Jim Vine, a Senior Research Officer at Understanding Society, gives an overview of the new types of data being collected as part of the Innovation Panel, the UK Household Longitudinal Study’s test bed for survey methods.
In this blog post, Debora Price, Professor of Social Gerontology at the University of Manchester and Deputy Director of the UK Data Service, reflects on the critical importance of data preservation, recent international threats to data infrastructure, and why we must protect trusted data services as essential public institutions.
Ben Brindle, Researcher at the University of Oxford’s Migration Observatory, explains how the new Hong Kong BN(O) Migrants Panel Survey will shed light on migrants’ integration into UK economy and society.
Vassilis Routsis introduces an exciting Future Data Services project harnessing AI to improve access to census flow data.
Alana Bowen-Burford, Senior Analytical Impact Lead from the Office of National Statistics (ONS), introduces the 2025 ONS Research Excellence Awards.
Eve and Sophie, our new Research Impact and Engagement Managers, reflect on one of the key messages from the UK Census User Conference 2025. We also invite you to take part in our short survey so that we can better understand our users’ experiences.
We are delighted to introduce Roxana Pollack as one of our Data Impact Fellows. Roxana shares her background, her current work and research, and what she hopes to get out of the Fellows scheme.
Oyinlola Oyebode presents a personal view on the importance of the Health Survey for England and encourages participation in the ONS / DHSC questionnaire on the future of population health surveys.
Annie Flynn from the Royal Statistical Society introduces the launch of a new open access journal, RSS: Data Science and AI, and the relaunch of the digital platform Real World Data Science.