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Read the full stories in our UK Data Service Newsletter – Winter 2025. In this issue of the UK Data Service newsletter, we highlight a major update to our Data Catalogue. The new catalogue has been designed with user feedback at its core and we hope it will make finding and working with data faster […]

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 […]

Read the full stories in our April 2025 Newsletter. In this issue of the UK Data Service Newsletter, we are delighted to announce our re-accreditation by the UK Statistics Authority for the provision and preparation of data under the Digital Economy Act. We also highlight five key conferences taking place this summer, including the Understanding […]

Read the full stories in our January 2025 Newsletter. In this issue of the UK Data Service Newsletter, we are delighted to announce we have launched our UK Data Service Dissertation Award for the 2024-25 academic year, with £300 available for each winner. Plus, we are thrilled to update you on the future plans of our most […]

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 […]

Read the full stories in our June 2024 newsletter. In this issue of the UK Data Service newsletter, we congratulate Professor Matthew Woollard, former Director of the UK Data Service and the UK Data Archive, who has been awarded an OBE for his service to data science and higher education. We also take a look […]

Read the full stories in our January 2024 newsletter. In this issue of the UK Data Service newsletter we’re promoting our upcoming events and training sessions; in February we have our Crime Survey User Conference and we’re celebrating Love Data Week with a series of workshops, including two on Mapping Crime Data in R. In […]

Read the full stories in our October 2023 newsletter. In this issue of the UK Data Service newsletter, we are thrilled to announce we have secured £37.5 million of UKRI funding through the ESRC to fund our work until 2030. This new award will allow us to continue to provide critical research infrastructure for the […]

Read the full stories in our April 2023 newsletter. Data releases from Census 2021 have been continuing throughout this year, and in this issue of the UK Data Service newsletter we focus on the findings so far, with an exclusive podcast on ethnicity-related data and links to our collection of open census datasets covering 1971 […]

Read the full stories in our January 2023 newsletter. This issue of the UK Data Service newsletter has a particular focus on data impact. We include links to the Data impact blog, including a post contributed by Full Fact, an independent fact-checking campaign group. We highlight our new themed impact areas and you can read […]

Read the full stories in our Autumn 2022 newsletter. Find new guidance for students wanting to use data, our online training courses up to January 2023 and read our latest data impact. Browse some of the most recent data available through the UK Data Service including the new 2021 census data released for England, Wales and […]

Read about the latest data collections, impact and upcoming training in our May 2022 newsletter. Subscribe to receive future UK Data Service newsletters direct to your mailbox. (Unsubscribe at any time). Key features: more interviews in our podcast series, the Experts’ Expert, as we discuss how we continue to enable data skills training and research to […]