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Research Data Scotland & Scottish Safe Haven Network --- Professor Roger Halliday Accessing Scotland's public sector data for research
Professor Roger Halliday is the CEO for Research Data Scotland and was previously the Scottish Government's Chief Statistician and Co-Director of ADR Scotland. Roger qualified with a degree in statistics in 1993 from St Andrews and has worked in the Department of Health in England as a policy analyst, managing evidence for decision-making across NHS issues. He has worked for various UK Government departments and at the Scottish Government in several statistical and policymaking roles. His areas of expertise are around transforming services with data, and he has experience working in the fields of health, children, learning, skills and the economy.
Research Data Scotland (RDS) are simplifying access to data for research through their brand new, fully digitised Researcher Access Service and work with researchers, analysists and policy makers to make it faster and simpler to access public sector data for research. This will be a fantastic opportunity to find out more about the Researcher Access Service and engage in an exciting question and answer (Q&A) session surrounding research data access in Scotland, absolutely vital to so many of the research projects ongoing within the University. Roger will talk through how he and his organisation are enabling new kinds of research through quick access to data already collected about people in Scotland. Linking data from the many interactions they have with the public sector can build up a picture of a person or family to better understand what drives our most significant policy or medical challenges. The problem with this was how long it took to get access to this kind of rich data. However, Roger will talk about changes happening across Scotland to enable quicker and simpler access to these data. He will talk through some applications that have already been made of data linkage, what data is becoming available through this service and how you can use this new capability to pursue your research interests.