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
News and insights
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.
Research Data Scotland
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
RDS launches new data service for research
Service to improve Scotland’s health, economic, social and environmental wellbeing.
Research Data Scotland
30 Sept 2021
Research Data Scotland will harness power of public sector datasets
If we have learned one thing from the past 18 months, as we grappled with the many challenges of Covid-19, it is that nothing is solved in a neat compartment.
John Swinney
12 Sept 2021