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The UK Data Service is proud to announce #DataImpact2021, featuring a keynote by poet, author and broadcaster Lemn Sissay MBE.
If you are involved in managing access to public sector administrative data; research and analysis that could use this data; or make policy and practice decisions that could be informed by it – ADR UK wants to hear from you.
Some services will be restricted from Friday 18 December 2020 and IT support and help services will be closed from Wednesday 23 December. We will fully re-open on Monday 4 January 2021.
The multilingual European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST), which was previously accessed through the UK Data Service, has now been been moved to CESSDA (Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives) to reflect its pan-European nature.
CLOSER Discovery – the UK’s most detailed search engine for longitudinal data – now includes COVID-19 metadata.
UK Disability History Month 2020 runs until Friday 18th December, so it’s a fitting time to explore the UK Data Service’s collection for datasets relating to disability.
Understanding Society has reached the milestone of 10 waves of data!
The latest release of the main survey dataset is available to download from the UK Data Service. Wave 10 covers Understanding Society fieldwork that took place between 2009 and 2019.
Dr Vanessa Higgins and Dr Deborah Wiltshire led an online workshop on accessing and using health data from the UK Data Service at the Society for Social Medicine and Population Health (SSMPH) Conference.
Work to roll-out a major upgrade to the UK Data Service’s Secure Lab is underway with the aim of delivering a vastly improved experience for researchers.To implement the upgrade, the Service’s IT team need to take Secure Lab offline on Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th November.
Director of the UK Data Archive, Professor Matthew Woollard, has stressed the need for social science researchers to cite data properly, so the impact of any research can be fully evaluated.
The UK Data Service has worked with national data providers to host a digital two-day COVID-19 data dive to explore the social and economic impact of the pandemic with COVID-19 data available through the UK Data Service.
Data from the Age 17 Sweep of the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) are now available from the UK Data Service.