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Read the full stories in our July 2026 newsletter. In this issue of the UK Data Service newsletter, we have details on two new projects we’re working on to make it easier for researchers to find, access and integrate data from multiple repositories. The UK Data Service is one of a number of partners who have […]

University of Essex, UK Data Archive, Faculty of Social Sciences The UK Data Archive is seeking to appoint a Senior Software Engineer to help build innovative software solutions while working within an AWS cloud infrastructure first environment. The successful candidate will become a key member of the development team. Applicants should have a strong foundation […]

An update of our latest data releases New datasets released SN 9591 Labour Disputes, 2024: Secure Access SN 9590 Sheffield Birth Cohort Study, 1907-1930 SN 9589 Cyber Security Longitudinal Survey: Wave 5, 2025 SN 858653 The Digital Mindfulness Scale: Development and Longitudinal Validation in the Workplace, 2025 SN 858595 A Longitudinal Investigation of the Mental […]

The UK Data Service will contribute to two new projects that will drive the development of new AI-augmented tools and services, making it easier for researchers to integrate datasets between different repositories and across multiple countries. The funding, which will cover two new projects worth over €15 million, has been awarded to two consortia of […]

The results of the latest GP Patient Survey are now available via the GP Patient Survey website. The GP Patient Survey is a large-scale push-to-web survey run by Ipsos on behalf of NHS England. This year the survey received responses from approximately 654,000 adults in England. The latest data are from the 2026 publication. Fieldwork was conducted from 2 January to […]

An update of our latest data releases New datasets released SN 9588 English Longitudinal Study of Ageing: Life History: Wave 3 and 11, 2007 and 2024-2025 SN 9586 Millennium Cohort Study: Linked Education Administrative Datasets (Primary 1-Secondary 6/Tertiary), Scotland, 2007-2020: Secure Access SN 9574 Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence: Nepal Midline, 2023 SN 9575 Gender […]

The International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) conference is always a highlight of our year. This year’s conference, held online on 2–5 June, proved to be no exception, with eleven presentations featuring UK Data Service staff being delivered across the four days. In addition to presenting our work, it was fascinating […]

On 25 June, we held our latest Health Studies User Conference in collaboration with UCL and the National Centre for Social Research. The conference brought together data producers and data users to share updates on key health-related surveys and showcase research using data from these surveys. Health-related survey updates This year’s conference featured several important data updates. Katie […]

CESSDA (the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives) celebrated its 50th Anniversary this year with a conference in Bergen, Norway, between 15 June – 18 June. The conference marks the organisation’s five decades of collaboration, innovation, and service to the European social science research community. It also brough together its Service Providers and partners, […]

The UK Data Service has been listed as a key resource for government evaluators in the latest version of the UK Government’s Magenta Book. Published by HM Treasury, the Magenta Book is the central guidance document on how to evaluate policies, programmes and projects. The Magenta Book The Magenta Book is intended to show policy […]

An update of our latest data releases New datasets released SN 9587 Annual Population Survey, April 2025 – March 2026 SN 9581 Quarterly Labour Force Survey, January-March 2025: Open Teaching Dataset SN 9554 Crime Survey for England and Wales, 2024-2025 SN 9577 Quarterly Labour Force Survey, Household Dataset, January – March, 2026 SN 9568 DESNZ […]

An update of our latest data releases New datasets released SN 9570 Labour Force Survey Two-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, October 2025 – March, 2026 SN 9576 BBC Big Personality Test, 2009-2011: Dataset for Examining Well-being and Relationship Status Associations Across Great Britain SN 9572 Children of the 2020s: Wave 2, 2022-2025: Secure Access SN 9571 Labour […]