Where next for data impact
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2025 4:36 am
More than getting data to people?
Victoria Moody, Director of Impact and Communications at the UK Data Service discusses some of the new international initiatives focused on the opportunity to evaluate, reconsider, enhance or reconstruct not only the data on which major decisions about solving global challenges are based but also the concepts which underpin those data and, most encouragingly, focusing on innovative and more inclusive approaches to do so.
The UK Data Service provides access to the UK’s nationally and internationally significant social science data assets for research, teaching, skills development and policy-making. Data australia rcs data in the collection include many major UK government-sponsored surveys, cross-national surveys, longitudinal studies, UK census data, international aggregate data, business data, and qualitative data. The data are accessed and used by people across the world and are used in research and teaching in the higher education, policy, commercial and civil society sectors.
We have placed a growing emphasis on the impact of both the use of data in research and teaching and in the impact of the UK Data Service as a whole. Described as a mandate accompanied by funding, the UK higher education sector has been required to understand its impact and do more of it. Impact at the UK Data Service is defined as the promotion of the re-use of data resources in the development of teaching, research and policy, which optimises systems, skills and services; increasing the contribution data infrastructure makes to the economy, society culture, public policy or services, health, the environment or quality of life.
Victoria Moody, Director of Impact and Communications at the UK Data Service discusses some of the new international initiatives focused on the opportunity to evaluate, reconsider, enhance or reconstruct not only the data on which major decisions about solving global challenges are based but also the concepts which underpin those data and, most encouragingly, focusing on innovative and more inclusive approaches to do so.
The UK Data Service provides access to the UK’s nationally and internationally significant social science data assets for research, teaching, skills development and policy-making. Data australia rcs data in the collection include many major UK government-sponsored surveys, cross-national surveys, longitudinal studies, UK census data, international aggregate data, business data, and qualitative data. The data are accessed and used by people across the world and are used in research and teaching in the higher education, policy, commercial and civil society sectors.
We have placed a growing emphasis on the impact of both the use of data in research and teaching and in the impact of the UK Data Service as a whole. Described as a mandate accompanied by funding, the UK higher education sector has been required to understand its impact and do more of it. Impact at the UK Data Service is defined as the promotion of the re-use of data resources in the development of teaching, research and policy, which optimises systems, skills and services; increasing the contribution data infrastructure makes to the economy, society culture, public policy or services, health, the environment or quality of life.