Matthew Woollard, Director of the UK Data Service, discusses the responses to the ONS consultation on the Approved Researcher Scheme.
Evidence-based social policy depends on access to rich supplies of high-quality data. But how can we create, curate, enrich and reuse data already collected by government departments and researchers? James Nazroo and Matthew Woollard of the UK Data Service explore the network of trust and expertise that ensures a cost-effective pipeline of productive, policy-relevant data.
In this post, originally published on JISC’s Research Data Management blog, Louise Corti and Richard Welpton from UK Data Service (UKDS) talk about the services they provide to UK researchers.
We’re all things technical! Fiona Cameron, Application Developer at the UK Data Service, discusses exciting developments from the Architecture Task Force sessions at the Statistical Information System Collaboration Community (SIS-CC) Annual Workshop in Paris.
Daniel Laurison and Mike Savage, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics, discuss the Great British Class Survey and the exciting possibilities for research and policy now it is available from the UK Data Service.
Karen Dennison, the UK Data Service’s Collections Development Manager, discusses a new initiative to free data in our collection from overly-restrictive access conditions.
Varsha Khodiyar, Data Curation Editor, Scientific Data, writes on behalf of the journal to announce that the UK Data Service’s ReShare online data repository for the archiving and sharing of research data is now an officially recommended repository for Scientific Data and the Nature Publishing Group.
Susan Noble, the UK Data Service’s International Data Service Manager, discusses the collaborative approach taken to developing international statistical information systems.
In the first of a new series focusing on the impact of data use in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014, Dr Jennifer Mindell, Reader in Public Health in the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health at UCL, discusses the role of the Health Survey for England in informing obesity policy.