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New webinar series about data for research

Please note that the religion and language spoken webinars will be postponed if the planned UCU strike (25 November – 4 December) goes ahead.

Would you like to know more about what data are available for research in the UK? In November and December 2019, the ESRC’s funded data resources will run a series of collaborative webinars highlighting the wide range of data sources ready and waiting to be explored and utilised by researchers and academics.

Split into three separate sessions, each focusing on a different research topic, the series aims to help novice as well as experienced data users discover new data sources that could aid their own investigations. The research topics featured are:

Each hour-long webinar consists of 2-3 presentations from expert researchers about the data available in the UK, examples of how different data sources have been used in real research case studies, as well as time set aside for questions and answers.

A previous series of webinars was held in March and April 2019. The webinars explored the available data sources for the following research topics:

Follow the links above to access webinar recordings and presentation slides.