UKDS recommissioning
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Essex
Department Name: UK Data Archive
Abstract
The UK Data Service will provide an easy to use, trusted, service 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.
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.
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.
* 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.
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.
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.
Organisations
Publications
Duke-Williams O
(2024)
Meeting new challenges posed by the UK Censuses
Grau N
(2024)
Where do I start with FAIRification of sensitive data?
| Title | Academic poster. PRUK project outcomes |
| Description | Academic poster displayed at Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies conference to showcase the PRUK project outcomes. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | Raising awareness of UK Data Service and gave opportunities for engagements with Data science community. Event attended by around 300 people (77 views online, 45 downloads). |
| Title | Cite the data campaign |
| Description | Cite the data campaign Enormoboard at University of Essex Campus |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | Raise awareness of UK Data Service and the importance of citing the data |
| Title | Conference sponsorship and hosting a stand at IASSIST conference. |
| Description | The UK Data Service sponsored the IASSIST conference, gave presentations and hosted an exhibition stand. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | Raising awareness of UK Data Service and an opportunity for engagements with the data science community. 500 people from across the globe attended. |
| URL | https://iassistdata.org/conferences/archive/2024-halifax/ |
| Title | Essex Summer School welcome packs |
| Description | Provide leaflets for Essex Summer School welcome packs |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | Raise awareness of UK Data Service |
| Title | History Day 2024 |
| Description | Hosting stand at event |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | Raising awareness of UK Data Service and an opportunity for engagements with the data science community. |
| URL | https://www.history.ac.uk/events/history-day-2024 |
| Title | Hosting award and stand at Royal Statistical Society conference. |
| Description | The UK Data Service sponsored the RSS conference poster award, gave presentations and hosted an exhibition stand. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | Raising awareness of UK Data Service and an opportunity for engagements with the data science community. 600 people from 30 countries attended. |
| URL | https://rss.org.uk/training-events/conference-2024/ |
| Title | Hosting stand at Understanding Society Conference |
| Description | Hosting stand at Understanding Society Conference |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | Raising awareness of UK Data Service and an opportunity for engagements with the data science community. Approximately 300 people attended. |
| URL | https://www.understandingsocietyconference.co.uk/ |
| Title | Latest datasets promotion. |
| Description | Monthly emails to the data community highlighting the latest data set and catalogue releases. This is also promoted through our social channels and news items are published for larger more notable datasets. |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | Raising awareness of UK Data Service with the data science community. |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/2024/05/13/four-new-teaching-datasets-released/ |
| Title | Social media presence. |
| Description | Regular posting on X, LinkedIn and YouTube. We have also recently launched our BlueSky account. These platforms are used for the promotion of datasets, training events, conferences, calls for papers, news stories, technical updates and data science community information. |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | Raising awareness of UK Data Service and an opportunity for engagement with the data science community. (11K+ followers) |
| URL | https://x.com/UKDataService |
| Title | Training videos. |
| Description | Data skills training series videos published on YouTube. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | 408 videos, 69,335 views on our YouTube videos during 2024. 5.715 subscribers. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/c/UKDATASERVICE_LIVE/videos |
| Title | UKDS Annual Report 2022-2023 |
| Description | Summary of all the highlights and achievements at the UKDS between 1st April 2022 and 31st March 2023 |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | Raining awareness to Stakeholders such as users, depositors, researchers and funders about the greater successes at the Service during that time period |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/app/uploads/UK-Data-Service-annual-report-2022-2023.pdf |
| Title | UKDS Newsletter |
| Description | Quarterly highlights of latest newstories, important updates, upcoming training, successes, impacts and international news from the UKDS, upcoming competitions, requests for user testing |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | Raising awareness to Stakeholders such as users, depositors, researchers and funders about the greater successes at the Service during that time period. Works to increases the reach of communications by increasing subscribers to the newsletter |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/2025/01/31/uk-data-service-newsletter-january-2025/ |
| Title | UKDS Podcast Synthetic Data |
| Description | Podcast available on Spotify about Synthetic Data. Interviewed Nik Lomax the SIPHER Consortium Co-Lead and is also the Professor of Population Geography and the University of Leeds |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | Talks about how he uses the Census and Understanding Society data to mimic the adult population in England Scotland and Wales. Then uses it to model the impact of health interventions and policies. By producing the podcast we have raised awareness of this work and the value of applying synthetic population data techniques. Posts has had 3,853 views since launch to 5th March 2025 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/2024/07/10/building-synthetic-population-data/ |
| Title | University of Essex 60 Stories Campaign |
| Description | Celebrating the history of the Archive and the UKDS Collaboration in the form of video interviews and an interactive website covering the biggest achievements and highlighting the changes in technology. This was part of a broader campaign by the University celebrating 60 years of the University of Essex, and other stories. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | Shared across the University of Essex communication channels. On X it reached 6K views to end 2024 |
| URL | https://60stories.essex.ac.uk/uk-data-service/ |
| Title | University of Essex CURE event |
| Description | Hosting stand at CURE event |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | Raising aware of the UKDS at the University of Essex |
| URL | https://www.essex.ac.uk/event-series/cure |
| Title | University of Essex Education and Research and Professional Services induction 2024 |
| Description | University of Essex Education and Research and Professional Services induction Hosting stand at fair |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | Raising awareness of UKDS at the University with new members of staff |
| Title | Website News Stories 2024 |
| Description | 68 in 2024. highlights of latest newstories, important updates, upcoming training, successes, impacts and international news from the UKDS, upcoming competitions, requests for user testing, job opportunities, events and profiles on key decision makers, new starters, awards, new technology releases |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | "Raising awareness, opportunities for engagements, also shared across all social media channels, potential for the posts to be reshared to a wider audience for example by our 11K X followers Examples: - OBE Award News: 8,837 views to 5th March 2025 -New Director Dr.Steve McEachern: 3,701 views to 5th March 2025" |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/news/ |
| Description | Annual Training Group Meeting |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | "Improving user training via UKDS |
| Description | CoData |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Coding in public: recognising vulnerability as an added barrier to reproducibility for marginalised groups |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Presentation on recent research of how pushes towards reproducibility and open science may be more difficult for some researchers than others |
| Description | CoreTrustSeal, UKDS & DANS Meeting |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | DDI Dagstuhl 2024 |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| URL | https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/seminars/seminar-calendar/seminar-details/24413 |
| Description | EOSC EU Node Launch |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | EOSC Focus Opportunity Area 3 (FAIR Assessment & Alignment) - Follow-up Meeting |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | EOSC-A Long-Term Data Retention Task Force Kick-off meeting |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://eosc.eu/advisory-groups/long-term-data-retention-task-force/ |
| Description | EOSC-ENTRUST D13.4 Blueprint meeting |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | ESRC data policy guidance |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | G7 Open Science Working Group online expert workshop - FAIR, and equitable research outputs |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Future Recommendations to the G7 from their scientific working group |
| Description | How Online Training Events are Supporting the Development of Quantitative Data Skills in social science students: a qualitative research project |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Presentation of recent research conducted by Vanessa Higgins and Jackie Carter regarding how online training can improve data skills by social scientists |
| Description | IDAN (International Data Access Network) Meeting |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Linked data meeting - UKDS and Professor Rachel Gibson |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Meeting - with EOSC and UKRN lead Helen Clare |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Meeting with Chair of RSS Statistics Education Committee - Data Skills Framework |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Meeting with NatCen re: HSE |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Description | Meeting with the Deputy PM Data Unit |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | NCRM Advisory Board |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | ONS UKDS Data Catalogues and Reference Libraries Alignment Group Meeting |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | PolicyWISE Cluster workshop on Active Travel |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | This is an ongoing initiative with representatives from the four governments (UK, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland) and experts from partner universities to PolicyWISE (UCL, University of Edinburgh, Wales Centre for Public Policy, and Queen's University Belfast) that aims to directly influence policy-making at both local and central government levels. I was invited as an expert to a cross-nation policy cluster on active travel. |
| URL | https://www.policywise.org.uk/ |
| Description | Seminar attendance |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | UKDS-ONS meeting - Data Skills Framework |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | UKRI update on EOSC-ENTRUST |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | i-Sphere advisory group |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Changed public attitudes |
| Description | CESSDA ELSST 2025 |
| Amount | € 32,606 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Norway |
| Start | 01/2025 |
| End | 12/2025 |
| Description | EDEN Enhancing Digital preservation strategies at European and National level |
| Amount | € 7,999,986 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 101188015 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 01/2025 |
| End | 12/2027 |
| Description | Extraction and Utilisation of Metadata from Non-machine-actionable Documents to Improve Data Curation and Discovery |
| Amount | £620,407 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/Z502935/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2024 |
| End | 03/2025 |
| Description | FIDELIS: Establishing A European Network of Trustworthy Digital Repositories |
| Amount | € 4,993,279 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 101188078 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 01/2025 |
| End | 12/2027 |
| Title | British Social Attitudes Survey, 2021, Health Care and Equalities: Open Access Teaching Dataset |
| Description | British Social Attitudes Survey, 2021, Health Care and Equalities: Open Access Teaching Dataset |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | First edition release: 14 March 2024 Downloaded over 119 times by the end of Feb 2025 and is an invaluable resource for researchers looking to improve their data skills. |
| URL | https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-9236-1 |
| Title | Evidence for Equality National Survey: a Survey of Ethnic Minorities During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2021: Teaching Dataset |
| Description | Evidence for Equality National Survey: a Survey of Ethnic Minorities During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2021: Teaching Dataset |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Downloaded over 75 times by the end of Feb 2025 and is an invaluable resource for researchers looking to improve their data skills. |
| URL | http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-9249-1 |
| 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 | Census Data CKAN |
| Description | https://statistics.ukdataservice.ac.uk/ - is the platform used by the UK Dataservice to disseminate bulk downloads of census data from the 1971 census up to the censuses in 2021 and 2022. There are 853 datasets at geographies from the smallest of 150 households upto country level, these include not only census geography but UK and individual nation parliamentary constituencies and health geographies. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | The CKAN paltform is an open source initiative in use all around the world by organisations including the US Government and NHS. The UK Data Service have modified CKAN to create a DCAT extension to expose our dataset metadata to search engines allowing better searchability to finer details. |
| Title | Data Explorer |
| Description | https://dataexplorer.ukdataservice.ac.uk/ - is the UKDS adaptation of the DotStat suite software created in the SIS-CC collaboration community (https://siscc.org/). Built from the ground up as open source software to use the SDMX data modelling stanad in use with major data producers around the world. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | Data Explorer allows the implementation of the SDMX data and metadata stands to international socio-economic and UK census data. This means we can bind data with it's reference metadata at all levels - thus giving researchers more understanding of the data, how it is produced, what it refers to, it's units, population and background. Using the DotStat Suite technology allows the UKDS to interact with similar DotStat services at major data producers and re-use their data, putting key socio-economic datasets in one place and one interface, saving researchers time and effort. |
| Title | Flow Data |
| Description | NB Subject to continuous update; incorporates the 'wicid' system and is sometimes referred to by this name. Provides access to open and safeguarded origin-destination data from the census, and is the primary distrbution site for safeguarded components |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Impact | NB Subject to continuous update; incorporates the 'wicid' system and is sometimes referred to by this name. Provides access to open and safeguarded origin-destination data from the census, and is the primary distrbution site for safeguarded components |
| Title | GeoConvert 2 |
| Description | https://geoconvert.ukdataservice.ac.uk - is a complete reworking of the original GeoConvert software tool that allows researchers to match and convert data based on differing geography. This new version of GeoConvert is built on open technology, based on user research and uses spatial data from the Office for National Statistics validated for use in creating official statistics. https://geoconvert.ukdataservice.ac.uk |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Impact | GeoConvert allows researchers the ability to convert spatial data - for instance postcodes to census areas or parliamentary constituencies and convert any comparable data to that new area. This allows researchers to take data at any geographic level and convert it to another, allowing matching with a vast range of published socio-economic data at differing levels of geography, opening up new levels of analysis. |
| Title | UKBORDERS |
| Description | UKBORDDERS hae been delivering the geographic products of the UK Population censuses since 1994 and been part of the ESRC CNeus Census programme - forerunner to UKDS as well as being at the inception of UKDS. This is an ongoing service that delivers boundary and lookup table (postcode) products related to the census dating back to 1971 |
| Type Of Technology | New/Improved Technique/Technology |
| Impact | UKBORDDERS hae been delivering the geographic products of the UK Population censuses since 1994 and been part of the ESRC CNeus Census programme - forerunner to UKDS as well as being at the inception of UKDS. This is an ongoing service that delivers boundary and lookup table (postcode) products related to the census dating back to 1971 |
| URL | https://borders.ukdataservice.ac.uk/ |
| Description | 2024 WDS Webinar Series presents: CoreTrustSeal - Levels of Curation & Preservation: Towards an Inclusive Repository Typology |
| 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 | Presenting the future of the CoreTrustSeal to the World Data System membership |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/1032102933 |
| Description | Archiving in Times of Data |
| 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 | We will tackle the topics of data archiving, access and preservation in the digital age with national and international experts. Two panels will discuss the impact of the increasing digitalisation on archival practices from legal and practical points of view: EU Data Legislation and Archiving: Explore the latest developments in European data legislation and their implications for digital archiving with our panel of legal experts. Data Archiving and Data Sharing: Gain insights into the practices and strategies for managing and sharing data, through practical examples and theoretic findings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.jubilee-art.org/news/archiving-in-times-of-data#:~:text=Join%20us%20on%20the%206th,betwe... |
| Description | Automated FAIR assessment: UKDS perspective |
| 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 | Talk about the automated FAIR assessment of digital objects and how to interpret their results. Talk part of a series of FAIR-IMPACT workshops. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Best practices for documenting social sciences 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 | An online workshop discussing Best practices for documenting social sciences research data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | CESSDA Conference |
| 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 conference, to share best practice and innovation opportunities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | CESSDA Conference: - CESSDA Science Day Trustworthy Repositories with a Focus on Sensitive Data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation overview of trustworthy repositories with a focus on sensitive data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.cessda.eu/Events/CESSDA-Event-eid3680 |
| Description | CESSDA Trust WG: Social Science specific metrics for FAIR assessment |
| 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 to CESSDA Service Providers about reaching a consensus on Social Science specific metrics for automated FAIR-assessment tools. Feedback fed into the FAIR-IMPACT project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | CLS Data Access 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 | This is a recurring monthly meeting, the CLS DAC meets to discuss applications, policy changes, classifications changes etc.. I am representing the UKDS on the CLS DAC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | COORDINATE Event Child and Youth Wellbeing: Longitudinal Evidence for Research and Policy |
| 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 event will include research evidence from longitudinal studies and policy perspectives on child and youth well-being, and brings together key scientists and policy makers to highlight examples of how longitudinal survey data has contributed to a better understanding of children and young people lives in different countries and the ways in which social policy interventions benefit from investments in survey data infrastructure. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.slls.org.uk/events/child-and-youth-wellbeing-longitudinal-evidence-for-research-and-poli... |
| Description | Centre for Sociodigital Futures UKDS 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 | Bespoke ESRC centre troubleshooting workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Coding in public: recognising vulnerability as an added barrier to reproducibility for marginalised groups |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | a conference presentation describing research on three major barriers to making work reproducible with a focus on how those barriers impact social science/humanities researchers, marginalised groups, and young researchers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Computational Social Science Drop-in |
| 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 | Computational Social Science Drop-in Online to support learning |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | 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 | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A training workshop online about "Consent issues in data sharing" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Crime surveys user conference and UK Research Data Infrastructures Frontiers 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 | Crime surveys user conference with Manchester colleagues and UK Research Data Infrastructures Frontiers Meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | DARE UK Frontiers Meeting |
| 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 | Future of Trustworthy Research Environments in the UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | DDI Dagstuhl 2024 |
| 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 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. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/seminars/seminar-calendar/seminar-details/24413 |
| Description | DDI Developer Hackathon |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was one meeting in a series of meetings of those organising 2 sythetic data hack-a-thons to take place in 2024. UKDS is a major contributor |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | DHSC access to NHS E Health Survey data via UKDS |
| 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 | As we have become the exclusive providers of NHS E data we have had to find solutions for providing bespoke access to DHSC; this has been implemented. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | DRTN Lessons from Covid-19 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 | Online webinar about DRTN Lessons from Covid-19 data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Data Impact 2024: Poverty in Data - Early Career Researchers 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 | A face to face UKDS Event Data Impact 2024: Poverty in Data - Early Career Researchers Workshop at Friends' Meeting House, Manchester |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Data Impact 2024: Poverty in Data - Perspectives on Poverty (Premier on YouTube) |
| 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 | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A Youtube video "Data Impact 2024: Poverty in Data - Perspectives on Poverty" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Data Impact 2024: Poverty in Data - Research, policy and next steps |
| 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 talking about Poverty in Data - Research, policy and next steps |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | 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 | Data in the spotlight: Large scale social surveys online workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | 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 | Mainly focused on students. An online workshop to support Dissertation projects: Introduction to secondary analysis for qualitative and quantitative data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | EDDI'24 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Collaboration requests with European partner organisations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://events.geant.org/event/1637/overview |
| Description | EOSC Association Symposium |
| 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 | European Open Science Cloud projects topics and projects alignment |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://eosc.eu/symposium2024/ |
| Description | EOSC-ENTRUST Blueprint Validation Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | EOSC-ENTRUST Blueprint Validation Workshop to discuss direction of future project work and activities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Engagement with Mathematics, Statistics, and Data Science students at University of Essex - career paths event |
| 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 | career paths event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Enhancing longitudinal data sharing: Data management strategies and best practices |
| 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 | "Learning objectives Gain a comprehensive understanding of the importance of good research data management within the concepts of the data lifecycle and FAIR data principles. Understand and apply the ethical and legal considerations necessary for handling and working with personal research data to ensure compliance and protect participant privacy. Learn and implement best practices for organising and formatting research data to enhance accuracy, accessibility, and long-term usability. Understand how to develop strategies for effective documentation of research data, ensuring that data remains findable and reusable for future research. Acquire knowledge of anonymisation techniques and best practices to maintain confidentiality and integrity of data while preparing it for broader access. Understand the role and functionality of responsible repositories and Trusted Research Environments (TREs) and learn how to use these frameworks to provide broader access to data within ethical and legal standards. " |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/enhancing-longitudinal-data-sharing-data-management-strategies-an... |
| Description | Ethical and legal guidelines in data sharing |
| 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 | Online workshop about Ethical and legal guidelines in data sharing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Ethnic inequalities in mortality: examining assumptions and missing data concerns around experimental life expectancy estimates |
| 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 | Partnered with King's College London online webinar about Ethnic inequalities in mortality: examining assumptions and missing data concerns around experimental life expectancy estimates |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Exploring Educational Outcomes through National Datasets |
| 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 webinar about Exploring Educational Outcomes through National Datasets It was attended by a broad variety of professional backgrounds |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Exploring census microdata |
| 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 about Exploring census microdata |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | FAIR IMPACT T5.4 Support Actions Workshop 3 on Repository Trust & Transparency |
| 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, part of a FAIR-IMPACT series, that explores repositories providing information about their repository linked to the Data Repository Attribute Working Group (DRAWG) attributes. Their feedback will then be used to develop a prototype for sharing repository information at the repository level for registries to harvest rather than sharing it in multiple registries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | FAIR IMPACT WP2 Workshop Where do I start with FAIRification of sensitive data? |
| 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 UKDS approaches for handling sensitive data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | FAIR Implementation Workshop on Sensitive Data |
| 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 how to make sensitive data more FAIR |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://fair-impact.eu/events/fair-implementation-workshops/where-do-i-start-fairification-sensitive... |
| Description | FORS 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 | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | FORS colleagues have visited the UKDA to understand better what we do and how. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | FoRS - impact presentation (Part of wider UKDS sharing with FoRS - specific focus on evidencing / promoting impact) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Online presentation for FORS 'UKDS SecureLab overview' - Presentation for FoRS visitors |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| 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 | Online workshop teaching "Getting Started with Secondary Analysis" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | History Day 2024 |
| 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 raise the profile of the UKDA to potential new users and depositors. Increase the number of subscribers to our newsletter |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://historycollections.blogs.sas.ac.uk/ |
| Description | How Online Training Events are Supporting the Development of Quantitative Data Skills in social science students: a qualitative research project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | a conference presentation describing research into how online training interacts with social science and humanities students with particular focus on their skills development, career next steps, confidence and more |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| 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 | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Workshop online about How to become a computational social scientist |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | IASSIST 2024 CESSDA Data Catalogue and ELSST integration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A face to face presentation at IASSIST 2024 about CESSDA Data Catalogue and ELSST integration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.openconf.org/iassist2024/modules/request.php?module=oc_program&action=summary.php&id=102 |
| Description | IASSIST 2024 Documenting Reproducibility: The Integral Role of Documentation in Transparent Qualitative Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | IASSIST 2024 Documenting Reproducibility: The Integral Role of Documentation in Transparent Qualitative Research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.openconf.org/iassist2024/modules/request.php?module=oc_program&action=summary.php&id=127 |
| Description | IASSIST 2024 Navigating the future of metadata |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A face to face presentation at IASSIST 2024 about Navigating the future of metadata |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.openconf.org/iassist2024/modules/request.php?module=oc_program&action=summary.php&id=152 |
| Description | IASSIST 2024 Reducing climate change through the UK Data Service (poster) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A poster displayed at IASSIST 2024 about Reducing climate change through the UK Data Service |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.openconf.org/iassist2024/modules/request.php?module=oc_program&action=summary.php&id=107 |
| Description | IASSIST 2024 Scrapping the decennial census of England and Wales: the end of the road for tracking commuters? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation face to face at IASSIST 2024 about Scrapping the decennial census of England and Wales: the end of the road for tracking commuters? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.openconf.org/iassist2024/modules/request.php?module=oc_program&action=summary.php&id=85 |
| Description | IASSIST 2024 Urban Tapestry: Weaving Geospatial Data with Social Sentiment to Understand Crime Patterns |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A face to face presentation at IASSIST 2024 Urban Tapestry about Weaving Geospatial Data with Social Sentiment to Understand Crime Patterns |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.openconf.org/iassist2024/modules/request.php?module=oc_program&action=summary.php&id=59 |
| Description | ICRI 2024 Conference |
| 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 | For international cooperation and collaboration among Ris |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://icri2024.au/ |
| Description | International Secure Date Facility Professionals Network (ISDFPN) Meetin |
| 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 International Secure Data Facility Professionals Network (ISDFPN) is a Forum to share expertise, experience, and collaborate on new ideas relating to Secure Data Facilities in national and international contexts. The Network is open to different disciplines including: social sciences, health and humanities. ISDFPN is unique in discussing issues not only in relation to quantitative secure data but also options for making qualitative secure data available in the future. As the secure data landscape is fast-changing and continuously evolving, this Network provides a vital international platform to bring together Secure Data Facility professionals to share knowledge and collaborate on common challenges, specific and newly emerging issues and challenges. Internationally, Secure Data Facilities are at different stages in their development, which makes our Network a great Forum for staff to learn from each other. ISDFPN was set up in 2022, and currently has over 30 individual members, from over 20 organisations across 9 countries." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Introduction to anonymisation techniques for social sciences 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 | "Researchers are often at a crossroads on how to share data collected from human participants ethically while complying with the rigorous standards set by UK General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act. Whether you're looking to refine your data management strategy or ensure your research practices are in strict alignment with the UK legislation, this event will provide you with a solid foundation in the principles and practicalities of data anonymisation. This session is designed to equip researchers with the essential knowledge and skills to navigate the complexities of data anonymisation. From survey data to transcript data and audio/visual materials researchers must have a keen eye on safeguarding privacy. We will cover key concepts as defined by applicable data protection legislation and outlined by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) guidance, from definitions of personal data to identifiability and effective anonymisation." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/introduction-to-anonymisation-techniques-for-social-sciences-rese... |
| Description | 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 | Online Workshop about Introduction to copyright: Copyright and publishing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Introduction to depositing 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 | This free 60-minute webinar is your essential guide to the process of depositing data with the UK Data Service. Learn about the practical steps for data preparation and submission, ensuring your data can be easily discovered and reused by the research community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/introduction-to-depositing-data-with-the-uk-data-service/ |
| Description | Introduction to effective and practical research 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 | "Research data management encompasses all stages of handling data created during a research project, either primary or secondary. It is not only about adhering to principles but also about enhancing the efficiency, impact, and integrity of research. Effective data management ensures that data are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR principles). The foundation of sensible data management lies in understanding and applying best practices across the data lifecycle from planning to sharing, while adhering to ethical standards and legal requirements. During this free 90-minute online workshop, we will explore the key components of effective research data management, including data management planning, organising, and documenting data, ensuring data quality, storing and backing up data, as well as strategies for data preservation and sharing. The workshop will also cover practical tools and techniques for data management, such as metadata standards for documenting data, data quality semi-automated freeware, and best practices for data sharing and archiving. " |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/introduction-to-effective-and-practical-research-data-management/ |
| Description | MRI and scans data deposit |
| 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 | Deposit of trial data including MRI and ultrasound scans, baseline questionnaires and biopsies results. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | MS 14 EOSC-ENTRUST First Evaluation & Adoption Worksho |
| 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 First EOSC-ENTRUST Evaluation & Adoption Workshop is organised by the Architecture WP, but will provide a forum for alignment between all of EOSC-ENTRUST's WPs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Meeting new challenges posed by the UK Censuses |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | a conference presentation describing Meeting new challenges posed by the UK Censuses |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Meeting with Beth Armstrong |
| 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 Beth Armstrong about potential impact engagement work around Food and You 2. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Meeting with Race Equality Foundation |
| 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 | Discussion about potential census analysis about demographic change affecting racial minorities - all, older people (over 50) and young people (under 25) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Meeting with UKRN representative |
| 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 | Further conversations about possible collaboration and alignment |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | OnTrack: "How the UK Data Service can help you with your Master thesis" |
| 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 | Guidance for empirical Master Thesis |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | PRUK Workshop on 'Enhancing longitudinal data sharing: data management strategies and best practices |
| 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 | PRUK - Population Research UK - Skills Development for Managing Longitudinal Data for Sharing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Panel member at University of Manchester, School of Social Science Research Showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Panel member at University of Manchester, School of Social Science Research Showcase, face to face |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | PolicyWISE Cluster workshop on Active Travel (ongoing initiative with representatives from the four governments (UK, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland) and experts from partner universities to PolicyWISE (UCL, University of Edinburgh, Wales Centre for Public Policy, and Queen's University Belfast) that aims to directly influence policy-making at both local and central government levels. Invited as an expert to a cross-nation policy cluster on active travel.) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | PolicyWISE Cluster workshop on Active Travel (ongoing initiative with representatives from the four governments (UK, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland) and experts from partner universities to PolicyWISE (UCL, University of Edinburgh, Wales Centre for Public Policy, and Queen's University Belfast) that aims to directly influence policy-making at both local and central government levels. Invited as an expert to a cross-nation policy cluster on active travel.) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Population & Migration Statistics 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 | regular NRS update meeting on progress with census dissemination progress and future plans, population and small area forecasts |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presentation at IDAN Meeting on "Could IDAN make use of the UK's SafePod/ SafePoints Network? Pros and Cons." |
| 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 | "Could IDAN make use of the UK's SafePod/ SafePoints Network? Pros and Cons." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presentation at NCRM methods showcase: The UK Data Service Data Skills Framework |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Held at the The Edwardian Hotel, Manchester a face to face Presentation at NCRM methods showcase: The UK Data Service Data Skills Framework |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presentation at University of Manchester Social Statistic Department Research Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A face to face presentation as part of Social Statistic Department Research Day |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presentation on Data Skills Framework at Data Resources Training Network meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | An online presentation on Data Skills Framework at Data Resources Training Network meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Qualitative Data 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 | Possible future Qualitative Data collaboration with Sikt |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Queen's University Belfast and UKDS meeting about consent and consent documentation |
| 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 | We have discussed best practices for consent in ensuring ethical data sharing but also data protection implications; we have also touched on the need for a piece of work focused on engagement with research librarians and ethics committees with the caveat this would most likely be in late 2025 and dependent on additional funding. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | RSS Conference |
| 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 | The RSS conference brings together the statistics and data science community from across the UK, Europe and around the world to share knowledge and learn about latest developments |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://rss.org.uk/training-events/conference-2024/ |
| Description | RSS International Conference 2024: Developing quantitative data driven research skills in social science students outside the classroom |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | RSS International Conference 2024: Developing quantitative data driven research skills in social science students outside the classroom. Face to face at Brighton Metropole |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Refactoring data delivery: The case study of the new tools for census flow data at UKDS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was a presentation on the new tools being developed for census flow data. After the presentation, a few attendees wanted to know more about the technologies used and also discussed the applicability of flow data in different countries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://iassistdata.org/conferences/iassist2024/ |
| Description | Reproducibile statistics: jupyter notebooks, github and DOI |
| 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 the use of relatively easy tools to make teaching statistics easier, more engaging and more reproducible |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Research Capability 2024 (ONS) |
| 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 | "bring together researchers, data owners, government representatives, and policy makers to focus on matters relevant and important to the research community. We are delighted to announce this year's theme is 'Building Research Capability and Community'." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/research-capability-2024-building-research-capability-and-community-t... |
| Description | Royal Statistical Society Conference 2024 |
| 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 | Raising the profile of the UK Data Service; increase the number of newsletter subscribers and interest in user experience work in the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | SDAP Member Network Event |
| 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 | National knowledge exchange |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | SDAP Member Network Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The main focus of this networking meeting was to update on existing projects from other TREs that had been referenced throughout the year. Including the researcher registry and Information Governance projects. This feeds into collaborative working across the TRE community |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | SDAP Member Network Event No 3 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Have presented on the ADR UK Synthetic data project we are leading here on at UKDS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | SDAP Network |
| 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 | SDAP member network group - focus on Future Data Services and Synthetic data. Have established topics for next meeting through breakout conversation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | SRMS 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 | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | SRMS Dissertation workshop: Locating Research Data and Data Access |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Safe Researcher Training (SRT) |
| 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." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/safe-researcher-training-59/ |
| Description | SecureLab Drop-in |
| 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 | An online drop in for students / others to support with "SecureLab" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Survey data drop-in |
| 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 Drop-in service to assist students on "Survey data" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Synthetic data working group |
| 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 | this is the adruk uk wide synethic data working group; presented UKDS project and made some new connections at HDI and Edinburgh for standard UKDS work |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | UK Conference on Teaching Statistics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on the UK Data Service training programme, including the Data Skills Framework. Led to interest in UKDS collaborating with RSS UKCOTs on future conferences |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.ukcots.org/ |
| Description | UK Conference on Teaching Statistics (UKCOTS): Developing foundational quantitative data skills: the UK Data Service training programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A face to face presentation at UK Conference on Teaching Statistics (UKCOTS) about Developing foundational quantitative data skills: the UK Data Service training programme |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | UK Conference on Teaching Statistics (UKCOTS): Reproducible statistics: jupyter notebooks, github and DOI |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A face to face presentation about Reproducible statistics: jupyter notebooks, github and DOI |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | UK Conference on Teaching Statistics (UKCOTS): What data do you 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 face to face presentation about "What data do you use?" at the UK Conference on Teaching Statistics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | UK TRE Annual Community Meeting (Sep 2024) - Accelerating secure digital science through community collaboration |
| 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 | """Trusted research environments and datasets are fundamental to digital science, but work is often delayed due to the time and effort required to set up a secure project, get access to the right approved data, and to sign legal agreements. There is enormous value locked up because of this: new research ideas are blocked by the hurdles of getting started and accessing data, and typical fixed term project funding means significant research time is lost. We want to discuss what is stopping us from fixing these three critical issues: getting data federated to approved projects; instant provisioning of infrastructure for collaborative projects; and streamlining legal discussions with standard accepted T&Cs and operating models. The UK TRE community has already setup several working groups to look at some of these problems, and we plan to submit a UKRI Digital Research Technical Professional Skills NetworkPlus grant to create a long-term footing for the UK TRE community, and to support the community in joining or creating working groups to solve the critical issues which are hampering secure digital research."" https://www.uktre.org/en/latest/events/wg_workshops/2024-09-02-september-meeting/index.html " |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://lu.ma/icjl9wmb |
| Description | UKDS LPS Training Project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This is the monthly PRUK investment management meeting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | UKDS stand at 'SLLS Annual International Conference 2024 Inequalities Across Life Courses and Generations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives' |
| 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 | ""We have a full programme of excellent keynote talks, concurrent sessions and interactive opportunities that will provide the chance for delegates to explore the wealth of new knowledge that can be generated by bringing together experts across traditional disciplinary siloes to enable a better understanding of what contributes to health and wellbeing outcomes across the lifecourse and across generations. The programme this year highlights the inequalities that are experienced within and across populations in terms of differential opportunities for optimal development within the broader societal contexts in which they live. Inequalities have persisted across time and generations and understanding how to reduce their causes as well as mitigate their impacts and their societal and economic costs is at the core of much of the life course and longitudinal research that we collectively undertake." " |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.slls.org.uk/events/2024-slls-annual-international-conference |
| Description | Units, Symbols, and Terminology in the Physical Sciences in and for the Digital Era. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The aim of the meeting is to bring together several groups who are trying to combat similar problems - how to bring the standards for scientific nomenclature and terminology into the digital age. There will be representatives from: PSDI - Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure CODATA DRUM Task Group - Digital Representation of Units of Measure IUPAC Green Book - Quantities, Units, and Symbols in Physical Chemistry IUPAC Gold Book - Compendium of Chemical Terminology |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.psdi.ac.uk/event/ust-03-13/ |
| Description | University of Bristol Planning Anonymisation training |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | We have planned a bespoke anonymisation workshop for Centre for Sociodigital Futures |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | UoE Library & Institute of Public Health and Wellbeing meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | We had a productive meeting to explore how UKDA/S can support the centre and have established future plans, including a data dive initiative. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | iPres Conference: Key findings from the EOSC Association Long Term Data Preservation Task Force |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | From 2022 to 2024 the Long Term Data Preservation Task Force (LTDP-TF) of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Association brought together members, association experts and external contributors from diverse backgrounds across research infrastructures and the digital object management lifecycle to deliver a vision and recommendations for optimal preservation of FAIR digital objects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/records/13741260 |