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This year’s Health Studies User Conference took place on Thursday 29 June at University College London (UCL) and was organised collaboratively by the UK Data Service, University  College London and the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen). The conference provided attendees with a unique opportunity to hear from a number of prestigious experts on the […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 9108 Oxford Internet Survey, 2009 SN 9016 Mergers and Acquisitions Survey, 2013-2020: Secure Access SN 9094 People and Nature Survey for England, 2020-2022: Secure Access SN 9092 People and Nature Survey for England, 2020-2022: Open Access SN 9093 People and Nature Survey for England, 2020-2022 SN 9090 […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 9107 Gambling Behaviour Quarterly Telephone Survey, 2021 SN 9106 Gambling Behaviour Quarterly Telephone Survey, 2020 SN 9105 Gambling Behaviour Quarterly Telephone Survey, 2019 SN 9104 Gambling Behaviour Quarterly Telephone Survey, 2018 SN 9103 Gambling Behaviour Quarterly Telephone Survey, 2017 SN 9102 Quarterly Labour Force Survey, Household Dataset, […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 9096 Northern Ireland Assembly Election Study, 2022 SN 9074 Oxford Internet Survey, 2011 SN 9101 Cyber Security Breaches Survey, 2023 SN 9100 Cancer Research UK Cancer Awareness Measures, 2023: Special Licence Access SN 9085 Millennium Cohort Study: Linked Education Administrative Datasets (KS1-KS3), Wales: Secure Access SN 5761 […]

Experts from the UK Data Service have recently hosted a series of talks at IASSIST 2023 – a prestigious international social science conference – with many presentations focused on sharing best practice approaches to ethical research practice. Social scientists and research technicians attended the 48th  IASSIST Conference (the International Association for Social Science Information Service […]

University of Essex, UK Data Archive, Faculty of Social Sciences The UK Data Archive is looking to appoint a Senior Systems Engineer to develop, monitor and continuously improve our IT infrastructure as we migrate to cloud services over the next three years. The post holder should have good all-round data skills, ideally with some programming […]

Dharmi Kapadia, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester and one of the authors of the recently published book, Racism and Ethnic Inequality in a Time of Crisis: Findings from the Evidence for Equality National Survey, has been interviewed in an exclusive podcast with the UK Data Service. In the podcast Dr Kapadia […]

University of Essex, UK Data Archive, Faculty of Social Sciences The UK Data Archive is looking to appoint a Software Testing Engineer. In conjunction with the development team, the post holder will be responsible for designing, maintaining, and optimising our software QA, testing and deployment infrastructure. Applicants should have a good knowledge of software design […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 9091 Gambling Behaviour Quarterly Telephone Survey, 2016 SN 9077 English Housing Survey, 2020-2021: Household Data: Special Licence Access SN 9076 English Housing Survey, 2020: Housing Stock Data: Special Licence Access SN 9099 Labour Force Survey Two-Quarter Longitudinal Dataset, October 2022 – March 2023 SN 9082 Historical Datasets […]

University of Essex, UK Data Archive, Faculty of Social Sciences The UK Data Archive is seeking to appoint a Data Access and Use Assistant. The successful candidate will join our customer-facing Data Access Services team to support the UK Data Service’s data access and helpdesk operations. Applicants should have an undergraduate degree, an equivalent qualification […]

The UK Data Service is one of the key sponsors of the 48th annual conference of IASSIST (the International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology) which is taking place this year in Philadelphia, USA from 30 May to 2 June 2023. The conference offers data professionals a unique opportunity to hear about the […]

The following new datasets have been released: SN 9083 Scottish Health Survey, 2021: Special Licence Access SN 9087 UK Business Data Survey, 2022 SN 9086 UK Business Data Survey, 2021 SN 9081 Harmonised English Longitudinal Study of Ageing: ELSA-HCAP, 2018 SN 9088 Health Survey for England, 2017: Special Licence Access SN 9080 FSCB Annual Survey […]