Past events
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Finding and accessing data from the UK Data Service
10:00 - 11:30 20 November 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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Introduction to anonymisation techniques for social sciences research data
10:00 - 11:30 19 November 2024
Researchers are often at a crossroads on how to share data collected from human participants ethically while complying with the rigorous standards set by UK General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act. Whether you're looking to refine your data management strategy or ensure your research...
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Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Prof Rob Black
14:00 - 16:00 18 November 2024
Join Digital Futures and Prof Rob Black for a free event on 18th November to explore the concepts of a proactive cyber defence strategy, through weaponising their trust and utilising deception techniques, and taking tactics from other domains to create more challenging defences for our attackers to face. This...
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Computational social science drop-in
13:00 - 14:00 12 November 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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Social Statistics Seminar Series - Lorraine Dearden
14:00 - 15:30 12 November 2024
The impact of violence on partnered women’s labour market outcomes: evidence from Australia Longitudinal survey data measuring domestic violence (DV) is very rare which makes looking at the short- and medium-term impact of the economic implications of DV in a reliable way difficult. One exception...
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Introduction to the UK Data Service
10:00 - 11:30 7 November 2024
The UK Data Service holds the UK’s largest collection of research data. This introductory workshop is for anyone with an interest in social research who wants to hear about the vast array of resources we offer. Participants will learn about the different types of quantitative and qualitative data...
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Introduction to copyright: Copyright and secondary data use
10:00 - 11:30 5 November 2024
This second session on copyright focuses on copyright considerations in the context of secondary data use. The first session, Introduction to copyright: Copyright and publishing, provides an overview on copyright considerations in both publishing and teaching. This free 90-minute online workshop will...
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Introduction to copyright: Copyright and publishing
10:00 - 11:30 29 October 2024
This workshop is the first of two on ‘Introduction to Copyright’. The first session focuses on copyright considerations in the context of publishing while the second session focuses on copyright issues in secondary data use. Copyright is an area of scholarly communications that affects every researcher...
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Role of Informed Consent in Ethical Data Collection, Sharing and Reuse
09:00 - 10:30 24 October 2024
Are you collecting research data involving human participants? Do you plan to share these data? Understanding the role of informed consent when working with human participants is ethically crucial. Join us for a free, 90-minute online workshop designed to guide researchers through the complexities of...
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Creating interactive visualisations with gender identity data: Live code demonstration in Python and R
09:00 - 11:00 23 October 2024
The most recent census in 2021 asked two novel, voluntary questions on sexuality and gender identity. By learning how to create interactive visualisations with gender identity data, we can improve our coding skills whilst exploring some interesting data along the way. The way that we communicate our...
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