CREATE & MANAGE DATA

ADVICE & TRAINING

We provide guidance and training on all aspects of data management and sharing, through web-based and printed advice, workshops and bespoke advice.

  • Our web-based and printed guidance is modularised to make it easier to seek the right kind of advice, be it on informed consent, anonymisation, data storage or data formats

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  • You can talk to one of our experts from our Research Data Management team at the Archive on any aspect of data management planning or sharing data - call us on +44 (0)1206 872974

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  • We offer a programme of training and workshops in many aspects of data management and sharing:

    • data management planning for researchers and Research Centres
    • consent, confidentiality and ethics in data sharing
    • data sharing for Research Ethics Committees
    • copyright and the use of existing resources
    • describing and contextualising data
    • data formats, data storage, back-up and security

    We run workshops ourselves and in conjunction with other organisations and are always happy to respond to requests to provide training.

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A QUICK GUIDE TO THE ARCHIVE  

1 of 10: We provide continuous access to the UK’s largest collection of digital research data in the social sciences
2 of 10: We hold thousands of data collections for social science research and teaching, quantitative and qualitative
3 of 10: Each of our data collections has a unique persistent identifier (DOI) that makes it easier to find and cite
4 of 10: We hold the only copy of many of the UK's large national surveys charting social research back decades
5 of 10: We are an established national archive at the forefront of managing, preserving, sharing and delivering data
6 of 10: We are certified to ISO 27001, the information security standard, and helped develop the Data Seal of Approval
7 of 10: We are a collaborative organisation supporting emerging and existing creators and users of data
8 of 10: We provide best practice guidance and training in managing and sharing research data
9 of 10: You won’t be able to find your family records on our site. You should visit a genealogical site instead
10 of 10: We don’t provide ready-made statistics, but using Nesstar you can view frequencies from popular surveys
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