Outputs (58)

Highlighting gender bias and misaligned expectations in job advertisements for data professionals (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Managing human resources in UK data services requires a strategic, evidence-based approach that encompasses recruitment, training, employee development, and equitable reward structures. Increasing emphasis has been placed on embedding equality, diver... Read More about Highlighting gender bias and misaligned expectations in job advertisements for data professionals.

Data governance mastery: Developing informed approaches for safe data use (2025)
Thesis

This thesis is submitted to meet the requirements of a Doctorate of Philosophy through publication. This body of work develops the theoretical and empirical foundation for my research in data governance, with a particular focus on developing Evidence... Read More about Data governance mastery: Developing informed approaches for safe data use.

Using the five safes to structure economic evaluations of data governance (2024)
Journal Article

As the world has become more digitally-dependent, questions of data governance such as ethics, institutional arrangements and statistical protection measures have increased in significance. Understanding the economic contribution of investments in da... Read More about Using the five safes to structure economic evaluations of data governance.

Future Data Services FDS Paper 4 Home and Remote Access (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Future Data Services is a two-year review by the ESRC into the operations and management of UK data services. This paper is published under the Data Access theme. Papers produced under this theme are reflections on the evidence gained during the revi... Read More about Future Data Services FDS Paper 4 Home and Remote Access.

Future Data Services Contextual positioning paper (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Future Data Services is a two-year review by the ESRC into the operations and management of UK data services. Briefing Notes produced as part of the programme of work are intended to provide a short explainer of a specific topic related to the provi... Read More about Future Data Services Contextual positioning paper.

FDS BN02 What is 'minimised data' for scientific research? (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Future Data Services is a two-year review by the ESRC into the operations and management of UK data services. Briefing Notes produced as part of the programme of work are intended to provide a short explainer of a specific topic related to the provi... Read More about FDS BN02 What is 'minimised data' for scientific research?.

FDS BN01 What is the point of a TRE? (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Future Data Services is a two-year review by the ESRC into the operations and management of UK data services. Briefing Notes produced as part of the programme of work are intended to provide a short explainer of a specific topic related to the provi... Read More about FDS BN01 What is the point of a TRE?.

FDS BN03 Researcher-created datasets (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Future Data Services is a two-year review by the ESRC into the operations and management of UK data services. Briefing Notes produced as part of the programme of work are intended to provide a short explainer of a specific topic related to the provi... Read More about FDS BN03 Researcher-created datasets.

FDS BN04 Orphaned datasets (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Future Data Services is a two-year review by the ESRC into the operations and management of UK data services. Briefing Notes produced as part of the programme of work are intended to provide a short explainer of a specific topic related to the provi... Read More about FDS BN04 Orphaned datasets.

FDS BN05 Types of trusted research environment (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Future Data Services is a two-year review by the ESRC into the operations and management of UK data services. Briefing Notes produced as part of the programme of work are intended to provide a short explainer of a specific topic related to the provi... Read More about FDS BN05 Types of trusted research environment.

FDS BN06 The data access spectrum (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Future Data Services is a two-year review by the ESRC into the operations and management of UK data services. Briefing Notes produced as part of the programme of work are intended to provide a short explainer of a specific topic related to the provi... Read More about FDS BN06 The data access spectrum.

Output checking processes: Workshop report (2024)
Report

In March 2024 the authors organised a three-day workshop on output checking processes for trusted research environments (TREs). The aim was to explore current practices identify good/best operational practices. The report was intended to be a proof-o... Read More about Output checking processes: Workshop report.

Future Data Services FDS Paper 2 Data holder perspectives (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Future Data Services is a two-year review by the ESRC into the operations and management of UK data services. This paper is published under the Data Access theme. Papers produced under this theme are reflections on the evidence gained during the rev... Read More about Future Data Services FDS Paper 2 Data holder perspectives.

Future Data Services FDS Paper 1 Forms and Process (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Future Data Services is a two-year review by the ESRC into the operations and management of UK data services. This paper is published under the Data Access theme. Papers produced under this theme are reflections on the evidence gained during the rev... Read More about Future Data Services FDS Paper 1 Forms and Process.

Services, people and skills: Final report for future data services (2024)
Report

The aim of Future Data Services is to enable ESRC to make a long-term strategic decision about how to invest in data services infrastructure from 2024 onwards. The vision for the supply of data services post-2024 is one in which the benefits of tech... Read More about Services, people and skills: Final report for future data services.

Guide to output checking processes (2024)
Other

This guide reviews good practice, problems and solutions for the design or review of output checking processes in facilities dealing with confidential research data. Using the extant evidence base and a series of workshops, the guide covers:
- what... Read More about Guide to output checking processes.

The statbarn: A new model for output statistical disclosure control (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A major success for research this century has been the growth of secure facilities allowing research access to detailed sensitive personal data. This has also raised awareness of the problem of output disclosure risk, where statistics may inadvertent... Read More about The statbarn: A new model for output statistical disclosure control.

The inadvertently revealing statistic: A systemic gap in statistical training? (2024)
Journal Article

While concerns around data privacy are well-known, there's a lack of awareness and training when it comes to the confidentiality risk of published statistics, argue Ben Derrick, Elizabeth Green, Felix Ritchie, Jim Smith, Paul White

Trusted research environments for health data (2024)
Digital Artefact

This video captures the workshop on 'Trusted Research Environments for Health Data', delivered by David Western, Felix Ritchie, and Andy Gibson. This was part of the Connect, Collaborate, Create with Data and AI 2023 event organised by UWE Bristol an... Read More about Trusted research environments for health data.

Machine learning models in trusted research environments - Understanding operational risks (2023)
Journal Article

IntroductionTrusted research environments (TREs) provide secure access to very sensitive data for research. All TREs operate manual checks on outputs to ensure there is no residual disclosure risk. Machine learning (ML) models require very large amou... Read More about Machine learning models in trusted research environments - Understanding operational risks.