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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

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

Vacancy: Senior Developer (SMRP), UK Data Archive

We are seeking a Senior Developer to join a dedicated and friendly Research and Innovation team.

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

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