Past News

• 23 January 2012: Webinar: Introducing ESDS data
• 8 December 2011: Help desk closing over Christmas and the New Year
• 29 November 2011: ESRC offers 10.8 million GBP for secondary data analysis projects
• 27 November 2011: Revision of the National Data Strategy
• 17 November 2011: IASSIST 2012: call for papers
• 1 November 2011: Happiness CAN help you live longer
• 19 October 2011: National Child Development Study (NCDS) and 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70): one-day introductory workshop in London
• 19 October 2011: Millennium Cohort Study: MCS4 Introductory Workshop
• 28 September 2011: New training resource supports data planning and sharing
• 22 September 2011: Growing up in Scotland
• 22 September 2011: Autumn newsletters are here
• 21 September 2011: Round 3 Young Lives data now available
• 21 September 2011: Using buses keeps over 60s slim
• 21 September 2011: ESDS impact evaluation to consult users and providers
• 20 September 2011: ESDS data are driving innovations in teaching
• 15 September 2011: Data from Waves 1 and 2 of the Understanding Society Innovation Panel are now available to download
• 14 September 2011: Login unavailable Tuesday 27 September 2011
• 6 September 2011: Booking now open for INSPIRE for the social sciences workshop, 7 October 2011
• 31 August 2011: Tough love stops binge drinking, Demos claims
• 15 August 2011: Public consultation on open data
• 14 August 2011: Assessment of statistics on Poverty, Benefit Take-Up and Household Resources
• 11 August 2011: Online services unavailable on 27 August 2011
• 11 August 2011: IVF children have bigger vocabulary than unplanned babies
• 4 August 2011: Staff vacancy: Data and Services Developer, UK Data Archive
• 29 July 2011: New ESRC Quantitative Methods resources for undergraduate teaching webpages
• 22 July 2011: Online services unavailable on 9 and 27 August 2011
• 29 June 2011: Middle children are most likely to bully their brothers and sisters
• 23 June 2011: Staff vacancy: Senior services and data repository developer, UK Data Archive
• 13 June 2011: Secure Data Service: what researchers need to know
• 13 June 2011: Latest editions of newsletters
• 13 June 2011: ESRC research data policy changes: are you (and your data) prepared?
• 12 June 2011: If you are happy and you know it
• 3 June 2011: Looking for data on housing and the local environment? - updated
• 2 June 2011: Newsletter survey results are in
• 19 May 2011: Book now for UK Data Archive webinar on data management and planning
• 18 May 2011: Invitation to tender: Economic impact evaluation of ESDS
• 10 May 2011: How to set up and run a data service: the challenges of social science data
• 6 May 2011: JISC: Call for projects in developing digital literacies
• 5 May 2011: Staff vacancy: Data and Services Developer
• 3 May 2011: New guide to managing and sharing data
• 15 April 2011: The UK Data Archive thesauri under review
• 21 March 2011: Readership survey on UK Data Archive News and ESDS News
• 20 March 2011: Latest edition of newsletters
• 18 March 2011: Managing research data: a growing priority, a fast-moving discipline
• 15 March 2011: £24 million boost to UK's biggest study of babies and young children
• 9 March 2011: One in 10 take medication for a good night's sleep
• 24 February 2011: New teaching resource for the LSYPE
• 22 February 2011: Millennium Cohort Study: MCS4 Introductory Workshop
• 11 February 2011: ESDS Annual Report 2009-2010
• 10 February 2011: Staff vacancy: Part-time IT Support Assistant, UK Data Archive
• 9 February 2011: Call for proposals for the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England
• 8 February 2011: National Child Development Study (NCDS) and 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70): one-day introductory workshop in London
• 4 February 2011: Launch of ONS vodcasts
• 4 February 2011: English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) user day
• 19 January 2011: Research methods training bursaries
• 14 January 2011: Researchers invited to share views on future EU research needs
• 23 December 2010: Women feel pressure from profit sharing schemes
• 15 December 2010: Director takes a council seat at US archive
• 15 December 2010: Ensuring secure data: the ISO 270001 standard in practice
• 15 December 2010: New teaching tools: bringing real-world data into the classroom
• 14 December 2010: Staff vacancies at the UK Data Archive
• 10 December 2010: Help desk closing over Christmas and the New Year
• 7 December 2010: Happiness: More questions than answers?
• 26 November 2010: Analysis: Measuring well-being is one thing, increasing it is another
• 23 November 2010: Staff vacancy: Part-time Administrative Assistant, UK Data Archive
• 15 November 2010: Girls who have disrupted childhoods get pregnant younger
• 11 November 2010: Who owns your research data?: legal and ethical issues in using and sharing data
• 8 November 2010: Search for survey questions
• 3 November 2010: Time for the old to stick up for the young
• 2 November 2010: NCRM consultation on research methods training
• 26 October 2010: Removal of automatic redirects on 1 November 2010
• 26 October 2010: Michael Young Prize Winner
• 26 October 2010: Staff vacancies at the UK Data Archive
• 5 October 2010: Latest issue of newsletters
• 1 October 2010: Call for papers: IASSIST 2011
• 29 September 2010: Millennium Cohort Study: MCS4 Introductory Workshop
• 28 September 2010: National Child Development Study and 1970 British Cohort Study: Introductory Workshop
• 16 September 2010: Booking open for workshop on managing and sharing social science research data, Leeds
• 10 September 2010: Digital Preservation Coalition sponsors Archive workshop
• 27 August 2010: Statistics User Forum annual conference 2010
• 25 August 2010: Booking open for workshop on managing and sharing social science research data, Cardiff
• 19 August 2010: Staff vacancy: Relu Data and Support Services Officer, UK Data Archive
• 12 August 2010: How to set up and run a data service: the challenges of social science data
• 9 August 2010: Personality types affect women's approach to childbirth, according to study - article from Guardian
• 6 August 2010: Report on current data management practices
• 1 August 2010: The new Archive Director takes over
• 26 July 2010: One in seven girls pregnant by age of eighteen, government study finds - article from Guardian
• 22 July 2010: Natcen Learning schedule of courses for winter and spring 2010-2011
• 16 July 2010: User survey of ESDS
• 15 July 2010: The UK Data Archive showcases its new brand identity
• 12 July 2010: Marriage does not make relationships stable, says IFS think tank - article from Telegraph
• 9 July 2010: Mid-Term Review of ESDS
• 14 June 2010: Toddlers who start nursery before third birthday do better at primary school - article from Telegraph
• 6 May 2010: Open House at the UK Data Archive
• 5 May 2010: Staff vacancy: Communications Manager, UK Data Archive
• 4 May 2010: Managing and sharing social science research data
• 26 April 2010: Marriage does little for child development, study finds
• 20 April 2010: Staff vacancies in the Secure Data Service at the UK Data Archive
• 7 April 2010: Biomedical data: ESDS Longitudinal and Medical Research Council
• 7 April 2010: BHPS Survey development opens up exciting new research possibilities
• 26 March 2010: Money only makes you happy if you have more than neighbours
• 22 March 2010: Parents of twins more likely to divorce
• 16 March 2010: Is social mobility dead?
• 16 March 2010: Absent-mindedness is a middle-aged male problem, research shows
• 2 March 2010: Underclass of pre-school children emerging, says report
• 23 February 2010: Parents fatalistic over school choice
• 22 February 2010: National Child Development Study (NCDS) and 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70): one-day introductory workshop in London
• 22 February 2010: Introductory workshop to MCS4
• 17 February 2010: Grandparents who care for children boost obesity risk
• 15 February 2010: Staff vacancy: Data and Support Services Officer, UK Data Archive
• 12 February 2010: UK Data Archive Director
• 9 February 2010: The pinch: how the baby-boomers stole their children's future by David Willetts
• 22 January 2010: Questionnaire survey of UKDA and ESDS users
• 19 January 2010: Strengthening Data Security: an Holistic Approach
• 10 January 2010: Of course class still matters...
• 6 January 2010: David Cameron's downgrade...
• 23 December 2009: Staff vacancy: Part-time Research Data Management Senior Officer, UK Data Archive
• 15 December 2009: Strategic Advisor for Data Resources
• 14 December 2009: Greetings for Christmas and the New Year
• 12 December 2009: SDS to move from pilot to full service
• 9 December 2009: Online services will run unattended from 24 December 2009 to 4 January 2010
• 20 November 2009: Data management grants
• 16 November 2009: Cyberbullying is as common as name-calling, study shows
• 10 November 2009: Staff vacancy: Research Data Management Senior Officer
• 9 November 2009: Tough love: The good parents guide
• 20 October 2009: Opening up research for better returns on taxpayers investment
• 16 October 2009: Slides now available from LSYPE one-day introductory workshop
• 1 October 2009: Crime theme for ESDS
• 28 September 2009: Staff vacancy: Resource Discovery Officer, UK Data Archive
• 25 September 2009: IASSIST 2010 call for papers
• 22 September 2009: Staff vacancy: Head of Information Development and Programming, UK Data Archive
• 17 September 2009: New National Statistician
• 8 September 2009: Recession leads to more sleepless nights, study claims
• 5 September 2009: Managing and sharing research data: focus on consent, confidentiality and disclosure
• 24 August 2009: Introductory workshop to MCS3
• 6 August 2009: Data Management for ESRC Research Centres and Programmes
• 3 August 2009: Where is Athens?
• 30 July 2009: Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LSYPE): one-day introductory workshop
• 27 July 2009: National Child Development Study (NCDS) and 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70): one-day introductory workshop in London
• 22 July 2009: National Address Register
• 14 July 2009: Survey Resources Network interim report
• 8 July 2009: Harman accuses Tories of...
• 29 June 2009: UKDA service unavailable for users of Athens authentication between 10 a.m. and 12 noon on 6 July 2009
• 29 June 2009: Dreaming of a Ministry of Imagination
• 25 June 2009: New ALSPAC dataset
• 9 June 2009: The Neville Butler Memorial Prize
• 9 June 2009: The Michael Young Prize
• 27 May 2009: Why having girls makes fathers more leftwing
• 22 May 2009: New documents on data and documentation processing - updated
• 21 May 2009: Are researchers of today equipped for the digital future?
• 12 May 2009: Comparative Cross-National Research Methods
• 7 May 2009: Problem with latest release of BHPS data
• 22 April 2009: Funding for workshops on digitisation and e-content
• 20 April 2009: There's a light at the end of a five-year tunnel
• 16 April 2009: A single login for users from 1 August 2009
• 1 April 2009: Busy times for ESDS Longitudinal
• 31 March 2009: Grandparents should be paid for childcare, says report
• 31 March 2009: National Child Development Study (NCDS) and 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70): one-day introductory workshop in Scotland
• 24 March 2009: New guidance on managing and sharing data
• 23 March 2009: ESDS drive to recruit more librarian facilitators
• 12 March 2009: IASSIST 2009 conference registration open
• 11 March 2009 : Datasets Programme Manager at the British LIbrary
• 9 March 2009: Tax credits DO help to break up families: Parents encouraged to divorce to claim higher benefits, says report
• 16 February 2009: Happily, children don't have such a hard time
• 12 February 2009: Vacancies at the UK Data Archive
• 5 February 2009: Introductory workshop to MCS3
• 20 January 2009: Staff vacancies at the UK Data Archive
• 19 January 2009: National Child Development Study (NCDS) and 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70): a workshop for potential users
• 14 January 2009: Data and Support Service Officer, UK Data Archive
• 23 December 2008: New Data Management and Sharing Guidance
• 19 December 2008: Homeowners use remortgaging for day-to-day cash, says study
• 17 December 2008: The significance of data management for social survey research
• 8 December 2008: Studying Lifestyles: Resources Past, Present and Future
• 8 December 2008: Online services will run unattended from 24 December 2008 to 4 January 2009
• 1 December 2008: Sharing Research Data: Pioneers, Policies and Protocols
• 28 November 2008 : The Bremen Workshop: Call for Participation
• 22 November 2008: Ethnicity and the five-year-old
• 19 November 2008: ESDS - what is in it for librarians?
• 13 November 2008: Call for papers: IASSIST/IFDO 2009: Mobile Data and the Life Cycle
• 12 November 2008: UKDA to provide Secure Data Service
• 23 October 2008: English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) user day
• 22 October 2008: Babies with parents in their 30s and 40s get better start, says study
• 14 October 2008: Advancing Resource Discovery
• 9 October 2008: In the language of love, money talks (National Child Development Study)
• 30 September 2008: Married parents twice as likely to stay together as couples in live-in relationships (British Household Panel Survey)
• 24 September 2008: Introductory Workshop to MCS3
• 17 September 2008: Vacancy: Senior SARs and Government Microdata Development Officer
• 17 September 2008: Married couples who lose their jobs more likely to divorce
• 16 September 2008: Job Vacancies for the Secure Data Service at the UK Data Archive
• 15 September 2008: National Child Development Study (NCDS) and 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70): a workshop for potential users
• 11 September 2008: Education: Black Caribbean children held back by institutional racism in schools, says study (Longitudinal Study of Young People in England)
• 28 August 2008: Britain's happiest places mapped
• 26 August 2008: Online services unavailable on 06 September 2008
• 18 August 2008: Online services unavailable on 23 August
• 8 August 2008: Ministry of Justice - Data sharing review
• 28 July 2008: Research Resources Board Membership
• 24 July 2008: What's in store for ESRC researchers?
• 24 July 2008: £28.5 million investment for groundbreaking new research facility
• 22 July 2008: It is true ... old men really ARE grumpier than women
• 17 July 2008: Was there ever a golden age?
• 9 July 2008: Divorce still damaging to children despite being more acceptable
• 8 July 2008: Now we are 50 report published
• 2 July 2008: Information handling training for researchers
• 24 June 2008: ESRC Placement Fellowship in Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
• 15 June 2008: Olympic Games Impact
• 15 June 2008: Report on joining the ESRC Festival of Social Science
• 15 June 2008: New statistics service from UKDA
• 10 June 2008: Publication and Quality Assurance of Research Data Outputs
• 4 June 2008: Official Release of the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) 3.0
• 22 May 2008: Staff vacancy: Senior SARs and Government Microdata Development Officer, CCSR
• 21 May 2008: Staff vacancies: Systems and Applications Developers
• 21 May 2008: We're happy to have met you...
• 15 May 2008: Keeping research data safe
• 14 May 2008: Property prices fuel inheritances
• 9 May 2008: Staff vacancy: Resource Services Business Manager, UKDA
• 24 April 2008: National Child Development Study (NCDS) and 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70): a workshop for potential users
• 23 April 2008: Workshops on managing and sharing research data
• 17 April 2008: UK move worsens maternal habits
• 4 April 2008: Introductory workshop to MCS3
• 2 April 2008: New preservation policy
• 12 March 2008: Sure Start young 'behave better' - Millennium Cohort Study
• 4 March 2008: The baby blues: study finds a third of mothers slip down career ladder - British Household Panel Survey
• 28 February 2008: Damage to unborn baby from smoking negligible in the first five months - National Child Development Study
• 21 February 2008: National Child Development Study (NCDS) and 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70): a workshop for potential users
• 21 February 2008: Staff vacancy: ESDS Social History Data Manager
• 13 February 2008: Vacancy: Research Associate at National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS)
• 29 January 2008: Scots tots are the UK's brightest - Millennium Cohort Study
• 9 January 2008 : Call for papers for GSS Methodology Conference 2008
• 3 January 2008: Managing and sharing research data
• 18 December 2007: Longitudinal Study of Young People in England - Research Projects
• 13 December 2007: NCeSS announces new nodes
• 12 December 2007: Season's Greetings
• 11 December 2007: Director of the UK Data Archive to join the British Library Advisory Council
• 30 November 2007: New newsletter and brochure from DDI Alliance
• 30 November 2007: StORe extended
• 21 November 2007: Staff vacancy: Resource and Management Services Director, UK Data Archive
• 21 November 2007: Uncovering hidden resources: extending the coverage of online catalogues
• 21 November 2007: Usage of ESDS Longitudinal data
• 11 October 2007: IASSIST 2008 - call for papers
• 11 October 2007: Commissioned outputs service
• 1 October 2007: Introductory workshop to Millennium Cohort Study (MCS)
• 17 September 2007: New Service Manager post for ESDS Longitudinal and ESDS International micro data
• 17 September 2007: NCDS age 11 essays
• 17 September 2007: New household panel study
• 14 September 2007: NCDS and BCS70: a workshop for data users planning studies on psychological health, subjective well-being and life satisfaction
• 22 August 2007: Cooking numbers and eating words: using data to investigate food, lifestyle and health - report
• 8 August 2007: Urgent maintenance at the University of Essex
• 23 July 2007: Projects Funded under the Survey Design and Measurement Initiative
• 20 June 2007: e-Society programme
• 20 June 2007: Enhanced access to ESDS online guides
• 1 June 2007: Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) data management and analysis: two day introductory workshop
• 30 May 2007: First International Digital Preservation Challenge
• 24 May 2007: New household panel study - UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS)
• 9 May 2007: New guide to documentation processing techniques
• 1 May 2007: National Child Development Study (NCDS) and 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70): a workshop for potential users
• 5 April 2007: ESRC/TNA Social Science Scoping Study - participants wanted
• 27 March 2007 : Call for submissions for Third International Conference on e-Social Science
• 22 March 2007: Upgrade to new version of Nesstar
• 20 March 2007: New CESSDA web site
• 20 March 2007: Step-by-step ESDS Longitudinal guides
• 12 March 2007: New guide to data processing techniques
• 12 March 2007: Renewed funding for ESDS
• 27 February 2007: Families, youth, community and justice: new survey datasets for social research
• 13 February 2007: ESDS Annual Report
• 12 January 2007: Cooking numbers and eating words: using data to investigate food, lifestyle and health
• 19 December 2006: Longitudinal Study of Young People in England
• 7 December 2006: County-level data from the 1970 British Cohort Study now available
• 27 November 2006: Highlighted collections from the past year
• 22 November 2006: National Child Development Study (NCDS) and 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70): a workshop for potential users
• 15 November 2006: Call for papers for IASSIST 2007
• 1 November 2006: Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) data management and analysis: two day introductory workshop
• 17 October 2006: Announcing two new senior appointments
• 13 October 2006: Funding for development of a new UK Longitudinal Household Study
• 18 September 2006: ESDS mourns the loss of Dr Alasdair Crockett
• 13 September 2006: National Child Development Study (NCDS) and 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70): a workshop for potential users
• 18 July 2006: Intute: Social Sciences launched
• 11 July 2006: New ESDS web site
• 7 June 2006: Metadata harvesting
• 7 June 2006: Coming soon: new design for ESDS web site
• 5 June 2006: Second sweep of Millennium Cohort Study
• 5 June 2006: National Child Development Study (NCDS) and 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70): a workshop for potential users
• 8 May 2006: Job vacancy: Associate Director, Head of Digital Preservation
• 23 March 2006: New series of thematic guides
• 23 March 2006: ESDS and Question Bank: working together
• 23 March 2006: Urgent maintenance at the University of Essex
• 16 March 2006: ESDS now on the Access Grid
• 13 February 2006: ESDS joins Social Science Week
• 15 December 2005: New version of DDI
• 15 December 2005: CESSDA experts meet in Madrid
• 14 December 2005: UKDA to host Census Portal
• 14 December 2005: Working with the Medical Research Council
• 8 December 2005: Call for submissions for second International Conference on e-Social Science
• 28 November 2005: Review of ESDS a success
• 2 November 2005: Tools and utilities
• 18 October 2005: Social capital: introductory user guide
• 23 September 2005: UKDA/TNA publication
• 22 August 2005: ESDS and UKDA web sites unavailable 20-21 August 2005
• 18 August 2005 : E-resources for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences - A British Academy Policy Review
• 9 August 2005: Call for Abstracts: International Conference on Child Cohort Studies
• 27 July 2005 : ONS Survey Charter launched
• 15 July 2005: New Thematic Guides
• 15 June 2005: ELSA teaching dataset released
• 8 June 2005: New UKDA web site
• 7 June 2005: Review of the Economic and Social Data Service
• 25 May 2005: New UKDA web site coming soon
• 18 April 2005 : IASSIST/IFDO 2005
• 18 March 2005: New dataset - English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)
• 10 March 2005: Introductory workshop to the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS)
• 7 March 2005: Changing Lives and Times Qualitative Longitudinal Study
• 3 February 2005: UKDA Bulletins online
• 15 December 2004: ESDS Workshops in 2005
• 13 December 2004: ESDS Annual Report 2003-2004
• 3 December 2004: ESDS and UKDA RSS newsfeed
• 22 November 2004 : IASSIST/IFDO 2005 - call for papers
• 16 November 2004: UK Longitudinal Studies Centre
• 12 November 2004 : First International Conference on e-Social Science - call for papers
• 9 September 2004: ESDS and UKDA web sites unavailable between 8am - 11am BST Tuesday 21 September 2004 due to essential maintenance
• 7 September 2004: EuroPanel Users Network (EPUNet) Announcement and Call
• 10 August 2004: Millennium Cohort Study - updated documentation
• 22 July 2004: Reports from ESRC Second Social Science Week
• 21 June 2004: British Household Panel Survey waves 1-12, 1991-2003 available
• 14 June 2004: New registration service now live
• 20 May 2004: Announcing the new ESDS one-stop registration service
• 6 May 2004: The National Strategy for Longitudinal Studies
• 1 May 2004: British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) - Nesstar sampler files
• 11 February 2004: Millennium Cohort Study (MCS)
• 1 July 2003: ESDS launch - report