Secure Data Service: One year celebration

27 June 2012

Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), Central London

A day of celebration for the Secure Data Service community of stakeholders, members, data owners and staff. Hear about new research already emerging from secure use of SDS microdata. Learn how the service is growing and improving. Meet and mingle with other researchers and data.

Schedule of events

• 14.30 – 17.00 Research presentations
• 17.00 – 19.00 Toast and reception

Come for the entire celebration, or just the evening toast and reception. Simply book your place at the link below.

Toast and reception
A toast to the first year! Brief comments at 17.30 highlighting the Service’s successes and planned future developments, followed by a reception where you can meet and mingle with staff, researchers and data owners.

Research presentations
Choose from a series of presentations focusing on research resulting from Secure Data Service data and projects, organised in three concurrent themes. For more details see the programme http://securedata.data-archive.ac.uk/media/28771/sds_anniversary_programme.pdf

Booking information
Building security requires all attendees to register in advance. Kindly book your place by Monday 25 June 2012 using the link below.

http://securedata.eventbrite.co.uk/?ebtv=C

Note: Bookings for these events are handled through Eventbrite.co.uk. Please refer to their separate privacy policy. If questions or concerns, contact the Secure Data Service directly.

Business Microdata Workshop

Researchers interested to know more about how business microdata might expand or accelerate their work are invited to a free workshop in London. The Secure Data Service, a partner of both the UK Data Archive and the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS), is hosting the workshop in support of the ESRC Secondary Data Analysis Initiative.

The half-day event, set for 21 February 2012 from 13.00 to 16.00, will be moved to the Medical Research Council offices in London to accommodate additional researchers.

The programme will provide an introduction to the range of business data made available to qualified and approved researchers through the Secure Data Service. This data is collected by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), and other government agencies. These data are confidential and collected under statistics legislation. Because they are highly identifiable, they can only be accessed under secure conditions. Attendees will learn how the Secure Data Service works, including details on how to apply. There will also be a surgery session to respond to user needs and questions.

This is one of a series of events organised by ESDS in support of the ESRC Secondary Data Analysis Initiative. These events are designed for researchers who are not current users of these ESRC-funded data resources, and who wish to apply for grants under this Initiative. It is not suitable for students.

The course is free to attend, but booking is essential. See details and booking form at the link below:

http://www.esds.ac.uk/news/eventdetail.asp?id=3060

EU researchers invited to apply for Data without Boundaries access to Secure Data Service

The Secure Data Service is a lead partner in the EU-funded Data without Boundaries (DwB) project. As part of this project, academic researchers within Europe are invited to apply for access to highly detailed social survey, census and business microdata from similar services in the UK, Germany, Netherlands and France (known as 'Research Data Centres').

This is a unique opportunity for researchers to receive specialist support and reimbursement of costs to conduct comparative research across borders.

Researchers should apply to conduct research at Research Data Centres (RDCs) not in the country of their residence. Therefore, researchers applying to access the Secure Data Service under the DwB project should not be resident in the UK.

Datasets available from the Secure Data Service are listed in the Data Library.

To apply, qualified researchers should visit the Data Access section of the DwB website for more information about the other RDCs involved and how to apply. Researchers approved under DwB to use data from the Secure Data Service will be contacted with details of the additional steps necessary to be approved to use the Service.

Access to the data will ordinarily be onsite at the Secure Data Service, located on the campus of the University of Essex. Researchers will be required to attend a half-day training session before being issued with a member logon, however the training session can be incorporated into the onsite visit to conduct research.

About the Data without Boundaries project
How to apply for Data without Boundaries access
Secure Data Service data library