Open and Available Data Sets

UK Data Service has made the following data sets available:

• REFIT: Personalised retrofit decision support tools for UK homes using smart home technology. Phase 1: Survey data
• REFIT: Personalised retrofit decision support tools for UK homes using smart home technology. Phase 2: Smart home interviews
• OECD Main Economic Indicators Databank, 1960-2016
• IMF International Financial Statistics, 1948-2016
• Broadly engaging with tranquility: a high resolution pilot study for modelling public perceptions

 

• ONS Opinions Survey, Disability Monitoring Module, 2004-2015: Secure Access
• ONS Opinions Survey, General Lifestyle Module, 2012, 2013 and 2014: Secure Access
• ONS Opinions Survey, Census Religion Module, 2009: Secure Access
• ONS Opinions Survey, Cervical Cancer Screening Module, December 2008 and January 2009: Secure
• ONS Opinions Survey, Non-resident Parental Contact Module, April and June-November, 2002 and September – December, 2007 and January, February and December, 2008 and January 2009: Secure Access
• ONS Opinions Survey, Contraception Module, 1997-2009: Secure Access
• ONS Opinions Survey, Illness and Activity Limitation Module, December 2007 and April – June, 2008 Secure
• ONS Omnibus Survey, Contact After Separation Module, July, October, November and December, 2006 and January and March 2007: Secure Access

View further information on these data collections here 

Ensuring integrity and rigour in UK research: best practice, open data and the impact of the REF

Westminster Higher Education Forum are hosting this seminar in central London on 7 July 2016 where Dr Steven Hill, Head of Research Policy at HEFCE will be the keynote speaker.

Delegates at this seminar will consider strategies for protecting integrity and rigour of UK research – and supporting the quality of the UK research base. It takes place with these issues an increasing priority for policymakers, higher education institutions and the wider research sector – in anticipation of Lord Stern’s review into university research funding, which is considering approaches to the evaluation of UK higher education research performance and options for future iterations of the Research Excellence Framework (REF).

It also comes with ongoing discussion about the effects of increasing competition and the growing use of metrics on research practice in higher education institutions.

Overall, areas for discussion include:

• Competition and rigour – examining the tensions between an increasingly competitive research environment and improving the rigour of research processes within universities;
• Research environment – the impact of including assessment of an institution’s research environment within the REF’s metrics and next steps for addressing the findings;
• Ensuring best practice – strategies for combating issues such as plagiarism and the misleading representation of results;
• Self-regulation – the impact of the Concordat to Support Research Integrity – introduced in 2012 – and the potential for further implementation;
• Research funding – options for addressing concerns around the integrity of corporate sponsored research;
• Ethics – supporting ethical research practices and the role of university ethics boards; and
• Open data – opportunities, expansion and options for improving the reproducibility of research findings.

See the latest agenda and book a place here.