Research Data Support team

The team are here to help you to:

• find data freely available on the internet or through University of Edinburgh subscriptions, or to purchase datasets;
• direct you to subject specialists and resources;
• get started with advice on your specific data needs. We can match your research topic to data resources including surveys, censuses, mapping and databases;
• apply for access to and acquire data from national and international data services;
• make sense of dataset documentation;
• make decisions about sharing your data such as: documenting, versioning, anonymising, licensing, formatting, citing and preserving data, including choosing an appropriate repository; and
• analyse and visualise microdata online, and download user-defined subsets of data which can be analysed using statistical software such as SAS, SPSS and Stata.