Data Research, Access and Governance Network (DRAGoN)

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Data protection is important – so what’s the problem? Written by Cara Kendal Statistical Disclosure Control is an important process where statistical data is protected before being released to make sure that no identifying information is made publicly available. This is a large task that is often completed by several people. One of the primary … Continue reading "Disclosure Control of neurominority groups – Protection or Erasure?"

We are partnering with Eastside Community Trust to bring you a night of short, attention grabbing talks followed by a Q&A. Free and open to all at Easton Community Centre. What’s the Big Idea? Eastside Community Trust and University of West of England present four attention – grabbing, interesting talks, with a Q&A sessions throughout. Location … Continue reading "Event: What’s the big Idea?"

DRAGoN runs a very popular webinar series that brings academics together with practitioners and members of the public facilitating conversation to flow from theory to practice. The next run of these webinars are due to start at the end of February 2023. In the first of three blogs looking back on the Data Ethics and … Continue reading "Past DRAGoN Webinars: The importance of solidarity in Data sharing."

The ADR UK funded Wage and Employment Dynamics (WED) initiative that aims to provide new insights into the dynamics of earnings and employment in Great Britain has made a new dataset available. Accredited researchers can apply to use the de-identified Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) – 2011 Census linked dataset from the Office for … Continue reading "New linked dataset available to provide insights into earnings and employment in Britain"

Written by Elizabeth Green (UWE Bristol), Felix Ritchie (UWE Bristol) and Amy Tilbrook (University of Edinburgh) Many researchers in the UK working with confidential data attend the ‘Safe Researcher Training’ course (SRT). This training course was commissioned by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in 2017 and is (so far) the only accredited training programme … Continue reading "Teaching researchers about data protection law: a terrible idea"

The digitalization of health and medicine has engendered a proliferation of new collaborations between public health institutions and data corporations, such as Google, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon. Critical perspectives on this “Googlization of health” tend to frame the risks involved in this phenomenon in one of two ways: either as predominantly privacy and data protection … Continue reading "DRAGoN Seminar: Sphere transgressions: Risks and Benefits of the Digitisation of Health"

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the body that allocates and oversees social science research funding across the UK higher education sector, will face some significant decisions in data infrastructure and services over the next few years: several of its major investments are due for re-tendering, while others are already in the process of … Continue reading "UWE staff appointed to help ESRC plan its data infrastructure strategy"