Events

Member Network Meetings

Our Member Events are available to fully signed up members. SDAP members are notified of events through our membership newsletter. 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

2024 Calendar of Member Events – please hold the following dates, meeting format and times to be circulated closer to the date.

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 – 13:00hrs to 15:30hrs

  • Tuesday 19th March
  • Tuesday 18th June
  • Tuesday 17th September – updated – hybrid at a venue in London
  • Tuesday 10th December

Other types of SDAP events:

Workshops

  • August 15th 2018, Statistical Disclosure Control, hosted by The Health Foundation

This Workshop brought together staff who undertake statistical disclosure control checks on statistical results produced from confidential sources of data.  The Workshop explored:

  • identifying challenges with the practice of checking and releasing statistics
  • managing requests from analysts and researchers
  • developing solutions for the smooth-running of statistical disclosure control

**update:  we ran a session entitled ‘the good, the bad and the ugly of outputs’, where we each provided an example of a good and not so good experience of a statistical output request.  The examples can be found here.**

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 Hague – Richard Welpton (The Health Foundation) and Simon Parker (Cancer Research UK) presented the SDC Handbook on behalf of SDAP. See conference paper and presentation.