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How can data help us understand different dimensions of inequality?
A comprehensive study of inequality was launched recently by the Institute for Fiscal Studies. We explore how data available from the UK Data Service helped underpin it and how it is already creati...
Raising awareness of worldwide data talent at CESSDA’s 50th Anniversary Conference
Rodney Appleyard reflects on a recent collaboration with CESSDA’s Communications team at the organisation’s landmark conference, and what he learned from the event’s international speakers.
Highlighting the best in secure data research: ONS Research Excellence Awards 2026
Emma Wade introduces the ONS Research Excellence Awards which are back for 2026, celebrating the people and projects using secure data to generate new insights, inform policy, and deliver public go...
Two decades of prisoner voices: what can the HMIP survey data tell us?
Professor Emeritus Nick Hardwick draws on two decades of HM Inspectorate of Prisons survey to look at what the data reveals about male prisoners’ experiences of safety, and discusses why this archi...
Next Steps: Using linked UK longitudinal cohort data to examine unmet mental health needs
Corine Driessens discusses identifying the characteristics of the ‘missing middle’, young people experiencing mental health problems but not accessing services, using the Next Steps cohort.
What can a national crime survey tell us about which children are most at risk?
Dr Ferhat Tura, from Bournemouth University, draws on the Crime Survey for England and Wales to look at which children are most likely to be victims of crime, and why disabled children in particula...