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Thinking creatively about the data skills gap: how online training events are supporting SHAPE Higher Education students

  • 2 September 2025

Professors Vanessa Higgins and Jackie Carter highlight how UK Data Service online training events enable students to develop data skills while also offering wider benefits.

Not real – but really useful: synthetic data – a cost-benefit analysis of its practical value

  • 26 August 2025

Jools Kasmire and Christina Magder introduce synthetic data, how it’s used, and what fidelity means, before introducing us to a project exploring the benefits of low-fidelity synthetic data.

The voices behind the data: how the UK Data Service connects numbers with stories

  • 21 August 2025

Eve Little, one of our new Research Impact and Engagement Managers, shares her five standout picks from the UK Data Service Impact blog.

The voices in the data: how the UK Data Service helps us hear what is often missed

  • 19 August 2025

Sophie Gawryla, one of our new Research Impact and Engagement Managers, shares her favourite five posts from the UK Data Service Impact blog.

Collecting new data for innovative research

  • 5 August 2025

Jim Vine from Understanding Society gives an overview of the new types of data being collected as part of the Innovation Panel, the UK Household Longitudinal Study’s test bed for survey methods.

Guardians of the record: why data preservation matters now more than ever

  • 31 July 2025

Debora Price, Deputy Director of the UK Data Service, reflects on the critical importance of data preservation, recent international threats to data infrastructure, and why we must protect trusted data services as essential public institutions.

Bringing census flow data to life with large language models

  • 29 July 2025

Vassilis Routsis introduces an exciting Future Data Services project harnessing AI to improve access to census flow data.

Learning using the British Social Attitudes survey: New materials from the UK Data Service for teachers, students and learners

  • 8 October 2024

Rihab Dahab introduces new teaching and learning resources that have been developed for the British Social Attitudes survey.

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