Our panelists include: Steve McEachern, Director of the UK Data Service, Rob Davies, Head of Policy and Dialogue at CLOSER, Dr Emily Marchant, Lecturer at Swansea University and Natasha Mutebi, Social Sciences Lead at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology.

Episode 2 - our experts showcase examples of where research data has been used to guide policymaking, dissect the challenges that researchers face in mobilising their research, and explain how UK Parliament assesses research to decide what evidence to use.   

Please also dig deeper into the work of CLOSER with our Impact team's blog about how the organisation provides specialist support for researchers: Grow your policy impact through CLOSER’s Policy Surgeries.

Our panelists include: Dr Steve McEachern, Director of the UK Data Service, Rob Davies, Head of Policy and Dialogue at CLOSER, Dr Emily Marchant, Lecturer at Swansea University and Natasha Mutebi, Social Sciences Lead at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology.

Episode 1 - we discuss how to raise awareness of research data among policymakers so it can be used to guide better decisions, with our panel sharing their insights into how researchers can connect with policymakers and effectively communicate their findings for policy audiences.   

Please also dig deeper into the work of CLOSER with our Impact team's blog about how the organisation provides specialist support for researchers: Grow your policy impact through CLOSER’s Policy Surgeries.

In our first podcast,  Nik Lomax, the SIPHER Consortium Co-Lead on Data & System Monitoring  and Policy Microsimulation, who is also the Professor of Population Geography at the University of Leeds, talked about how the SIPHER Synthetic Population datasets can be applied to influence future Government polices to improve people's lives.

In this podcast, Nik tells us more about the overall purpose and objectives of the SIPHER Consortium. Interview by Rodney Appleyard, Communications and Stakeholder Manager for the UK Data Service.

Nik Lomax, the SIPHER Consortium Co-Lead on Data & System Monitoring  and Policy Microsimulation, who is also the Professor of Population Geography at the University of Leeds, talks to us about how the process of creating this synthetic dataset works. 

This is the first podcast in our series about these datasets and the SIPHER Consortium. Interview by Rodney Appleyard, Communications and Stakeholder Manager for the UK Data Service.

Rodney Appleyard, UK Data Service and Jennie Blows, CLOSER interview Professor Jennifer Symonds, Director of CLOSER, Robin Flaig, Co-Director of the UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration and Chief Operations Officer for Generation Scotland, and Dr Nigel de Noronha, Research Associate at the University of Manchester, about how data can protect us in the emerging world of AI and more convincing fake news.

Rodney Appleyard, UK Data Service and Jennie Blows, CLOSER, interview Professor Jennifer Symonds, interview Director of CLOSER, Robin Flaig, Co-Director of the UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration and Chief Operations Officer for Generation Scotland, and Dr Nigel de Noronha, Research Associate at the University of Manchester, about the impact of data and how in their own experiences, data has made a difference to the world.

Rodney Appleyard, UK Data Service and Jennie Blows, CLOSER, interview Professor Jennifer Symonds, Director of CLOSER, Robin Flaig, Co-Director of the UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration and Chief Operations Officer for Generation Scotland, and Dr Nigel de Noronha, Research Associate at the University of Manchester, about their personal data journeys and what they have found so rewarding about working with data.

The interviews were conducted by Rodney Appleyard, Marketing and Communications Manager for the UK Data Service, and Jennie Blows, CLOSER's Digital Communications and Events Manager.

In this role, Erik has successfully advocated for the collection of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) data among the city’s 30,000+ member workforce. As a result of this initiative, he has worked alongside the Mayor’s Policy team to develop comprehensive guidelines for supporting members of the city’s workforce who are transitioning on the job.

As the City of Philadelphia continues to make history as a progressive leader for our LGBTQ+ communities, and as anti-LGB and trans legislation has reached an all-time high in recent years, the city is proud to use data to inform its policies and practices in creating more inclusive, supportive, and safer spaces for LGBTQ+ people.

EVENS is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Over 14,000 people were interviewed for the survey, which was carried out by the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE), the UK’s leading centre of research into ethnic, racial and religious inequalities, led from the University of Manchester. The data will be available exclusively from the UK Data Service in June and we will be publishing key takeaways and highlights over the coming months. We will also be creating a new training programme that will teach people how to use the datasets.

Dharmi said: “This really is groundbreaking research in the sense that we’ve looked at more ethnic and religious minority groups than ever before. It is the largest survey in Britain… and the method that we used and the partnerships that we created with these voluntary community organisations to try and ensure the content really spoke to the real issues in Britain today really do make this a groundbreaking survey. We hope that this evidence, the knowledge and the insights that we produce from the survey can really be used by a wide variety of people.”

They are also a huge source of inspiration for other women in the world of Social Science and the rest of society too.

This is a teaser clip for the podcast, focusing on the work of Ann Oakley. You can also listen to the whole podcast.

Dr. Neli Demireva has provided more details about the women featured in the podcast.

Interviewed by Rodney Appleyard, one of the Marketing and Communications Managers from the UK Data Service.

They are also a huge source of inspiration for other women in the world of Social Science and the rest of society too.

Dr. Neli Demireva has provided more details about the women featured in the podcast.

Interviewed by Rodney Appleyard, one of the Marketing and Communications Managers from the UK Data Service.

Details on how to enter the competition, along with resources to help students with their entries, can be found on the UK Data Service website by going to ukdataservice.ac.uk. Students have until the 3^rd of April 2022 to submit their entries

Interview by Rodney Appleyard, the Marketing and Communications Manager for the UK Data Service.