Alex Freeman and Tim Fellows introduce a new integration between the open research platform Octopus.ac and the UK Data Service, letting researchers cite, build on and track reuse of data more easily than ever before.
Dr Emma Bridger (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 (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. In this first post, we explore how twenty-eight different datasets in the UK Data Service collection helped underpin this work.
Rodney Appleyard reflects on a recent collaboration with CESSDA’s Communications team at the organisation’s landmark 2026 conference in Bergen.
Emma Wade introduces the 2026 ONS Research Excellence Awards, 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 Next Steps data.