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We are pleased to announce the programme for this year’s Family Finance Surveys User Conference has now been confirmed and bookings are no 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 […]

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 […]

University of Essex, UK Data Archive, Faculty of Social Sciences The UK Data Archive is seeking to appoint a Departmental Administrator to join our Business Strategy and Operations team on a part-time, job-share basis. The successful candidate will provide high-quality administrative support to colleagues across the organisation, ensuring the smooth and efficient running of operations. […]

The UK Data Service continues to explore new ways to improve how data is prepared, described, and delivered to researchers. As part of this work, our Research and Development and Curation teams have been working on MetaCurate-ML, a pilot project initially funded through the ESRC Future Data Services programme which subsequently received supplementary funding through […]

The Department for Education (DfE) and the UK Data Archive have strengthened their long-standing collaboration through a new framework agreement. Building on a history of successfully curating and providing access to DfE and DfE-linked data, this agreement streamlines the process for depositing and sharing new datasets via the UK Data Service. The framework supports the […]

An update of our latest data releases New datasets released SN 9533 Active Lives Children and Young People Survey, 2023-2024 SN 9520 Producer Price Index, 1998-2025: Secure Access SN 9515 Community Life Survey, 2024-2025: Secure Access SN 9534 ​​Farm Business Survey, 2024-2025: Special Licence Access SN 858373 Explicit and Implicit Speakers’ Attitudes Across Three Bilingual […]