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The UK Data Service has taken the Public Engagement in Data Research Initiative (PEDRI) Pledge, reflecting our commitment to responsible, transparent, and trustworthy data research and statistics. As a trusted steward of economic, population, and social research data, the UK Data Service has a responsibility to ensure that data is preserved, curated, and made accessible […]

The UK Data Service has launched a new impact theme, Local communities in data, showcasing how national datasets can be used to better understand and strengthen communities across the UK. The theme brings together a wide range of UK Data Service-enabled research, case studies, blog posts and data resources to explore how community life is shaped through three […]

An update of our latest data releases New datasets released SN 9563 Family Resources Survey, 2024-2025 SN 9557 Scottish Social Attitudes, 2024 SN 9552 Online Time Use Survey, 2020-2025 SN 9559 Survey of Adult Skills, PIAAC, 2023: England: Secure Access SN 9544 West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study: Health in the Community, 1987/8-2008: Secure Access SN […]

An update of our latest data releases New datasets released SN 9556 English Longitudinal Study of Ageing: Wave 11, 2024: Census 2021 Lower Layer Super Output Areas: Secure Access SN 9555 English Longitudinal Study of Ageing: Wave 11, 2024: Census 2021 Middle Layer Super Output Areas: Secure Access SN 9542 Skills and Employment Survey, 2024 […]

We are pleased to announce the programme for this year’s Family Finance Surveys User Conference has now been confirmed and booking is open. Organised by the UK Data Service, in collaboration with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the conference brings together producers and users of survey […]

Read the full stories in our April 2026 UK Data Service newsletter. In this issue of the UK Data Service newsletter, we share details on the future events we will be hosting over the next few months, including the Health Studies User Conference, the Family Finance Surveys User Conference and the Labour Force and Annual Population Surveys User […]

‘Train to Transform’ is a new UK Data Service (UKDS) project, which runs from 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027, to help equip librarians with the skills they need to train students and academic staff on how to make the best use of datasets held in the UK Data Service’s collection. The project is funded […]

An update of our latest data releases New datasets released SN 9553 Crime Survey for England and Wales, 2023- 2024: Teaching Dataset SN 9550 Hong Kong BN(O) Migrants Panel Survey, Wave 1, 2024 SN 9546 Global Perceptions: How 18-34-Year-Olds See the UK and the World, 2025 SN 9549 British Social Attitudes Survey Experiment, 2025 SN […]

The UK Data Service Dissertation Award 2026 is open for entries and we are delighted to announce the judges.  Each year, our judging panel includes experts from the UK Data Service and senior academic staff. This year Dr. Alex Bryson, (Professor of Quantitative Social Science at UCL’s Social Research Institute) and Dr Roxanne Connelly (Senior […]

CESSDA (the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives) will celebrate its 50th Anniversary this year with a conference in Bergen, Norway, between 15 June – 18 June. The conference will mark the organisation’s five decades of collaboration, innovation, and service to the European social science research community. It will also bring together its Service […]

IASSIST 2026 (the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology) will take place this year as a virtual conference between 2 June and 5 June, with many experts from the UK Data Service providing presentations throughout these few days. The theme for this year focuses on Championing Data and will feature dynamic sessions, […]

As part of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, tens of thousands of people shared their stories about the pandemic through the “Every Story Matters” initiative. This exercise, which was the largest public engagement initiative ever held by a UK public inquiry, has created an invaluable record of how Covid-19 affected people’s lives across the UK. We […]