NEWS & EVENTS

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Webinar week at UK Data Service

Social scientists from all sectors are invited to participate in a series of webinars designed to introduce the data and resources available through the newly formed UK Data Service.

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NEWS

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HASSET available as Linked Data

The Humanities and Social Science Electronic ...

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Digital curation costs

The UK Data Archive has joined 12 partners in 7 ...

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UK Data Service Census Support

Researchers and students who rely on UK Census ...

Call for papers: Opinions and Lifestyle Survey user meeting

The deadline for offers of papers to the Opinions ...

ESS invite to EU data users

Users of cross-national survey data are invited to ...

Royal Statistical Society News

The newly formed UK Data Service got an added ...

NCRM announces training schedule

The National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) ...

UK Data Service now online

After months of planning, the newly formed UK Data ...

Work with European microdata

Data Without Boundaries (DwB) offers a unique ...

Alcohol pricing debate data

Five datasets hosted by the Economic and Social ...

ESRC on European data proposals

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) ...

NEWS ARCHIVE

EVENTS

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Going digital18 January - 31 July 2013

various

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Archives at risk8 May 2013

British Library

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Generalised Additive Models8 May 2013

University of Essex

Teaching Statistics 13 May 2013Royal Statistical Society, London
UK Data Service data13 May 2013Online
The impact of social data14 May 2013Online
Managing your research data15 May 2013Online
UnDISCOVERed riches16 May 2013Online
Understanding Society 16 - 17 May 2013University of Essex
2011 Census Geography17 May 2013Online
Living Costs and Food Survey user meeting20 May 2013Brettenham House, London
RCMD Today21 May 2013Online
Ethics principals 23 May 2013London
HEA Social Sciences conference24 - 25 May 2013Liverpool
IASSIST 201328 - 31 May 2013Cologne, Germany
Opinions and Lifestyle Survey user meeting29 May 2013Brettenham House, London
Trust and Digital Preservation 4 - 5 June 2013Royal Irish Academy, Dublin
Census Support Census Geography6 June 2013Edinburgh University Main Library building, Edinburgh
Scottish Longitudinal Study 6 June 2013University of St Andrews
ADLS Safe Researcher Training Course13 June 2013Edinburgh
Impact of Demographic Change14 June 2013York
Social media in social research 24 June 2013London
The Census: Now and in the Future26 June 2013Local Government Association, London
HEA Social Sciences 8 July - 16 August 2013University of Essex
Understanding Society Research24 - 26 July 2013University of Essex
GESIS Summer School8 - 30 August 2013Cologne
Data for Health Research28 - 30 August 2013University of St Andrews
Economics Education 20135 - 6 September 2013University of Exeter Business School
BSPS Annual Conference 2013 9 - 11 September 2013University of Swansea
European Microdata Access23 - 27 September 2013Cologne, Germany
ESRC Festival of Social Science2 - 9 November 2013Various
EVENTS ARCHIVE

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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