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ESRC Data Resources – webinar series

The ESRC-funded data resources are running a series of collaborative webinars highlighting the wide range of data sources ready and waiting to be explored and used by researchers and academics.

New open cloud project for EU data cooperation

A new project involving 47 organisations aims to create cloud-based infrastructure to make data, tools and training available for researchers across Europe.

Researcher engagement with data management: what works? survey

The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is running a project to collect use case studies from different organisations and institutions around the globe on how to engage researchers with research data management.

Apply to be a UK Data Service Data Impact Fellow 2019

Are you an early career researcher or analyst in a UK university or charity? Using UK Data Service data? Apply to be one of our 2019 Data Impact Fellows.

Vacancy: Collections Development Officer, UK Data Archive

We are seeking a Collections Development Officer to join our Collections Development team at the UK Data Archive.

Call for abstracts – Understanding Society Scientific Conference 2019

Have you used household panel data in your research? Understanding Society are accepting abstracts for a conference in July 2019.

Vacancy: Web Developer, UK Data Archive

The web portal you will be helping deliver is the Smart Energy Research Lab, a multi-million pound five year big data project with a national profile, which will ingest smart meter data from tens of thousands of UK households.

Help shape the Age 50 Sweep of the 1970 British Cohort Study

The Centre for Longitudinal Studies is consulting on the content of the Age 50 Sweep of the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70)

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

Vacancy: Chief Technical Officer, UK Data Archive

We are seeking a Chief Technical Officer, for the UK Data Archive at the University of Essex.

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

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