Event Details

In this interactive webinar we introduce the work undertaken by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Secure Research Service (SRS) Impact team to discuss how we approach gathering insight and impact from research undertaken with the controlled data we provide access to. 

The SRS works with hundreds of quantitative researchers across sectors, training them to become accredited, facilitating the accreditation of research projects and approving their publication outputs from our controlled data environment, so they do not disclose identities. Our insights and impact teams gather outputs and impact from the research to facilitate reporting on the delivery of public good elements, and we work with SRS researchers to cocreate impact stories and case studies.  

 Our team is seeking to build stronger relationships with our academic users and their institutions. This session will allow us to discuss ways in which we work together to can help institutions accelerate impact of research using ONS data. Part of our role is to create further opportunities for knowledge exchange and capacity building this impact-public good space. 

If you are a research manager charged with accelerating impact from research in your institution, do join us for an informative and exciting session. We will run the session online and use break out rooms to bring our ideas together.  

Louise Corti

Louise Corti is Head of Insights, Development and Impact for the Secure Research Service, at the Office for National Statistics (ONS), joining this year. For 20 years she was Associate Director at the UK Data Archive, UK Data Service, where she directed a range of operations across the research and data lifecycle concerning the sharing, curation and reuse of data in the social sciences. Louise has sat on a number of international advisory boards for social science data services and is co–author of the handbook on Managing and Sharing Research Data: A Guide to Good Practice. 

James Spurr

James Spurr is Senior Impact Manager for the Integrated Data Service and Platform at the Office for National Statistics. Prior to joining the ONS in early 2021, he worked in the sports sector for over a decade, conducting research with athletes and equipment manufacturers for the International Tennis Federation. James has a PhD in engineering through Sheffield Hallam University’s Centre for Sports Engineering Research.