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Supporting social science research with high quality data is at the heart of what we do at the UK Data Service. That is why we are delighted that the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is celebrating the use of high quality data during its Festival of Social Science. The 2024 festival will run from […]

We’re delighted to announce that Professor Matthew Woollard, who served as Director of the UK Data Service and UK Data Archive from 2010 to 2023, has been awarded an OBE in the King’s Birthday Honours List, which he collected on 18 October, 2024. This richly deserved award recognises the impact Professor Woollard has had in […]

An update of our latest data releases. The following new datasets have been released: SN 9304 Liverpool Jewry Historical Database, 1740-1881 SN 9311 World Values Survey: Wave 7, United Kingdom, 2022 SN 9310 Millennium Cohort Study: Linked Health Administrative Datasets (SAIL), Wales: Secure Access SN 9308 British Preschool-Children’s Play Survey, 2023 SN 9312 Annual Population […]

We’re pleased to announce the launch of the UK Data Service Dissertation Award for the 2024-25 academic year. The award recognises undergraduate social science dissertations that include excellent reuse of data. Undergraduate students can access data from our catalogue once they have registered with their institutional login. The data available covers a wide variety of […]

This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the University of Essex. To celebrate, the university is publishing a series of sixty stories to highlight how students and staff at Essex have created global impact over the last six decades. We’re proud to be featured as one of these stories, highlighting how our […]

Are you an early career researcher in the academic or Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise sector? Is your research related to one or both of the themes of “children and young people” or “mental health and wellbeing”? Does your research use data in the UK Data Service collection? Would you like support to develop your ideas […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

We were delighted to attend the Royal Statistical Society’s 2024 International Conference on 2-5 September in Brighton. With over 600 people participating from across the world, the event was a fantastic opportunity to share knowledge and learn about the latest developments in statistics and data science. Our presentations Dr Vanessa Higgins, our Director of Training […]

An update of our latest data releases. The following new studies have been released: SN 9299 Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence: Bangladesh Chittagong and Sylhet Round 2, 2022 SN 9301 Labour Force Survey Two-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, July – December, 2023 SN 9302 Labour Force Survey Two-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, April – September, 2023 SN 9307 Annual […]

The census offers a once-in-a-decade opportunity to gain a comprehensive picture of who we are and how we live as a nation. The data it generates can also reveal important differences within the country. That’s why it’s vital that civil society and advocates for equality can use this data to analyse and draw attention to […]