In the News – £10,000 for each millennial?

A report published this week by the Intergenerational Commission explores jobs and pay, housing, pensions and the role of the state in fairness across generations, using a wide range of data, much of which is available through the UK Data Service.…

ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize 2018

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) recently announced its shortlist for its Celebrating Impact Prize 2018. We’re delighted to see some of the researchers shortlisted have been working with data held by the UK Data Service and hope we’ve helped support their research and its impact.…

Crossing the line: Finishing my PhD (part 3)

William Shankley, UK Data Service Data Impact Fellow, recently completed his Sociology PhD at The University of Manchester. Across three blogs, he reviews how his PhD (which, in part, used 2011 Census data) went. In the third of three blog posts, he examines what the future of this area of research could be.…