Housing and homelessness (now part of the above poverty theme)
The choice of themes was influenced both by the Economic and Social Research Council’s priorities at the time, but also by identifying key societal areas where data is both available and is producing
Within each of our impact themes, we have looked both forward and backward. Backward as we pulled together a breadth of resources from our Data Impact blog and impact case studies which relates to data and research within these themes, and brought them together into a narrative. We have planned and implemented how to focus much of our limited resources on key research, researchers and organisations working in these fields.
We’ve also tied these themes into other israel rcs data areas of our impact work. Applications for our 2023 Data Impact Fellows scheme were asked to demonstrate how their research connected with the areas. Alongside this our 2024 impact event focused particularly on Poverty in Data.
We will continue to build on this rich seam of looking at data impact across a wider story, while exploring further ways to evidence and promote that impact. Alongside this, we can uncover the benefits of the UK Data Service being funded as national infrastructure to provide a ‘one stop shop’ for not only accessing data, but also providing training and development in how to access and use the data.