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Ana Morales-Gomez explores the ways that data from the UK Data Service collection can be used with students in the classroom.

Today’s young people have grown up surrounded by unprecedented amounts of information, which is sometimes hard to sift through. Although overwhelming at first glance, this ...

Naomi Saint and Sarah Foxen introduce the UK Parliament’s Knowledge Exchange unit and the importance of data in Parliament.

If you think of the UK Parliament, words that spring to mind could be politics, opinions, debates, votes, elections, scrutiny.

How about data?

Not necessarily something ...

Jo Webb from the UK Data Archive, a partner in the UK Data Service, explores what upending a very familiar visualisation can tell us about how people deal with change.


In my last blog post I discussed change uk rcs data management using Marie Kondo’s programme as an example. The idea for the post ...

Jeannine Beeken Veerle Van den Eynden Jeannine Beeken and Veerle Van den Eynden of the UK Data Service, report on enhancements and optimisation of the search functionality of the data catalogue.


Since the launch of our new content and access management system and data catalogue a year ago, we ...

James Scott and Christine Woods, both Senior User Support and Training Officers (Secure Access Training) at the UK Data Service, introduce us to the Statistical Disclosure Control Handbook that they have been working on as part of the Safe Data Access Professionals (SDAP) group.

Background
There ...

We’ve asked our #DataImpactFellows to share a day in their life.

Stuart Campbell shares about the first time he presented at a conference.

The first conference I went to was early on in my PhD. It was at a very classy venue and we were given a nice lunch by the organisers (and that counts!).

I ...

A philosophical perspective

Stuart Mills is a PhD researcher at the Manchester Metropolitan University Future Economies Research Centre. His research includes behavioural economics, behavioural public policy, hypernudging and data politics.

I met Stuart at #OpenDataManchester’s taiwan rcs data ...

We’ve asked our #DataImpactFellows to share a day in their life.

Christian Reynolds currently splits his time between two jobs. In this post he tells us about seeing data impact in action during a day in his life as a Technical Specialist at WRAP. In a future switzerland rcs data post, he plans to ...

Ben BrindleBen Brindle, a PhD student at the University of Brighton and one of our #DataImpactFellows, discusses what he learnt on the UK Data Service’s Safe Researcher training course recently.

The UK Data Service provides spain rcs data research access to wide array of datasets covering all ...

Rhys Davies explores how he uncovered problems with official UK government figures on trade union presence and coverage – and how the government recognised and corrected the error.

The decline in union membership has been well documented for many economies across the globe in recent decades. The ...