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Social science research in Austria: Where? How? What?
A new AUSSDA publication analyses the structure of domestic social science research.
Data journeys in a research career: investigating the effect of immigration on the labour market
Nina Heyden, a US student on a Fulbright fellowship at the University of Essex, won the university’s 2018 Secondary Data Analysis Award for an MSc investigating the effects of immigration on...
Data journeys in a research career: Laura J Brown – How does the environment affect women’s choices around breastfeeding?
Laura J Brown has used two British cohort studies to explore how environmental circumstances impact on whether women choose to breastfeed their babies.
#CiteTheData – International data perspectives: Building energy resilience
We’re celebrating the launch of our refreshed international data platform with a review of recent research and policy analyses using the UK Data Service’s international macrodata....
Police Rewired – using data to fight crime and increase public safety
Lewis Westbury explains how Police Rewired – a voluntary group – used data from the Crime Survey of England and Wales to develop practical tools to help in the fight against crime....
Much ado about next to nothing: tracking progress on reducing exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke
Sean Semple and Linsay Gray have been analysing data on second-hand smoke and discovering that a zero result may not mean what you’d expect!