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The UK’s national programme for smart data research, home to six data services. Our mission is to unlock the power of data to improve lives. Funded by UKRI‪‬: www.sdruk.ukri.org. Subscribe to our newsletter: https://bit.ly/44bEXBN.

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Fantastic our @moragtreanor.bsky.social latest research has produced a report with @aberlourcharity.bsky.social and @opfs.org.uk - highlighting new research revealing the burden of debt is falling on women. #debt #poverty #female
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01.12.2025 11:42 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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📅 Webinar: Understanding barriers and avenues to data scraping
1 December 2025, 12:00pm to 1:45pm
Join Smart Data Research UK’s Social Platforms Data Access Taskforce for a webinar exploring the key challenges that researchers face when scraping data.
👉 www.sdruk.ukri.org/2025/11/19/w...

27.11.2025 11:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Webinar on data scraping Join Smart Data Research UK's Social Platforms Data Access Taskforce for a webinar on data scraping.

📅 New webinar: Understanding barriers and avenues to data scraping. On 1 December at 12:00pm, join our Social Platforms Data Access Taskforce for a session exploring the challenges that researchers face when scraping data.

👉 Full info: www.sdruk.ukri.org/2025/11/19/w...

20.11.2025 15:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Adolescent Health Survey - Digital Media Expert guidance shaping digital media questions in upcoming Adolescent Health Study.

📣 Digital Research Community!

The new UK Adolescent Health Study will follow 100k young people (8–18yrs) for 10+ years. Please share what digital technology measures you think it should include.

Please complete this survey (by 24th November 2025 @ 9AM): cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

14.11.2025 15:33 — 👍 30    🔁 29    💬 0    📌 0
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Smart data training for parliament The House of Commons Library and the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology are launching a new training collaboration with SDR UK.

🤝 We're excited to announce a new partnership with the House of Commons Library, and POST, UK Parliament.

Starting this month, we're launching a monthly training series to help parliamentary researchers access and use smart data.

👉 Read the full story here: www.sdruk.ukri.org/2025/11/12/s...

12.11.2025 15:03 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🎉New on the Data Impact blog🎉

This year, the UK Data Service reached an incredible milestone – over 10,000 data collections are now discoverable through our Data Catalogue. In this two-part series we discuss the journey to this milestone and why it matters.

blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/10000-data-c...

12.11.2025 12:47 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Catch up on SDR UK's webinar Catch up on SDR UK's webinar - Smart data for economic growth – jobs, money, and living standards, which took place in November 2025.

🎥 Missed our webinar?

Catch up on 'Smart data for economic growth – jobs, money, and living standards'.

Learn how new data sources, such as banking and online activity, can unlock fresh insights into productivity, jobs, and living standards.

👉 Watch now: www.sdruk.ukri.org/2025/11/11/c...

11.11.2025 17:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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📈 Event: 11 November 2025 - Smart Data Research UK hosts a webinar on "Smart data for economic growth – jobs, money, and living standards". Our panel will discuss how smart data can help reshape economic analysis and shape the future of policymaking. Sign up here: www.sdruk.ukri.org/2025/10/06/w...

05.11.2025 11:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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🎉New on the Data Impact blog🎉

Richard Welpton (@rwelpton.bsky.social), from the ESRC, outlines the evolving nature of data services and the role of the ESRC's Future Data Services initiative in meeting the growing needs of researchers.

blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/future-data-...

04.11.2025 10:07 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Future Data Services Phase 1: Fixing the Data Pipeline ESRC has a proud history of investing in data services. Since our formation, 60 years ago, we have invested in a diverse range of infrastructures to cater for a variety of traditional and new data typ...

📣 The Future Data Services report is out! We’re proud to have contributed to this review, and we look forward to working with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to support the implementation of its recommendations.

Read the report: zenodo.org/records/1735...

04.11.2025 12:11 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Evidence Week at Westminster, organised by @senseaboutsci.bsky.social, has been a valuable opportunity to demo the power of smart data to inform policymaking.

Here's Magdalena Getler from our Financial Data Service @smartdatafoundry.bsky.social and our Katherine Holden reflecting on the experience.

04.11.2025 15:15 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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We’re at Westminster today for #EvidenceWeek with @senseaboutsci.bsky.social. Our Financial Data Service (FINDS) @smartdatafoundry.bsky.social is presenting ‘Smart data for a real-world view of emerging financial hardship’ to MPs, peers, and parliamentary staff - bit.ly/47vPUyK

04.11.2025 09:16 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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This week, we’re at #EvidenceWeek in Parliament with @senseaboutsci.bsky.social. Our Financial Data Service (FINDS) @smartdatafoundry.bsky.social is presenting ‘Smart data for a real-world view of emerging financial hardship’ to MPs, peers and parliamentary staff - bit.ly/47vPUyK

03.11.2025 14:07 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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📹 Join SDR UK on 11 November (11:00 am) for a webinar: ‘Smart data for economic growth – jobs, money, and living standards’. Part of a new series of live events exploring the opportunities and challenges of using emerging forms of data in research.

👉 Register now: www.sdruk.ukri.org/2025/10/06/w...

03.11.2025 11:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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⚡ Building a smart energy data platform. Our Smart Energy Data Service (SENSE) @energysyscat.bsky.social is developing a system combining various data sources to provide insights into when people use energy, how much they consume, and how the energy network operates.

👉 Discover more: bit.ly/3JAjew0

30.10.2025 13:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Our Financial Data Service (FINDS) @smartdatafoundry.bsky.social has launched its Fellowships! Up to £300,000 is available for 3 - 4 projects that use the team's deidentified datasets to explore societal challenges - open to a broad range of researchers. Read on below 👇

29.10.2025 10:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We're looking forward to Evidence Week 2025, the annual event organised by @senseaboutsci.bsky.social.

On 3 November, our Financial Data Service at @smartdatafoundry.bsky.social will lead a webinar “Smart data, smart policy: Visualising emerging financial hardship”.

👉 Full info: bit.ly/3L5jkvV

23.10.2025 12:50 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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📆 New webinar: Smart data for economic growth – jobs, money, and living standards

11 November 2025 – 11:00am to midday

Join Smart Data Research UK for an event exploring the opportunities and challenges of using emerging forms of data in research.

👉 Register here: bit.ly/47ysRV5

20.10.2025 14:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Day one of the Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) Conference in Glasgow. The world of health data science is converging!

SDR UK’s focus is doing good things with ‘smart data’ - data generated whenever we engage with the digital world.

If you’re at the event, please come and say hi 👋

15.10.2025 12:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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👋 See you in Glasgow!

Tomorrow and Thursday, we’ll be at the Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) Conference.

We’re looking forward to meeting participants and chatting about our work to provide more smart data to researchers.

Please drop by our stand to say hello!

14.10.2025 11:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ethical and legal guidelines in data sharing - UK Data Service 16 Oct 2025 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am - Data management is essential to make sure that well-organised, well-documented, high quality and shareable research data can be produced from our research…

💡 Did you know we run a free introductory training series every spring and autumn to introduce different aspects of the UK Data Service?

Our next workshop is on ethical and legal guidelines in data sharing:

📅 16 October 2025
⏰ 10:00-11:30
📍 Online
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09.10.2025 08:07 — 👍 2    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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International fellowships to explore AI’s impact on science New £4 million programme funds early career researchers in the UK, US and Canada to investigate how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming science.

We're pleased to be funding early career researchers to explore how AI is transforming science.

The UK Metascience Unit has announced a cohort of 29 researchers that will receive funding through the AI Metascience Fellowship Programme.

Read more: www.ukri.org/news/interna...

09.10.2025 10:36 — 👍 18    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 2
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We’re launching the Economic Wellbeing Explorer in London on 5 November, 9:30–11:30 am.
This powerful platform provides trusted data and insights to tackle inequality and strengthen resilience across Britain.
Join us: bit.ly/4nE5bEt.

10.10.2025 09:10 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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📢 Register now for the 'Data Storytelling for Digital Research Infrastructure' workshops in Oxford this November and December, addressing themes around skills gaps and exploring how storytelling can transform the way we communicate data insights! For more info, visit tinyurl.com/5bb4z7u2

25.09.2025 12:22 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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🎉New on the Data Impact blog🎉

Sharon Bolton, Data Publishing and Curation Manager at the UK Data Service, discusses the Service’s CURATE(D) approach to managing datasets.

blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/curated-fram...

23.09.2025 08:16 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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A new blog has just dropped from Gordon Baggott, Chief Data Scientist at Smart Data Foundry, home to our Financial Data Service. Gordon chaired an SDR UK "Doing good things with data” panel at the recent @royalstatsoc.bsky.social conference in Edinburgh.

👉 www.sdruk.ukri.org/2025/09/22/d...

22.09.2025 15:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#ADRUKConf25 is concluded! 🎉

Highlights from Day 2 included Rt Hon Mark Drakeford MS’ rallying cry for bolder research, Dr Nisha de Silva’s keynote on MoJ Data First ⚖️, inspiring sessions + our awards 🏆.

Thanks to all who joined - more photos on the website soon! 📸

19.09.2025 09:28 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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👏Thank you @adruk2025.bsky.social for making us so welcome at your brilliant conference in Cardiff.

A wonderful opportunity to meet such a large number of passionate, data-loving researchers - all in one place!

Congrats on an outstanding event Emma Gordon, Stephanie Lee and team!

19.09.2025 09:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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💡 The conversation has been flowing @adruk2025.bsky.social in Cardiff. We’ve been having lots of chats about data linkage and getting smart data to researchers. Do drop by our stand near the front door! #ADRUKConf25

17.09.2025 15:38 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

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