2023

2023 Calendar of Member Events

March 21st 2023

Hosted remotely by UK Data Archive, University of Essex.

Agenda

Future proofing.

Guest organisation, ESRC, Kirsten Dutton (on behalf of Richard Welpton) presented and consulted with SDAP members on the following programme by UKRI:

• Future Data Services

Plus, a wide range of Service Updates from those 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.

Agenda

The first time staging of our Member Spotlight – featuring – new member organisation, The Francis Crick Institute (London), Pete Barnsley gave two presentations:

• The Crick’s TRELLIS and The 5 safes

Member organisation, Research Data Scotland (RDS), Lynne Adair presented an update on:

• The RDS synthetic data strategy for Scotland: one year on

Member organisation, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) presented an update on:

• ONS synthetic data trial – feedback and update

September 19th 2023

Agenda

Hosted remotely by UK Data Archive, University of Essex.

SDAP Focus Session – Python and R package management:

• Python and R package management in TRE’s by James Robinson (The Alan Turing Institute).

Plus, Service Updates:

SDAP members to share their knowledge, experience and insights e.g. 15mins each, including Q&A.

• ML / AI Model Development in the DataLoch Process by Amy Tilbrook (University of Edinburgh).

List of references shared during the meeting here.

December 12th 2023

Hosted remotely by UK Data Archive, University of Essex.

Agenda

Member organisation, UWE Bristol, Professor Jim Smith, Professor Felix Ritchie and Lizze Green presented the latest update of DARE UK funded project, on:

• Towards a Comprehensive Theory and Practice of Output Checking

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.