Access to data in the public and private sector, data governance, and the application of data in new areas have all advanced significantly in recent years. The Covid-19 pandemic has tested many of those advances, sometimes to breaking point, sometimes beyond to new ways of collecting and using data. In this co-organised virtual conference with the Office of National Statistics and UWE Bristol, we discussed what longer-term lessons for data use should we be drawing from the crisis?
The programme is listed below, with links to presentations where available.
To watch the full conference recording, click HERE
Day 1: collecting data
(Chair: Gavin Freeguard, Insitute for Government)
Day 2: Combining and presenting data
(Chair: Dr Emma Gordon, Director, Strategic Hub, ADR UK)
Day 3: New opportunities and reflections
(Chair: Simon Whitworth, Head of Data Ethics, Data Governance, Legislation and Policy, ONS)
The programme is listed below, with links to presentations where available.
To watch the full conference recording, click HERE
Day 1: collecting data
(Chair: Gavin Freeguard, Insitute for Government)
- Introduction by Pete Stokes (Head of Integrated Data Analysis, ONS) and Felix Ritchie (Director, UWE DRAGoN)
- Katharine Kent (Co-Head of Analysis for COVID-19 Infection Survey and Head of Profession for Operational Research, ONS) Getting the ONS Coronavirus Infection Survey up and running
- Dr Andrew Engeli (Deputy Director, Innovation and Partnerships Hub, Department for Health and Social Care) Collecting NHS Test and Trace data
- Caroline Cake (Chief Executive Officer, HDR UK) Bringing data together
- Q&A session
Day 2: Combining and presenting data
(Chair: Dr Emma Gordon, Director, Strategic Hub, ADR UK)
- Round up from day 1
- Jonny Tinsley (Health Statistics Transformation, HealthAnalysis and Life Events Division, ONS) Linking mortality data (England and Wales) from multiple sources
- Timandra Harkness (Writer, presenter and comedian) Finding and presenting data
- Dr Sarah Whitehead & Dr Caroline Jones (Health and Social Care Regulators, Office for Statistics Regulation) Clarity on statistics
- Q&A session
Day 3: New opportunities and reflections
(Chair: Simon Whitworth, Head of Data Ethics, Data Governance, Legislation and Policy, ONS)
- Round up from day 2
- Dr Darian Meacham (Associate Professor of Philosophy and Principal Investigator for Ethics and Responsible Innovation at the BISSInstitute, Maastricht University) Privacy impact of homeworking - a philosophical perspective
- Bill South (Head of SRS Data and Governance, ONS) and Nick O'Donnell (Head of Secure Research Service Policy,Operations and Impact, ONS) Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic to enable research to continue
- Dr David Henderson (Quantitative Research Fellow at Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh) Researcher experiences of homeworking
- Keynote Speech: Sir Ian Diamond (National Statistician, ONS)
- Q&A session