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Christmas closure dates

The UK Data Service is closed from 17:00 on Friday 21 December 2018 and will re-open 09:00 on Wednesday 2 January 2019.

Fulbright scholar wins UK Data Service award for Essex MSc

Nina Heyden, a US student on a Fulbright fellowship, has won this year’s Essex Secondary Data Analysis Award for an MSc investigating the effects of immigration on the labour market

Linguists, historians and social scientists work together on tools for oral history

In Munich in September, a team of experts organised a multidisciplinary workshop bringing together scholars from speech technology, social sciences, human computer interaction, oral history and linguistics to engage with each others’ methods and digital tools

Essex PhD student writes Home Office paper with help from UK Data Service

Economics PhD student Julian Costas-Fernandez has written a productivity study as part of a Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) report for the Home Office

UK Data Service is part of the International Data Access Network (IDAN) project, 2018

The UK Data Service is part of the International Data Access Network (IDAN) project, founded in 2018.

Good progress on CESSDA VOICE project

The latest report from the Vocabularies in CESSDA project (VOICE) shows good progress in increasing functionality, building capacity and improving the user experience – and provides evidence of greater impact.

New Jisc geospatial data service for UK higher and further education

Jisc has launched a new geospatial data service for UK further and higher education, affiliates and research councils

#UKDSChat: Data Impact Chat, 20 September

Developing impact from your research as an early career researcher: perspectives from the UK Data Service Data Impact Fellows.

Call for papers: Crime Surveys User Conference 2018

Submissions are now open for the Crime Surveys User Conference 2018

Upgrade to data discovery and access systems

The UK Data Service has recently upgraded its data discovery and access systems.

Call for papers: Labour Force and Annual Population Surveys User Conference 2018

Submissions are now open for the Labour Force and Annual Population Surveys User Conference 2018.

System upgrades planned for the UK Data Service website

The UK Data Service is planning an overhaul of its systems this summer that will affect the way data can be deposited, searched and downloaded.

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