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Building skills for sensitive data curation: early insights

  • 9 October 2026

Dr Hollydawn Murray and Dr Susmita Datta share early findings from the Sensitive Data Curation Skills Report, outline the priority skills gaps, and set out recommendations for the TRE community.

To understand why young people become NEET, we need to look back to childhood

  • 8 October 2026

Dr Nicholas Kofi Adjel discusses new research using the Millennium Cohort Study looking at how persistent childhood poverty and family adversity relate to NEET status at age 17.

How can you get your research in front of policymakers?

  • 1 October 2026

There are many ways to get your research in front of government, from a written submission to a longer-term secondment. Eve Little maps out the main routes in and the resources that can help along the way.

Applications for the 2027 Data Impact Fellows scheme are open!

  • 29 September 2026

Calling all researchers and data analysts who are early in their career! The UK Data Service has opened applications for the next cohort of Data Impact Fellows.

Carer’s Allowance, economic insecurity, and the politics of data

  • 23 September 2026

Gabriele Mari reflects on how survey data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study might shine another light on the economic insecurity felt by unpaid carers.

Data Impact Fellows – impact, redefined

  • 22 September 2026

We are continuing to mark 10 years of the Data Impact Fellow scheme, Eve Little explores the motivations that brought early career researchers to the scheme, and how it changed the way that they think about impact.

What is the ‘ethnicity data gap’ – and how is EVENS closing it?

  • 17 September 2026

Nissa Finney explains how the Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS) set out to close Britain’s ‘ethnicity data gap’ and introduces the new impact case study.

Data Impact Fellows – some key moments

  • 15 September 2026

We’re continuing to mark 10 years of the UK Data Service Data Impact Fellows scheme. Finn Dymond-Green looks celebrates the high points and looks forward to the next cohort of Data Impact Fellows, starting in 2027.

Using data for effective anti-poverty action: Join Resolve Poverty for a conversation about the Poverty Monitor

  • 9 September 2026

Tom Pottrill introduces the latest version of the North West Poverty Monitor for 2026 to reveal the scale and nature of poverty.

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