Elevenses and Controlled International Microdata

When: 29 January 2019, 10.45-12:00 AM

Where: Social Science Research Centre (SSRC), Room 2N2.4.08

As a researcher
or PhD student at the University of Essex, what could it mean for your research
to have direct remote access to controlled international microdata here on
campus?

We are holding introductory
talks about the controlled data available to you from three international
Research Data Centres (RDCs) across Europe:

- the French
Secure Access Data Centre (CASD);

- the German
Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the
Institute for Employment Research (IAB); and

- Statistics
Netherlands (CBS).

The talks are
on 29^th January, 10.45-12.00am in Room 2N2.4.08 in the Social Science
Research Centre off Square 2.

Speakers will
be Matthew Woollard and Beate Lichtwardt from the UK Data Service (based here
at Essex), Roxane Silberman from CASD, Dana Mueller from the IAB and Ruben Dood
from CBS.

The new service
is part of the UK Data Service's involvement in the International Data Access
Network (IDAN) project, founded in 2018. The project is a collaboration between
six RDCs from France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom to make
it possible for researchers to use controlled access data between these
RDCs/countries.

As a member of
the IDAN project, the UK Data Service will enable researchers to work remotely
on controlled access data using the UK Data Archive Safe Room. This will reduce
the need to travel, the associated costs with international research, and helps
to address the challenges that researchers currently face when trying to access
data from outside the country they are working in.

We look forward
to welcoming you to our data talks over a cup of tea or coffee and a biscuit.