance to understand and discuss what computational social science is, what it is good for, how to become a computational social scientist, and the basic steps to follow in an ideal computational social science research project.