Tom Pottrill, Policy Officer at Resolve Poverty, explains why devolved access to social security data is essential for local councils in tackling poverty.
Alison Park discusses the importance of UK social science data infrastructures and outlines some of the opportunities and challenges they face
Professors Vanessa Higgins and Jackie Carter highlight how UK Data Service online training events enable students to develop data skills while also offering wider benefits.
Jools Kasmire and Christina Magder introduce synthetic data, how it’s used, and what fidelity means, before introducing us to a project exploring the benefits of low-fidelity synthetic data.
Eve Little, one of our new Research Impact and Engagement Managers, shares her five standout picks from the UK Data Service Impact blog.
Sophie Gawryla, one of our new Research Impact and Engagement Managers, shares her favourite five posts from the UK Data Service Impact blog.
Jay Dominy, from UCL and CLOSER, introduces CLOSER’s new monthly Policy Surgeries and encourages researchers interested in informing policy to sign-up.
Jim Vine from 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.
Debora Price, 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.