John is the Deputy Director of the UK Data Service, based in the UK Data Archive, the UK's largest collection of social, economic, and population data, where he oversees the operational delivery of the Service. Over the last decade, John has worked at the University of Essex, in various roles for the Archive and within the Research Enterprise Office on large knowledge exchange and impact programmes. John joined the University of Essex in 2014, bringing with him over a decade's worth of experience from data research positions with a focus on police force and local authority data.
The 5 SAFEs – How UK Data Service makes sensitive (and other) data available for research
This session will outline how the UK Data Service has established polices and process to enable large scale re-use of data following the principle of ‘as open as possible, as closed as necessary and focussing on the use of the 5-safes, particularly in the context of provision of data via the UKDS SecureLab Trusted Research Environment (TRE) service as well as providing some practical guidance on how to the 5-safes could apply to your data.
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