We highlight the impact some of the data available via the UK Data Service is having in research, policy and public conversations around the area of poverty, deprivation and the cost-of-living crisis.
An update on our 2025 Data Impact Fellows and a chance to view their video.
We are delighted to introduce Alice Varley Pawley as one of our Data Impact Fellows. Alice shares her background, her current work and research and what she hopes to get out of the Fellows scheme.
Steve McEachern, Director of the UK Data Service, tells us a bit about his background, how he ended up as Director and what role he sees the Service playing in the years ahead.
In a first of its kind, Beth Armstrong introduces our latest Impact Case study which looks at the Food and You 2 dataset.
In this post Christian Reynolds, Reader in Food Policy at the Centre for Food Policy, City University, London, introduces the upcoming H3 X Food & You 2: Data Hackathon and Visualization Event.
We are delighted to introduce Michaela Pawley as one of our Data Impact Fellows. In this post Michaela shares a bit about her background, her current work and research and what she hopes to get out of the Fellows scheme.
Vanessa Higgins shares about an exciting new project that seeks to develop computational skills in social science data services. She explains how the project will work and how it will benefit data service staff around the world.
In the second part of this blog post, Dan Muir, Senior Economist at Youth Futures Foundation discusses what impact evaluation is and why it matters.