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Challenging gender bias in the world of data
Dr Julia Kasmire, a computational social scientist for the UK Data Service, has experienced many successes during her career as a data specialist, but she has also faced some challenges as a woman along the way.
#DataImpact2021: insights
#DataImpact2021: #IdentityInData – Who Counts? Visibility, voice and culture in data collection and use takes place tomorrow. We asked Dr Victoria Moody, Deputy Director and Co-I of the UK Data Service, to tell us a little about what we can expect.
Vacancies: Web Developer, Data Access Officer and Data Publishing and Curation Officer
We are recruiting for three posts at the UK Data Archive, University of Essex.
Love data week 2021 events: Delivering a better future
It is the time we celebrate Love Data Week with the highly topical theme this year of ‘Delivering a better future’.
Vacancies: Data Access and Use Assistant, Data Access Administrative Support Assistant, Chief Content Author and Web Editor and Data Publishing and Curation Officer
We are recruiting for several posts at the UK Data Archive, University of Essex.
Announcing #DataImpact2021: #IdentityInData – Who Counts? Visibility, voice and culture in data collection and use
The UK Data Service is proud to announce #DataImpact2021, featuring a keynote by poet, author and broadcaster Lemn Sissay MBE.
Interested in making the most of your administrative data for research? If so, ADR UK wants to hear from you
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.
Christmas and New Year opening times at the UK Data Service
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.
ELSST moves to the CESSDA platform
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.
COVID-19 variables added to CLOSER Discovery
CLOSER Discovery – the UK’s most detailed search engine for longitudinal data – now includes COVID-19 metadata.
Datasets to be aware of during UK Disability History Month
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 Wave 10 data now available
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.