Welcome to the UK Data Service

The UK’s social science data landscape faces challenges and opportunities in a time of change, says Alison Park, Deputy Executive Chair of the ESRC. Through it all, the UK Data Service remains an important part of the UK’s data infrastructure.

The UK Data Service is delighted to announce the winners of this year’s UK Data Service Dissertation Award, which celebrates undergraduate work based on archived data available through the service. Congratulations to the winners!

Every dataset tells a story – but it is the people who use census data who bring those stories to life. Whether you are mapping inequality, analysing housing trends, exploring health outcomes, or tracing how communities change over time - we want to hear from you.

In this Data Impact blog post, Rebecca Florisson, from the Work Foundation, discusses the issue of long-term insecure work.

This case study looks at the importance of social factors in mitigating disparities in the lives of young people in areas such as poverty, health, housing and discrimination.

The Children’s Society’s Good Childhood Reports provide an annual overview of the current state of children’s subjective well-being. Read about how they make use of data from our catalogue, in this case study.

Watch and learn all the latest data skills from our free webinars, training and video tutorials.

An introductory workshop designed to help participants understand the basics of managing research data effectively and responsibly. The workshop covers the key data principles FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) and CARE (Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics).

This workshop is an introduction to computational social science. A chance to understand and discuss what computational social science is, what it is good for, how to become a computational social scientist, and the basic steps to follow in an ideal computational social science research project.