Applications
We’ve received some excellent and topical applications from a range of disciplinary and subject areas, and from universities across the UK. The applicants are using a wide range of data in the UK Data Service collection in their research including (but not limited to) census micro and aggregate data, the English Longitudinal Study on austria rcs data Ageing, Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study, the British Cohort Study, the British Social Attitudes Survey, the European Social Survey and the British Election Survey.
Our panel of judges:
Professor Matthew Woollard: Director, UK Data Service
Matthew provides strategic direction as Director of both the UK Data Service and the UK Data Archive, based at the University of Essex. He has practical and theoretical experience in all aspects of social science and humanities data service infrastructure, having previously headed the History Data Service and served as Head of Digital Preservation and Systems at the UK Data Archive. As director he has overall responsibility for the service strategy and key stakeholder relations. He also provides leadership in data curation, archiving and preservation activities.
Phoebe Arnold:
Phoebe manages the follow up work that emerges from individual factchecks, including corrections requests, FoI requests, parliamentary work and publicity. She managed Full Fact’s submission to the BBC Trust’s Impartiality Review, and has delivered training to Chequeado, Argentina’s factchecking organisation, on how to achieve impact with factchecks. She is also responsible for Full Fact’s interventions into patterns of inaccuracy – this can range from submissions to select committees or referring a case to the UK Statistics Authority to working with statisticians in government departments to improve a specific statistical release.