UK Data Service (2017-2022)
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Essex
Department Name: UK Data Archive
Abstract
The UK Data Service will provide an easy to use, trusted, one-stop shop for
* owners of data which have potential for re-use for social and economic research
* users of these types of data
Users are expected to come to the UK Data Service's website to search and browse for data collections created by a wide range of suppliers, including government data, data from ESRC-funded research projects, and will be able to access or download these data for their own use. The Service will rely on user registration to enhance our ability to tailor the needs of users and to ensure that licensing arrangements are correctly managed. (In the intervening period between the submission of this proposal and the new award, there will be a complete review of all the data collections currently held under the ONS-Special Licence. This review will remove this form of licence, therefore, all data currently available through this mechanism will either be available through our near-Open End User Licence or controlled through Secure Lab.) We shall continue to advocate Open access to relevantly classified datasets, while ensuring that access to personal data is maintained through the provision of secure access to sensitive data for trusted and Approved Researchers.
The five years of this award, are likely to see some of the most significant changes in sharing government data --- all of which have a significant impact on the UK Data Service --- the review of the Approved Researcher status has the potential to broaden use of our Secure Lab; the Digital Economy Bill (currently in Parliament) is likely to widen the range of data we have deposited from government and the change of policy of the ADRN to allow the retention of data means that the UK Data Service is one of the most likely places for these data to be maintained. The timescale for some of these activities is clear and we can plan for; for others, we shall have to be responsive to external factors.
For the Service to provide long-term access to data, the highest levels of digital repository and digital preservation techniques will be applied; and the Service shall conform to the relevant national and international standards to ensure the highest quality service.
Audience
Stakeholders
Public - protection of data.
* owners of data which have potential for re-use for social and economic research
* users of these types of data
Users are expected to come to the UK Data Service's website to search and browse for data collections created by a wide range of suppliers, including government data, data from ESRC-funded research projects, and will be able to access or download these data for their own use. The Service will rely on user registration to enhance our ability to tailor the needs of users and to ensure that licensing arrangements are correctly managed. (In the intervening period between the submission of this proposal and the new award, there will be a complete review of all the data collections currently held under the ONS-Special Licence. This review will remove this form of licence, therefore, all data currently available through this mechanism will either be available through our near-Open End User Licence or controlled through Secure Lab.) We shall continue to advocate Open access to relevantly classified datasets, while ensuring that access to personal data is maintained through the provision of secure access to sensitive data for trusted and Approved Researchers.
The five years of this award, are likely to see some of the most significant changes in sharing government data --- all of which have a significant impact on the UK Data Service --- the review of the Approved Researcher status has the potential to broaden use of our Secure Lab; the Digital Economy Bill (currently in Parliament) is likely to widen the range of data we have deposited from government and the change of policy of the ADRN to allow the retention of data means that the UK Data Service is one of the most likely places for these data to be maintained. The timescale for some of these activities is clear and we can plan for; for others, we shall have to be responsive to external factors.
For the Service to provide long-term access to data, the highest levels of digital repository and digital preservation techniques will be applied; and the Service shall conform to the relevant national and international standards to ensure the highest quality service.
Audience
Stakeholders
Public - protection of data.
Planned Impact
The main beneficiaries of the UKDS will be data creators, data owners, data users (including those who will use data and the Service for either research or teaching and learning), a wide range of funders, and the wider data service-providing community.
* Data owners, whether academic researchers or external organisations will benefit directly as data which they create will be accessible and usable over the long term. Some will benefit directly though our QA and metadata creation activities. They will benefit indirectly as they will not have to manage and curate their data after deposit. UKDS will protect their reputation by ensuring data integrity and allowing research findings to be verified and validated.
* Data creators will gain the same impact as data owners, but additionally will benefit from research data management guidance, which may lower research costs and ensures that data will not need to be recreated, and the availability of methodological documentation which will reduce research costs.
* Data creators and owners will benefit from promotional activities leading to increased visibility though impact stories, lower overheads on answering user enquiries, feedback on data quality and information on data use.
* As data users, researchers will benefit from seamless access to data and support, at no cost, and form an indirect element of policy impact. Secure access will ensure availability of data which would not be accessible otherwise. Teachers and learners will gain from availability of data for teaching and enhanced resources which will improve research methods teaching and advanced training. Users will also benefit from the UKDS's provision of a large and heterogeneous research data collection, inspiring new areas of research.
* Funders: the ESRC is already at the forefront of data provision, driving forward social science research, and providing social, political, and policy impact through the re-use of data. The ESRC will be a direct beneficiary of UKDS as it will widen use and re-use of both data and methodologies improving research quality and lowering costs. It will gain indirectly from quality ingest practices which will prevent future costs of re-ingest and preservation. Benefits will also accrue to the ESRC and the wider community through the delivery and promotion of good practice; indirectly it will benefit from the impact of quality data management training which protects returns on ESRC investments.
The ESRC and the wider community will benefit by the UKDS's promotion of the value of research data integrity and the repurposing and re-use of data. The UKDS's re-purposing of data for new audiences will benefit the community more generally and increase the audience for data use. The UKDS will assist in enhancing a skills base, alongside ESRC's other major investments. All stakeholders will benefit by the provision of a national trusted repository infrastructure which influences other data service practitioners. Other direct benefits will include, the stimulation of new networks and collaborations amongst data users, improving scholarly communication and motivating new research as a result of data availability. It may seem obvious, but the greatest impact of the UKDS will be its ability to provide research opportunities by ensuring data is available on demand. The benefits discussed here make no account of the potential benefits to the economic and social development of the UK, but data users in this context know no bounds. A researcher in the academy may carry out research on behalf of a government department or the third sector; so the direct benefits to the data user theoretically will become indirect benefits to 'external' parties, like the UKDS.
The actions to realise the benefits and impacts of the service are built into this proposal, some will be able to be quantifiably assessed during the lifetime of the service, and some will rely on case-based evidence.
* Data owners, whether academic researchers or external organisations will benefit directly as data which they create will be accessible and usable over the long term. Some will benefit directly though our QA and metadata creation activities. They will benefit indirectly as they will not have to manage and curate their data after deposit. UKDS will protect their reputation by ensuring data integrity and allowing research findings to be verified and validated.
* Data creators will gain the same impact as data owners, but additionally will benefit from research data management guidance, which may lower research costs and ensures that data will not need to be recreated, and the availability of methodological documentation which will reduce research costs.
* Data creators and owners will benefit from promotional activities leading to increased visibility though impact stories, lower overheads on answering user enquiries, feedback on data quality and information on data use.
* As data users, researchers will benefit from seamless access to data and support, at no cost, and form an indirect element of policy impact. Secure access will ensure availability of data which would not be accessible otherwise. Teachers and learners will gain from availability of data for teaching and enhanced resources which will improve research methods teaching and advanced training. Users will also benefit from the UKDS's provision of a large and heterogeneous research data collection, inspiring new areas of research.
* Funders: the ESRC is already at the forefront of data provision, driving forward social science research, and providing social, political, and policy impact through the re-use of data. The ESRC will be a direct beneficiary of UKDS as it will widen use and re-use of both data and methodologies improving research quality and lowering costs. It will gain indirectly from quality ingest practices which will prevent future costs of re-ingest and preservation. Benefits will also accrue to the ESRC and the wider community through the delivery and promotion of good practice; indirectly it will benefit from the impact of quality data management training which protects returns on ESRC investments.
The ESRC and the wider community will benefit by the UKDS's promotion of the value of research data integrity and the repurposing and re-use of data. The UKDS's re-purposing of data for new audiences will benefit the community more generally and increase the audience for data use. The UKDS will assist in enhancing a skills base, alongside ESRC's other major investments. All stakeholders will benefit by the provision of a national trusted repository infrastructure which influences other data service practitioners. Other direct benefits will include, the stimulation of new networks and collaborations amongst data users, improving scholarly communication and motivating new research as a result of data availability. It may seem obvious, but the greatest impact of the UKDS will be its ability to provide research opportunities by ensuring data is available on demand. The benefits discussed here make no account of the potential benefits to the economic and social development of the UK, but data users in this context know no bounds. A researcher in the academy may carry out research on behalf of a government department or the third sector; so the direct benefits to the data user theoretically will become indirect benefits to 'external' parties, like the UKDS.
The actions to realise the benefits and impacts of the service are built into this proposal, some will be able to be quantifiably assessed during the lifetime of the service, and some will rely on case-based evidence.
Organisations
- University of Essex (Lead Research Organisation)
- OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS (Collaboration)
- IAB Nuremburg (Collaboration)
- University of Michigan (Collaboration)
- Leibniz Association (Collaboration)
- Secure Data Access Center (CASD) (Collaboration)
- Statistics Netherlands (Collaboration)
- Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (Collaboration)
Publications
Aitken M
(2019)
Consensus Statement on Public Involvement and Engagement with Data Intensive Health Research.
in International journal of population data science
Berry K
(2020)
Induction in COVID
Berry K
(2020)
Taking steps to make it work: Embracing the digital!
Bloom A
(2022)
Collaboration is key: data discovery in a time of crisis
Corti L
(2019)
Archiving Qualitative Data
Corti L
(2020)
Handbook of Research Ethics and Scientific Integrity
| Title | Data Impact Fellows 2019 |
| Description | Video interviews with UK Data Impact Fellows discussing how they have used the data held by the UK Data Service - we hear about their research and the difference the UK Data Service is making to the impact of their work. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The UK Data Service is supporting the long range-use of its data and resources by new generations of researchers and analysts using Service data - from the earliest stages of, and throughout their career - with the Data Impact Fellows programme. The video series has 261 views since August 2019. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOFPGE3zoH0&list=PLG87Imnep1SlBWa359Vl4ABhgW5IKP4cP |
| Title | Interactive Data Skills Modules |
| Description | Introductory level interactive modules designed for users/researchers who want to get to grips with key aspects of survey, longitudinal and aggregate data. The modules give an introduction to key aspects of data using short instructional videos, interactive quizzes and activities using open access software where possible |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | The interactive data skills modules introduce data to non-experts, giving those new to research a solid grounding in the key skills they will need to make full use of the rich data sources offered by the UK Data Service as they embark on their future research projects. |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/use-data/data-skills-modules |
| Title | UK Data Impact Fellowship videos |
| Description | Video interviews with UK Data Impact Fellows discussing how they have used the data held by the UK Data Service - we hear about their research and the difference the UK Data Service is making to the impact of their work. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | The UK Data Service is supporting the long range-use of its data and resources by new generations of researchers and analysts using Service data - from the earliest stages of, and throughout their career - with the Data Impact Fellows programme. The 5 videos have been viewed over 450 times since they were produced in June 2018. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLG87Imnep1SlUyf01D_mSWbMjqD16EirP |
| Title | Video Tutorial: How to log into Secure Lab |
| Description | A video tutorial to show researchers who wish to use controlled level data how to log into the Secure Lab environment once they have been granted access. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This video tutorial has had 80 views since it was published on 23 January 2019 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqEdDF7beiE |
| Title | Why cite data? |
| Description | Experts from across the University of Essex, the Institute for Social and Economic Research, Understanding Society and the UK Data Archive come together to explain the importance of data citation. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Helps spread the message of why it is so important to cite the data in your research. The video has over 1200 views since being published in June 2019. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEGYw19FYn8 |
| Description | We can't track every impact that the use of data which we supply access to here |
| First Year Of Impact | 2017 |
| Sector | Government, Democracy and Justice,Other |
| Impact Types | Cultural Societal Economic |
| Description | 6th SSHOC webinar: Tools and Resources for FAIR Data |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Improve approach to FAIR publishing in practice, as researchers present were provided with information and tools to make their research outputs FAIR. |
| Description | Appearance before Scottish Parliament Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee - Census inquiry |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/constitution-europe-external-affairs-and-culture-committee... |
| Description | Assessing data quality and disclosure risk in numeric data |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Data users learned about the principles of, and tools for, assessing data quality and reviewing disclosure risk in numeric data sources. Data assessment is extremely useful whether it is for wishing to create high quality data for publishing, thereby supporting the transparency and replication agenda (e.g. to meet funder or journal policy), or simply to check unknown data that has been accessed for reuse. The requirements of the GDPR when processing and de-identifying data benefit from quick examination, using tools where possible. By the end of the course data users were able to appreciate the principles and practicalities of assessing data quality and undertaking disclosure review in numeric data; they had gained hands-on experience with using two pieces of software (QAMyData, for assessing data and metadata quality, and R sdcMicro for disclosure review in numeric data; and new how to install QAMyData and R sdcMicro on their own computers. |
| Description | CESSDA General Assembly |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | The mission of CESSDA is to provide a full scale sustainable research infrastructure enabling the research community to conduct high-quality research in the social sciences contributing to the production of effective solutions to the major challenges facing society today and to facilitate teaching and learning in the social sciences. CESSDA provides large-scale, integrated and sustainable data services to the social sciences. It brings together social science data archives across Europe, with the aim of promoting the results of social science research and supporting national and international research and cooperation. |
| URL | https://www.cessda.eu/About/Governance/General-Assembly |
| Description | COVID-19 related Data Dive in collaboration with Understanding Society, UCL and the Welfare at a Social Distance project. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | By exposing researchers to resources and methods, we promoted new research projects, helped make collaborative network connections, and increase interest in and access to valuable new data |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5679 |
| Description | Census Advisory Group meeting |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Advising ONS on design and outputs from 2021 census, including making specific requests and recommendations. |
| Description | Census Geography consultation with the ONS Census Geography Team |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Census and Statistical Geographies Advisory Group |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Helping to shape decisions about digital boundary products available to users from 2021 census. |
| Description | Computational Social Science drop-in |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Provides a resource to UKDS users to help them make better use of the service |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5697 |
| Description | Computer Conference 2023 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Presented a piece of research, made network connections, represented UK Data Service interests in the field, scoped out future collaborations and identified a few upcoming hot topics. |
| URL | https://saiconference.com/Conferences/Computing2023 |
| Description | Creating Shareable Research Data Training n Kyrgyzstan |
| Geographic Reach | Asia |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Veerle Van Den Eynden and Louise Corti from the UK Data Service visited Kyrgyzstan to provide training on research data sharing. The main focus of their visit was to support creating a large collection of sensitive interviews, case studies and focus group discussions from the national Gender in Society Perceptions Study (GSPS). They offered advice on anonymisation and sharing of the data and the possibility of using the UK Data Service as a place of deposit due to there being no full-fledged Kyrgyzstani data repository. |
| URL | http://blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/creating-shareable-research-data-training-in-kyrgyzstan/ |
| Description | DDI-CDI: Realising interoperable data services in the metadata ecosystem |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Data-sharing across domains potentially involves systems which have to manage a broad range of domain-specific standards and models in order to effectively reuse data (and metadata). DDI-CDI is intended to ease this burden by providing a domain-agnostic model which can function as a "lingua franca" across domain boundaries for the purposes of describing data structures and the processes which relate the data they describe. The DDI-CDI model is designed to work in combination with other related standards and models, but these are not sufficient to provide large-scale interoperability and reuse. They must be operationalised on the basis of common services architecture and interfaces. This workshop explores how data reuse can be facilitated through the creation of shared services built on the foundation provided by DDI-CDI and related standards and models. |
| URL | https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/seminars/seminar-calendar/seminar-details/23393 |
| Description | Department for Transport National Travel Survey Data Discovery Consultation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | EOSC Task Force Winter School |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Informing future alignment between the EOSC Association and Horizon Europe Projects on key topics. |
| URL | https://eosc.eu/eosc-focus-project/winter-school-2024/ |
| Description | ESRC and ICO Workshop 1 (March 2018) and Workshop 2 (April 2018): on Managing social science research under GDPR, Manchester |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | High level workshop event to discuss the GDPR and implications on research, ensuring clear guidance and advice for researchers. |
| Description | Editor for The Basel Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & Classifications (BARTOC) |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | http://bartoc.org/en/content/about |
| Description | FAIR-IMPACT |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Aimed at boosting uptake of FAIR data principles and practices by national and European providers and repositories via a cascading grants mechanisms, to support around 50 projects to embed FAIR components and mechanisms across domains, geographic areas and stakeholder group. |
| URL | https://fair-impact.eu/ |
| Description | FreeUKGenealogy Advisory Board |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Future Data Service Consultation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | International Steering Group - Scotland's Census |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Steering group providing guidance on post-enumeration processing steps for Scotland's Census |
| URL | https://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/news-and-events/steering-group-census-has-solid-foundation-to-mov... |
| Description | Meeting with ONS Geography Team |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Meeting with ONS regarding Research Excellence Award |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Impact on the use of data to inform policy, in particular, impact from the expertise of the UK Data Service from its effective approach to impact in a new format. The awards will run annually. |
| URL | https://drive.google.com/file/d/15KbkSeWR-DvCyvoqHwMGdTkqzKJSYBy5/view |
| Description | Member of Advisory Group for ESRC Micro Safe Setting (SafePod) Network |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Member of CESSDA Service Providers Forum |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | The service providers of CESSDA meet every six months. They are the institutions which are responsible for providing a service to CESSDA |
| URL | https://www.cessda.eu/News-Events/Events/10th-Meeting-of-the-Service-Providers-Forum |
| Description | Member of CESSDA Technical Framework Working Group |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | https://www.cessda.eu/About/Working-Groups |
| Description | Member of CESSDA Training Group |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | The CESSDA Training Group creates a place where CESSDA Service Provider staff, archivists, data producers and researchers working in the wide area of social science and humanities can find training, advice and educational resources on: research data management; data discovery and use; digital preservation and data archiving and CESSDA tools and services. |
| URL | https://www.cessda.eu/Training |
| Description | Member of CESSDA Trust Group |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | The CESSDA Trust Group offers both existing and aspiring service providers guidance and support in meeting a range of issues and standards relating to trusted data and services. CESSDA Trust Group consists of a core of service providers with experience in trust standards and certification and key contacts representing each of the CESSDA members and aspiring members. |
| URL | https://www.cessda.eu/About/Working-Groups/Trust |
| Description | Member of CESSDA Working Group Leads |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | https://www.cessda.eu/About/Working-Groups |
| Description | Member of Core Trust Seal Board |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | The Core Trust Seal Board is responsible for the development and maintenance of the CoreTrustSeal certification criteria and processes, and for the final approval of certifications. The Board is committed to ensuring community engagement and inclusion, transparency of processes, and the availability of a certification open to any appropriate data repository. CoreTrustSeal Data Repository certification replaces the DSA certification and WDS Regular Members certification. |
| URL | https://www.coretrustseal.org/about/standards-and-certification-board/ |
| Description | Member of DDI Training Group |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Member of Data First Advisory Group |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za/ |
| Description | Member of Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) Advocacy and Communications Subcommittee |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.dpconline.org/our-work/working-groups-and-task-forces |
| Description | Member of European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) - Social and Cultural Innovation Strategy Working Group (SCI-SWG) |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | The mission of ESFRI is to support a coherent and strategy-led approach to policy-making on research infrastructures in Europe, and to facilitate multilateral initiatives leading to the better use and development of research infrastructures, at EU and international level. ESFRI's delegates are nominated by the Research Ministers of the Member and Associate Countries. The Social and Cultural Innovation SWG proposes possible solutions (related to RIs) that are able to help tackle the Grand Challenges facing society. |
| URL | https://www.esfri.eu/working-groups/social-and-cultural-innovation |
| Description | Member of FORS (Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences) Scientific Board |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | https://forscenter.ch/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/foundation-board-fors_2019.pdf |
| Description | Member of METADAC Data Access Committee |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | https://www.metadac.ac.uk/data-access-committee/ |
| Description | Member of National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) Advisory Board |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/about/advisory.php |
| Description | Member of National Institute of Health (NIH) National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) Advisory Board |
| Geographic Reach | North America |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://professionalandsocial.org/projects/sharing-qualitative-research-data/ |
| Description | Member of Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) Demographic Statistics Advisory Group |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.nisra.gov.uk/publications/demographic-statistics-advisory-group-documents |
| Description | Member of ONS Directors Group |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Member of Research Data Alliance (RDA) - UK |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.rd-alliance.org/blogs/introducing-rda-uk-national-node.html |
| Description | Member of Safe Data Access Professionals (SDAP) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | The SDAP group has sought to not only to make useful resources available to anyone working in, or considering working in, this relatively niche field, but also to professionalise it. The group is keenly aware that while staff gain substantial experience and expertise when working in these services, there is rarely much in the way of a formal career path or professional development. therefore, to help enable staff to focus on their professional development by learning new, and developing existing skills, the SDAP group has produced a Competency Framework for staff working in Safe Settings. |
| URL | https://securedatagroup.org/ |
| Description | Member of Statistics User Forum |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | http://www.rss.org.uk/RSS/Get_involved/Statistics_Users/RSS/Get_involved/Statistics_Users_sub/Statis... |
| Description | Member of Statistics User Forum |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | http://www.rss.org.uk/RSS/Get_involved/Statistics_Users/RSS/Get_involved/Statistics_Users_sub/Statis... |
| Description | Member of The Austrian Social Science Data Archive (AUSSDA) International Advisory Board (IAB) |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://aussda.at/en/about-aussda/governance/ |
| Description | Member of UK Anonymisation Network |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | The UK Anonymisation Network (UKAN) was set up in 2012 as a means of establishing best practice in anonymisation. It offers practical advice and information to anyone who handles personal data and needs to share it. |
| Description | Member of UK Data Forum |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | The aim of the UK Data Forum is to provide strategic direction to the ongoing development and maintenance of a coherent and robust national data infrastructure for UK social and economic research and research in related fields of interest. |
| URL | https://esrc.ukri.org/about-us/policies-and-standards/uk-data-forum/uk-data-forum-members/ |
| Description | Member of UK Statistics Authority Methodological Assurance Review Panel - Census |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Better use of census data |
| URL | https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/about-the-authority/committees/methodological-assurance-revie... |
| Description | Member of UKRI Infrastructure Expert Group |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.ukri.org/research/infrastructure/ |
| Description | Member of UKRI e-Infrastructure Expert Group |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.ukri.org/research/infrastructure/ |
| Description | Member of University of Bremen QualiService Scientific Advisory Board |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | http://www.qualiservice.org/index.php?id=24 |
| Description | Member of the CLOSER Leadership Team |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/people/team/ |
| Description | Mercian Research Data Management Support Group - GDPR and Research Data |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Discuss the implications of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on research data management services and provide guidance and advice for researchers and research support staff. |
| URL | https://merciancollaboration.org.uk/sites/default/files/events/2018_04_25_RDMSG_GDPR_flyer.pdf |
| Description | NISRA 2021 Census External Quality Assurance Panel |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Feedback and guidance on 2021 census outputs planning |
| Description | NISRA Census Outputs Consultation Response |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Advice provided on 2021 Census Output |
| URL | https://www.nisra.gov.uk/statistics/consultation/2021-census-outputs-consultation |
| Description | NISRA Demographic Statistics Advisory Group |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Advising NISRA on design and outputs from 2021 census |
| Description | National Statistician's Expert User Advisory Group |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | ONS Census Academic Advisory Group |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Advice provided on specification of ONS 2021 census outputs |
| Description | ONS Census High Level Quality Assurance Panel |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | Advice provided on 2021 Census QA |
| Description | ONS Census Outputs Consultation Response |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Advice provided on 2021 Census Output |
| URL | https://consultations.ons.gov.uk/external-affairs/census-2021-outputs-consultation/ |
| Description | ONS UK Population Theme Advisory Board |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Broad advice input to ONS population statistics activities |
| Description | Pilot training collaboration with the Doctoral Training Partnership |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Population Theme Advisory Board |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Advising ONS on production and publication of data concerning UK population statistics. |
| Description | SDAP Steering Group |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | SDAP steering group focused on future planning by approving the SDAP Action Plan detailing aims and objectives for the ongoing professional development of secure data access professionals. |
| Description | SERL Data Governance Board |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | SSHOC Consortium |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Integration between current EOSC clusters. |
| URL | https://sshopencloud.eu/events/7th-sshoc-consortium-meeting |
| Description | Science Europe Research Data Management (RDM) consultation (2018) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.scienceeurope.org/policy/policy-areas/research-data/rdm-initiative/ |
| Description | Symposium: Perspectives on teaching reproducibility |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Presenting findings from a UK Data Service consultation with the aim of informing work around the teaching of reproducibility. The presentation providing important information about the context of HE teaching (e.g. software use, current curriculum) and the needs of HE teaching staff (e.g. training etc). Other outcomes including networking with Project Tier, a US based initiative to develop the teaching of reproducibility. |
| URL | https://www.ukrn.org/2023/06/27/teaching-reproducible-research-and-open-science-conference/ |
| Description | UK Census Harmonisation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | UKSA Census External Assurance Panel |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Providing external methodological assurance on 2021 census design. |
| Description | UKSA Methodological Advisory Review Panel - Census |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | Advice provided on 2021 Census Methods |
| URL | https://uksa.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/the-authority-board/committees/national-statisticians-adviso... |
| Description | What to Keep: A Jisc research data study |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | The purpose of the 'What to Keep' study, authored by Neil Beagrie and with input from the UKDS, is to provide new insights that will be useful to institutions, research funders, researchers, publishers and Jisc on what research data to keep and why, the current position and suggestions for improvement. |
| URL | http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/7262/1/JR0100_WHAT_RESEARCH_DATA_TO_KEEP_FEB2019_v5_WEB.pdf |
| Description | eRImote Workshop: Governance, Policy, Funding, and Impact |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://erimote.eu/3rd-erimote-workshop |
| Description | eRImote expert group: Remote training for RI staff and researchers |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://emso.eu/2023/07/18/erimote-expert-group-remote-training-for-research-infrastructure-staff-an... |
| Description | Balancing the data scales: A cost-benefit analysis of low-fidelity synthetic data for data owners and providers |
| Amount | £78,665 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2024 |
| End | 02/2025 |
| Description | CESSA Widening and Outreach |
| Amount | € 121,213 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Norway |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| Description | CESSDA Agenda 2023 Priorities |
| Amount | € 29,441 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Norway |
| Start | 01/2023 |
| End | 12/2023 |
| Description | CESSDA Cloud Platform |
| Amount | € 196,860 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Norway |
| Start | 01/2018 |
| End | 12/2020 |
| Description | CESSDA ELSST |
| Amount | € 85,125 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Norway |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 12/2022 |
| Description | CESSDA ELSST 2023 |
| Amount | € 29,265 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Norway |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 12/2023 |
| Description | CESSDA ELSST 2024 |
| Amount | € 27,667 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Norway |
| Start | 01/2024 |
| End | 12/2024 |
| Description | CESSDA European Question Bank (EQB) 2018 |
| Amount | € 18,796 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Norway |
| Start | 01/2018 |
| End | 12/2018 |
| Description | CESSDA European Question Bank (EQB) 2019 |
| Amount | € 5,675 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Norway |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 12/2019 |
| Description | CESSDA Metadata Office |
| Amount | € 122,675 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Norway |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 12/2019 |
| Description | CESSDA Metadata Office 2021 |
| Amount | € 267,731 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Norway |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 12/2022 |
| Description | CESSDA Metadata Office Task 2 |
| Amount | € 99,375 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Norway |
| Start | 01/2020 |
| End | 12/2020 |
| Description | CESSDA Ontology Management |
| Amount | € 46,327 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Norway |
| Start | 01/2020 |
| End | 12/2020 |
| Description | CESSDA Products and Services Catalogue (PaSCat) - Phase 3 |
| Amount | £86,646 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Norway |
| Start | 01/2018 |
| End | 12/2018 |
| Description | CESSDA Technical Framework - Phase 4 |
| Amount | £15,035 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Norway |
| Start | 01/2018 |
| End | 12/2018 |
| Description | CESSDA Technical Working Group |
| Amount | € 19,680 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Norway |
| Start | 01/2020 |
| End | 12/2020 |
| Description | CESSDA Tools Pillar Task 3 |
| Amount | € 30,313 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Norway |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Description | CESSDA Training Activities |
| Amount | € 53,543 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Norway |
| Start | 01/2020 |
| End | 12/2020 |
| Description | CESSDA Training Pillar |
| Amount | € 116,956 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Norway |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 12/2022 |
| Description | CESSDA Trust Activities 2020 |
| Amount | € 65,202 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Norway |
| Start | 01/2020 |
| End | 12/2020 |
| Description | CESSDA Trust Pillar |
| Amount | € 154,025 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Norway |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 12/2022 |
| Description | CESSDA Trust Working Group 21-22 |
| Amount | € 28,475 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Norway |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 12/2022 |
| Description | CLOSER (Cohort & Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources) - Extension |
| Amount | £24,490 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/K000357/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2017 |
| End | 05/2019 |
| Description | Cohort & Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources (CLOSER) Phase 3 |
| Amount | £12,872 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2019 |
| End | 09/2020 |
| Description | Cohort & Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources (CLOSER) Phase 4 |
| Amount | £68,848 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | Data Discovery & Research Data Management Training |
| Amount | £4,760 (GBP) |
| Organisation | European Commission H2020 |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 01/2018 |
| End | 12/2018 |
| Description | EOSC-ENTRUST: A European Network of TRUSTed research environments |
| Amount | € 4,985,105 (EUR) |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 03/2024 |
| End | 03/2027 |
| Description | European Research Infrastructures - Pathway to Improved Resilience and Digital and Remote Access |
| Amount | € 1,520,497 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 10045716 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 05/2022 |
| End | 11/2024 |
| Description | FAIR-IMPACT - Expanding FAIR Soluntions across Europe |
| Amount | € 9,845,895 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 101057344 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 05/2022 |
| End | 05/2025 |
| Description | FAIRsFAIR |
| Amount | € 9,998,849 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 831558 |
| Organisation | European Commission H2020 |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 03/2019 |
| End | 02/2022 |
| Description | Integrated Census Microdata (I-CEM) |
| Amount | £102,935 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2022 |
| End | 06/2023 |
| Description | Mediterranean Migration Research Programme (additional to UKDS) |
| Amount | £16,320 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2019 |
| End | 09/2020 |
| Description | QA My Quant Data |
| Amount | £57,114 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2018 |
| End | 05/2019 |
| Description | Quality, Utility and Maturity Measured; Developing a Data Quality and Utility Label for HealthData@EU |
| Amount | £24,354 (GBP) |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 01/2024 |
| End | 06/2026 |
| Description | Skills Development for Managing Longitudinal Population Data for Sharing |
| Amount | £90,544 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2023 |
| End | 02/2025 |
| Description | Social Science & Humanities Open Cloud (SSHOC) |
| Amount | € 14,468,093 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 823782 |
| Organisation | European Commission H2020 |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 04/2022 |
| Description | TRIPLE |
| Amount | € 5,630,055 (EUR) |
| Organisation | European Commission H2020 |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 09/2019 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | Training Working Group 2019 |
| Amount | € 21,875 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Norway |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 12/2019 |
| Description | Trust Working Group Activities 2019 |
| Amount | € 23,224 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Norway |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 12/2019 |
| Description | UK Data Service (2017-2022) - Additional Funding for WCL (World Class Labs) |
| Amount | £538,045 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2020 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | UK Data Service (2017-2022) Uplift |
| Amount | £4,999,947 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2018 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | UK Data Service 18 month extension |
| Amount | £11,623,001 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/P008437/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 05/2024 |
| Description | UK Data Service [Enhancement 1 - Legal review] |
| Amount | £18,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/P008437/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | UKDS-CLOSER Enhanced Data Subsetting platform |
| Amount | £167,449 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/P008437/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Title | British Social Attitudes Survey, 2017, Environment and Politics: Open Access Teaching Dataset |
| Description | This teaching dataset has been created from the original British Social Attitudes Survey, 2017 (SN 8450), which interviewed 3,988 adults aged 18 and over. It has been adapted for teaching with a reduced number of variables on the theme of attitudes towards the environment and politics. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Downloaded over 330 times by the end of March 2024 and is an invaluable resource for researchers looking to improve their data skills. |
| Title | British Social Attitudes Survey, 2019, Poverty and Welfare: Open Access Teaching Dataset |
| Description | The British Social Attitudes Survey began in 1983 with the aim of monitoring patterns of continuity and change in attitudes to social issues. It asks a representative sample of people questions covering social, political and moral issues. This teaching dataset has been created from the original British Social Attitudes Survey, 2019 (SN 8772), which interviewed 3,224 adults aged 18 and over. It has been adapted for teaching with a reduced number of variables on the theme of attitudes towards welfare and poverty. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Downloaded over 410 imes by the end of March 2024 and is an invaluable resource for researchers looking to improve their data skills. |
| Title | Crime Survey for England and Wales, 2017-2018: Teaching Dataset |
| Description | This teaching dataset is based on the Crime Survey for England and Wales, 2017-2018 (CSEW) (held by the UK Data Service under SN 8464). It contains data for all 34,715 cases from the CSEW 2017-2018 (adult non-victim form dataset) for a selection of variables. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Downloaded over 320 times by the end of March 2024 and is an invaluable resource for researchers looking to improve their data skills. |
| Title | Data for: Commentary on 'Evaluating methods for measuring daily walking to public transport: Balancing accuracy and data availability' |
| Description | Data aggregated from published 2011 Census: Special Workplace Statistics Table WU03BEW Persons in England and Wales (16+, employees and self-employed) by mode of travel to work, 2011 Shows proportion of persons (by mode of travel to work) removed from analysis at different cell suppression levels Source data: Office for National Statistics, 2011 Census: Special Workplace Statistics (United Kingdom) [computer file]. UK Data Service Census Support. Downloaded from: https://wicid.ukdataservice.ac.uk |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/4knskwdmpj |
| Title | Data for: Commentary on 'Evaluating methods for measuring daily walking to public transport: Balancing accuracy and data availability' |
| Description | Data aggregated from published 2011 Census: Special Workplace Statistics Table WU03BEW Persons in England and Wales (16+, employees and self-employed) by mode of travel to work, 2011 Shows proportion of persons (by mode of travel to work) removed from analysis at different cell suppression levels Source data: Office for National Statistics, 2011 Census: Special Workplace Statistics (United Kingdom) [computer file]. UK Data Service Census Support. Downloaded from: https://wicid.ukdataservice.ac.uk |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/4knskwdmpj/1 |
| Title | English Housing Survey, 2018-2019: Household Data Teaching Dataset |
| Description | The English Housing Survey, 2018-2019: Household Data Teaching Dataset is based on the English Housing Survey, 2018-2019: Household Data (held under SN8669) and constitutes real data which are used by the Department for Communities and Local Government and are behind many headlines. The teaching dataset is a subset which has been subjected to certain simplifications for the purpose of learning and teaching. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Downloaded over 50 times by the end of March 2024 and is an invaluable resource for researchers looking to improve their data skills. |
| Title | National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles, 2010-2012: Open Access Teaching Dataset |
| Description | This open access teaching dataset contains data from Natsal-3, which interviewed 15,162 adults aged 16-74 in 2010-2012. The data are taken from the original Natsal-3 study accessible via the UK Data Service, held under SN 7799. To make the data accessible for teaching via an open data licence, a subset of variables and cases has been selected. Some demographic variables have also been recoded and a new continuous variable measuring attitudes towards sexual behaviours has been created. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Downloaded over 380 times by the end of March 2024 and is an invaluable resource for researchers looking to improve their data skills. |
| Title | National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles, 2010-2012: Teaching Dataset |
| Description | The British National Surveys of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal) are some of the largest and most detailed studies of sexual attitudes and behaviour in the world. This teaching dataset contains data from Natsal-3, which interviewed 15,162 adults aged 16-74 in 2010-2012. The data all comes from the original study accessible via the UK Data Service (see SN 7799) but with changes to make it more accessible for teaching. Changes include reducing the number of variables and adding variables designed to support teaching and learning including a continuous numerical measure of sexual attitudes (derived using factor scores). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Downloaded over 220 times by the end of March 2024 and is an invaluable resource for researchers looking to improve their data skills. |
| Title | Quarterly Labour Force Survey, January-March 2023: Teaching Dataset |
| Description | "The Labour Force Survey plays a vital role in providing reliable statistics on employment and economic issues, which makes it valuable for policy formulation, research and media. The Quarterly Labour Force Survey, January-March 2023: Teaching Dataset (QLFS JM 23 teaching data) is a sub-sample from the main Quarterly Labour Force Survey, January - March 2023 (available from the UK Data Archive under SN 9097). The QLFS JM 23 teaching dataset has been adapted for the purpose of teaching and learning |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Downloaded over 20 times by the end of March 2024 and is an invaluable resource for researchers looking to improve their data skills. |
| URL | https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-9172-1 |
| Title | Quarterly Labour Force Survey, July - September 2018: Teaching Dataset |
| Description | The Quarterly Labour Force Survey July - September 2018: Teaching Dataset is based on the Quarterly Labour Force Survey, July - September 2018 (QLFS JS18; available from the UK Data Archive under SN 8407) and constitutes real data which are used by the government and are behind many headlines. The teaching dataset contains fewer variables and has been subjected to certain simplifications and additions for the purpose of learning and teaching. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Downloaded over 470 times by the end of March 2024 and is an invaluable resource for researchers looking to improve their data skills. |
| Title | Understanding Society: COVID-19 Study Teaching Dataset, 2020-2021 |
| Description | As the UK went into the first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic, the team behind the biggest social survey in the UK, Understanding Society (UKHLS), developed a way to capture these experiences. From April 2020, participants from this Study were asked to take part in the Understanding Society COVID-19 survey, henceforth referred to as the COVID-19 survey or the COVID-19 study. The COVID-19 survey regularly asked people about their situation and experiences. The resulting data gives a unique insight into the impact of the pandemic on individuals, families, and communities. The COVID-19 Teaching Dataset contains data from the main COVID-19 survey in a simplified form. It covers topics such as Socio-demographics Whether working at home and home-schooling COVID symptoms Health and well-being Social contact and neighbourhood cohesion Volunteering |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Downloaded over 320 times by the end of March 2024 and is an invaluable resource for researchers looking to improve their data skills. |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/2022/11/03/new-covid-19-teaching-dataset-launched/ |
| Title | Understanding Society: Ethnicity and Health Teaching Dataset Wave 1, 2009-2010 |
| Description | This is a teaching resource for those who are new to data analysis. It is a step-by-step guide starting from exploring a survey, understanding the structure of the survey data and then using the data to do some simple exercises to measure differences in health and wellbeing across ethnic groups. The survey used here is Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study which interviews individuals in the sampled households every year. To make it easier to use the teaching dataset accompanying this teaching resource only includes responses given by adults (16+ year olds) during the first interview to questions about ethnicity, health and wellbeing and some key socio-demographic characteristics such as age, sex, education, income, labour market status etc. The statistical software used to construct the dataset is Stata, but it is also available to download in SPSS and tab-delimited text formats. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Downloaded over 450 times by the end of March 2024 and is an invaluable resource for researchers looking to improve their data skills. |
| URL | http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-8465-1 |
| Description | CESSDA |
| Organisation | Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives |
| Country | Norway |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We have worked as a partner in a number of annually-based workplan tasks. These vary from year to year. One staff-member is seconded to CESSDA to deliver the CESSDA Cloud Platform; we lead the CESSDA Trust Workgroup, inculcating Trusted Digital Repository values and standards across the national service providers; we also contribute to the CESSDA Metadata Office and to its contracted training work. |
| Collaborator Contribution | CESSDA ERIC is a consortium of European Social Science Data Archives. The UK Data Service iis the UK Service Provider (SP). Each national SP contributes to the overall CESSDA Strategic plans and the activitities which follow from them. |
| Impact | CESSDA Data Catalogue |
| Description | International Data Access Network (IDAN) |
| Organisation | IAB Nuremburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | a) international controlled data accessible for UK-based researchers via IDAN partner access points at the UKDS Safe Room, b) UKDS SecureLab data accessible for researchers outside of the UK via UKDS SecureLab access points at our IDAN partner Safe Rooms |
| Collaborator Contribution | a) international controlled data accessible for UK-based researchers via IDAN partner access points at the UKDS Safe Room, b) UKDS SecureLab data accessible for researchers outside of the UK via UKDS SecureLab access points at our IDAN partner Safe Rooms |
| Impact | a) international controlled data accessible for UK-based researchers via IDAN partner access points at the UKDS Safe Room, b) UKDS SecureLab data accessible for researchers outside of the UK via UKDS SecureLab access points at our IDAN partner Safe Rooms |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | International Data Access Network (IDAN) |
| Organisation | Leibniz Association |
| Department | Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | a) international controlled data accessible for UK-based researchers via IDAN partner access points at the UKDS Safe Room, b) UKDS SecureLab data accessible for researchers outside of the UK via UKDS SecureLab access points at our IDAN partner Safe Rooms |
| Collaborator Contribution | a) international controlled data accessible for UK-based researchers via IDAN partner access points at the UKDS Safe Room, b) UKDS SecureLab data accessible for researchers outside of the UK via UKDS SecureLab access points at our IDAN partner Safe Rooms |
| Impact | a) international controlled data accessible for UK-based researchers via IDAN partner access points at the UKDS Safe Room, b) UKDS SecureLab data accessible for researchers outside of the UK via UKDS SecureLab access points at our IDAN partner Safe Rooms |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | International Data Access Network (IDAN) |
| Organisation | Office for National Statistics |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | a) international controlled data accessible for UK-based researchers via IDAN partner access points at the UKDS Safe Room, b) UKDS SecureLab data accessible for researchers outside of the UK via UKDS SecureLab access points at our IDAN partner Safe Rooms |
| Collaborator Contribution | a) international controlled data accessible for UK-based researchers via IDAN partner access points at the UKDS Safe Room, b) UKDS SecureLab data accessible for researchers outside of the UK via UKDS SecureLab access points at our IDAN partner Safe Rooms |
| Impact | a) international controlled data accessible for UK-based researchers via IDAN partner access points at the UKDS Safe Room, b) UKDS SecureLab data accessible for researchers outside of the UK via UKDS SecureLab access points at our IDAN partner Safe Rooms |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | International Data Access Network (IDAN) |
| Organisation | Secure Data Access Center (CASD) |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | a) international controlled data accessible for UK-based researchers via IDAN partner access points at the UKDS Safe Room, b) UKDS SecureLab data accessible for researchers outside of the UK via UKDS SecureLab access points at our IDAN partner Safe Rooms |
| Collaborator Contribution | a) international controlled data accessible for UK-based researchers via IDAN partner access points at the UKDS Safe Room, b) UKDS SecureLab data accessible for researchers outside of the UK via UKDS SecureLab access points at our IDAN partner Safe Rooms |
| Impact | a) international controlled data accessible for UK-based researchers via IDAN partner access points at the UKDS Safe Room, b) UKDS SecureLab data accessible for researchers outside of the UK via UKDS SecureLab access points at our IDAN partner Safe Rooms |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | International Data Access Network (IDAN) |
| Organisation | Statistics Netherlands |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | a) international controlled data accessible for UK-based researchers via IDAN partner access points at the UKDS Safe Room, b) UKDS SecureLab data accessible for researchers outside of the UK via UKDS SecureLab access points at our IDAN partner Safe Rooms |
| Collaborator Contribution | a) international controlled data accessible for UK-based researchers via IDAN partner access points at the UKDS Safe Room, b) UKDS SecureLab data accessible for researchers outside of the UK via UKDS SecureLab access points at our IDAN partner Safe Rooms |
| Impact | a) international controlled data accessible for UK-based researchers via IDAN partner access points at the UKDS Safe Room, b) UKDS SecureLab data accessible for researchers outside of the UK via UKDS SecureLab access points at our IDAN partner Safe Rooms |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Partnership with ICPSR |
| Organisation | University of Michigan |
| Department | Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | ICPSR in the North American equivalent of the UK Data Service. Matthew Woollard the UKDS Director attends annual ICPSR Council meetings as an invited staff visitor |
| Collaborator Contribution | None |
| Impact | Not known |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Title | Business Intelligence Platform |
| Description | Business Intelligence Platform developed on Power BI. Imports and visualises various 'business' data from the UK Data Service. |
| Type Of Technology | New/Improved Technique/Technology |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | Allowed us to interrogate process and workflows (like Secure Access workflows) in greater detail to highlight steps in the process where improvements can be made. |
| Title | CESSDA ELSST v1 |
| Description | This version was the first release of ELSST on the CESSDA platform and licensed under CC-BY-SA. Older versions of ELSST are no longer available, but the notes below provide an indication of the content work that was done in the year leading up to the 2020 release. Out of the 14 available languages, 12 have been updated. The exceptions are Spanish, since no organisation that can provide Spanish translations is currently participating in ELSST, and Danish, where no resources were available. Translation of Preferred Terms for all target languages is between 98-100% complete. The following changes were made to the English source language version: 14 new concepts 6 deleted concepts 6 relabelled Preferred Terms 21 new Entry Terms 2 deleted Entry Terms 18 new or changed Definitions 1 new Scope Note 46 changes to the Broader/Narrower Concepts 14 changes to Related Concepts 16 new or changed History Notes 16 new or changed Definition Sources |
| Type Of Technology | New/Improved Technique/Technology |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | The focus of the work in this period was on the creation of a new hierarchy, TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE, and the inclusion of new topical concepts such as COVID-19 and DISINFORMATION. |
| URL | https://elsst.cessda.eu/releases/2020-11.html |
| Title | CESSDA ELSST v2 |
| Description | The latest version of the CESSDA European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST) was released on 14 September 2021. The previous version dates from June 2020. ELSST is currently available in 14 languages (including the source language English), with translation of Preferred Terms 98-100% complete in each target language: Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish. Out of the 14 available languages, all have been updated, with the exception of Spanish, Danish and Czech. |
| Type Of Technology | New/Improved Technique/Technology |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | The latest version of the CESSDA European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST) was released on 14 September 2021. The previous version dates from June 2020. ELSST is currently available in 14 languages (including the source language English), with translation of Preferred Terms 98-100% complete in each target language: Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish. Out of the 14 available languages, all have been updated, with the exception of Spanish, Danish and Czech. |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/2021/09/15/cessda-elsst-thesaurus-news/ |
| Title | CESSDA ELSST v3 |
| Description | ELSST is now available in 16 languages: Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish. Existing language versions have also been updated where possible, including the addition of Definitions and Scope notes for the Lithuanian translation. ELSST content work this year includes completion of the revision of concepts related to sexuality, and an update of terms related to migration. This release also sees a number of technical innovations designed to improve ELSST compliance with the FAIR principles, including more defined versioning (this release of ELSST is Version 3); improved visibility of deprecated concepts; and a simpler, more streamlined SKOS concept scheme. |
| Type Of Technology | New/Improved Technique/Technology |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | ELSST is now available in 16 languages: Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish. Existing language versions have also been updated where possible, including the addition of Definitions and Scope notes for the Lithuanian translation. ELSST content work this year includes completion of the revision of concepts related to sexuality, and an update of terms related to migration. This release also sees a number of technical innovations designed to improve ELSST compliance with the FAIR principles, including more defined versioning (this release of ELSST is Version 3); improved visibility of deprecated concepts; and a simpler, more streamlined SKOS concept scheme. |
| URL | https://elsst.cessda.eu/releases/2022-09.html |
| Title | CESSDA ELSST v4 |
| Description | All language versions have been updated except for Danish and Romanian where no new translations have been added to this release. Translation of Preferred Terms for all target languages is between 96-100% complete. The following changes were made to the English source language version: 33 new concepts 23 deprecated concepts 18 relabelled Preferred Terms 67 new Entry Terms 17 deleted Entry Terms 55 new or changed Definitions 4 new or changed Scope Notes 89 changes to the Broader/Narrower Concepts 79 changes to Related Concepts 87 new or changed History Notes" |
| Type Of Technology | New/Improved Technique/Technology |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | A major focus in the latest content development phase of ELSST was to increase diversity and inclusivity of our terms. |
| URL | https://elsst.cessda.eu/releases/2023-09.html |
| Title | Data Catalogue |
| Description | The UK Data Service has recently upgraded its data discovery and access systems. The upgrades to the new Data Catalogue (previously known as Discover) include: changes finding and accessing data. |
| Type Of Technology | New/Improved Technique/Technology |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | The UK Data Service provides access to over 7,000 digital data collections for research and teaching purposes covering an extensive range of key economic and social data, both quantitative and qualitative, and spanning many disciplines and themes. The upgraded Data Catalogue provides users with seamless and flexible access to a wide range of data resources to facilitate high quality social and economic research and education. |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/#!?Search=&Page=1&Rows=10&Sort=0&DateFrom=175... |
| Title | Endeavour |
| Description | Endeavour is the new UKDS unified repository workflow which has been designed and implemented to replace multiple legacy systems. |
| Type Of Technology | New/Improved Technique/Technology |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | The new system delivers a schema-neutral underlying database. Standard software, hardware and product versions used across the technical infrastructure which, alongside standard approaches to specification and development of metadata profiles, controlled vocabularies and business processes, provide a baseline for stable development and maintenance and improvements to data depositing, processing and delivery. |
| Title | HASSET |
| Description | The Humanities and Social Science Electronic Thesaurus (HASSET) is the leading British English thesaurus for the social sciences. It is a working tool to help researchers retrieve the data from the UK Data Service collection which best relates to your field of research or interest. The new platform uses Skosmos, a web-based open-source browsing and publishing tool for thesauri and other vocabularies developed by the National Library of Finland. Skosmos is built on the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) and thus offers improved access and interoperability possibilities for HASSET. As well as a refreshed user interface, the new platform provides developers with both a Linked Data endpoint and a RESTful API for machine-actionable retrieval of RDF thesaurus data. |
| Type Of Technology | New/Improved Technique/Technology |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Skosmos is built on the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) and thus offers improved access and interoperability possibilities for HASSET. As well as a refreshed user interface, the new platform provides developers with both a Linked Data endpoint and a RESTful API for machine-actionable retrieval of RDF thesaurus data. |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/2021/09/10/hasset-thesaurus-moves-to-new-platform/ |
| Title | QAMyData |
| Description | Software designed to assess data quality and review disclosure risk in quantitative data. |
| Type Of Technology | New/Improved Technique/Technology |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | In the world of research there is agreement that the social science community must improve its capability for transparency and replicability through appraising and promoting trust in publicly-funded research. Research means evidence which means data. Research funders and publishes of journal articles now expect researchers to make explicit and share the data sources they have used to underpin their findings. QAMyData ensures consistency and improves quality of data and enables correct and meaningful analysis and reduces disclosure risk. Valuable for preparing high quality data for publishing (to allow replication and reuse) and to check unknown data prior to reuse. |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/about-us/our-rd/qamydata.aspx |
| Description | #IdentityInData: Who Counts? Visibility, voice and culture in data collection and use |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Seminar to bring together academics, VCSE sector, policymakers and other stakeholders together to share ideas and open discussion about representation of minority groups within data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5720 |
| Description | #UKDSChat: Data Impact Twitter Chat |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Share experiences and ideas of Early Career Researchers with wider academic community |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | 1st Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) Open Cluster Assembly |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attendance and input at the first SSHOC assembly on behalf of the UK Data Service. Engagement with the wider network of European Research Infrastructure Consortia (ERICs) through our membership of CESSDA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.sshopencloud.eu/news/sshoc-continues-build-stronger-european-ssh-community-highlights-1s... |
| Description | 2021 Census: What is planned and how will you use it? A UK Data Service users update |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This webinar will briefly outlined the current plans from the three Census agencies. We also discussed how we can best support 2021 Census data users. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | 22nd International Digital Curation Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | "The conference was held online. The main two days of the conference were held on the 14-15 June 2022 and contained a keynote talk by William, Executive Director of the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), lightning talks, papers, and poster sessions. The half-day workshop 'The value of catastrophic data loss' by Jisc and the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) closed the conference on the 16th June. A staff member presented a paper on 'Increasing the ReUse of Data through FAIR enabling Certification of Trustworthy Digital Repositories' (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6642185). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc22 |
| Description | 4th International Conference on Administrative Data Research - Piloting a Safe Health Researcher course |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A half-day course that covers aspects of: potential/ actual disclosure risk in health data and appropriate access pathways; safeguards to be put in place when data with risk are shared; and what might constitute a published 'unsafe' output, i.e. with a risk of disclosure. The training focused on health data and research examples, and drew on aspects of the research data management and publishing training undertaken by the UK Data Service and on the UK Statistics Authority approved 'Safe Research Training' (SRT) course, which leads to the Accredited Researcher status. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | A conversation about race |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation about census measures of race, migration and indigeneity with contributions from America, Canada, Germany and ours from the UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/7400733#.Y5BQ7MvP2Uk |
| Description | A showcase of student research using the ONS Longitudinal and Census microdata |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | To showcase PhD research and provide training using ONS Longitudinal Study and Census microdata. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5235 |
| Description | A tour of Computational Social Science Methods |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presented a version of a popular core training webinar that focussed on expanding knowledge of methods available to do research fir AsSIST-UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | ADR-UK Annual Conference 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ran a joint promotional stand with ESRC at the ADR-UK annual conference. In addition to promotion of UKDS, provided advice to national charity (Youth Futures Foundation) to deposit data with us; engaged with champion researchers using UKDS to access data to promote the use of UKDS in their future presentations; and further strategic collaborations with ADR-UK (future follow-up meetings around Comms and training opportunities). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://2023conference.adruk.org/ |
| Description | ARC (Eastern Academic Research Consortium) GDPR for Researchers' event, on 'The #GDPR and Research Data Management: Data Protection Experiences in the UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Practical session on consent practices post GDPR. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | AUSSDA Review |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invitation to participate in a review of the Austrian Social Science Data Archive in Vienna |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Accessing and using 'real-world' study data: A Stata-based introduction for newcomers to longitudinal research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A series of introductory workshops to help new users get to grips with accessing and analysing data from UK longitudinal studies using examples from actual datasets available via the UK Data Service. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Accessing and using 'real-world' study data: A Stata-based introduction for newcomers to longitudinal research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A series of three sessions looking at accessing and using 'real-world' study data with a focus on longitudinal data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/accessing-and-using-real-world-study-data-a/ |
| Description | Accessing and using 'real-world' study data: A Stata-based introduction for newcomers to longitudinal research - collaboration with CLOSER |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Course comprising of a series of introductory workshops to help you get to grips with accessing and analysing data from UK longitudinal studies using examples from actual datasets available via the UK Data Service. The course is being jointly run by CLOSER and the UK Data Service. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/accessing-and-using-real-world-study-data-a-stata-based-introduct... |
| Description | Accessing and using health data from the UK Data Service |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Training session at the Society for Social Medicine and Population Health Annual Scientific Meetingproviding an in-depth look into accessing data from the UK Data Service. Case studies were shared to showcase excellent data use. Included the following: An overview of health data available from the UK Data Service, An overview of the new COVID-19 datasets, How to find and access data for your topic, Examples of use of the health data, and Overview of the teaching, learning and research resources available. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5668 |
| Description | Address at the AGEO Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited keynote address to AGEO Forum - Austrian Geographic Information industry body |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Agent-based modelling for exploring decentralised water management: Reflections on the process and experience |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk about their agent-based model called WATER user associations at the Interface of Nexus Governance (WATERING) developed to explore the functions, opportunities, and challenges of decentralised water management in Sub-Saharan Africa. She will talk about the background, motivation and implementation of WATERING, initial results obtained, and implications for decision-making on community-based water management. Kavin will briefly speak about validating agent-based models, potential challenges, and the participatory approach they used to assess the implementation and usefulness of WATERING. Participants will also be invited to trial and explore sub-models of WATERING - implemented as Reusable Building Blocks (RBBs) - to reflect how open and reproducible research practices can improve transparency and efficiency in agent-based modelling endeavours. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/agent-based-modelling-for-exploring-decentralised-water-managemen... |
| Description | All you need to know about UKDS SecureLab import requests |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The webinar included: Details on how the import process works. Information on how to complete an import request form correctly. Learn what is and is not accepted when importing data, syntax, or documents into the UKDS SecureLab. How to access information and further help. Q&As for you to ask us anything about import requests. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/all-you-need-to-know-about-ukds-securelab-import-requests/ |
| Description | Alliance Manchester Business School - Introduction to the UK Data Service |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 45 minute presentation to postgraduates introducing UK Data Service |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | An Introduction to Time Series Analysis and Forecasting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This workshop began by exploring the underlying concepts and components of time series analysis, then moved on to a code demonstration that uses open-sourced police recorded crime statistics to visually explore these components. Participants were then invited to work alongside the code demonstration to gain hands-on and practical skills. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/an-introduction-to-time-series-analysis-and-forecasting-2/ |
| Description | An introduction to the secondary data use in the UK Data Service |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Workshop held at the University of Sussex introducing undergraduates to the UK Data Service, the data we hold and what they can do with it. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Anonymisation decision-making framework (ADF) User Community Workshop, University of Manchester |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop to discuss next version of anonymisation framework. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-anonymisation-decision-making-framework-user-community-workshop-t... |
| Description | AsSIST-UK Annual Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UKDS representative presented a paper, appeared in a panel discussion, presented a poster, chaired several sessions and generally engaged in conversations at a conference on the topic of STIS (study of technology, innovation and science). During the entire event I referenced my role in the UKDS, promoted relevant UKDS resources and events, and used slides that had the new UKDS branding. People seemed very interested and reported willingness to attend future UKDS eventsn. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | AsSIST-UK ECR Workshop - How to Write Research Questions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presented an interactive workshop to help early career researches learn about what research questions are, what makes them good or not, and how to go about the iterative process of writing good research questions. Attention was paid to matching the questions to the context, collaborative work and real-world approaches to "after the fact" question rewriting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Assessing Data Quality and Disclosure Risk (Health Data) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Training on new tools and encourage collaboration in health data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Assessing Data Quality and Disclosure Risk (Numeric Data) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop providing training on new tools and encouraging collaboration in numeric data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Assessing disclosure risk in data and outputs |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A course which looked at the key elements of assessing data quality and disclosure risk in data and outputs. Also highlighted QAMyData as a tool. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | BSPS conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk on using indicators of race |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.lse.ac.uk/social-policy/research/Research-clusters/british-society-for-population-studie... |
| Description | Bayes: Data Driven Innovation in EDINA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Raised general awareness of the services offered by the UK Data Service. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Becoming a Computational Social Scientist |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The workshop is an introduction to computational social science. It offered attendees a chance to understand and discuss what computational social science is, what it is good for, how to become a computational social scientist, and the basic steps to follow in an ideal computational social science research project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/how-to-become-a-computational-social-scientist-2/ |
| Description | Benefits of Sharing Data and Depositing Your Data with the UK Data Service |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation for Salford Early Career Researchers Research Showcase highlighting the benefits or sharing your data and deposting with the UK Data Service |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Big Data episode of BBC Click podcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Attended BBC HQ to record an episode of BBC Click on the topic of big data. The BBC team reported that from their perspective it all went really well, the episode came out on time and has a good reaction online, with promotional tweets reaching VERY large audiences. Was able to talk about data, the UKDS, and computational social science. Hopefully, this will lead to interest from new audiences, new engagement from existing audiences and new opportunities for collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001npps |
| Description | Big Data, AI and the Future of Crime & Justice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gave talk on principles and practices of quality assurance and disclosure control in data re-use at the Big Data, AI and the Future of Crime & Justice event at the University of East London. Also explained the practicalities and components of 'data health checks' and the '5 Safes' of protecting confidentiality. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | BigSurv20: Equipping social science researchers with the skills to use and analyse Big Data: the UK Data Service training programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Session on the UK Data Service training programme. Included the aims of the programme, a description of the traditional survey data training that is delivered and the more recent training being delivered on the topic of big data/new forms of data. Discussion on how the new training programme has been developed, how it has been received by users and the insights that we have discovered from user discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.bigsurv20.org/ |
| Description | Britain by numbers: the big social science data quiz - ESRC Festival of Social Science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was an event for the ESRC Festival of Social Science. It was intended to introduce quantitative social science data to sixth form students. The session was fun and interactive and students learned about different data sources including social surveys and the Census and saw how they can be used to better understand the changing world we live in and to raise awareness of just how relevant social science research is in the world of today. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/esrc-festival-of-social-science-2018/ |
| Description | CESSDA Expert Seminar 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 30 delegates came from universities and archives all over the continent to share knowledge and learn about issues such as: the conditions under which researchers access data, the tools service providers use when curating data and metadata. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | CESSDA Roadshow on Cancer and Major Chronic Diseases |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CESSDA roadshow where the UK Data Service gave two presentations: CESSDA Data Catalogue® - Discovery at national and European levels and Use case on The Five Safes framework for accessing sensitive data via the SecureLab at UK Data Service. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.cessda.eu/Training/Event-Calendar/CESSDA-R-Roadshow-on-Cancer-and-Major-Chronic-Diseases |
| Description | CESSDA Trust Landscape webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This webinar provides an overview of the recent developments in Trust activities, focussing on SSH domain and Europe. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.cessda.eu/Events/CESSDA-Event-eid3305 |
| Description | CESSDA Workshop: Exploring Data in Europe - with a Focus on European Attitudes and Values |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A practical session on How to Find and Access data in Europe was presented at the one-day workshop in Prague. The workshop explored the potential of research data available in Europe and the presentations concentrated on data for comparative research and challenges in secondary data analysis. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://archiv.soc.cas.cz/en/Workshop_Exploring_data |
| Description | CESSDA Workshop: How to Ensure Researchers Share Their FAIR Data: Practical Tips and Tools Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The train-the-trainer workshop consisted of a mixed type approach including presentations on Open Science, DMP, Ethical Considerations and Anonymisation, a demo of key Consent tools, a roundtable discussion on ethical considerations, and a showcase of licence frameworks at different European archives. Additionally, a breakout room session, facilitated by 3 moderators focused specifically on trainers' experiences and aimed to foster an exchange of ideas in training relating to Open Science, Ethical and Legal considerations and Anonymisation and Licence Frameworks. The three main objectives of the workshop were to i) raise awareness of key tools and resources available for Open Science training, ii) enable a platform to exchange ideas regarding key training topics, and iii) Provide training materials and worksheets for future reuse. We consider including all the elements mentioned above, via a mixed-type approach that has ensured that all objectives of the workshop are met. This has been demonstrated by the feedback received from both participants and panellists. All the presentations and worksheets prepared for the workshop, as well as the recording, are available under a CC-BY licence in order to enable others to further make use of the materials not needing to replicate easy-to-use materials. Based on the feedback received it is important to highlight that workshops like this are appreciated. Discussions were found to be the most beneficial to participants, and attendees noted that networking was an added bonus. Based on comments from attendees it should be noted that considerations for longer events on the topic should be given (2-3 days), potentially in the form of a boot camp. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.cessda.eu/Events/CESSDA-Event-eid3227 |
| Description | Capturing testimony of the contemporary migrant crisis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Using migration research as a case study, this seminar brings together various stakeholders to discuss the complexities and opportunities of sharing, archiving and reusing qualitative data in an interactive way. Based on views and experiences shared by researchers, research participants, migrants and their representatives and spokespeople, group discussions will aim to develop practical guidelines for sharing and archiving qualitative data for future reuse. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | CarpentryConnect Manchester 2019 - Poster: 'Get your data here! Open access social sciences data from the UK Data Service' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Poster about UKDS open data for use with Data Carpentry materials |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Census 2021: What to expect and when |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Webinar giving an update on 2021 Census data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/census-2021-what-to-expect-and-when-4/ |
| Description | Census microdata in research and report writing workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Course covering: what is contained in the census microdata - strengths and limitations potential research topics using census microdata preparing data for analysis combining census microdata analysis with other methods |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/exploring-educational-inequality-using-census-microdata/ |
| Description | Census microdata training in Scotland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | This half-day session introduced Census microdata sources showing examples of how experienced researchers have used these data in their research. The workshop included: an introduction to the census microdata and the Scottish Longitudinal Study: datasets available to researchers and how to access them, an introduction to census geography and how boundary data can be integrated into census microdata analysis, a short demonstration of how to access Scottish census microdata online. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5479 |
| Description | Centre for Digital Trust and Security Anniversary Forum, Panel 2: Future Data, Future Tech |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Panellist on the panel Future Data, Future Tech at the Centre for Digital Trust and Security Anniversary Forum |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for-digital-trust-society-anniversary-forum-tickets-3281476775... |
| Description | Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions Training Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | We have been asked for a presentation from CREDS (an ESRC centre) to provide an overview of the data depositing process as most of the researchers are at the stage of preparing data for deposit. Presentations from teh team members covering different aspects RDM facilitates data preparation and deposit. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Changing Demand for Police During Covid-19 - N8 PRP Webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Using a robust time-series analysis and qualitative interviews with Cheshire Constabulary call centre staff, Dr Solymosi and a research team from Manchester, UCL, the UK Data Service and Cheshire Constabulary have produced the first in-depth look at how demands on police changed during and after lockdown. The team will present their findings and methodology, discuss the results - expected and unexpected - and consider what this means for police planning and resources. Attendees were directed to an upcoming workshop at the UKDS named 'an introduction to time series analysis and forecasting'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/changing-demand-for-police-during-covid-19-n8-prp-webinar-tickets-290... |
| Description | Clinical Trial Data Manager Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop aimed at data managers working in clinical trials data. Covered the 5 safes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Clinical trials data in the UK Data Archive/ReShare repositories |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A workshop exploring clinical trials data and how the 5 safes can be implemented in health data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Code Demo - Techniques and methods of analysis for social network data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | These events introduce core SNA concepts and demonstrate some basic and advanced methods that can be customised to the needs of individual research projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5705 |
| Description | Code Demo - Understanding and manipulating social network data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Deme introducing core SNA concepts and demonstrate some basic and advanced methods that can be customised to the needs of individual research projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5705 |
| Description | Coding Demonstrations: Programming for Social Science Research - Collecting data : APIs |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Webinar on programming for Social Science Research with a focus on collecting data using APIs |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Coding Demonstrations: Programming for Social Science Research - Collecting data : web-scraping |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Webinar on programming for Social Science Research with a focus on collecting data via web-scraping |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5616 |
| Description | Coding Demonstrations: Programming for Social Science Research - Introduction to Python for social scientists |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Webinar introducing Python for data scientists |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5616 |
| Description | Coding Demonstrations: Programming for Social Science Research - Setting up your computational environment |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Webinar on programming for Social Science Research with a focus on setting up a computational environment |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Coding Demonstrations: Text Mining in Python: Basic Natural Language Processing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Live code demos on Basic Natural Language Processing in a series on text-mining |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5665 |
| Description | Coding Demonstrations: Text Mining in Python: Extracting named entities and creating a social network |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Live code demos on extracting named entities and creating a social network as part of a series on text-mining |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5665 |
| Description | Coding Demonstrations: Text Mining in Python: Importing text data and basic preparations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Code demos in a series on text-mining |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5665 |
| Description | Coding Demonstrations: Text Mining in Python: Training a classifier for sentiment analysis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Live code demos training a classifier for sentiment analysis as part of a series on text-mining |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5665 |
| Description | Core webinar: Finding and Accessing Data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A practical overview of the tools that the service provides, particularly our data catalogue to help you to make the most of your data searches. Discussed best approaches to searching data and how to use the search tool to narrow down search results. Also explored other service resources provided to help you get the data you want and related information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5744 |
| Description | Core webinar: Introduction to the UK Data Service |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Participants learned about the different types of quantitative and qualitative data we hold, how to find those data collections using our online resource discovery tools, and how to register to access datasets in a number of different formats. Also demonstrated how some of our data collections can be viewed and analysed online, as well as provided an overview of our support and training resources for students, researchers and teachers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | CoreTrustSeal COREF Workshop on Data Quality Management at Repositories |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The workshop focused on measures research data repositories undertake to ensure data quality. The objective of this workshop was to raise awareness and make the various activities repositories perform to assure, assess, and improve data quality visible. I have delivered the UK Data Service talk and participated in the panel discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | CoreTrustSeal v3.0 In a Preservation and Community Context |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on the CoreTrustSeal requirements and how they fit into the wider context of research infrastructure |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ipres2022.scot/ |
| Description | Crime Surveys User Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | One day conference to bring data producers of the main relevant surveys together with users from all sectors who use the data for research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/eventsdocs/crimeuserconferenceprog26nov18 |
| Description | Crime Surveys User Conference 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | User conference bringing data producers and data users together to share updates on the development of the surveys and to showcase research that is being carried out using the data. Programme contained a mixture of presentations from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and Scottish Government, and from researchers who have used data from the UK crime surveys. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/crime-surveys-user-conference-2021/ |
| Description | Crime surveys user conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Conference bringing data producers and data users together. Updates from producers and research talks from users. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Crime surveys user conference 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A conference that brought data producers and data users together to share updates on the development of the surveys and to showcase research that is being carried out using the data. The programme contained a mixture of presentations from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), Scottish Government and the Home Office, and from researchers who have used data from the UK crime surveys. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5681 |
| Description | Cross Government Meetup - Services With Maps |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Outline and overview of census geography for LS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Curation Tools: QAMyData and sdcMicro |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to the Home Office on the best practices in QAMyData and sdcMicro. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | DSH Questionnaire (University of Abertay) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Interview with researchers on TRE developments |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Data Discovery Session at 8th ERSC Research Methods Festival, University of Bath |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The eighth biennial Festival attracted social science researchers at various stages of their careers, from across a rand of disciplines and sectors. The Data Discovery Session provided guidance and information from a variety of ESRC-funded data and method services, including the UK Data Service, on what data is available for researchers for their projects and what resources are available to help them. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/RMF2018/programme/session.php?id=F1 |
| Description | Data FAQs panel with PyDataMCR |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Collaboration with PyDataMCR to host a panel of experts and answer questions like: Should I learn R or Python? How reproducible should my work be? What steps should I take to make it so? Does SQL have a place in Data Science? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5741 |
| Description | Data Fellows Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Spoke on panel about Q-Step interns who we hosted in the summer. Highlighted the work we do at the UKDS, the role the interns took on for us and talked about careers pathways in our areas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/data-fellows-day-registration-295178194927 |
| Description | Data Impact |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with various researchers throughout the award about producing potential blog posts and case studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018,2019,2020,2021,2023,2024 |
| Description | Data Impact 2018 - Realising the potential of research data: Successes and opportuniites |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Joint data impact and networking event hosted by Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the UK Data Service (UKDS), where a panel of experts explored how we embrace the data revolution to respond to social and economic challenges facing the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/newsitem/?id=5232 |
| Description | Data Literacy and UK Data Service Resources |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Encouraging PG students to use secondary data and make use of UK Data Service resources |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Data Management and Data Deposit session at University of Nottingham for 20 ESRC funded PhD students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | To provide researchers and research support staff with the skills and knowledge to manage research data effectively and efficiently, whilst complying with the law. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2018 |
| Description | Data Management webinar for CREDS Consortium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Closed webinar for the CREDS consortium; topics included data management, legal and ethical, data sharing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Data Panel session at 10th International Conference on Population Geographies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited discussant in panel session on future data policy (esp. re UK population statistics). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Data Pre-processing session with N8 universities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited to lead a session on data pre-processing for the N8 (a collaborative group promoting and supporting computationally intensive research at the N8 universities). Running the event went well, with participants reporting having learned a lot and now being able to look at their workflows differently. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Data documentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Data documentation is essential to make sure that well-organised and well-documented research data can be produced from our research projects. This free introductory workshop on data documentation was intended for researchers and anyone who wants to learn how to best document research data. The workshop provided an overview of different types of documentation depending on data type (qualitative, quantitative), as an essential part of implementing good data management in research projects, with a focus on optimising data sharing. In this session we discussed key essential processes: What is data documentation and how to document your data appropriately and effectively. Different types of documentation depending on data type and how to create these, with examples. What is metadata and what you need to know about it when sharing data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/data-documentation/ |
| Description | Data in the spotlight: International time series databanks |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop to introduce the international time series data held by the UK Data Service, we'll look at the range of socio-economic topics covered, explore some key datasets like the World Development Indicators and the IEA Renewable Energy Statistics, and cover how to access and download the data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/data-in-the-spotlight-international-time-series-databanks/ |
| Description | Data in the spotlight: Qualitative and mixed methods data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Workshop to get users started searching for qualitative and mixed methods data with new search tools, like QualiBank, and help them quickly navigate through datasets to see if it's the right data for their project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/data-in-the-spotlight-qualitative-and-mixed-methods-data/ |
| Description | Delivering data from the UK Censuses 2021/22 - challenges faced: data on the LGBTQ+ population and privacy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The 2021 census has been unique because it took place amid the Covid-19 pandemic, which is expected to have affected the given responses. For these reasons, Scotland decided to delay its census by one year to 2022, which has made harmonising census data across the UK almost impossible. This paper discussed the challenges and peculiarities of the 2021 census in the UK and will demonstrate how UKDS handles data management and access to census data. The paper discussed some of the privacy measures adopted, especially in relation to population groups with relatively few people. In particular, it will present findings on gender identity and sexual orientation, which were asked in UK Censuses for the first time in 2021, and look at both observed patterns and possible interactions with disclosure control. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/iassist-2023-conference/ |
| Description | Dementia Care Research Summit event - Sharing dementia care research data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at Dementia Care Research Summit 2020 highlighting which data is available from the UK Data Service, which would be useful to researchers looking at Dementia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Demo of QAMyData at AQMEN |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Provided a demonstration of QAmyData to AQMEN. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Designing user-centred engagement strategies for online-first surveys |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Webinar about ONS survey transformation programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Developing a user-centred, web-first approach to collecting socio-demographic and household data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Webinar about ONS survey transformation programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5490 |
| Description | Diclosure risk in numeric data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A course which looked at the key elements of assessing data quality and disclosure risk in numeric data. Also highlighted two tools, QAMyData and r sdcMicro, to use to review quantitative data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Digital Futures Q/A |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Speaking to students of a data science course |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Digital Humanities 2019 - The Case of Interview Data: A multidisciplinary approach to the use of technology in research using interview methods |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop to widen and change research methods and tools characteristic for Digital Humanities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) Clinic Session: Designated Communities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presenting on the role of targeting designated communities when offering curation and preservation data and metadata services. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.dpconline.org/events/previous-events/eventdetail/77/-/dpclinic-december-designated-commu... |
| Description | Disrupting traditional research questions, methods and analyses |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presented an interactive workshop session about identifying barriers within one's field and how disruptive practices can mitigate those barriers to achieve novel research purposes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Dissertation Workshop to MSc in Social Research Methods and Statistics students at UoM |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dissertation workshop for UoM students on the MSc in Social Research methods & statistics course. Students have to complete a research dissertation at the end of their course, using secondary data analysis. This workshop introduces them to the data available from UKDS and elsewhere, and other things they need to consider when using these data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Diverse Methodological Approaches: Data Management presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Prsentation and interactive discussions on good data management practices for law researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Doing what works in teaching with data: quantitative data and data skills in UK social science higher education teaching |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation looked at how quantitative data is being used in social science teaching in UK Higher Education. Discussions on the teaching of research methods have emphasised the role of data as a pedagogical hook; data is important for making research methods engaging and knowable to students. We considered the question of what data lecturers use in their teaching and how and why do they use it. We explored these questions with lecturers in a mixed method study that combined a survey and interviews and found how lecturers identify 'what works.' What works is shaped by multiple factors including the work involved in finding and preparing data for teaching as well as wider orientations towards teaching quantitative research and data skills as part of a broader curriculum. The talk concluded with insights into what makes good data for teaching and a discussion of the challenges around introducing programming into the curriculum. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/iassist-2023-conference/ |
| Description | EDDI 2019 - Case study: ReShare, a mature implementation of DDI |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on encouraging data archiving with the UK Data Service. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | EDDI 2019 - DDI vocabularies and their language versions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gave talk on DDI vocabularies and their language versions at the 2019 EDDI Conference in Tampere, Findland. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | EDDI 2019 - The Matter of Meta in Research Data Management: Introducing the CESSDA Metadata Office Project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This presentation covered the various activities and impact of the MDO, including metadata models, controlled vocabularies and thesauri, and introduces plans on how the project may develop. The MDO collaborates with the DDI Alliance on multilingual translations of DDI vocabularies for CESSDA Service Providers and provides communication, training and advice on metadata and DDI use across CESSDA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | EOSC Symposium 2022, Prague. EOSC Association TF Co-chair meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with 15 Task Force leads to drive the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Association Agenda |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://eosc-portal.eu/events/eosc-symposium-2022 |
| Description | EOSC Symposium 2022, Prague. EOSC Association TF Task Force Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to EOSC Association membership of progress on task forces |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://eosc-portal.eu/events/eosc-symposium-2022 |
| Description | EOSC Symposium ARCHIVER. Panel session with ARCHIVER project lead and successful project product leads |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Provided preservation expertise on a panel of commercial service providers to the EOSC |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://eosc-portal.eu/events/eosc-symposium-2022 |
| Description | ERImote: Remote training for RI users and staff & User interactions and networking in remote/digital service provision |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this first workshop of the eRImote project, we will focus on remote training for RI users and staff, as well as exploring the impact of remote/digital service provision on user interaction and networking. The workshop consists of two 4-hour sessions split across 21.09.2022 and 22.09.2022 and takes place virtually. We explored the topics from the perspectives of different scientific domains and types of RI services. The workshop also consisted of short presentations from experts from different scientific domains and RIs, breakout rooms for joint discussion of solutions and challenges in the topic areas, as well as a panel discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://erimote.eu/wp3workshop-1 |
| Description | ESRA Conference 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Held a stand at the conference to raise awareness of UKDS and the service it provides. Establish and build links/networking. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference/milan-2023/ |
| Description | ESRC Data Access |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Round-table of ESRC investments with data acceess issues. Understanding of constraints under which investments manage data access. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | ESRC Research Centre Communications Network Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Learning about improving our Comms expertise and collaborating better between different ESRC centres. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | ESRC-NCRM Secondary and Covid-19 Data - research/engagement workshop - Surveys and longitudinal studies in Covid-19 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar looking at longitudinal data during the pandemic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Elevenses and Controlled International Microdata |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Introductory presentations about the controlled data available to researchers from three international Research Data Centres (RDCs) across Europe including: the French Secure Access Data Centre (CASD), the German Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB); and Statistics Netherlands (CBS). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5445 |
| Description | Enabling reproducibility in Secure Data Facilities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk examining possible alternative solutions for how Secure Data Facilities could handle the new, more transparent, reproducibility requirements for personal/confidential data, including the very practical implications of proposed processes The main aim of the presentation was to help pave the way for enabling the reproducibility of scientific research based on controlled/confidential data in future, and on how Secure Data Facilities can better support the peer review process. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/iassist-2023-conference/ |
| Description | Encounters with Big Data at The Institute for Analytics and Data Science (IADS) Big Data and Analytics Summer School 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A 4-day course run by the UK Data Service which introduced key concepts and discussions around using big data in the social sciences - approaches to and open source tools for exploring and analysing big data. The course was aimed at experienced researchers, statisticians, or data analysts and covered aspects of data evaluation (ethical, legal and practical), extraction, exploration, basic analysis and visualisation of data from the web. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5349 |
| Description | Essex Summer School - finding data in Europe |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 2 hour session about how to find data in Europe. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Essex Summer School: Encounters with Big Data for the social scientist |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A week long summer school for those with experience of statistical analysis. Participants learned to use several programmes, methods and tools and reported on their progress at the end of the week. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://essexsummerschool.com/summer-school-facts/courses/2020-course-list/introduction-to-big-data-... |
| Description | Essex newcomers week - Consent issues in data sharing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Workshop highlighting issues with consent in data sharing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Essex newcomers week - Finding and accessing data in the UK Data Service |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Webinar focused for early career researchers, looking at how to find and access data from the UK Data Service |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Essex newcomers week - Finding and accessing data in the UK Data Service |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Webinar focused for early career researchers, looking at how to find and access data from the UK Data Service |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Essex newcomers week - Getting started with quantitative and qualitative research data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Focused at early career researchers, this session guided them through choosing the right type of data for your project, getting to know your data by understanding its structure and exploring its content, and learning how to get started with initial exploratory analysis. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Essex newcomers week - UK Data Service secure lab - remote access to controlled (sensitive personal) data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Workshop aimed at early career researchsers, highlighting the 5 Safes Framework, which controlled international data are available to them and the rich data sources available via the UK Data Service Secure Lab. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | European Human Genetics Conference 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented in a workshop on the intersection of language and genetics, alongside clinical geneticists and BBC diversity managers. The workshop was widely attended, prompted a lot of interaction from the audience, lead to new network connections, potential collaborations, and scope for further work. This was also a new field for UKDS as, to my knowledge, no one from UKDS has ever worked on the topic of human genetics, even though digital health is expected to be a hot topic in the near future. Thus, expanding the scope of UKDS's audience and promoted collaboration in new ways. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://2023.eshg.org/ |
| Description | Exploring sex, sexual orientation and gender identity through interactive visualisations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The 2021 UK census introduced questions on sexual orientation and gender identity, which were presented in various orders and with slightly different wording in different countries. These new questions were clearly marked as voluntary, potentially sensitive and voluntary responses are not likely to be reported in fine detail. This complicates the analysis and means discussion on places with the highest proportion of non-straight people, trans people or other novel group identifications may not be especially useful for comparison. Thus, these questions represent a novel but complicated way to understand the UK population. At the same time, interactive visualisations are increasingly popular way to illustrate data in ways that are engaging and potentially very illuminating. Dynamic or interactive data representations do not use a few static images to illustrate complex conclusions, but instead allow audiences to test intuitions, double check understanding, and focus on comparisons in otherwise impossible ways. For example, an interactive map created in R means that users can quickly move from between aggregates values at different levels of detail, can track changes over time, or both at once. Advancements in geospatial analysis have proven effective for the safeguarding of novel groups, so interactive visualisations of the spatial and temporal patterns of sexual orientation and gender identity can also support policy development. Combining this novel census data with mental health statistics, deprivation statistics and rural/urban classifications or other demographic and environmental correlates allows us to better understand how sexual orientation and gender are represented across the UK. In this context, we presented the novel 2021 UK census data on sexual orientation and gender identity data through three different interactive visualisations. This combination of novel data and modern, interactive visualisations maximises clarity and minimises potential misunderstandings in the exploration of social and physical vulnerability through sensitive and voluntary questions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/iassist-2023-conference/ |
| Description | FAIR-IMPACT Project Consortium All Hands Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Bringing together experts in Findable Accessible and Interoperable Digital Objects to deliver impact across the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | FOSS: Data for Good: The Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Sector in Britain |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | An online workshop about how voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations can use data to inform their work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5692 |
| Description | Family Finance Surveys User Conference 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | One day conference to bring data producers of the main relevant surveys together with users from all sectors who use the data for research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/eventsdocs/familyfinanceconfprog26jun18 |
| Description | Family Finance Surveys User Conference 2018, London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The annual Family Finance Surveys User conference, organised by the UK Data Service in collaboration with the Department for Work and Pensions and the Office for National Statistics, allowed users to hear updates from the data producers on the main surveys. The programme contained a mixture of papers from data producers and researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/eventsdocs/familyfinanceconfprog26jun18 |
| Description | Family Finance Surveys User Conference 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A conference that allowed users to hear updates from the data producers on the main surveys, including the Family Resources Survey, Living Costs and Food Survey, and the Wealth and Assets Survey. The presentations from data producers will include updates on the collection of COVID-19 data, among other things. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5639 |
| Description | Family Finance Surveys User Conference 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Conference organised with the Department for Work and Pensions and the Office for National Statistics. Features a mix of updates from data producers of the key UK Surveys on family finances and research presentations based on analyses of the data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Family Finance Surveys User Conference 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The annual Family Finance Surveys User Conference features updates from producers of the key UK surveys on family finances and research presentations based on analyses of the data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/family-finance-surveys-user-conference-2022/ |
| Description | Family Finance Surveys user conference, 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Conference bringing data producers and data users together. Updates from producers and research talks from users. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Find and use it, or create it - need data for your Master thesis? UK Data Service perspectives |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Using an interactive game, we discussed different types of data, how and where to find them and what you need to know and do in practice when using data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Find and use it, or create it - need data for your Master thesis? UK Data Service perspectives |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Workshop on data for Master's students |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Finding and accessing data from the UK Data Service |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Webinar helping those who are new to the UK Data Service find and access data in our catalogue. How to register, make use of our website and some tools to help them use the service. The feedback survey had some positive feedback and comments about ways in which we could improve both future sessions and the website interface. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/finding-and-accessing-data-from-the-uk-data-service-3/ |
| Description | GDPR Training for Research Staff and Students (2 sessions) at the University of Kingston |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | To provide researchers and research support staff with the skills and knowledge to manage research data effectively and efficiently, whilst complying with the law. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | GDPR Training for Researchers and PhD Students at Kingston University (2 sessions) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | To provide researchers and research support staff with the skills and knowledge to manage research data effectively and efficiently, whilst complying with the law. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | GDPR?... What does it mean for my research and what do I have to do?... |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Event held at TU Delft Library, Netherlands which discussed the legal changes to handling personal data. The presentation focused on practical implications for research involving personal data and what needs to be done. Practical exercises with data encryption and data anonymisation were carried out, so that attendees could implement what they had learned into their daily practice. The outcome was that researchers and research support staff were provided with the skills and knowledge to manage research data effectively and efficiently, whilst complying with the law. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.tudelft.nl/en/events/2018/tnw/tnw-corporate/gdpr-what-does-it-mean-for-my-research-and-w... |
| Description | Genome Wide Area Study Reproducibility Workshop - Presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This introductory webinar is intended for anyone who wants to learn about the key survey datasets available from the UK Data Service which provide snapshots of the UK or that allow comparisons to be made across countries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Geographical data visualisation of UK Census data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Workshop on visualisation of census data - presentations, demos, practicals. Mix of attendees - HE staff, postgrads, VCSE/not-for-profit, provate sector. Good feedback from attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/geographical-data-visualisation-of-uk-census-data/ |
| Description | Get to it! Clinical data sharing myth busting and strategy workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop covering the best ways to share research data, as well as highlighting disclosure risks and how they can be mitigated. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Getting Started with Secondary Analysis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | An online workshop looking at the key issues in secondary analysis as a method. The introductory session will briefly cover the pros and cons of reusing data and the importance of learning about the origins of your data. Quantitative and qualitative secondary analysis will be discussed with examples and issues of context, sampling and ethics will be raised. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5578 |
| Description | Government Analysis Function - An introduction to the UK Data Service |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop to highlight the UK Data Service, and what we offer ot the Government Analytical Function (GAF). Since the workshop, the GAF have requested a further workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | HDR-UK Establishment review |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Review group for establishment review of HDR-UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Health Studies User Conference 2018, London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The annual Health Studies User Conference, organised by the UK Data Service in collaboration with UCL and NatCen Social Research, allowed users to hear updates from the data producers on key UK cross-sectional health surveys and key UK longitudinal studies with health-related content. As well as a variety of presentations, the conference also included a panel discussion on "Survey data, admin data: potential and pitfalls". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5338 |
| Description | Health Studies User conference 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attendees heard updates from the data producers of key UK social surveys (cross-sectional and longitudinal studies) with health-related content, such as: Health Survey for England, Opinions and Lifestyle Survey, Birth Cohort Studies, Understanding Society and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5638 |
| Description | Health Studies User conference 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Conference organised by the UK Data Service in collaboration with UCL and NatCen Social Research. Featured talks by data producers on the latest updates and developments of key health studies (including updates on COVID-19 data), as well as presentations on research carried out using the data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Health Studies User conference 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attendees will also hear updates from the data producers of key UK social surveys (cross-sectional and longitudinal studies) with health-related content, such as: Health Survey for England Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey Birth Cohort Studies Understanding Society English Longitudinal Study of Ageing and more |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/health-studies-user-conference-2022/ |
| Description | Health Survey User conference, 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Annual conference for health research/studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Historical research and documentary film data management training: creating and managing digital data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | To provide researchers and research support staff with the skills and knowledge to manage research data effectively and efficiently, whilst complying with the law. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5386 |
| Description | Historical research and documentary film data management training: disseminating digital data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | To provide researchers and research support staff with the skills and knowledge to manage research data effectively and efficiently, whilst complying with the law. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5386 |
| Description | Historical research and documentary film data management training: ethical and legal issues for creating audio-visual interview data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Where research involves people as participants, privacy and confidentiality of data needs to be taken into account. Data management is therefore essential, to make sure that research data are well organised, well documented, high quality and shareable. This session guided researchers through the key aspects of how to manage, document, format, store, transfer and safeguard digital research data and how to publish and disseminate them. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5388 |
| Description | How to become a computational social scientist |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Scientific research and teaching are increasingly influenced by computational tools, methods and paradigms. The social sciences are no different, with many new forms of social data only available or practical through computational means (Kitchen, 2014). While social science research has always been marked by technological approaches to some degree, the field of computational social science involves the use of tools, data and methods that require a different skill set and mindset. This free workshop was an introduction to computational social science. It offered attendees a chance to understand and discuss what computational social science is, what it is good for, how to become a computational social scientist, and the basic steps to follow in an ideal computational social science research project. The workshop interspersed instruction with discussion and gave participants the chance to develop a research project idea through several steps. The workshop is suitable for absolute beginners and no coding skills are required. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/how-to-become-a-computational-social-scientist-4/ |
| Description | IASSIST & CARTO 2018 - Once Upon a Data Point: Sustaining our Data Storytellers, Canada |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The 2018 conference brought together members of IASSIST and ACMLA-ACACC (CARTO) expanding the scope of the conference programme to include data specialist from a variety of fields and workplaces. The purpose of this joint initiative was to promote the development of long-lasting approaches to many shared concerns and interests in the growing data landscape. Presentations were given by members of the UK Data Service. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5350 |
| Description | IASSIST 2019: Evaluating Translation Quality |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Poster presentation. Enquiries received from other thesaurus and metadata managers, including Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), USA, who expressed an interest in mapping their thesaurus to ELSST, and the Social Research and Data Archives, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5502 |
| Description | IASSIST 2019: First things first: How to scope, lead and embed change |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop on change management. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5502 |
| Description | IASSIST 2019: Presentation session on data linkage |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jo Webb chaired a presentation session on data linkage. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | IASSIST 2019: QAMyData: An open source tool for checking (and teaching) data quality |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A course which looked at the key elements of assessing data qaulity and disclosure risk in numeric data. Also highlighted two tools, QAMyData and r sdcMicro, to use to review quantitative data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5502 |
| Description | IASSIST 2019: Sustainable European multilingual vocabularies: A model for cooperatioin in metadata management among European Data Archives |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at IASSIST 2019 talking about the challenges of metadata management across European data archives. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5502 |
| Description | IASSIST 2022 Presentation: Information Architecture for Secure Trustworthy Digital Repositories: Quality Culture, not Standards Theater |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | "The conference theme, "Data by Design: Building a Sustainable Data Culture", emphasizes two core values embedded in the culture of Gothenburg and Sweden: design and sustainability. Hervé L'Hours presented a paper on 'Information Architecture For Secure Trustworthy Data Services' (DOI:10.5281/zenodo.6822236) and Benjamin Mathers presented a paper on 'Increasing the ReUse of Data through FAIR enabling Certification of Trustworthy Digital Repositories' (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6642185). " |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | ISDFPN Network Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professional development for international secure data facility practitioners through presentations. The first presentation outlined early stage development of the 'Researcher Passport: a digital user credential for accessing restricted data' designed to serve as one portal through which a researcher may then set up multiple accounts in many different institutions as part of an existing network. The second presentation 'Introducing the Safe Points' introduced a network that is a major research innovation in the UK that provides researchers with standardised safe settings (SafePoints and SafePods) for data requiring secure access for research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023,2024 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/about/research-and-development/international-secure-data-facility-profes... |
| Description | ISKO UK Conference 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The ISKO UK Conference is an event for data professionals and academics. Attended the conference to publicise the work of the UK Data Service to the attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Institute for Social and Economic Research and UK Data Service Quarterly Planning Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Enhance collaboration and strategic planning including discussing ongoing development, new data deposits, reviewing data-sharing protocols and improvements to address challenges related to data access. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Integrating and analysing multiple datasets |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Held a course that introduces participants to the complexities of analysing data from multiple sources. It will cover issues of data quality, cleaning, derivation and linkage. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | International Data Week 2023: A Festival of Data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Working Group activities on data repository attributes, requirements for technical repository service providers and the TRUST Principles. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://internationaldataweek.org/idw2023/ |
| Description | International Women's Day interview with Dr Julia Kasmire for the UK Data Service |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview with Dr Julia Kasmire to find out more about her expertise and the occasions when she was forced to tackle gender bias in the workplace. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXYElwMo4uk |
| Description | International developments in policy, tools and workflows for sensitive data management |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Recent years have seen rapid growth in the demand for sensitive data services in social sciences and related domains. The Five Safes framework and programs such as Data Without Boundaries, the Canadian Research Data Centre Network and the Secure Data Service in the UK have led the way for the development of national and multi-national services for enabling access to sensitive data. These programs do however face challenges associated with their growing success, due to the heavy emphasis on manual processes and principles-based approaches that have been a feature of these sector-leading services. This has resulted in difficulties in managing scalability, process efficiency and data input and output controls to support these services. In recognition of these challenges, there has been a recent growth in efforts to improve the workflows required for sensitive data management - particularly in workflows that support efficient data processing, integration and release. The presentations in this session presented an overview of a selection of these efforts at two organisations, the UK Data Archive (UKDA) and Australian Data Archive (ADA). Presentations included overviews of four projects in development: - The Data Risk Assessment Tool (DRAT) - Ryan Perry, ADA - Machine learning for privacy metadata annotations - Darren Bell, UKDA - ADA - Automating anonymisation processing using R and SDC-Micro - Steve McEachern, ADA - UKDA - Using DDI-CDI for sensitive data integration - Deirdre Lungley, UKDA The session concluded with a discussion among the panel and audience on future tools development requirements, and possible opportunities for collaboration and joint development within the community of social science data archives and sensitive data service providers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/iassist-2023-conference/ |
| Description | Interview with Darryl Morris (talkRADIO) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Broadcast interview with talkRadio's Darryl Morris on the UK Census |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://talkradio.co.uk/radio/listen-again/1616302800# |
| Description | Interview with David Cox (Wired) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Oli Duke-Williams and David Martin interviewed on the Census by David Cox for his article 'The coronavirus pandemic might actually save the census for Wired'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.wired.co.uk/article/coronavirus-pandemic-census |
| Description | Interview with journalist from the Voice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview about changes to the Caribbean population shown by census 2021. Identified key issues - population has grown slower than other ethnic groups possible due to age profile, growth in mixed heritage children, lower migration rates and significant changes at local authority level with some experiencing sharp decline, others significant growth. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2022/12/29/will-the-caribbean-community-survive-populati... |
| Description | Introduction to Machine Learning |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was a series of sessions on 'Introduction to Machine Learning'. The first session introduces the main concepts in machine learning. We tackle the big machine learning questions, like: • What is a 'model'? • What is the difference between a supervised model and an unsupervised model? The intended purpose was to introduce the main concepts surrounding machine learning, but more specially its relation within the social sciences. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/introduction-to-machine-learning/ |
| Description | Introduction to Quantitative Time Diary Analysis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This free online short course aims to introduce participants to time diary data analysis, a multidisciplinary field which has made a sustained contribution to social science over the last 50 years. It is targeted at academics, doctoral students, post-doctoral as well as public and private sector researchers interested in studying how people spend their time. The course will consist of a mixture of presentations and hands-on practical sessions using R. Exercises will rely on data from the Multinational Time Use Study. Participants willing to discuss their research ideas will be offered the space to do so. Topics covered: historical outline of time-diaries and time use research nomenclatures of activities, survey designs & time diary dataset structure deriving duration of and participation in activities from datasets in long and wide formats multivariate analysis of aggregate time diary data weekly work schedules and working time weighting and accounting for clustering of time diary data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/introduction-to-quantitative-time-diary-analysis-2/ |
| Description | Introduction to Text-Mining for Digital Health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Text-mining is a data-mining process which transforms unstructured text into a structured format, which enables us to identify meaningful patterns and new insights. In terms of digital health, this method (which involves working with qualitative data) may seem more suited to the social sciences. Whilst there is a lot of truth to this, it's also exciting to see text-mining applied to extract symptom-related information from online forums, or to anonymise personal medical data. This workshop will explore these applications and then showcase this process with a code demonstration in Python and R. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://n8cir.org.uk/events/introduction-text-mining/ |
| Description | Introduction to Text-mining: a content analysis method |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A guest lecture to undergraduates at the University of Manchester on Text-mining |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5587 |
| Description | Introduction to UK Data Service (University of Essex, Southend) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This was a networking opportunity for academics and research staff at University of Essex's Southend campus, and to introduce the UK Data Service and its resources. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Introduction to programming workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | To provide researchers with a basic understanding of the approach to be taken when designing a program as well as actually writing small programs to solve specific problems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=8064 |
| Description | Introduction to the Evidence for Equality National Survey |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The EVENS dataset provides unique insights into the experiences and attitudes of ethnic minorities in GB. Developed by the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) in response to the disproportionate impacts of COVID-19, the largest and most comprehensive survey of the lives of ethnic and religious minorities in Britain for more than 25 years, EVENS explores how and why experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic varied according to ethnicity. EVENS used pioneering, robust survey methods to collect data in 2021 from 14,200 participants of whom 9,700 identify as from an ethnic or religious minority. EVENS data covers: racism and discrimination, education, employment, housing and community, health, ethnic and religious identity, and social and political participation. EVENS aims to: Document the lives of ethnic and religious minorities in Britain during the Covid-19 pandemic. Provide novel data for analysis of new and changing forms of racism and racial inequality in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic and responses to it. Explore emergent forms of social, political and cultural mobilisation around racism and racial inequality during and following the emergence of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. Examine experiences within particular social arenas and institutions (education, health, housing, welfare, culture, employment and business, and policing). Work with community, policy and third sector partners to understand how racial and ethnic inequality was being addressed during the pandemic, and to formulate future plans for addressing racial injustice. In this workshop we will hear from Professor Nissa Finney, University of St Andrews, Director of EVENS and one of the editors of Racism and Ethnic Inequality in a Time of Crisis: Findings from the Evidence for Equality National Survey. Nissa will give an overview of the survey methods and the resulting EVENS dataset, an introduction to research using the EVENS dataset, and an overview of potential areas for future research using EVENS. Dr Jennifer Buckley will outline how to access the dataset, which is freely available from the UK Data Service. The workshop will provide the opportunity for discussion and questions about the dataset. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/introduction-to-the-evidence-for-equality-national-survey-evens/ |
| Description | Introduction to the Service for the House of Commons library |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Workshop with members of the House of Commons/Lords Libraries |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Introduction to the UK Data Service for University of Nottingham students and researchers (2 sessions) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk, website demo and workshop introducing the data and other services the UKDS offers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Introduction to the UK Data Service seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Seminar for undergraduates providing an introduction to the UK Data Service and basic data exploration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Introduction to the UK Data Service webinar for the University of Glasgow's School's Research and Scholarship Matters Week |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Session introducing the UK Data Service at the University of Glasgow's School's Research and Scholarship Matters Week |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Introduction to the service for Open Data Manchester |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar for Open Data Manchester introducing the UK Data Service |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Introduction to time series analysis and forecasting (with code demonstration) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This free workshop is suitable for beginner to intermediate users of R. There is no need to know about or have experience with time series analysis, but participants will need to already be familiar with the basic functioning of R. For example, participants should already know how to set their working directory, read data into R, save manipulated data under new names, and write the code to run basic descriptive statistics functions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/an-introduction-to-time-series-analysis-and-forecasting-3/ |
| Description | Introductory Session to UK Data Service for Data Centre at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Session for Data Centre at LSTM presenting an overview of UK Data Service, resources from the service, support available and an introduction to the deposit process. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Investigating religion in the UK - what data can I use? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A webinar covering sources of survey data available for investigating religion in the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5536 |
| Description | Jisc EdTech Horizons Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Contributed data usage and methods to Jisc EdTech Horizons Conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Jisc HackerX event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Promoted UK Data Service to developers at HackerX event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Jisc Networkshop 46 conference - Hybrid Cloud for the Social Sciences |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation for big data and cloud technology to share knowledge on best practice. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/networkshop46-27-mar-2018/programme |
| Description | KISTI Visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Visit from representatives of KISTI (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information) to the UK Data Archive. Focussing on how UKDA manages data access, and the overall data lifecycle workflow. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Key Data: UK and cross-national surveys |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Regular webinar showcasing UKDS key data, aimed at new users. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5214 |
| Description | Key issues in re-using data for Open Data Manchester |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A talk for Open Data Manchester covering the key issues in reusing data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | LFS online workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop giving background information needed to work with LFS and APS data confidently. The workshop was led by experts from the Office for National Statistics and the UK Data Service and included presentations,practical sessions, along with opportunities to ask questions and meet other LFS and APS users. Topics included the survey design, methodological considerations when using the data, how to navigate the documentation and the contents and structure of available datasets. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5773 |
| Description | Labour Force Survey/Annual Population Survey user conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | One day conference to bring data producers of the main relevant surveys together with users from all sectors who use the data for research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5401 |
| Description | Labour Force and Annual Population Surveys User Conference 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Conference bringing data producers and data users together. Updates from producers and research talks from users. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Labour Force and Annual Population Surveys User Conference 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A conference that brought data producers and data users together to share updates on the development of the surveys and to showcase research that is being carried out using the data. The programme contained a mixture of presentations from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and researchers who use data from the UK Labour Force Survey (LFS) and Annual Population Survey (APS). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5678 |
| Description | Lightning talk: Copyright and Research Data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Highlighted how copyright applies to the research data, including the use of secondary data and why it is essential to think about it from the onset of the research. Presentation included open tools and webpages available via the UK Data Service which enable researchers to overcome potential copyright challenges in their projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.cilip.org.uk/page/CopyrightConf22Prog |
| Description | Love Research - Love Data: getting the most out of sharing and accessing data (part of Q-Step celebration week) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented at the Q-Step Centre's Q-estival event. Provided an introduction to the UK Data Service, the data we hold, five safes and alos gave a presentation on why data should be deposited in repositories and shared. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | LoveYourCode: Building common standards for reproducibility with administrative and survey data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A knowledge exchange day with talks and round tables, discussing sharing your code and syntax. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries is a collaborative organisation that works to improve library and information services within the M25 region and more widely across the East and Southeast. Since its formation in 1993 the Consortium's work in three strategic areas has produced services and resources for the benefit of learners and researchers. The M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries visited the UK Data Archive and were given short presentations about the training and resources the UK Data Service provide for researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.m25lib.ac.uk/cpd25/ |
| Description | Making metadata inclusive: content development in the European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Developing and updating thesaurus content in ELSST is crucial to ensure that it remains a current and relevant resource for data providers, distributors, archives and researchers. The process of content development is an ongoing, cross-national, collaborative enterprise undertaken by ELSST partners drawn from CESSDA's Service Provider organisations. Together, we work to ensure that ELSST remains internationally recognisable and relevant. As a case study, this presentation focused on a recent update to the ELSST concept hierarchy covering sexuality and gender, completed for the 2022 thesaurus release. It will cover the consultation and research process we undertook to ensure that the updated hierarchy was made as inclusive and comprehensive as possible. It will also describe how this experience has informed our practice for future updates to other potentially sensitive concept hierarchies. Making ELSST content inclusive not only reflects our duty to enable social justice by recognising diversity but also provides better and more precise keyword coverage for research resources. Consistent search results provided by ELSST's comprehensive controlled vocabulary will allow researchers across the community to share and find useful data more easily, as social research evolves in a changing society. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/iassist-2023-conference/ |
| Description | Making the most of Census microdata: An introductory workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The workshop introduced the UK Data Service census microdata collection and the ONS longitudinal study. The data sources were introduced and experienced researchers showed how they have use these data in their research. Participants were also given the opportunity for hands-on experience of using the census microdata. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5397 |
| Description | Managing and Sharing Research Data: Best Practice for Data Protection |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | To provide researchers and research support staff with the skills and knowledge to manage research data effectively and efficiently, whilst complying with the law. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5373 |
| Description | Managing and sharing research data for transparency and FAIRness |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Training working on good data practices and on data sharing for researchers and research support staff. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Managing and sharing research data: What is new with the GDPR? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hands-on workshop were participants learned best practice for managing and publishing research data resulting from research with participants, with specific attention being paid to new requirements of the GDPR when gaining consent, processing and de-identifying data and sharing them for future use. Overall aim to provide researchers and research support staff with the skills and knowledge to manage research data effectively and efficiently, whilst complying with the law. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5288 |
| Description | Mapping crime data in R |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This workshop is intended to demonstrate how to map crime data in R using R studio covering three main topics; turning crime data into spatial data, joining data to shapefiles and mapping crime rate. The workshop introduced some crucial topics in mapping spatial data such as GIS, projection methods, and coordinate reference systems, which are essential when working with data that includes location variables. An accessible and reproduceable set of code were also provided and can be used as a starting point for users to make their own maps from other types of spatial data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/mapping-crime-data-in-r/ |
| Description | Mapping crime data in R: An Introduction to GIS and spatial data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Session covering some fundamental theories and concepts surrounding GIS and spatial data. The second session will be a live code demonstration using R to explore these concepts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/mapping-crime-data-in-r-an-introduction-to-gis-and-spatial-data/ |
| Description | Meeting with Director of Australian Data Archive |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Formal visit to explore future collaboration with the Australian Data Archive |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Metadata management in the real world: Enhanced data services with structured metadata |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar describing how we have approached storing cross-disciplinary data at scale using a variety of data models including wide column store and property graph on a Hadoop platform. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/metadata-management-in-the-real-world-enhanced-data/ |
| Description | Methods Northwest Seminar: Data discovery for secondary analysis projects - finding and accessing data from the UK Data Service and beyond |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presented a workshop on Data Discovery for Secondary analysis projects - highlighted data discovery as a process and how to find and access data from the UKDS and international archives (CESSDA DC). Demonstrated how to find certain data and addressed user queries. Attendees said the session was very helpful and using what they'd learned one attendee in particular highlighted she'd finally been able to find some data suited to her project, which she'd been looking for for a while. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | http://www.methodsnorthwest.ac.uk/event/data-discovery-secondary-analysis-projects/ |
| Description | NBN Conference 2019 - Whose data are they anyway? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Interactive session on data ownership, copyright, fair dealing and licensing of biodiversity records and other data that may be collected by citizens, professionals and commercial companies. What are the opportunities and challenges when publishing, sharing and reusing them? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | NCJL Data Hub Discovery (Home Office) Stakeholder Interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | NCJL Data Hub Discovery (Home Office) Stakeholder Interview |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | NCRM RMeF - working with Twitter Data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A talk on Twitters academic tier API |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/uk-data-service-events-at-the-2021-research-methods-e-festival/ |
| Description | NCRM Research Methods E-Festival - Data Clinic |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Representing the CSS training team, I chatted with participants and answered questions about computational methods, quantitative data, etc. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/uk-data-service-events-at-the-2021-research-methods-e-festival/ |
| Description | NCRM Research Methods E-Festival - What is reproducibility and why it matters for you |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An interactive workshop on what is reproducibility and how it applies with special emphasis on social science research. The participants had quite a good discussion and I was able to direct attention to our previous work on related topics, upcoming events and a future NCRM bootcamp that expands on the topic significantly. The audience expressed clear interest in more about this topic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/uk-data-service-events-at-the-2021-research-methods-e-festival/ |
| Description | National Statistician's census workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attended the National Statistician's census workshop and spoke to UKDS priorities and experience |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Natural Language and Information Processing Group (NLIP) Research Day: Challenges for the Social Science Search Interface - Discoverability and Linkability |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented as part of the NLIP Research Day at the University of Essex. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Newcomers Research week |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | NEwComERs (Network for Early Career Essex Researchers) provides support to researchers in the early stages of their careers, e.g. newly-appointed lecturers, post-docs, research fellows and final year PhD students. Newcomers creates a forum that brings together researchers interested in the different aspects of the the research lifecycles and aimes to stimulate collaboration and opportunities for shared learning and interdisciplinary work. The Newcomers Research Week organised once a year offers early career researchers and new starters at the University of Essex bite size sessions as introductions to the research support offered at the University. The Newcomers Research Week has sessions that map to the Research Lifecycle; from ideas to grant writing to publication and sharing. Sessions include: Disclosure Review and De-identifying data using sdcMicro; Organising and securely storing data; Transparency in Qualitative Research; Introduction to the UK Data Service; How to publish and share your research data; How to write a data management plan; De-identifying Data: How to Protect your Research Participants and Good research practice: gaining consent for sharing data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Newcomers week presentation 'De-identifying Data: How to Protect your Research Participants |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | To provide researchers and research support staff with the skills and knowledge to manage research data effectively and efficiently, whilst complying with the law. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://library.essex.ac.uk/ld.php?content_id=31920562 |
| Description | Newcomers week presentation 'Organising and Securely Storing Research Files and Data' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | To provide researchers and research support staff with the skills and knowledge to manage research data effectively and efficiently, whilst complying with the law. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://library.essex.ac.uk/ld.php?content_id=31920562 |
| Description | Newcomers: Addressing the challenges and complexities of researching abroad |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This is a whole day seminar arranged as part of the Newcomers collaboration with the University of Essex library and the Research Enterprise Office. The purpose is to provide advice and guidance, as well as outlining the challenges and complexities of researching abroad, to UoE researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://shortcoursesgateway.essex.ac.uk/Guests/GuestCourse.aspx?CourseRef=NEW:CRA&dates |
| Description | Newcomers: Finding and accessing data in the UK and Europe |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to help staff and students find and access UK Data Service data for research and/or teaching purposes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Newcomers: Pointless (about) data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Interactive session on data sharing best practice. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Newcomers: Secure Lab: How to import and link sensitive data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Training session aimed at early-career researchers. Introduced participants to the UK Data Service Secure Lab, the 5 Safes Security Framework, how to apply to access Controlled data, options for importing and linking data, and access to international controlled microdata via our involvement in the International Data Access Network (IDAN). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Newcomers: Transparency in qualitative research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Training session on demonstrating transparency in qualitative data. Early Career Researchers and PhD students now aware of benefits of depositing data and good practice associated with comprehensive documentation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Newcomers: Where and how to publish your data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on data archiving with the UK Data Service |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Northumbria University Research Data Management Training |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This introductory session is intended for early career researchers and postgraduates who want to learn about the benefits and requirements of sharing data. Data management is essential in making sure that well organised, well documented, high quality and shareable research data result from our research projects. This session provides an overview of how to plan, manage, document, and safeguard research data, with a view to optimising data sharing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Norwegian Centre for Research Data - QAMyData and sdcMicro |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Online demo of QAMyData and sdcMicro for NSD. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | ODW and DM invited by ONS to discuss user requirements regarding census sex question |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Senior members of the UKDS were invited by the Office for National Statistics to discuss user requirements regarding census' sex question |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | OECD Statistical Information Systems Collaboration Community |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented to the OECD Statistical Information Systems Collaboration Community annual conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://siscc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/sis-cc-workshop-2018-highlights-report.pdf |
| Description | ONS Population and Social Statistics: Transformation, Analysis & Insights |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited session chair for conference session on 2021 census design plans. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | On track for your Masters: Introduction to UK Data Service resources |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Introduced University of Essex Masters students to the wealth of resources available to them from the UK Data Service. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Online Webinar: Data Management Basic: Introduction to data management and sharing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Introductory session is intended for researchers and anyone who wants to learn about research data management. Discussed the key essential processes: of writing a data management plan for research grants; documenting your data appropriately and effectively; formatting and organising your data; and, storing your data, including data transfer, encryption, and file sharing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5746 |
| Description | Online seminar for University of Glasgow, presentation to the methods group in the School of Psychology "(Re)Using Qualitative Data: Getting the Most Out of Data' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Session on "(Re)Using Qualitative Data: Getting the Most Out of Data' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Online webinar: Data Management Basics: Ethical and legal issues in data sharing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Participants learned about the relevant legislation such as data protection legislation and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Also discussed strategies that enable them to share research data. These include carrying out an assessment of disclosure risk, obtaining informed consent, anonymising data and regulating access to enable data to be shared. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5747 |
| Description | Online workshop: Crime data in R - how to work with it, visualise and map it! |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop introducing key data about crime from several sources, including the UK Data Service, UK police force API and the 'crimedata' R package, and also gives some examples of how they have been used in research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5722 |
| Description | Online workshop: Dissertation projects: Introduction to secondary analysis for qualitative and quantitative data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Workshop to take you through the research process of a secondary analysis project, which includes an overview of the methodological, ethical, and procedural issues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5750 |
| Description | Online workshop: Geographical Data Visualisation of UK Census Data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop focussing on the use of freely available visualisation tools to create geographical visualisations of census data from the UK Data Service, with an emphasis on the free and open-source cross-platform QGIS GIS application that supports viewing, editing and analysis of geospatial data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5688 |
| Description | Online workshop: Getting Started with Secondary Analysis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Participants learned about the key issues to consider when using secondary data analysis as a method. The session covered the pros and cons of reusing data and the importance of learning about the origins of your data. Quantitative and qualitative secondary analysis was discussed with examples and issues of context, sampling and ethics raised. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2021 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5745 |
| Description | Online workshop: How to become a Computational Social Science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Introductory session on computational social science. It offered attendees a chance to understand and discuss what computational social science is, what it is good for, how to become a computational social scientist and what are the basic steps to follow in and ideal computational social science research project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5749 |
| Description | Online workshop: Web Scraping with Google Chrome |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Session demonstrating how to use the 'Web Scraper' Chrome browser extension to perform basic web scraping on the Manchester City Council website to simultaneously retrieve news articles from multiple pages, images and other attributes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5786 |
| Description | Open data dive |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The UK Data Service was ran an open data dive where we challenged participants to look at open data and create strategies for plastic reuse reduction. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Open data visualisations hands-on training |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop to highlight UK Data Service data and freely available visualisation tools, to encourage participants to identify patterns and trends in data. As well as visualising their own data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Opportunities and challenges for teaching reproducibility in the context of UK Higher Education in the Social Sciences - insights from a consultation with teaching staff |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on opportunities and challenges for teaching reproducibility in the context of UK Higher Education in the Social Sciences - insights from a consultation with teaching staff. At the Teaching Responsible Research and Open Science conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/smi/events/teaching-reproducible-research-and-open-science-conference |
| Description | PARTHENOS Workshop for CEE countries: A multidisciplinary approach to the use of technology in research: the case of interview data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Introduced different scholarly approaches when working with interview data as a primary or secondary source. Also presented the Tchain tool, a tool used to convert audio visual material into a suitable format. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | PhD training: Data management in Qualitative Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | PhD students aware of best practice with consent, transcription, and anonymisation practices |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Planning and designing research using the 2021 Census |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop for people planning to use 2021 census data for research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/planning-and-designing-research-using-the-2021-census/ |
| Description | Podcast - Enabling long term access to Census data through the UK Data Service |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Oli Duke-Williams discusses Census data on the UKDS podcast |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XQBNrzfxqs |
| Description | Podcast International Women's Day interview with Dr Julia Kasmire |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | For International Women's Day, Dr Julia Kasmire, a computational social scientist for the UK Data Service, talks about her experiences in the world of data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXYElwMo4uk |
| Description | Podcast interview with one of the authors of the Pioneers book from the University of Essex' Sociology Department |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I interviewed one of the authors of a new book about the original Pioneers of Social Science and created a podcast out of the recording. The interview focused mainly on female pioneers. This recording was shared widely on Social Media/website/newsletter platforms by various Departments at the University of Essex, reaching an audience of over 500 people, who told us how much they learnt through the podcast. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Pointless (about) data (run at UoE library as part of Open Access Week) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Interactive session on data sharing practices. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Population and Migration National Records of Scotland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Regular Population and Migration National Records of Scotland briefing event including updates on census progress and plans as well as work on pop estimates, admin survey and vital events |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Poster: Examining racial attitudes, ethnicity and inequality through the UK Data Service |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Poster highlighting key data in the UK Data Service collection that have been vital in building a picture of the circumstances of ethnic minority populations and their relationships to the ethnic majority population in the UK - and important national research using our data collections. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/iassist-2023-conference/ |
| Description | Poster: Increasing diversity and inclusivity in data archiving the UKDA way |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Exploring the Open Archival Information System model (OAIS), this poster demonstrated how UK Data Service lead partner, the UK Data Archive, has strategically increased diversity across the organisation since 2017, and now drives inclusivity and accessibility through everything we do: from staff recruitment and cultural changes, through to data curation, research access, user testing, training, communications and impact. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/iassist-2023-conference/ |
| Description | Powerful DDI-CDI Metadata - the How and the Why? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Here at the UK Data Archive we have a vision of using DDI-CDI - DDI metadata for Cross-Domain Interoperability - to power our future data dissemination tools. However, populating these rich metadata structures at scale is not a trivial task and therefore we are exploring the use of current state-of-the-art machine learning models. With the resulting tools we aim to improve access to our data while protecting people's privacy. We aim to break open the current binary utility/risk trade-off of Secure Access or Open Access when it comes to sensitive/disclosive datasets, particularly in Social Science and reduce the time delay in giving researchers access to data. Detailed metadata will not only allow researchers to select, filter and link data but will also provide us with the input necessary to drive SDCMicro functions (well-used command-line tools we have rewritten as web services) which drive machine-assisted disclosure assessment, which in turn feeds a decision tree of real-time access outcomes, providing researchers with richer and more flexible choices based on real-time mitigations of key variable sensitivity (e.g. global recoding, top/bottom recoding, etc.) As well as a live demo of the tool, we outline our methodology for building and improving machine learning models capable of enabling the scaling of rich metadata creation. We are all aware of the potential of machine learning to reduce our manual workload but what are the practical considerations for applying these tools to create Social Science metadata, how successful have we been and what more can we do to improve the resulting accuracy? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/iassist-2023-conference/ |
| Description | Presentation 'Open data and data repositories' for UCL's Open Science conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation for UCL |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presentation at BSPS Annual Conference - Stronger towns: What can the Census tell us? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A talk on what Census can tell us at the BSPS Annual Conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation at BSPS Annual Conference - Using volunteer-transcribed nineteenth century census records: assessing their merit compared to existing data sets |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk on using volunteer-transcribed nineteenth century census records and assessing their merit compared to existing data sets |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation at Business Librarians Association online workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Introduction to the business and economic data held by UKDS - audience were subject specialist librarians. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://blalib.org/ |
| Description | Presentation at EVENS book launch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on housing, race and migration including up-to-date census analysis and exploration of archival material |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presentation at MethodsCon - Natural language processing to capture person-first or identity-first language |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Introduce the concepts, present some preliminary results, foment discussion, and solicit feedback or potential collaborators. We want to allow audience members to share their own intuitions and to reflect on how they came by those intuitions. We also want to learn how those intuitions might be investigated as research hypotheses, and how such research can challenge ideas that would otherwise have been accepted uncritically. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/research/MethodsCon/programme.php |
| Description | Presentation at Voluntary Sector and Volunteering Research e-Conference 2020 - Social surveys are now more important than ever: what can the data tell us? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at Conference - Social surveys are now more important than ever: what can the data tell us? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation at World Stats Congress |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation that stimulated increased interest in the data literacy work of the UKDS. Networking for potential future collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.isi2023.org/proposals/proposal/228/detail/ |
| Description | Presentation for AMBS - How to utilise secondary data sources and an introduction to UK Data Service |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Session to introduce PGRs to accessing and utilising secondary data useful for researching inequalities. This was part of the Postgraduate Researchers' Seminar Series: Tackling contemporary research challenges in uncertain times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5729 |
| Description | Presentation for HiPy Liverpool - Python Zero to Hero - Working with Twitter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Introduction to Python and general coding challenges, has spawned a new event and almost 200 attendees saw an entry tutorial |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/zero-to-hero-in-python-tickets-155575461393# |
| Description | Presentation for Methods North West Methods Sessions 2021 - Working with Twitter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk covering scraping historic and live data from Twitter and running real-time sentiment analysis using Python. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://nwssdtp.ac.uk/about/methods-north-west/methods-sessions/methods-sessions-2020-archive/ |
| Description | Presentation for RSS Liverpool Working with Twitter Data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on Twitter data for research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Preservation & Value Conference 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented papers on Curation and Preservation Levels (CoreTrustSeal) and Preservation within the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC Association). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://indico.cern.ch/event/1188041/ |
| Description | Principles and Practicalities of Semi-Automated Curation and Disclosure Tools |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Demonstrating best practices of Semi-Automated Curation and Disclosure Tools to the Scottish government. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | PyDataMCR Code Night |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Public discussion of the data industry in Manchester |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.meetup.com/PyData-Manchester/events/278705622/ |
| Description | Q-Step workshop on 'How to Create High Quality Teaching Data' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | To provide researchers and research support staff with the skills and knowledge to manage research data effectively and efficiently, whilst complying with the law. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | QAMydata : Opportunities for University Data Repositories |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Provided a tailored demonstration of QAmyData to the University of Manchester looking at how it could be implemented in University repositories. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Quantitative data on environmental attitudes and behaviours |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This webinar will focus on secondary, quantitative data. The speakers will be Pierre Walthéry from the UK Data Service who will present a sample of studies from the UKDS catalogue with attitudinal and behavioural data relevant for sustainability related research, Mark Elliot from the University of Manchester who will describe research which extracted latent variables of environmental concern from social survey data, he will discuss whether class or factor analysis is a more appropriate technique for these constructs, and Richard Kingston and Dave Topping from NERCs Digital Solutions Hub, which aims to develop a Digital Hub and set of Toolkits that exploits environmental and other data (social, economic and health) to create innovative digital services that deliver economic, societal and environmental benefits across the UK. Each speaker will provide a 20-minute presentation. The talks will be followed by a quick-fire question and answer slot. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/webinar-quantitative-data-on-environmental-attitudes-behaviours/ |
| Description | RDMF19 - Costing data management |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on data management costing at Research Data Manager Forum 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/research-data-management-forum-rdmf/rdmf19-costing-data-management |
| Description | RSS (Royal Statistical Society) 2018 International Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The RSS International Conference has established itself as the only conference in the UK for anyone interested in statistics and data science. Every year, over 600 statisticians and data scientists gather from all sectors and from over 30 countries to share information and network, attracted by a varied programme of talks and workshops. The 2018 conference was attended by a record 669 attendees and featured 7 keynote sessions, 55 Invited sessions, 8 Professional Development workshops, 133 contributed talks, 37 rapid-fire talks and over 80 poster presentations. Vanessa Higgins presented on 'Online, interactive data skills modules - making learning more accessible'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://events.rss.org.uk/rss/frontend/reg/tOtherPage.csp?pageID=58594&eventID=194 |
| Description | Race and migration in housing research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote presentation on race and migration in housing research at the housing studies association conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.housing-studies-association.org/pages/annual-conference-2023 |
| Description | Reproducibility: challenge or opportunity for social sciences |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented on reproducibility, why it is often seen as a problem but why that also makes it an opportunity at the British Sociological Association conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/annual-conference-archive/ |
| Description | Requested event: General UK Data Service Introduction, York |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk, website demo and workshop introducing the data and other services the UKDS offers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Research Methods Festival - Drop-in session |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Conference session one-to-one drop in session to help researchers identify useful data for their research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/RMF2018/programme/session.php?id=F1 |
| Description | Researchfish Strategy of Impact - Data Sharing and Collaboration Conference presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented UK Data Service impact methodology and activity to a range of researchers and research managers at the annual Researchfish conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.researchfish.net/strategyofimpactconference-2018 |
| Description | Researching deprivation in the UK: an introduction to secondary data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar on the theme of deprivation. Webinar focussed on secondary, quantitative data. The speakers were Alle Bloom from the UK Data Service, who will gave an introduction to the datasets available, Smruti Bulsari from the University of Essex, who presented on the English indices of multiple deprivation in her research on dementia prevalence, and Emily Ennis from the University of Leeds, who presented on the Priority Places for Food Index that uses open data to determine levels of food insecurity across the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/researching-deprivation-in-the-uk-an-introduction-to-secondary-da... |
| Description | Royal Statistical Society International Conference 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Held a stand at the event to raise the profile of the UK Data Service and be on hand to answer queries/provide support. Sponsored the Royal Statistical Society's academic poster competition. Gave a presentation for early career researchers on our world-leading training initiatives and data collections and took part in a panel session discussing how we can better measure children's wellbeing using data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://rss.org.uk/training-events/conference-2023/ |
| Description | SOAS University of London Workshop: 'Is Anthropology Legal? - Implications of the GDPR for the Collection, Management and Sharing of Research Data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Provided researchers and support staff with the skills to manage research data effectively and efficiently, whilst complying with the law. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | SRA Using archives in social research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Archives are a valuable tool for social researchers. Join SRA North's free webinar to hear from four speakers about creating, curating, and using archives in social research. Speakers: Angela Whitecross (University of Manchester), Phyllis Macfarlane (Archive of Market and Social Research), Cristina Magder (UK Data Archive) and Annie Irvine (Kings College London). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://the-sra.org.uk/SRA/SRA/Events/Archive-of-presentations.aspx?hkey=5585b053-e9b5-499f-8714-a22... |
| Description | STFC Food Network Steering Committee |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting of the steering committee to set direction for coming year. Input from Service perspective |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Safe Researcher Training |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Safe Researcher Training course covers: • Statistical Disclosure Control (SDC) - the basic principles of SDC and how to make statistical outputs from secure environments safe, including hands-on exercises and discussion. • Understanding data access, including the Five Safes framework, breaches and penalties, and the importance of safe people and the research community. • Using the Secure Lab - how to use it, how to obtain outputs and how to use the interface safely. This is a new course which replaced the Safe User of Research data Environments (SURE) training course in December 2018. As with the SURE training, the course is designed to ensure that researchers understand how access to controlled data works, that they use the Secure Lab in a safe manner, following the Service's procedures, and that they understand statistical disclosure control and are able to produce safe statistical outputs. Researchers attending the course are required to pass a test before gaining access to the Secure Lab. Feedback from both courses has been very positive, with researchers reporting a better understanding of statistical disclosure control and the legal framework for using sensitive data, as well as increased knowledge of how to use the Secure Lab service. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/get-data/how-to-access/accesssecurelab/train |
| Description | Safe Researcher Training |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This Safe Researcher Training (SRT) course is intended for researchers who will be, or are in the process of, applying for access to controlled data in the UK Data Service Secure Lab. It is also suitable for researchers who will be accessing controlled data in other secure environments, such as the ONS Secure Research Service or HMRC Datalab, where the requirements of access mandate attendance on a Safe Researcher Training course. It is not suitable for inexperienced researchers whose project applications are unlikely to be approved, such as undergraduates applying for dissertation projects. Researchers who are applying for Accredited Researcher (AR) status to access data through legal gateways, such as the Digital Economy Act (DEA), must attend and pass this course before they can be awarded AR status. The course covers: Data security and personal responsibility, including legal and procedural breaches and penalties, and the '5 Safes' security model. Statistical Disclosure Control - how to make statistical outputs safe for release and the principles employed. Using the Secure Lab - how to use the environment efficiently and effectively (includes preparation of data imports and statistical outputs). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/safer-researcher-training-2/ |
| Description | Safe Researcher Training |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This Safe Researcher Training (SRT) course is intended for researchers who will be, or are in the process of, applying for access to controlled data in the UK Data Service Secure Lab. It is also suitable for researchers who will be accessing controlled data in other secure environments. Delivered several times across the year. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/safe-researcher-training-39/ |
| Description | Safe Researcher Training for Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Safe Researcher Training for the Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Safe Researcher Training for researchers from the Centre for Epidemiology at University of Manchester |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Safe Researcher Training for the Centre for Epidemiology at University of Manchester |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Safe researcher Training for CMI Team at UoM |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Safe Researcher Training for the Cathie Marsh Insitute at the University of Manchester |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | SafePod Network meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Expert group making decisions on which applications for safe pods should be awarded. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | SafePods and the SafePod Network: a researcher's guide webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Informing potential users about the SafePod Network. Presented specifically about what the UKDS is and how to apply for access to Secure Access data, which can be accessed from SafePods via the SecureLab. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/safepods-and-the-safepod-network-a-researchers-guide-tickets-39944897... |
| Description | Secure Lab User Consultation Workshop 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The UK Data Service, in conjunction with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), held a consultation workshop to discuss users' experience of working with our Secure Lab, and to hear from users about priorities, outcomes and the impact of their projects using controlled data. The event brought together researchers using Secure Lab with funders, research commissioners, data owners and UK Data Service staff to explore possible new models of operation for our Secure Lab service. Following short presentations from the ESRC, BEIS, ONS and the UK Data Service, invited users delivered lightning talks on their research using the Secure Lab |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Seminar for Cardiff University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Event organised for Cardiff University presenting the data holdings as well as all services offered by UKDS. Data added to their curriculum to be used during classes and for theses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Seminar organised by the University of Tartu Library, the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Estonian Social Sciences Data Archive (ESSDA) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A two-day seminar - How to Get the Maximum from Research Data - Prerequisites and Outcomes - where participants discussed data reuse, new data protection regulations in Europe, open data or European social sciences, the ethical aspects of data management, and the quality control of the data. The first day presentations focused on the broad data issues and the second day workshops were held to discuss data useage and data management. Day 1 presentation: Sharing and reusing research data: everyone wins Day 2 workshop: Preparing data for sharing and reuse |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://utlib.ut.ee/how-get-maximum-research-data |
| Description | Servicing the Service: Harnessing your institution's business data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | As modern repositories and archives, we are all gathering information about our users, the services we provide and interactions between the two. At the UK Data Service, we have been exploring and reviewing how to best harness our business data to ensure a data-driven approach to planning and decision making. The review examined which business data we collect, where it is held and how we can use it to deliver business insights and inform strategy. Following this, work was started to develop an internal tool which would allow staff to query the data, visualise it and make informed decisions and reports for our stakeholders. This presentation discussed the review, the development of the internal tool and lessons we've learned along the way. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/iassist-2023-conference/ |
| Description | Session chair: Creative methods (British Sociological Conference) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chaired a session on creative research methods and why integrating multiple methods in novel ways may be a good way to balance validation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/annual-conference-archive/ |
| Description | Show me the data: Demonstrating reproducibility in qualitative research through Qualibank |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Stimulating increased interest in curation of qualitative data, supporting re-users in finding and utilising qualitative collections through the presentation 'Show me the data: Demonstrating reproducibility in qualitative research through Qualibank' at the International Digital Curation Conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc24/programme |
| Description | Show me the data: research reproducibility for qualitative methods presentation at the ESRC Research Methods Festival, University of Bath |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This session on 'Show me the data: research reproducibility for qualitative methods' ran at the 2018 ESRC Research Methods Festival, where a panel of speakers debated the current reproducibility crisis' in science and how 'reproducibility' approaches and standards might look for qualitative research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5358 |
| Description | Social Research Methods and Statistics dissertation workshop - Locating Research Data and Data Access |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Workshop for Social Resarch Methods and Statistics students on where to find and access research data for dissertations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Statistical Disclosure Control in a secure data environment: Training output checkers and analysts (IASSIST) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Session on training output checkers at the IASSIST 2021 conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2021 |
| URL | https://whova.com/web/iassi_202102/ |
| Description | Statistical disclosure control methods for Census 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The UK Data Service and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) ran this free webinar to help users get to grips with statistical disclosure control in the Census 2021 for England and Wales. For Census 2021, ONS used three key methods: Record swapping: targeting unusual records in the data and swapping them with similar ones in nearby areas, and swapping a small percentage of all records. Cell Key perturbation: adding 'noise' to the values, with a higher likelihood that smaller values will be changed, to add uncertainty. Where the same records are represented in a cell in any table, the level of perturbation is the same. Suppression rules: these are built into the Create a custom dataset system on the ONS website and prevent datasets being available if they fail to meet certain thresholds. What this means for researchers: Readily available research data at a mouse click, with variables and classifications decided by you. Where the system suppresses data, you may be able to get less detailed data for the same area, or the same detail for a larger area. Due to perturbation, totals do not necessarily add up to the same figure all the time, though this should be a very minor difference that doesn't inhibit research. Small area analysis should bear this in mind when handling small numbers of population - they may be from a different area, again this should not be at a level that inhibits research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/statistical-disclosure-control-methods-for-census-2021/ |
| Description | Statistics Korea visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Hosted Statisitcs Korea for an open day where they were given a tour of the Archive and held discussions on microdata management and post-dissemination management. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Survey Variables Classification with Hierarchical Machine Learning |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Session on the work to annotate variables using the variable name, label, question text and representation which will feed our Disclosure Risk Analysis (DRA). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://events.geant.org/event/1457/contributions/1615/ |
| Description | Synthetic Data Code Demo |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Coding demo showcasing some data synthesis tooling. We worked through a manual process of creating synthetic data in Python and explored a web-based data generation library, Mockaroo. We then replicated this dataset using a data generation library for Python called Faker. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5780 |
| Description | TRE's sound great - but how do they REALLY work? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this presentation we shared practical experiences and worked examples of service delivery, with stories from people who do the job on the ground. From the nuts and bolts of managing researchers through the project lifecycle; through recruiting and developing new staff and managing broader service development; to looking forward at the emerging challenges and how to keep TRE provision current and responsive for the next generation of researchers, we covered all the practicalities of running a Trusted Research Environment, as well as sharing the practices we've developed collectively across the SDAP network over the last decade. We also introduce some of the valuable resources produced by the network, including the SDAP SDC Handbook and the SDAP competency framework. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/iassist-2023-conference/ |
| Description | Talk at AGI Scotland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Talk which raised the general awareness of the services the UK Data Service offer. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Teaching reproducibility to social scientists |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on Teaching reproducibility to social scientists at the Teaching Reproducible Research and Open Science Conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/smi/events/teaching-reproducible-research-and-open-science-conference |
| Description | The Living Library - ESRC Festival of Social Science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The ESRC Festival of Social Science event explored how a library can come to life and the impact it can have on individuals. In this event we wanted to challenge how people think about ageing, by confronting strangers with each other, and encouraging them to exchange life stories. We are conditioned to think about research impact in certain ways, emphasising efficiency, targeting policy change, and being useful or targeted, but the most impactful events are those that affect people's attitudes and opinions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/esrc-festival-of-social-science-2018/ |
| Description | The Path to Open Access for Restricted Data with the Data Product Builder |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Session on the development of Data Product Builder (DPB) that the UK Data Service (UKDS) aims to allow researchers access to on-demand linked subsets of data, dynamically assessed for emergent disclosure risk in real time. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://events.geant.org/event/1457/contributions/1574/ |
| Description | The ghost in the machine: How IT Service Management (ITSM) underpins a Social Science Data Service |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | IT Operations departments and Helpdesks are an integral part of a social science repository, supporting both internal and external users, and in our case facilitating access to sensitive datasets via our SecureLab, (a virtual environment utilized by the research community), to establish a safe connection in order to conduct analysis on data deemed too sensitive for general release. With an ever-increasing user base and technological advancements being made in IT all the time, it is important for us to deepen the relationship between data infrastructure and IT Infrastructure. The research and data community often talks the language of "services" and this presentation explains how IT Service Management (ITSM) provides a ready-made framework not only to describe obviously technical aspects of the delivery and operation of IT services, but how ITSM principles can be extended to repository activities like curation and access, leading to measurable, focused growth and improvement within data services. In the last decade, compliance with GDPR, ISO standards and other Data Protection regulations has necessitated a more robust and structured framework for data service management and governance. We outline how the implementation of a standard like FitSM results in a positive effect for the users we support, improved development of our systems and processes, not only for SecureLab services but also for data services throughout the UKDS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/iassist-2023-conference/ |
| Description | Train the Trainer Workshop: Facilitating Onwards Sharing of Safe and Clean Microdata |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Event organised with CESSDA to promote and facilitate the sharing of safe and clean Microdata |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.cessda.eu/Training/Event-Calendar/Train-the-Trainer-Workshop-Facilitating-Onwards-Sharin... |
| Description | Train the Trainers workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Half day workshop to CESSDA trainers presenting materials about finding data in Europe. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Train the trainer: a workshop to explore longitudinal data to inform your teaching in quantitative social science subjects |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented an Introduction to the UK Data Service, promoting the Service and it's resources. Also gathered feedback from existing users at a stand during the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/events/2019/05/22/train-the-trainer-a-workshop-to-explore-lon... |
| Description | Training Series workshops: Introduction to copyright: Copyright and publishing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Session to introduce attendees to the brief origins of copyright with a focus on copyright considerations in both publishing and teaching. By the end of the session, attendees will have a better understanding of different terms and licences available for publishing in different formats. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/introduction-to-copyright-copyright-and-publishing-2/ |
| Description | Training series workshops, Consent issues in data sharing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Online workshop discussing the difference between types of consent and how, as a researcher, you can consider data archiving, plus future reuse in the consent process, considering one-off and process consent. The session focussed on best practices to prepare consent documentation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/consent-issues-in-data-sharing-2/ |
| Description | Training series workshops, Data Management Basics Introduction to data management and sharing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this session we will discuss key essential processes: writing a data management plan for research grants; documenting your data appropriately and effectively; formatting and organising your data; and storing your data, including data transfer, encryption, and file sharing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Training series workshops: How to anonymise qualitative and quantitative data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Join us as we critically discuss what is meant by "disclosive data" and strategies for anonymising quantitative and qualitative data. We will look specifically at key differences between anonymisation and pseudonymisation and discuss how to responsibly use, plus share data using a three-prong strategy for protecting participants' identities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/how-to-anonymise-qualitative-and-quantitative-data-2/ |
| Description | Training workshop on research data management |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We are asked to arrange a bespoke training workshop on qualitative data sharing for early career researchers at University of Glasgow. Workshop was delivered on 14/06/2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Transparent disclosure, curation and preservation of dynamic digital resources |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on transparent disclosure curation and preservation of dynamic digital resources at the International Digital Curation Conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc24/programme |
| Description | Transport Statistics User Group - UK Data Service: What we do, what datasets we have and how researchers can access the data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Raise awareness of the data and resources available through the UKDS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Two day train-the-trainer workshop at the University of Ljubljana on the legal and ethical section of the 'Protect' element of the CESSDA module |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Provide researchers and support staff with the skills and knowledge to manage research data effectively and efficiently, whilst complying with the law. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013,2018 |
| Description | UCL Open Science Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on GDPR, research ethics and opening up data at an Open Science event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | UK Business Data User Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Conference organised with the Office for National Statistics and the UK Statisitcs Authority. Attendees heard updates from the data producers of key UK business surveys and administrative data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | UK Data Archive presentation on the GDPR - 'The GDPR Essentials' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | To provide researchers and research support staff with the skills and knowledge to manage research data effectively and efficiently, whilst complying with the law. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | UK Data Service - Case studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A selection of case studies looking at the different ways researchers have used data from the UK Data Service. These case studies are published online and shared at different outreach activities like event stands and workshops. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018,2019,2020 |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/impact/case-studies/all-case-studies |
| Description | UK Data Service - Data Impact Blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | The Data Impact blog is run by the UK Data Service and is a hub for researchers, students, communities, policy-makers, government and anyone interested in maximising the impact of social, population and economic data in research and policy. We hope to: encourage debate;share best practice and keep the data impact community up to date with news, events and the latest data-driven impactful research and policy making. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/ |
| Description | UK Data Service Facebook |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | The UK Data Service facebook page provides a platform to engage with its facebook followers, so that researchers, students, communities, policy makers, government and anyone interested in maximising the impact of social, population and economic data in research and policy can share content and comment on up-to-date news, events and the latest social and economic data research and policy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/UKDataService |
| Description | UK Data Service Google+ |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | The UK Data Service's Google+ platform allows the the UKDS to create and target campaigns to different 'data' related communities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://plus.google.com/107349349254941795914 |
| Description | UK Data Service Impact and Innovation Lab |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We are a group of data specialists, developers, visualisers, analysts, data impact specialists and communicators at the UK Data Service who want to offer a multi-disciplinary data and technology focal point for the integration of the best emergent digital innovation. We wish to start by building data usage capability so that users can access our (open) datasets in more flexible ways (ways they need) to stimulate innovative research, analysis and policy development. The lab will be relentlessly agile, bringing together open people, open data and open technology to rapidly and iteratively enhance our digital capacity.Through the development of the lab the UK Data Service will be able to innovate and enhance its impact through working more closely with tech entrepreneurs and innovators developing inspiring digital solutions to social challenges with new and existing data users in a range of sectors, wherever they are found. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://lab.ukdataservice.ac.uk/about/ |
| Description | UK Data Service Linkedin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | The UK Data Service Linkedin page provides a platform where we can provide immediate updates to followers of the UK Data Service. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.linkedin.com/company/uk-data-service |
| Description | UK Data Service Newsletter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The UK Data Service Newsletter focuses on new and events of interest to the social science data community. It also highlights articles which feature research in the media using data from the UKDS collection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/newsitem/?id=5460 |
| Description | UK Data Service Twitter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | The UK Data Service has adopted a multi-voiced approach to twitter to allow more people, partners and communities to engage with the Service and its resources. This ensures that each 'voice' can be tailored to a particular user group's interests: UKDS General - https://twitter.com/ukdataservice; UKDS Impact - https://twitter.com/UKDSImpact; UKDS International - https://twitter.com/UKDSIntdata and UKDS Census - https://twitter.com/UKDSCensus |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/ukdataservice |
| Description | UK Data Service YouTube |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | The UK Data Service YouTube provides a platform to present UK Data Service videos and webinars to anyone interested in using social, population and economic data in research and policy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/user/UKDATASERVICE/ |
| Description | UK Research Integrity Office (UKRIO) 2018 Annual Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Delivered a presentation on Research ethics and data sharing: governance and integrity at the annual research integrity conference. The conference discussed how to respond to common issues and pitfall and provide an update for new developments with the sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://ukrio.org/events/2018-annual-conference/ |
| Description | UKDS Advisory Committee meeting with UKDS Committee chair |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Advisory Committee for UKDS; decisions and advice given |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020,2021 |
| Description | UKDS Training for Parliament/House of Commons library |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Training for professional staff in Government. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | UKDS and SIPHER Consortium Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER Consortium has led to the creation of a twin database derived from the Understanding Society study, a significant achievement in the realm of public health and socioeconomic research. We have met with them advise on best documentation and cataloguing practices and envisage the collection to be made available via the UKDS by the end of Q1 2024 or latest early Q2 2024. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | UKDS interview for BBC Essex |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | We arranged for Ben Brindle, one of our data champions, to speak about out Immigration Impact competition on BBC Essex, which reaches 1,000s of people. He mentioned the UK Data Service several times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | UKRIO research integrity webinar: data sharing and ethics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk discussing some of the governance measures used to accredit the research projects and the researchers themselves as part of the UKRIO Research Integrity Series |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://ukrio.org/events/webinar-series/webinar-series/data-sharing-and-ethics/ |
| Description | Understanding Households in Administrative Data: Definition and Estimation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation at conference hosted jointly by Administrative Data Research Centre - Scotland and Office for National Statistics aimed at census and demographic data users across sectors. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ed.ac.uk/geosciences/about/events/2018-03-13t100000-2018-03-13t170000/understanding-hous... |
| Description | Understanding Society Conference: UK Data Service stall |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Held a stand at the Understanding Society Conference promoting the UK Data Service. Used as an opportunity to promote to new users and gather feedback from existing users. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Understanding inequality with census 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Presentation and subsequent discussions with people from 3rd sector and academics engaged with 3rd sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Understanding pre- and post-pandemic patterns of journeys to work, using the 2021/22 Censuses |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on understanding pre- and post-pandemic patterns of journeys to work, using the 2021/22 Censuses at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual International Conference 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | University College London, Data Management Presentation and Drop-in Session |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Provided researchers and support staff with the skills to manage research data effectively and efficiently, whilst complying with the law. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | University of East Anglia (UEA) Open Access week presentation 'Legal and Ethical Considerations to Creating Shareable Research Data' and Hands on Session: Focus on Using the UKDS ReShare System |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | To provide researchers and research support staff with the skills and knowledge to manage research data effectively and efficiently, whilst complying with the law. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://portal.uea.ac.uk/rin/open-access-and-research/international-open-access-week |
| Description | University of East Anglia Colloquium presentation on 'Understanding the Implications of the GDPR on Legal Research' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | To provide researchers and research support staff with the skills and knowledge to manage research data effectively and efficiently, whilst complying with the law. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | University of Essex: Celebrating Excellence Fair |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hosted a stand at the University of Essex celebrating excellence fair, which included having a mobile quiz where staff from the University answered questions on the UK Data Archive and UK Data Service. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | University of Manchester - Postgraduate open day stall |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Stand to raise awareness of the data and resources available through the UK Data Service |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | University of Manchester CMI MSc students dissertation workshop: Locating Research Data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This was a 2 hour lecture with hands-on computing workshop for postgraduate students studying on the Social Research Methods and Statistics MSc programme at the University of Manchester. All students on the course have to complete a research dissertation. This dissertation workshop focuses on finding, accessing and evaluation secondary data for their dissertation with a large focus on the UKDS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | W3C working group on privacy and linked data, University of Vienna |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop to discuss new standards around privacy and linked data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.w3.org/2018/vocabws/ |
| Description | Webianr: Investigating political behaviour in the UK - what data can I use? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A webinar focussing on: key features of the British Election Studies, examples of research uses and how to access the data, using Understanding Society for research into political behaviour, research use cases and access, and other useful data sources for exploring political behaviour in the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5535 |
| Description | Webinar on web scraping for Open Data Manchester |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar for Open Data Manchester looking at web scraping |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Webinar series for NSD (Norwegian Archive) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar series for NSD (Norwegian archive) covering: Introduction to the UK Data Service Pipelines Curation methods for main collection, core surveys Self deposit system and RDM approach Help Desk and Access processes User Support and Training Repository technical infrastructure and Preservation (include metadata) Promotion of data and Impact for the Service |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Webinar: Data Pre-processing: Clean, Reduce, Transform |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A webinar to introduce data pre-processing and explain how to perform it as well as some of the issues people should be aware of. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5704 |
| Description | Webinar: 2021 Census: What to expect from the UK Data Service |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This short update webinar explains what is happening now and what happens next with the UK census. You will learn what you can expect from the UK Data Service and when we hope our census outputs will be released. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5738 |
| Description | Webinar: A Guide to Weighting in Understanding Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The webinar will briefly describe how the weights are calculated and reflect on the issue of 0 weights. Finally, a short introduction will be given on how to create your own tailored adjustments to the UKHLS weights. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Webinar: Adding real world GIS and census data to agent-based modelling for social scientists |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An introductory webinar, presented live, and later posted to the UKDS YouTube channel, with some follow up in email and on social media (twitter) regarding a few questions/links reqested/etc. during the webinar |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5559 |
| Description | Webinar: An update on ONS's plans to transform the population and migration statistics system |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar which outlined the background to the Administrative Data Census project and focused on the recent publication updating on the journey to transform the population and migration statistics system, and the ambition to put admin data at its core. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5454 |
| Description | Webinar: Being a Computational Social Scientist |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar demystifying computational social science exploring how and why social scientists should embrace computational methods. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5609 |
| Description | Webinar: Best practice in governance of data for research: Licensing and accessing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Introduction to best practices surrounding licensing and governance models for providing research access to data assets. Showcase of the approach used by the UK Data Service utilising our robust Data Access Policy and Five Safes framework. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5234 |
| Description | Webinar: Conducting experiments, recording output and analysing results of agent-based modelling for social scientists |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An introductory webinar, presented live, and later posted to the UKDS YouTube channel, with some follow up in email and on social media (twitter) regarding a few questions/links reqested/etc. during the webinar |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Webinar: Consent issues in data sharing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar explaining the difference between types of consent and how as a researcher you can consider consent for data archiving and future reuse in the consent process, considering one-off and process consent. Also focused on highlighting best practices to prepare consent documentation and evaluated consent forms researchers have used in practice and discuss the model consent form the UK Data Service advocates. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5751 |
| Description | Webinar: Curation practices at the UK Data Archive |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Demonstrating UK Data Archive curation practices and tools for the Centre de Donées Socio-Politiques, Sciences Po Paris. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Webinar: Data Management Basics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | To provide researchers and research support staff with the skills and knowledge to manage research data effectively and efficiently, whilst complying with the law. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5211 |
| Description | Webinar: Data Management Basics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | To provide researchers and research support staff with the skills and knowledge to manage research data effectively and efficiently, whilst complying with the law. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5222 |
| Description | Webinar: Data Management basics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Introductory webinar teaching research data management. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5567 |
| Description | Webinar: Data Pre-processing: Introduction and Integration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A webinar to introduce data pre-processing and explain how to perform it as well as some of the issues people should be aware of. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5704 |
| Description | Webinar: Data and resources for teaching (Quali and quants) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A webinar for lecturers on data and resources for teaching qualitative and quantitative |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5674 |
| Description | Webinar: Data for dissertations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Session to learn about data available for dissertations with case studies, tips and details of the UK Data Service Dissertation Award. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/dissertation-week/ |
| Description | Webinar: Depositing large-scale data with the UK Data Service |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar designed for those depositing large-scale data in our curated repository. Covered the following topics with live demonstrations: how to initiate a data offer and what information to include how to complete the deposit form and sign the licence how to prepare the data and documentation and send the materials to our collections development team |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/depositing-large-scale-data-with-the-uk-data-service/ |
| Description | Webinar: Depositing your data with ReShare |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Webinar on archiving data via ReShare, covering the deposit process and any practical questions related to data sharing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5580 |
| Description | Webinar: Depositing your data with Reshare |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Session covering how to deposit data using a self-deposit repository like ReShare, how to describe a data collection well (i.e. what metadata and documentation should be provided), why providing detailed and accurate metadata is important, how to prepare and upload data and documentation files and finally what access level and licence is suitable and how this is determined for data archived via ReShare. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5748 |
| Description | Webinar: Education in the long run - which data are available? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The session will explore: The range of longitudinal data on education available from the UK Data Service, including harmonised data, such as 'Understanding Society: Waves 1-8, 2009-2017' and 'Harmonised BHPS: Waves 1-18, 1991-2009', The ONS Longitudinal Study, including the data structure, available research topics (with a focus on education) and procedures for access. Some results will be presented on how education relates to economic activity status through the life-course in a historical sample of young men and women, The value of using of longitudinal data for educational research purposes: case studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5453 |
| Description | Webinar: Energy data for research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar discussing the international energy data available from the UK Data Service, such as the International Energy Agency World Energy Statistics and the International Energy Agency CO2 Emissions from Fuel Combustion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5648 |
| Description | Webinar: Finding and accessing data in the UK Data Service |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Introductory webinar intended for anyone who wants to find data from the UK Data Service. Participant provided with a practical overview of tools and services provided. Best approaches to searching data and how to use the tool to narrow down search results discussed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5210 |
| Description | Webinar: Finding and accessing data in the UK Data Service |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Introductory webinar on how to find and access data from the UK Data Service |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5565 |
| Description | Webinar: Geography and longitudinal data - the UK House Longitudinal Study and the UK Longitudinal Studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) and the UK Longitudinal Studies (UKLS) provide very rich resources for researchers. The UKHLS runs from 2009 onwards (building on and incorporating the earlier British Household Panel Survey from 1991 onwards) and has detailed annual surveys of over 30,000 households and more than 70,000 individuals in the first wave. The ONS Longitudinal Study is based on a 1% sample of the population (over 500,000 people) plus other people in sample members' households, as captured in each decennial census from 1971 onwards. Sister studies operate in Scotland (a 5% sample, from 1991 onwards) and Northern Ireland (a 28% sample, from 1981 onwards). This webinar focused on issues related to geography in both studies, exploring questions such as: what are the most detailed geographies for which results can be generated? how do these data sources handle changing geographies over time? can additional data be linked at an area level? The webinar also included a brief outline of both datasets, describing the range of content and explaining how researchers can use the data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5334 |
| Description | Webinar: Getting data from the Internet |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar illustrating techniques for automating the download of files from the Internet, using APIs to download data and demonstrating how you might store the data, and finally, if the data is on web pages, how you can systematically identify it, scrape it and store the data in a dataset. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5593 |
| Description | Webinar: Getting started with R and R Studio |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar covering: what is R and R Studio, Getting started, Data types and structures and using data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Webinar: Guided walk through ReShare |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | An interactive walk-through of the process of submitting a data collection in the ReShare repository - for ESRC grant holders required to submit their research data and for researchers interested in depositing data into ReShare to make them available for reuse or as evidence for a published paper. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5213 |
| Description | Webinar: Guided walk through ReShare |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar where are walked participants through the process of submitting a data collection into the ReShare repository. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5568 |
| Description | Webinar: Harmonised data for comparative research (CESSDA) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar exploring key sources of harmonised comparative data and methods and tools for harmonising data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.cessda.eu/Training/Event-Calendar/CESSDA-webinar-Harmonised-data-for-comparative-researc... |
| Description | Webinar: Has Covid changed access to data for policy and analysis? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on the the impact of Covid-19 on the UK data-for-policy infrastructure. Richard Welpton (Health Foundation) focussed on the experiences in the health sector, while Louise Corti considered the wider impacts on data access and sharing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://uwedragon.weebly.com/webinars.html |
| Description | Webinar: Introduction to QAMyData 'health-check' tool for numeric data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The webinar described the tests that are included in the tool, how to configure these to meet your own quality thresholds, and how to download the software from our Github page. We also demonstrated our teaching exercise using messy data that can help promote data management skills. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Webinar: Introduction to SQL and Databases |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An online workshop explaining the various different database environments and storage regimes and show you how easy it can be to start retrieving data using standard SQL queries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5591 |
| Description | Webinar: Introduction to Text-Mining |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar covering the concepts behind fully structured and semi-unstructured data, the theory behind capturing and amplifying existing structure, and the four basic steps involved in any text-mining project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5627 |
| Description | Webinar: Introduction to accessing and using European Social Survey data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Joint webinar between NatCen Social Research and the UK Data Service demonstrating how to access and analyse the ESS data and provide examples of how the data can be used and the benefits it can bring to research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5252 |
| Description | Webinar: Introduction to agent-based modelling for social scientists |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An introductory webinar, presented live, and later posted to the UKDS YouTube channel, with some follow up in email and on social media (twitter) regarding a few questions/links reqested/etc. during the webinar |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Webinar: Introduction to the UK Data Service |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The UK Data Service holds the UK's largest collection of research data. This introductory webinar was for anyone with an interest in social research who wants to hear about the vast array of resources we offer. Participants learned about the different types of quantitative and qualitative data we hold, how to find those data collections using our online resource discovery tools, and how to register to access datasets in a number of different formats. We also demonstrated how some of our data collections can be viewed and analysed online, as well as providing an overview of our support and training resources for students, researchers and teachers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5219 |
| Description | Webinar: Introduction to the UK Data Service |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An introductory webinar highlighting the vast array of resources we offer. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5564 |
| Description | Webinar: Introduction to the UK Data Service: Resources for Social Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | An introductory webinar for anyone interested in social research. Participants will learn about the vast array of resources the UKDS offer; about the different types of quantitative and qualitative data held; how to find data collections using online resource discovery tools and how to register to access datasets in a number of different formats. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5209 |
| Description | Webinar: Introduction to the Understanding Society/BHPS Harmonised data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Joint webinar between the UK Data Service (UKDS) and Understanding Society/Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) providing an introduction to accessing and using the harmonised Understanding Society and BHPS data and directing researchers to useful resources and further help. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5254 |
| Description | Webinar: Investigating language spoken in the UK - what data can I use? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A webinar covering the sources of survey data available for investigating language spoken in the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5537 |
| Description | Webinar: Investigating mental health in the UK - what data can I use? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar about data on mental health for research, with 2 external speakers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Webinar: Investigating obesity in the UK - what data can I use? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The webinar looked sources of data available for investigating obesity. It focused on longitudinal, cross-sectional and consumer data. There were also presentations from University College London and the Consumer Data Research Centre. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5451 |
| Description | Webinar: Journey to work data in the UK - what data are available? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Part of a series of collaborative webinars between a number of ESRC funded resource centres working together to promote the value and use of social science data . This session explored the journey to work data in the UK and focused on data from the census, in particular the longitudinal studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5450 |
| Description | Webinar: Journey to work data in the UK - what data are available? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The session will explore journey to work data in the UK, focusing on data from the census, in particular the longitudinal studies, including: Data available in the ONS Longitudinal Study, with examples of change over time, A comparison with the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study and Scottish Longitudinal Study, An exploration of more detailed cross-sectional data from recent censuses, A summary of some other UK Data Service resources that also hold data about the journey to work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5450 |
| Description | Webinar: Key Data: Business Data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | An introduction to Office for National Statistics (ONS) business data available from the UK Data Service, such as the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. The webinar included an overview of the business survey areas covered and the data available. As the business data are potentially identifiable they must be accessed through Secure Lab and the webinar demonstrated how to apply to access these data. The webinar also highlighted access to international business data via the UK Data Service. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5218 |
| Description | Webinar: Key data: Census |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An introduction to the Census data available from the UK Data Service for anyone interested in using them in research or teaching. The webinar briefly described each of the sources of census data. Tools for accessing key data was also demonstrated. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5216 |
| Description | Webinar: Key data: Data about countries |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An introductory webinar for anyone wanting to learn about the international time series data available from the UK Data Service, giving an overview of the diverse topics that are contained with these datasets, which include the open data produced by the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. As well as the data restricted to academia from the International Energy Agency and the UN. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5315 |
| Description | Webinar: Key data: Longitudinal data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An introductory webinar for anyone who wants to learn about the wide range of longitudinal datasets available via the UK Data Service, including: the key features of longitudinal surveys; an outline of the key longitudinal/cohort studies we hold and the policy relevance of the information they contain; access information and how to get further help and support. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5215 |
| Description | Webinar: Key data: Qualitative and mixed methods data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | An introductory webinar for anyone who wants to learn about the qualitative or mixed-methods data available from the UK Data Service. The webinar covered: an overview of key features of qualitative data and where our data come from; examples of UK and international qualitative data and how they have been used; key issues when using qualitative data and access conditions and getting further help. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5217 |
| Description | Webinar: Key issues in reusing data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Introductory webinar highlighting key issues in reusing data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5566 |
| Description | Webinar: Key issues in reusing data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An introductory session covering the pros and cons of reusing data and the importance of learning about the origins of the data. Discussing quantitative and qualitative secondary analysis with examples and issues of context, sampling and ethics raised. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5212 |
| Description | Webinar: Power Pivot & Power Query in Excel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar illustrating techniques in Excel (Power Pivot) to break the 1M rows problem and making dataset joins much easier, and the latest dynamic array functions which can simplify many common tasks |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5594 |
| Description | Webinar: Quantifying the impact of web mode on analyses of data from Wave 8 of Understanding Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The webinar discussed the consequences of Understanding Society's decision to give participants the option of completing the survey questionnaire online via their web browsers. He will give some background about why the move to web is taking place, and discuss why survey mode can make such a difference to the results we find. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5477 |
| Description | Webinar: RDM How to anonymise data, qualitative and quantitative data, showing examples, using exercises |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar covering anonymisation and pseudonymisation strategies for quantitative and qualitative data, looking specifically at key differences between the two processes and the role of access regulation. Also demonstrated how to develop an anonymising or pseudonomysing plan, using examples and short, interactive exercises. Answered questions such as "what are the different types of disclosive information" and "how do we approach them before sharing our data". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5742 |
| Description | Webinar: Research Data Management Dissertation projects: Introduction to secondary analysis for qualitative and quantitative data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A webinar that takes attendees through the research process of a secondary analysis project, which includes an overview of the methodological, ethical, and procedural issues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5624 |
| Description | Webinar: Smart Energy Research Lab |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar for researchers looking to explore this new form of data for energy research, but also will be useful for researchers applying to access other secure data through the UK Data Service who are interested in learning more about the application process. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5721 |
| Description | Webinar: Social Network Analysis: Fundamental Concepts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Part of a series of webinars on social network analysis |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5661 |
| Description | Webinar: Social Network Analysis: Getting and Marshalling Data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Webinars on getting and marshalling Data. Part of series on social network analysis |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5662 |
| Description | Webinar: Social Network Analysis: Techniques and Methods of Analysis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar on techniques and methods of analysis of social media data as part of a series on social network analysis |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5663 |
| Description | Webinar: Synthetic Data - Coarsening, Mimicking and Simulation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar showcasing some data synthesis tooling. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5779 |
| Description | Webinar: Synthetic Data - Masking and Redaction |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar covering the advantages and disadvantages of synthetic data. It also explored the variety of methods available to generate synthetic data and discussed the nuanced definitions comprising synthetic data itself. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5778 |
| Description | Webinar: Text-Mining: Advanced Options |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar diving into the concepts behind more advanced text-mining analyses, presenting some sample code that participants may find useful, and introducing some work that provides further learning opportunities. Also accompanied by an online interactive notebook that allows participants to see, edit and execute the demonstrated code. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5629 |
| Description | Webinar: Text-Mining: Basic Processes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar diving into the steps needed to do some of the most common text-mining analyses and will be accompanied by an online interactive notebook that allows participants to see, edit and execute the demonstrated code. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5628 |
| Description | Webinar: The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures: Discovering the depths of mental health data in UK longitudinal studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Webinar highlighting: the value of cohort and longitudinal studies for mental health and wellbeing research, how to discover new data resources and mental health measures, learn how to use the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures, and know how to find and access the relevant longitudinal data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5719 |
| Description | Webinar: The GDPR and research one year on: experiences across Europe |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Facilitate expert panel presentations and discussions via a webinar, with questions from the audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5497 |
| Description | Webinar: The ONS Labour Force Survey Transformation Project - Designing a web-first approach to data collection |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar organised by the UK Data Service in association with the Social Research Association, describing how ONS is developing a respondent-centric approach to moving labour market survey data collection online. Participants will hear abut the principles that underpin the ONS's approach, the qualitative development to-date and evident on the effectiveness of this approach. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5309 |
| Description | Webinar: Using UK Data Service data in dissertations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This 30-minute webinar discussed using data from the UK Data Service in undergraduate dissertations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Webinar: Using app-based and sensing methods for social science research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar for anyone interested in or involved with using app-based and sensing tools to collect data for social science research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5461 |
| Description | Webinar: Web-scraping for Social Science Research: A Case Study |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Webinar demonstrating the use of computational methods for collecting data stored on the web. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5600 |
| Description | Webinar: Web-scraping for Social Science Research: APIs as a Source of Data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Webinar demonstrating how to use APIs as a source of data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5606 |
| Description | Webinar: Web-scraping for Social Science Research: Websites as a Source of Data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar demonstrating how to use websites as a source of data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5605 |
| Description | Webinar: What is Synthetic Data? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar introducing synthetic data and exploring some reasons why we may want to use it. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5777 |
| Description | Webinar: Who is reusing data? Successes and future trends |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar on reusing data as part of the Cambridge Data Week |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.data.cam.ac.uk/events/cambridge-data-week-23-27-november-2020/who-reusing-data-successes... |
| Description | Wellcome Trust: Clinical data sharing workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Full-day workshop that covered researchers experience, services and support, incentives and credit for sharing clinical trials data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | White Rose Doctoral Training: Managing and sharing research data for transparency and FAIRness |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentations and exercises on data management and data deposit |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Why data sharing is good - ESRC Festival of Social Science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was an event for the ESRC Festival of Social Science. We promoted the idea of taking part in national surveys and addressed people's misconceptions about data sharing. The session introduced ideas about data sharing and surveys, showed people examples of impact and answered wide-ranging questions about data use and safe curation. It was a thought-provoking session and the feedback was positive. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/esrc-festival-of-social-science-2018/ |
| Description | Workshop for Third Sector - Data skills: what is data? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Three introductory online workshops aimed at supporting organisations in the third sector to access and use quantitative data relevant to their services and projects' needs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5641 |
| Description | Workshop for Third Sector - Evidence and impact: Supporting organisations to create relevant evidence from survey data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Three introductory online workshops aimed at supporting organisations in the third sector to access and use quantitative data relevant to their services and projects' needs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5641 |
| Description | Workshop for Third Sector - Telling a story with data: Using national data to provide context to local issues |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Three introductory online workshops aimed at supporting organisations in the third sector to access and use quantitative data relevant to their services and projects' needs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5641 |
| Description | Workshop: Accessing and analysing census aggregate data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Workshop to provide an overview of census aggregate data and show how to access them. Outlining the different types of census aggregate data available from the UK Data Service and demonstrating how to explore and analyse these data using free online query tools. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5690 |
| Description | Workshop: Accessing and analysing census flow data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Introductory online workshop aimed at showing census users the key tools of accessing and analysing census aggregate data, flow data and microdata from the UK Data Service. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5690 |
| Description | Workshop: Accessing and analysing census microdata using Nesstar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A webinar on how to access and analyse census microdata using Nesstar |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5690 |
| Description | Workshop: Data Management Basics Introduction to data management and sharing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop discussing and demonstrating key essential processes: writing a data management plan for research grants; documenting your data appropriately and effectively; formatting and organising your data; and storing your data, including data transfer, encryption, and file sharing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/data-management-basics-introduction-to-data-management-and-sharin... |
| Description | Workshop: Data Management Basics: Ethical and legal issues in data sharing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop where participants learned about relevant legislation such as data protection legislation and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Also covered strategies that enable them to share research data, which included carrying out an assessment of disclosure risk, obtaining informed consent, anonymising data and regulating access to enable data to be shared. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/data-management-basics-ethical-and-legal-issues-in-data-sharing/ |
| Description | Workshop: Data Pre-processing Methods in Python |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A workshop to introduce data pre-processing and explain how to perform it as well as some of the issues people should be aware of. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5704 |
| Description | Workshop: Data in the spotlight - Large scale social surveys |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Session covering: the UK datasets available from the UK Data Service key features of survey data with examples from commonly used surveys how to access the data and getting further help |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/data-in-the-spotlight-large-scale-social-surveys/ |
| Description | Workshop: Data in the spotlight - census and population studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Introduction to the UK Census, the data held by the UK Data Service, and how to use the web interfaces to access the data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/data-in-the-spotlight-census-and-population-studies/ |
| Description | Workshop: Getting Started with Secondary Analysis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Introductory workshop covering the pros and cons of reusing data and the importance of learning about the origins of your data. Quantitative and qualitative secondary analysis were discussed with examples and issues of context, sampling and ethics raised. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/getting-started-with-secondary-analysis/ |
| Description | Workshop: How to become a Computational Social Science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Introduction to computational social science |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/how-to-become-a-computational-social-scientist/ |
| Description | Workshop: Introduction to analysing data about crime using R |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Workshop to introduce users to the crime data available for analysis from the UK Data Service and other sources, and how to start analysing them using the software package R. The purpose of this workshop is to provide an overview of the data available and an understanding of how quantitative methods can be used to analyse crime data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5552 |
| Description | Workshop: Introduction to the UK Data Service |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Two introductory workshops aimed at undergraduates at the University of Nottingham, |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Workshop: Legal and Ethical Aspects of Research Data Management, University of Ljubljana |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Provide researchers and support staff with the skills to manage research data effectively and efficiently, whilst complying with the law. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Workshops, Dissertation projects: Introduction to secondary analysis for qualitative and quantitative data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Interactive workshop which gave a guided walk-through of some of our data catalogue pages, and get to explore a downloaded dataset and test your knowledge of the research cycle. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/dissertation-projects-introduction-to-secondary-analysis-for-qual... |
| Description | Workshops: Finding and Accessing Data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Participants were given a practical overview of the tools that the service provides, particularly our data catalogue to help you to make the most of your data searches. Discussed best approaches to searching data and how to use the search tool to narrow down search results. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/finding-and-accessing-data-from-the-uk-data-service/ |