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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.

UK Data Service experts present data workshop at health conference

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.

Secure Lab unavailable on Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25 November as major upgrade brings benefits to users

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.

Archive director stresses the need to ‘cite the data’ as he is named a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences

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.

Diving into COVID-19 data – a cross collaboration hosted by the UK Data Service

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.

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