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The team behind the Pioneers of Social Research project – a unique resource based at the UK Data Archive – have published a new book on the birth of modern sociology. Pioneering Social Research: Life Stories of a Generation publishes in-depth interviews with 58 academics, whose field studies and methodologies established sociology as an academic discipline in Britain. The […]

Do you use the Crime Survey for England and Wales, Scottish Crime and Justice Survey, Commercial Victimisation Survey or other UK crime surveys available from the UK Data Service for your research? Submissions are now open for the Crime Surveys User Conference 2021. This free conference, organised by the UK Data Service, will be held […]

The new UKRI-ESRC SafePod Network (SPN) is set to become the first service in the world to provide a nationwide network of standardised safe settings or secure environments (known as SafePods) to enable approved researchers across the UK to use sensitive datasets to better understand our society and economy. We are pleased to announce that […]

The UK Data Archive is the lead organisation of the UK Data Service, which provides unified access to regional, national and international social and economic data, support for policy-relevant research and guidance and training for the development of skills in data curation and use. The UK Data Archive at the University of Essex is seeking […]

The winners of the Dissertation Award 2021 have been announced. Open to undergraduates from social science disciplines at UK universities, the award celebrates outstanding undergraduate dissertations based on excellent reuse of data available through the UK Data Service. This year Sarah Smith, Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol, and Dr Paula Devine from ARK, Northern Ireland’s […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that effective policy needs to be data-driven. Economic and Social research has rarely been so crucial. As the country starts to rebuild, evidence-based research must drive policy development more than ever – peoples’ lives and livelihoods depend on it. Staff moved swiftly to home-working when the country locked down in […]

Health Studies User Conference examines impact of COVID-19. The UK Data Service hosted its annual Health Studies User Conference earlier this month, on the 8th July. The one-day event centred around areas of topical interest; unsurprisingly, the impact of COVID-19 featured heavily but the Conference highlighted the wide range of survey data available on many […]

The results of the latest GP Patient Survey are now available via the GP Patient Survey website. The GP Patient Survey is a large-scale postal survey run by Ipsos MORI on behalf of NHS England. This year the survey received responses from around 850,000 adults in England. The latest data are from the 2021 publication, collected from January to March 2021. The […]

We are conducting a survey to understand the experiences and issues faced by higher education staff when using quantitative data in teaching. Our aim is to better understand how the UK Data Service can support use of our quantitative data within teaching and improve our teaching and learning resources. We want to hear from members […]

The UK Data Archive is the lead organisation of the UK Data Service, which provides unified access to regional, national and international social and economic data, support for policy-relevant research and guidance and training for the development of skills in data curation and use. The Department is seeking a data professional who can successfully manage […]

Do you use UK Business Surveys or ONS business data for your research? Submissions are now open for the UK Business Data User Conference 2021. This free conference, organised jointly by the UK Data Service and Office for National Statistics (ONS), will be held online on 21 September 2021. The event provides the opportunity for […]

The UK Data Service recently facilitated #DataImpact2021, which explored how researchers and policymakers from UK academia, public, voluntary and community sectors, gain insights into discourses of representation in data focused on populations, communities and individuals. Data collection methodologies constantly develop and they are increasingly becoming perceived as significant research assets in their own right. The methodologies […]