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Early Career Researchers from all over the UK will be attending the Perspectives on Engagement and Impact event on 11 February 2026, which has been designed to help researchers learn from peers and stakeholders how their work can be used to drive impact.

This year’s Love Data Week, which takes place from 9-13 February, will feature a vast number of events hosted by universities, non-profit organisations, government agencies, businesses and individuals across the world.

After many years at the UK Data Archive and a long association with CESSDA, I am retiring with a strong sense of gratitude and pride in what has been achieved over three decades of work in data curation and international collaboration.

This new Impact Case Study looks at the Gender Equality Index UK: the first index to systematically measure and analyse the socioeconomic outcomes of women and men across all 372 local authorities in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Professor Alison Park, from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), discusses the importance of UK social science data infrastructures and outlines some of the opportunities and challenges they face.

This year, the UK Data Service reached an incredible milestone — over 10,000 data collections are now discoverable through our Data Catalogue. But what is the journey to this milestone? What does it matter? And how does it set the stage for the next chapter of data innovation and impact?

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

This free workshop will take you through the research process of a secondary analysis project, including an overview of the methodological and ethical issues. Includes a guided walk-through of some of our data catalogue pages, and get to explore a downloaded dataset and test your knowledge of the research cycle.

Social Network Analysis is an exciting computational method that allows us to study social systems by visualising and interrogating the relationships among individuals or groups. This technique allows us to answer questions about the ins-and-outs of social interaction and information flow, such as how ideas or behaviours spread through a population.