News

We are seeking to appoint a Senior User Support and Training Officer, covering a period of maternity leave.

It’s Love Data Week 12-16 February, and we’re marking it by looking at some of the ways the UK Data Service are helping to make possible the research which shapes our world and our understanding of it.

The Winter edition of the UK Data Service newsletter is now available.

The UK Data Service is leading a project to create a simple open sourced tool to assess the quality of quantitative data files and create and deliver associated training materials for it.

Safe Users of Research data Environment Training:

Next training session will take place on 23 February 2018.

Our researchers presented their survey results-which gathered public attitudes toward health data sharing in Northern Ireland-to an audience at Stormont. The event was completely full and attended by an audience of civil servants and representatives from various voluntary sector organisations.

The UK Data Service is pleased to announce the second workpackage of harmonised datasets, created by CLOSER (Cohort and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources) are now available to download.

Ulster University researchers at the Administrative Data Research Centre Northern Ireland (ADRC-NI) are set to present significant findings on the public’s attitudes toward health data sharing at a Knowledge Exchange Seminar Series (KESS) on January 31, 2018.

We are excited to announce the launch of our new online teaching resource which introduce data to non-experts via easy-to-use interactive Data Skills Modules.

A suite of microdata samples from the 1971 and 1961 censuses have been made available at the UK Data Service and in the ONS’s Secure Research Service.

Realising the Potential of Research Data event, 5.30 – 8.30pm 1 February 2018

NHS Digital has launched a consultation on its Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use Among Young People in England (SDD) survey, to see if it can be improved and to help design future surveys.