🚨 THE NEW CABINET 🚨 The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has appointed his cabinet. This new cabinet marks a historic moment in British politics, with a record number of state-educated Ministers and the lowest proportion of privately educated Ministers since 1945 🧵👇

How can the past inform the future of the Census? Oliver Duke-Williams reflects in our latest Linking our Lives blog blogs.ucl.ac.uk/linking-our-li… UCL EPH UCL IEHC Nicola Shelton (part-time prof) #YesVax #YesMask Fran Abrams

Today NISRA published #NICensus2021 origin-destination data for #NorthernIreland The #data includes Census 2021 estimates showing the movement of people from one location to another to migrate or work. Available on the NISRA website, visit nisra.gov.uk/statistics/res…

The Reform 'phantom candidates' story seems to demonstrate that if a party wanted to field fictitious candidates it'd be fairly easy to get away with it. But: what solutions exist, and would they also rule out Count Binface et al? "Genuine fake candidates only, please"

Today is World Population Day; coincidentally @camunicampop was born exactly 60 years ago! To celebrate we've launched a roughly weekly blog: 60 things you didn't know about family, marriage, work and death since the middle ages campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/ Cambridge University

Census data has been collected on veterans living in Scotland for the first time. The data will help governments, local authorities and charities to shape support for veterans and their families Find out more: bit.ly/census-veterans

🗨️Calling all data service users! Economic and Social Research Council want to hear from you! They're running a survey to help them understand the needs of the next generation of data services beyond 2024. Deadline for responses = 30 August! ➡️engagementhub.ukri.org/esrc-1/esrc-da…

Vacancy: We're looking for a Senior Developer to join our team at the UK Data Archive. Deadline: 11 August ukdataservice.ac.uk/2024/07/29/vac… #EssexJobs

We're delighted to announce that Steve McEachern (Steve McEachern) will be taking over as our new Director this month. You can read more about Steve and his vision for the UK Data Service below 👇ukdataservice.ac.uk/2024/08/12/ukd…

The experience of discovering and reading this work is, to me, overwhelming. Who is Miss Lightfoot? How did she come to create such a monumental work of information design? And why have I never heard of her? chartography.net/p/colossal-chr…

🚀Join us on 26 Sept for the launch of 'Intelligent Computing for Cultural Heritage'! Hear from global experts and network over lunch/drinks. Location: IAS Common Ground, UCL🎟️Free event open to all!👉Sign up at: ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a… #DigitalHumanities #BookLaunch

Dumping gender and sexuality questions from the census doesn’t make us less gay – it leaves us uninformed | New from me theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Senator Watt confirms it was a captain’s call from the government to intervene into the independent conduct of the ABS. Census prep was fully funded, and the new topics included a question exploring housing securing and cost-of-living. This was political.

More developments from Australia, as the Government REVERSES its decision to not count sexual orientation in the 2026 census... but plans to exclude a trans/gender identity Q! I shared some lessons Australia can learn from the Scottish census w/ ABC News abc.net.au/news/2024-08-3…

🪧 EVENT: All campaigns are data campaigns. If you're interested in hearing our cohort of community campaigns share their experience of working on social justice issues, how data intersects this & developing an effective campaign - join us 26/9 in London. connectedbydata.org/events/2024-09…

At British Society for Population Studies - BSPS conference, plenary discussion between Alice Reid and Sir Ian Diamond on future of population statistics, and Ian's career leading up to role as National Statistician #bsps

An unexpected diversion in this talk; Ian spoke very positively about Walthamstow Academy which he had recently visited; I'm proud to be a school governor there

🌟 ..and we're off! 🌟 'Writing apps for diff audiences' hosted by the The British Academy ECR Network London & @UCL! Looking forward to learning & sharing tips for all #ECRs on the market, transitioning, or applying for promo! IOE Early Career Network We are Cognitive Dr Lauren Clark

17 Oct | 8:00 am EDT. Don’t miss the UNStats and Friends of the Chair Group on Social & Demographic Statistics webinar! Explore how the element of time shapes social and demographic statistics, from longitudinal data to future policy planning. Register buff.ly/3MIIw9f