Figures:

Figure 1 – Camilla’s Data Operation journey from September 24 – February 25

September 2024 – October 2024

  • First two weeks at the UK Data Service as Associate Director, Data Operations
  • Training – including safe researcher training

November 2024 – December 2024

  • Attended ONS Research Capability Event
  • Filmed for UK Data Service promotional video
  • Delivered two workshops at UK Data Service Away Day
  • Attended UKDS/ONS Concordat meeting
  • First draft of User Experience Strategy

January 2025 – February 2025

  • Began work on Catalogue Project
  • Recommissioned as Service Owner for ELSST

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Figure 2 – Camilla’s Data Operation journey from March 2025 – October 2025

March 2025 – April 2025

  • Hosted visit from SA-TIED
  • Exploring the use of Roberta LLM within the Curation team to assign topics to studies
  • DEA accreditation
  • Data Access Team Manager recruitment

May 2025 – June 2025

  • MoJ Synthetic dataset added to catalogue
  • Core Trust Seal Accreditation
  • Cyber Essentials Plus Accreditation
  • ISO27001 accreditiation
  • Facilitated ESRC Social Science Data Workshop
  • Attended IASSIST

July 2025 – August 2025

  • Curation Officer recruitment
  • UKDS/DfE Framework Agreement signed off
  • LSYPE 2 data released
  • Knowledge exchange meeting with ONS
  • Attended DARE Leadership Forum event
  • British Data Awards finalist

September 2025 – October 2025

  • Attended TRE Community Conference
  • Additional funding stream from ESRC released to develop support and training materials to compliment the new UKRI Research Data Policy
  • New Data Catalogue Released

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