National drive to engage public with data research
Research Data Scotland (RDS) welcomes a new initiative to put the public at the heart of data research and statistics.
Research Data Scotland
28 Oct 2022
News and insights
Watch our September 2022 user forum
Research Data Scotland (RDS) welcomed a range of data users from partner organisations, research institutions and government to its latest User Forum held on Wednesday 28 September.
Research Data Scotland
27 Oct 2022
New strategy published to unlock data and improve lives
Research Data Scotland (RDS) has published its new strategy and 2022-23 business plan.
Research Data Scotland
08 Sept 2022
New fund launched
The System Development Fund supports projects identifying common standards.
Research Data Scotland
05 Sept 2022
DataLoch – enabling improvements in health and social care through a secure, pioneering data service
Research Data Scotland is excited to support the full launch of DataLoch service.
Research Data Scotland
05 Sept 2022
RDS agree collaboration framework with RSH to support research for the public good
Research Data Scotland (RDS) and the Regional Safe Havens (RSHs) have teamed up to support research that will improve health and wellbeing in Scotland by enabling access to health data.
Research Data Scotland
24 Mar 2022
Doing data better for policy and the public good
RDS and ADR Scotland partnered with Sense about Science during Evidence Week in Holyrood on March 22 to discuss the use of data and research for the public good.
Research Data Scotland
23 Mar 2022
Lessons learned from the past: How the census makes us re-imagine the world we live in
The National Archive have finished their work and the publication of the 1921 census for England and Wales marks a once-in-a-decade event. RDS considers what the census means for us now and how it informs policy.
07 Feb 2022
Coming out of Covid-19: Reimagining data
Roger Halliday, Chief Executive Officer at RDS and Scotland’s Chief Statistician, reflects on RDS’s progress to date and what to expect from the service in the future.
Roger Halliday
21 Jan 2022
Award-winning data linkage project improves bystander CPR rates and survival in Scotland
The latest report from Scottish Government's Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) Data Linkage Project finds that a record number of bystanders performed CPR on people who suffered a cardiac arrest outside of hospital last year.
Research Data Scotland
15 Nov 2021