Not just arms and legs: Student working and the local labour market
(2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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Not just arms and legs: The impact of student working on local labour markets (2019)
Preprint / Working Paper
Not just arms and legs: Student working and the local labour market (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Confidentiality and linked data (2018)
Book Chapter
This chapter considers the confidentiality issues around linked data. It notes that the use and availability of secondary (adminstrative or social media) data, allied to powerful processing and machine learning techniques, in theory means that re-ide... Read More about Confidentiality and linked data.
Evidence-based, default-open, risk-managed, user-centred data access (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
In recent years, there has been an increasing demand from the academic community for more access to confidential data for research purposes, particularly that data collected by government departments. This has happened for three reasons. First, both... Read More about Evidence-based, default-open, risk-managed, user-centred data access.
Power to Change was established by the Big Lottery as an organisation whose mission is to fund community businesses and through such investment make an impact on the most disadvantaged places in England. Through setting its mission to target the most... Read More about Re-thinking the indices of multiple deprivation (for England): A review and exploration of alternative/complementary area-based indicator systems.
Spontaneous recognition: An unneccessary control on data access? (2017)
Book Chapter
Social scientists increasingly expect to have access to detailed source microdata for research purposes. As the level of detail increases, data owners worry about ‘spontaneous recognition’, the likelihood that a microdata user believes that he or she... Read More about Spontaneous recognition: An unneccessary control on data access?.
Open data: Who needs it? (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This presentation, to introduce and stimulate a panel discussion, argued that we have 50 years worth of experience in knowing how to use data safely for researcher; as such we should be concentrating on practical management problems not theory: "how-... Read More about Open data: Who needs it?.
Lessons learned in training ‘safe users’ of confidential data (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Many statistical organisations require researchers using detailed sensitive data to undergo ‘safe researcher’ training. Such training has traditionally reflected the ‘policing’ model of data protection. This mirrors the defensive stance often adopted... Read More about Lessons learned in training ‘safe users’ of confidential data.
The "Five Safes": A framework for planning, designing and evaluating data access solutions (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The ‘Five Safes’ is a popular way to structure thinking about data access solutions. Originally used mainly by statistical agencies and social science academics , in recent years it has been adopted more widely across government, health organisations... Read More about The "Five Safes": A framework for planning, designing and evaluating data access solutions.