The ADLS will be running the ESRC Safe Researcher training course again this year, venue: Medical Research Centre, London. Friday 27th April 2012.

The course has been updated and will be of particular use and benefit to researchers and other parties who are interested in understanding and using administrative data for research. The course covers:

An introduction to administrative data in the UK.
Responsibilities of a researcher (legal guidance).
Creating safe settings and data security.
Good practice in the analysis of administrative datasets.
Understanding statistical disclosure and avoiding disclosive outputs.
Guidance to make administrative data applications.

The course has been endorsed by the Information Commissioner’s Office and the major administrative data holding government departments in the UK.

The cost is subsidised by the ESRC and costs £45 including lunch. Some funding maybe available for travel costs for students or the unwaged who might otherwise be unable to attend.

There are only a few places available so if you wished to attend it would be advisable to book sooner rather than later based on demand for previous courses. Further information and booking details are available to download from http://www.adls.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/ADLS-Safe-Researcher-Course-London.pdf