Skip to content

HDR UK Conference: 15 to 16 October

HDR UK conference 2025
Events

29 Sept 2025

Join RDS at this year’s HDR UK Conference, where we will have a joint presence alongside the Scottish Safe Haven Network.

This year’s hybrid HDR UK (Health Data Research UK) conference will feature world-class keynote speakers, leading exhibitors and networking events.

Research Data Scotland (RDS) and the Scottish Safe Haven Network are taking part in the conference, where we'll be sharing information about the updated Safe Haven Charter, how we’re integrating public voices in data science through our Public Impact Advisory Group, how our Public Engagement Fund helps connect people with research, and developments to the Researcher Access Service.

Key themes

The key themes for the 2025 conference are:

  • Transforming healthcare with AI
  • Data access & information governance
  • Routine healthcare data in clinical trials
  • Public health and health inequalities
  • Innovating the data infrastructure
  • Data-driven solutions to NHS pressures
  • Public and patient involvement and engagement (PPIE) throughout the research cycle
  • Addressing societal challenges by linking health and non-health records

General information:

Date: Wednesday 15 and Thursday 16 October

Location: Scottish Event Campus (SEC), Exhibition Way, Glasgow G3 8YW

Find out more

Related content

People In Meeting

New report published on public opinions of data access for research

The report, published by Research Data Scotland (RDS), outlines findings from public workshops in areas including definitions of ‘public good’, ensuring the public has a voice in how data is used for research and private sector access to data.

11 Sept 2025

Close up photo of a person signing a document

First major update to Safe Haven Charter

The Safe Haven Charter, which underpins the collaborative work of Scotland’s technical environments that enable researchers to securely access and analyse sensitive data, has been updated for the first time since 2015.

27 Mar 2025

Subscribe to our updates 

To stay updated with Research Data Scotland, subscribe to our monthly newsletter and follow us on X (Twitter) and LinkedIn

Subscribe to our newsletter
Illustration of an envelope with a letter sticking out and a mobile phone with a person