Events

 

Member Network Meetings

Our Member Events are available to fully signed up members. For full details on registering and joining an event as a member, please see our updated ‘Meeting Registration and Times’ below. Not a member? Please go to ‘Membership’ and scroll down for details on how to join. SDAP membership is free.

If you are an SDAP member and would like to volunteer to host an SDAP meeting (and are able to support a hybrid meeting) please contact us at: sdap@ukdataservice.ac.uk

 

Meeting Registration and Times

Members are notified of events through our membership newsletter (via JISC) and directly invited to the meetings (Microsoft Teams) with the choice to opt out of attending. Our Member Events are available only to fully signed up members. All SDAP member network events are hosted online with set start / finish times – as detailed below. At least one meeting a year is hybrid with a later start / finish time. Any changes to the meeting format and time will be circulated closer to the date. Full details below.

Online only – 10:00hrs to 12:30hrs

Hybrid – TBA

Previous events – see individual years via ‘Events’ menu at the top of the page.

 

Other types of SDAP events:

Workshops

From time to time we may run, or be involved with a workshop, e.g. the Statistical Disclosure Control Workshop in 2018, hosted by The Health Foundation, or the recent TRE Community Conference held on 22-24 September 2025 at Cloth Hall, Leeds.

Conferences

May 2018, IASSIST, Montreal, Canada – Carlotta Greci (The Health Foundation) presented the SDC Handbook on behalf of SDAP.  See conference presentation here.

July 2018, ESRC Research Methods Festival – Richard Welpton (Cancer Research UK) presented the SDAP_Competency_Framework at the ESRC Research Methods Festival, July 2018. See conference presentation, video and listen to podcast. Accompanying LSE Impact Blog article

October 2019, UNECE conference, The HagueRichard Welpton (The Health Foundation) and Simon Parker (Cancer Research UK) presented the SDC Handbook on behalf of SDAP. See conference paper and presentation.