Past events
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Family Finance Surveys User Conference 2024
10 - 27 July 2024
Are you interested in research on family finances? Do you want to know the latest developments in family finance data from UK social surveys? Join us for the Family Finance Surveys User Conference 2024. This free annual conference is organised by the UK Data Service in collaboration with the Department...
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Health Studies User Conference 2024
1 - 27 July 2024
Do you want to know the latest developments in health data from social surveys? Are you interested in research using health data? This free conference is organised by the UK Data Service in collaboration with UCL and the National Centre for Social Research and will be held in London at UCL on 1 July...
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Exploring census microdata
09:00 - 10:30 17 June 2024
Census microdata provides multivariate samples of individuals and households from the England and Wales Census 2021. Similar samples will be released for the Northern Ireland and Scottish censuses in due course. With 5% samples of individuals and 1% samples of households available to registered users...
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Computational social science drop-in
12:00 - 13:00 11 June 2024
Join our free UK Data Service data drop-in to get or give some help on computational social science projects. This event will take place on Zoom. There will be a data expert from the UK Data Service present to chair the session. Feel free to join for general advice on getting data, learning to code and...
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Centre for Digital Trust and Society Seed Corn Showcase
13:30 - 16:00 16 May 2024
The Centre for Digital Trust and Society (CDTS) is excited to present the CDTS Seed Corn Showcase. This event celebrates the groundbreaking achievements of the four research projects funded in our 2022-2023 Seed Corn Funding. What is the CDTS Seed Corn Funding? Each year, CDTS awards funding to cutting-edge...
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Computational social science drop-in
12:00 - 13:00 9 April 2024
Join our free UK Data Service data drop-in to get or give some help on computational social science projects. This event will take place on Zoom. There will be a data expert from the UK Data Service present to chair the session. Feel free to join for general advice on getting data, learning to code and...
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Coding in public: Barriers to reproducibility
09:30 - 16:30 19 March 2024
Reproducibility is an increasingly popular and important concept for building trust into science and research. However, reproducibility entails barriers that may be especially difficult for researchers from traditionally excluded or underrepresented populations. This workshop dives into what reproducibility...
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Developing research questions
10:00 - 11:30 13 March 2024
In this free online workshop we will explore ways of developing effective questions to frame your social science research. We will use themes from across the Social Sciences to develop questions that help you to describe the social world, explore change over time and space, and look at associations between...
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Data Science in Practice
14:00 - 15:00 13 March 2024
Sixth and last event in the Data Science in Practice Series, organised by the Department of Social Statistics for any student interested in the use of Data Science in commercial settings. This week the speaker will be Chris Shumba, Head of Data Operations (Football) at Manchester United. 13th of March,...
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Finding and accessing data from the UK Data Service
11:00 - 12:30 12 March 2024
This introductory workshop is intended for anyone who wants to hear about finding data from the UK Data Service and contains interactive elements throughout. Participants will be given a practical overview of the tools that the service provides, particularly our data catalogue to help you make the most...
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