UKDS SecureLab has therefore
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 8:53 am
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As Richard Welpton (Head of Data Services Infrastructure at the ESRC) wrote in a blog post last October, with the launch of UKDS SecureLab in 2011, ‘secure remote access to data in the UK was born’. UKDS SecureLab brazil rcs data was the first national Trusted Research Environment (TRE) providing accredited researchers with secure remote access to controlled data, including a wealth of linked longitudinal datasets. Following UKDS SecureLab provision and best practice, other TREs in the UK – for instance, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Secure Research Service (SRS) – now offer remote access to their users. ‘provided the blueprint’, as Richard puts it, for secure remote data provision in the UK.
Over the past ten years, UKDS SecureLab (formerly SDS) has enabled over 1,500 researchers to access controlled data and we currently have 952 active researchers using the service. For these users, research productivity has increased due to ease of access, analytical outputs can be generated more quickly, and published sooner, and research grants are no longer being eaten into by travel expenses.
Continuing to enable safe, efficient, and impactful research into societal challenges is crucial, to facilitate evidence-based policy development and help bring positive change for everyday lives and livelihoods across the UK and beyond. The UK Data Service is now working even more closely with the ONS, UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) and ESRC to further streamline research access to controlled data in a safe way, across the whole access application journey.
As Richard Welpton (Head of Data Services Infrastructure at the ESRC) wrote in a blog post last October, with the launch of UKDS SecureLab in 2011, ‘secure remote access to data in the UK was born’. UKDS SecureLab brazil rcs data was the first national Trusted Research Environment (TRE) providing accredited researchers with secure remote access to controlled data, including a wealth of linked longitudinal datasets. Following UKDS SecureLab provision and best practice, other TREs in the UK – for instance, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Secure Research Service (SRS) – now offer remote access to their users. ‘provided the blueprint’, as Richard puts it, for secure remote data provision in the UK.
Over the past ten years, UKDS SecureLab (formerly SDS) has enabled over 1,500 researchers to access controlled data and we currently have 952 active researchers using the service. For these users, research productivity has increased due to ease of access, analytical outputs can be generated more quickly, and published sooner, and research grants are no longer being eaten into by travel expenses.
Continuing to enable safe, efficient, and impactful research into societal challenges is crucial, to facilitate evidence-based policy development and help bring positive change for everyday lives and livelihoods across the UK and beyond. The UK Data Service is now working even more closely with the ONS, UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) and ESRC to further streamline research access to controlled data in a safe way, across the whole access application journey.