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Trusted access and training to use the UK's largest collection of economic, population and social research data for teaching, learning and public benefit.
Highlights
Autumn 2024 UK Data Service Newsletter
Our latest issue features Dr Steve McEachern our new Director, the UK Data Service Dissertation Award winners, the Royal Statistical Society Conference, and the new Data Impact Fellows scheme.
Professor Matthew Woollard awarded an OBE in the King’s Birthday Honours List
We’re delighted for Professor Matthew Woollard, who served as Director of the UK Data Service and UK Data Archive from 2010 to 2023.
UK Data Service introductory training series: Autumn 2024
We provide access to a wide range of social science data for reuse. To help you get the most from these resources, we run a free introductory training series.
Upcoming training and events
Our impact
The Good Childhood Report 2023
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.
Poverty in Data Impact event
Poverty in Data took place from April 23 -25. You can find videos from all the sessions and other resources here.
Data Impact blog
The Data Impact blog is a hub for researchers, students, communities, policymakers, government and anyone interested in maximising the impact of social, population and economic data in research and policy.
Seamless access to key data: explore by themes, types, and teaching datasets
Discover a wide array of national and international key datasets across various categories.
Watch our data skills training webinars
Subscribe to our YouTube channel
Watch and learn all the latest data skills from our free webinars, training and video tutorials.
Introduction to effective and practical research data management
We explore the key components of effective research data management and also cover practical tools and techniques.
How to become a computational social scientist
We discuss computational social science, what it is good for, how to become a computational social scientist, and the basic steps to follow.
Ignite discovery: elevate your research with data deposits
Deposit your research data free, in our ESRC funded data catalogue.
Latest news
New release of European Language Social Science Thesaurus
The European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST) is a broad-based, multilingual thesaurus for the social sciences. It is available in fifteen languages: Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish. The ELSST is owned and published by the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA). New innovations […]
Latest data collections and new editions 30 September 2024
An update of our latest data releases. The following new datasets have been released: SN 9263 Merchant Taylors’ Company of London: Apprentices 1583–1800 SN 9306 Young Life and Times Survey, 2024 SN 9305 Kids’ Life and Times Survey, 2024 SN 857407 Effective Teaching Practices by Teaching Assistants To Support the Education of Children With Special Educational […]
Autumn 2024 UK Data Service Newsletter
Read the full stories in our Autumn Newsletter. In our latest issue of the UK Data Service newsletter, we congratulate Dr Steve McEachern on becoming our newly appointed Director. Formerly the Director of the Australian Data Archive, Steve brings a wealth of experience in data archiving and survey methodology. His leadership will be invaluable as […]
Who makes us special?
Our podcast series, The Experts’ Expert, showcases some of the unique work we do to enable evidence-led research for public benefit.
