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Welcome to the SDR UK Community Network

We bring together people who are passionate about advancing smart data research for public good. Whether you’re an early career researcher (ECR) or an established expert in academia, public sector, or industry, we’d love you to get involved.

While you’re here…join our LinkedIn group to:

  • Connect with peers across sectors
  • Hear about upcoming events and opportunities
  • Share insights and collaborate

Throughout the year, Smart Data Research UK and its six data services host online and in-person events for our community – we look forward to seeing you!

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New webinar on data scraping

Join our Social Platforms Data Access Taskforce to explore the barriers that researchers face when scraping data.

Economic Wellbeing Explorer demo

Our Financial Data Service (FINDS) invites you to the launch of its Economic Wellbeing Explorer.

Smart data and economic growth

New SDR UK webinar on smart data for economic growth – jobs, money, and living standards.

Enhancing the user journey in TREs

A new webinar from our Healthy and Sustainable Healthy Places Data Service and MetadataWorks.

Social data from space seminar

Join UCL for a Director's Seminar with Professor Dani Arribas-Bel, co-director of Imago, our Imagery Data Service.

Imago annual summit in December

Our Imagery Data Service's first annual summit on 11 December 2025, 10:30am to 5:00pm in Liverpool.

Connect with the wider data community

Looking to expand your network? Smart Data Research UK sits within a vibrant ecosystem of UKRI data programmes, from longitudinal research to health data to trusted research environments.

Find other communities and collaborative opportunities:

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