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Dr Steve McEachern recently attended the International Science Council General Assembly and Global Knowledge Dialogue to discuss how the social sciences sector can work together more closely to overcome some of its biggest hurdles. During his presentation at the event, held in Muscat, Oman, he covered a number of key areas that need further development […]

A tech-savvy generation of children are said to be subverting traditional hierarchies as they take control of elements of home life using smart technology. They might order takeaways through voice assistants like Alexa, get around parental controls, or switch off location tracking on their devices. Individual families will all have different stories to tell about […]

Do you use UK quantitative studies from the UK Data Service for health-related research, such as the Health Survey for England, Scottish Health Survey, National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles, Psychiatric Morbidity Surveys, Understanding Society, Birth Cohort Studies and many more? Submissions are now open for the Health Studies User Conference 2025. This free conference, […]

Deadline extended to midnight on Sunday 13 April Are you conducting research using the UK Data Service’s family finance surveys? We invite you to share your work at the Family Finance Surveys User Conference 2025. Submissions are now open for the Family Finance Surveys User Conference 2025. This free annual conference, organised by the UK […]

This year’s theme for Love Data Week 2025 asks us to take a minute to think about who owns data compared to who uses it. For example, different groups, such as researchers, the government, companies and organisations might collect data. They could also own it, share it, publish it online or combine it. However, it […]

Do you use the UK Labour Force Survey (LFS) or Annual Population Survey (APS) for your research? Submissions are now open for the Labour Force and Annual Population Surveys User Conference 2025. This free conference, organised by the UK Data Service in collaboration with the Office for National Statistics (ONS), will be held at University […]

It’s that time of year again, Love Data Week 2025 is here! This year’s event is dedicated to the issue of data ownership, inviting us to think about where the data we use comes from as we ask, “whose data is it, anyway?” This is a topic we care deeply about at the UK Data […]

We provide access to a wide range of social science data for reuse. To help you get the most from these resources, we run a free introductory training series every spring and autumn to introduce different aspects of the UK Data Service. Our training series workshops in spring 2025 are listed below and you can […]

Read the full stories in our January 2025 Newsletter. In this issue of the UK Data Service Newsletter, we are delighted to announce we have launched our UK Data Service Dissertation Award for the 2024-25 academic year, with £300 available for each winner. Plus, we are thrilled to update you on the future plans of our most […]

The European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST) is a broad-based, multilingual thesaurus for the social sciences. It is available in fifteen languages: Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish. The ELSST is owned and published by the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA). New innovations […]

An update of our latest data releases. The following new datasets have been released: SN 9335 Living Costs and Food Survey, 2022-2023 SN 9337 Next Steps: Sweep 9, 2022: Geographical Identifiers, 2021 Census Boundaries: Secure Access SN 9325 Addressing Health Pensions Database, 1860-1908 SN 9332 Commercial Victimisation Survey, 2023 SN 9333 Understanding Society: Calendar Year […]

A series of freely available, open-licensed training materials has been published by the UK Data Service. The practical training resources, created as part of an initial Population Research UK (PRUK) project, can be used, shared and adapted by the Longitudinal Population Studies (LPS) community and other data professionals to improve data management strategies and enhance […]