Events

Member Network Meetings

SDAP members are notified of events through our membership newsletter. Registration for our events is now staged through Eventbrite. Our Member Events are available only to fully signed up members.

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

2023 Calendar of Member Events

• March 21st 2023 – hosted remotely by UK Data Archive, University of Essex. Final Agenda here. Guest Speaker – Kirsten Dutton (on behalf of Richard Welpton), ESRC, presented and consulted on ‘Future Data Services’, programme by UKRI, more information here Network wide Service Updates from all in attendance.
• June 20th 2023 – hosted by The Francis Crick Institute (London) on behalf of UK Data Archive, University of Essex – mixed face to face and remote. Update on, ‘Synthetic data production and research use’, plus, staging our new platform – Member Spotlight – featuring new member The Francis Crick Institute, London. Full agenda here. Please contact sdap@ukdataservice.ac.uk for more details, including the registration link.
• September 19th 2023 – full details of meeting format closer to the date.
• December 12th 2023 – full details of meeting format closer to the date.

2022 Calendar of Member Events

• March 8th 2022, hosted remotely by UK Data Archive, University of Essex. Final Agenda (revised start and end times) here DARE UK presentation to consult with SDAP.
• June 7th 2022, hosted remotely by UK Data Archive, University of Essex. Agenda here with final list of speakers, Service Updates and queries arising. Presentation slides from Lynne Adair, Research Data Scotland (RDS Synthetic data production and research use)
• September 6th 2022, hosted remotely by the UK Data Archive, University of Essex. Agenda here with final list of speakers, Service Updates and queries arising. Code of Conduct V1.01 draft here for discussion and approval. Presentation slides from HM Government in partnership with Office for National Statistics entitled, ‘Integration Data Service: an introduction’ by Liam Jones, ONS, plus, the presentation recording here.
• December 1st 2022, hosted by HMRC (Stratford, London) on behalf of UK Data Archive, University of Essex – mixed face to face and remote. Agenda here with final list of speakers, Service Updates and queries arising. Presentation by Ed Chalstrey, The Alan Turing Institute: Developing TRE Infrastructure and best practices for researchers.

2021

• March 9th 2021, hosted remotely by UK Data Archive, University of Essex (Minutes)  Presentation from UKDA on DEA Accreditation
• June 8th 2021, hosted remotely by UK Data Archive, University of Essex (Minutes) Presentation slides from Professor Felix Ritchie (Building Trust in research: Reproducibility, verification and Transparency) and presentation recording                               Presentation Slides from Martin, O’Reilly, Alan Turing Institute (Reproducible secure research environments) and presentation recording                                                                                        Presentation slides from Louise Corti, Office for National Statistics (Reproducibility and code sharing: IPR and risk assessment) and presentation recording
• September 7th 2021, hosted remotely by UK Data Archive, University of Essex (Minutes), Presentation slides from Olly Butters, University of Liverpool (An Overview of DataSHIELD) and presentation recording.
• December 7th 2021, hosted remotely by UK Data Archive, University of Essex. Agenda with final list of Service Updates and queries arising here. Followup Minutes

2020

• March 18th 2020, to be hosted by HMRC (Cancelled due to Covid19)
• June 10th 2020, hosted remotely by UK Data Archive, University of Essex (Minutes)
• September 9th 2020, hosted remotely by UK Data Archive, University of Essex (Minutes) Presentation from The Health Foundation Presentation from The Research Data Alliance
• December 9th 2020, hosted remotely by UK Data Archive, University of Essex (Minutes) 

2019

• March 13th 2019, hosted by NHS Services Scotland, BioQuarter, Edinburgh (Minutes); presentation by Office for Statistics Regulation on data linkage
• June 12th 2019, hosted by Cancer Research UK, London (Minutes)
• September 26th 2019,  hosted by UK Data Archive, University of Essex (Minutes)
• December 4th 2019, hosted by University of Manchester (Minutes) Presentation from Turing Presentation from University of Manchester

2018

• June 8th 2018, hosted by The Health Foundation
• September 6th 2018, hosted by Office for National Statistics (Minutes)
• December 11th 2018, hosted by HMRC (Minutes)

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.