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RDS has received this announcement:

Webinar series about data for research

Would you like to know more about what data are available for research in the UK?  In March and April 2020, the ESRC’s funded data resources will run a series of free collaborative webinars highlighting the wide range of data sources ready and waiting to be explored and utilised by researchers and academics.

Split into three separate sessions, each focusing on a different research topic, the series aims to help novice as well as experienced data users discover new data sources that could aid their own investigations. The research topics featured are:

• Religion: Wed 18 March 2020, 15.00-16.00 GMT
• Languages spoken: Wed 25 March 2020, 15.00-16.00 GMT
• Political behaviour: Wed 1 April 2020, 15.00-16.00 BST

Each hour long webinar consists of 2-3 presentations from expert researchers about the data available in the UK examples of how different data sources have been used in real research case studies, as well as time set aside for questions and answers.

Previous webinars

Recordings and presentation slides from previous webinars exploring the available data sources for the following research topics are available:

• Education
• Journey to work
• Ethnicity and migration
• Obesity
• Mental health

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