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View our training resources

Visit our free training resources, guides and on-demand webinars to enhance your data knowledge and support social science teaching.

Watch our data skills training webinars

Watch and learn all the latest data skills from our free webinars, training and video tutorials.

Intended for anyone who wants to learn about the qualitative or mixed-methods data available from the UK Data Service.

This covers the pros and cons of reusing data and the importance of learning about the origins of your data, including quantitative and qualitative secondary analysis.

Personal data journeys

Rodney Appleyard, UK Data Service and Jennie Blows, CLOSER, interview Professor Jennifer Symonds, Director of CLOSER, Robin Flaig, Co-Director of the UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration and Chief Operations Officer for Generation Scotland, and Dr Nigel de Noronha, Research Associate at the University of Manchester, about their personal data journeys and what they have found so rewarding about working with data.

Dr Nigel de Noronha is one of our key providers of training courses.

Training podcast

Dr. Vanessa Higgins, the Service Director of User Support and Training at the UK Data Service, provides an overview of the training courses and workshops delivered by her team throughout the year: