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Apprenticeships – boosting careers and benefitting employers
To mark National Apprenticeship Week (6-12 Feb) we interviewed Stephanie Parrott about her time as a senior manager with HDR UK. We also discussed her Level 3 Data Citizen Apprenticeship for which...
Learnings from ICODA initiative highlight importance of data science in addressing COVID-19 research challenges
The International COVID-19 Data Alliance (ICODA) research studies made a significant contribution to the global pandemic response, harnessing the power of health data research approaches to...
QResearch – high-quality data for world-leading research
QResearch is a not-for-profit collaboration between healthcare technology provider EMIS and the University of Oxford (it was originally with the University of Nottingham).
The Scottish National Safe Haven – a secure research environment for health data research
The Scottish National Safe Haven (NSH) is part of the UK’s growing TRE network and provides researchers with a high-powered computing service, secure analytic environment, secure file transfer...
From TREs to the BRIAN app – our 2022 Data Access and Discovery webinars in review
At the start of the year we launched our new bi-monthly Data Access and Discovery webinar series, replacing our previous monthly Gateway Open-Door sessions. The change enabled us to expand our...
Embracing the power of health data across the charity sector
At Health Data Research UK we work together with a number of charities (as well as other organisations) to achieve our mission. We invited two of those charitable partners – the Brain Tumour...
Believe in yourself and follow your own career path
Monica Jones, Chief Data Officer for University of Leeds and Associate Director for HDR UK, is a former British Army officer with a long-standing interest in science. She moved into health data...
SAIL Databank & National Core Studies: Accelerating the availability and accessibility of UK health data
Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) Databank began as a localised pilot project for the Swansea area but has now become the national TRE for Wales. SAIL Databank’s Programme Manager,...
Northern Care Partnership drive to build NHS health data science skills
Capacity building is essential if the UK is to have the level of health data research expertise needed to address its mounting healthcare challenges. Professor Peter Bath, Training Lead for HDR...