Data Impact blog

Why fathers? A reflection on my academic and data journey

• 15 September 2020

Helen Norman shares her data and research journey in investigating the role of fathers in family work.…

Data journeys in a research career: investigating the effect of immigration on the labour market

• 17 April 2019

Nina Heyden, a US student on a Fulbright fellowship at the University of Essex, won the university’s 2018 Secondary Data Analysis Award for an MSc investigating the effects of immigration on the labour market. Here she discusses her journey of investigation with the data.…

Data journeys in a research career: Laura J Brown – How does the environment affect women’s choices around breastfeeding?

• 8 April 2019

Laura J Brown has used two British cohort studies to explore how environmental circumstances impact on whether women choose to breastfeed their babies.…

Data journeys in a research career #6: Rachel Oldroyd – Serendipity in a career in understanding foodborne illness with spatial data

• 5 September 2017

Rachel Oldroyd, @r_oldroyd, UK Data Service Data Impact Fellow and Quantitative Human Geographer at the University of Leeds, shares her journey into the world of geographical data and developing a career in understanding foodborne illness with spatial data.…

Data journeys in a research career #5: Marii Paskov – data challenges in social mobility research

• 30 August 2017

Marii Paskov, @MariiPaskov UK Data Service Data Impact Fellow and Research Officer at the University of Oxford, shares her journey about how, when it comes to social mobility research we need to be inventive in using both survey and administrative data.…

Data journeys in a research career #4: Sara Knight – through data science to impact and beyond

• 16 August 2017

Sarah Knight, @sarah_gis, UK Data Service Data Impact Fellow and PhD student in the Environment Department of the University of York, shares her journey through data science to impact and on to the Understanding Society Young Researcher prize this year.…

Data journeys in a research career #3: Bram Vanhoutte – Working with quantitative data

• 15 August 2017

Bram Vanhoutte @bvhoutte, UK Data Service Data Impact Fellow and Research Fellow in Sociology at The University of Manchester, shares his journey about how data can be a powerful tool in illustrating and addressing social inequalities.…

Data journeys in a research career #2: Claudia Zucca – Data analysis and the future of social sciences

• 2 August 2017

Claudia Zucca, UK Data Service Data Impact Fellow and and Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher working on the VOTEADVICE project, shares her journey about how, with data, it is possible to measure in an efficient and precise way the impact of a policy.…

Data journeys in a research career #1: Will Shankley – finding the data gap for Polish post accession EU migrants in the 2011 census

• 31 July 2017

William Shankley, UK Data Service Data Impact Fellow and Sociology PhD Student at The University of Manchester, shares his journey on navigating the 2011 census and finding the data gap for Polish post accession EU migrants.…