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Do you conduct crime research using quantitative surveys or longitudinal studies from the UK Data Service, such as the Crime Survey for England and Wales, Commercial Victimisation Survey, and many more? Submissions are now open for the Crime Surveys User Conference 2025. This free conference, organised by the UK Data Service in collaboration with the […]

The UK Data Service joins the global digital preservation community in marking World Digital Preservation Day on 7 November. World Digital Preservation Day is held each year on the first Thursday of November to highlight the importance of digital preservation. This year’s event will celebrate the diversity of the communities around the world who help […]

An update of our latest data releases. The following new datasets have been released: SN 9255 What Worked? Policy Mobility and the Public Health Approach to Youth Violence, 2021-2023 SN 9314 English Housing Survey, 2022: Housing Stock Data SN 9316 English Housing Survey, 2022: Housing Stock Data: Special Licence Access SN 9317 English Housing Survey, […]

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 […]