Read the full stories in our UKDS Newsletter July 2025.
In this issue of the UK Data Service newsletter, we feature highlights from our presence at a number of national and international conferences around the UK over the last few months, which have brought together data producers and researchers to share their ideas for improving services for users.
These conferences include IASSIST 2025, ESRA 2025, the Understanding Society Scientific Conference and our UKDS user conferences in the UK. Our events consisted of the UK Census User Conference 2025, the Health Studies User Conference 2025, the Labour Force and Annual Population Surveys User Conference 2025 and the Family Finance Surveys User Conference 2025.
We also jointly convened an additional conference this summer – the Future of the UK Demographic System Conference.
Additionally, we are pleased to have launched a new free to access data skills module, to help researchers and analysts get the most from the Family Resources Survey.
Plus, we have announced the winners of this year’s UK Data Service Dissertation Award, which celebrates undergraduate work based on archived data available through the service.
In this addition of the newsletter, we also featured news on our Data Impact Fellows, which include Kyle Genner, who has studied the barriers young people growing up in poverty and deprived backgrounds face when striving to reach higher levels of sporting success.
Anastasia Fadeeva introduces her work for the Violence, Health and Society (VISION) research consortium, particularly around the mental health consequences of violence and abuse against older people.
Alice Varley explains how her PhD aims to investigate and examine various inequalities related to common mental health disorders.
Finally, we are very pleased to introduce our two new Research Impact and Engagement Managers, Eve Little and Sophie Gawryla. Welcome to the team!