Dr Emma Bridger, from the University of Leicester, explores how network analysis and data from Understanding Society can help unpick the complex links between psychological symptoms and socioeconomic disadvantage.
Dr Lucas Paulo da Silva, Senior Research Associate at the University of Zurich, uses British Election Study data from the UK Data Service to explore how politically cross-pressured voters – those who don’t fit nearly left or right – choose their news.
A comprehensive study of inequality was launched recently by the Institute for Fiscal Studies. In this second post, we explore how this review using twenty-eight different datasets in the UK Data Service collection is already creating impact.
A comprehensive study of inequality was launched recently by the Institute for Fiscal Studies. We explore how data available from the UK Data Service helped underpin it and how it is already creating impact.
Rodney Appleyard reflects on a recent collaboration with CESSDA’s Communications team at the organisation’s landmark conference, and what he learned from the event’s international speakers.
Emma Wade introduces the ONS Research Excellence Awards which are back for 2026, celebrating the people and projects using secure data to generate new insights, inform policy, and deliver public good.
Professor Emeritus Nick Hardwick draws on two decades of HM Inspectorate of Prisons survey to look at what the data reveals about male prisoners’ experiences of safety, and discusses why this archive is a resource worth protecting.
Corine Driessens discusses identifying the characteristics of the ‘missing middle’, young people experiencing mental health problems but not accessing services, using the Next Steps cohort.
Dr Ferhat Tura, from Bournemouth University, draws on the Crime Survey for England and Wales to look at which children are most likely to be victims of crime, and why disabled children in particular need more attention in how we keep children safe.