2025 Calendar of Member Events
December 2nd 2025
Hosted remotely by UK Data Archive, University of Essex.
Penny Babb from the UK Statistics Authority presented on how the Code of Practice for Statistics can help you in your work.
Allison Tyler from The UK Data Service presented on the preliminary findings from SOCRATES Project regarding patterns in researcher output requests.
Peter O’Donovan from Geonomics England presented on the Airlock system.
September 22-24 2025 – TRE Community Conference
This conference – a collaboration between DARE UK, UK TRE, SDAP, and the SDC Reboot Community – was a hybrid, starting around lunchtime on Monday 22 September and ending around lunchtime on Wednesday 24 September. The conference was free to attend, and lunches and dinners were included thanks to our sponsors DARE UK. The physical location was Cloth Hall in Leeds.
March 4th 2025
Hosted remotely by UK Data Archive, University of Essex.
Camilla Philpot Thomsen, Associate Director of Data Operations, presented on the UKDS Data Catalogue
There was also a discussion on best-practice when dealing with software requests in a Secure Environment, led by Leigh Tate and Melissa Ogwayo.
June 17th 2025
Hosted remotely by UK Data Archive, University of Essex.
Jo Webb, Associate Director of the UK Data Service and Head of Department for the UK Data Archive, presented on “The good, the bad and the ugly” of AI and what it might mean for data services.
Elizabeth Green, Senior Lecturer in Economics at University of the West of England, presented on ODYSSEY: Optimizing Data Professional Success through Skill Identification, Career Trajectories, and Enhanced Training.
Richard Welpton, Head of Data Services Infrastructure at UKRI: Economic and Social Research Council presented findings from the TRE survey.