Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Biography
Data Skills Training
I am the Director of User Support and Training, and Co-Investigator for the UK Data Service. I lead the UK Data Service programme of training events, web-based training resources and online help for researchers and teachers using the quantitative and qualitative data hosted by the UK Data Service.
I have held the following teaching roles:
- Lecturer and dissertation supervisor: Dissertation Module, MSc Social Research Methods and Statistics
- Lecturer: Unequal Societies, a first year undergraduate module on using data to explore health inequalities
Research
My two research interests are (1) data literacy skills (2) health inequalities. I have held research roles within academia, central government and the voluntary sector. I have experience of quantitative and qualitative research and primary data collection and secondary analysis of data. Before joining the Cathie Marsh Institute I worked at the Office for National Statistics (ONS) as a survey researcher on large-scale national surveys.
Other activity
- PhD examiner (internal and examiner)
- Editorial Board Member: Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Advisory Board Member: National Centre for Research Methods
- Advisory Board Member: Methods@Manchester
- Task & Finish Group Member: Administrative Data Research UK Training
- Member of ESRC Peer Review College
Membership of Professional Associations:
- European Survey Research Association
- Social Research Association
- International Association for Social Science Information Service & Technology
- Society for Social Medicine & Population Health
- Royal Statistical Society
- International Statistical Institute
- Institute for the Association of Statistical Education
Other research
Grants:
2024-2030 UK Data Service
2021-2022 CESSDA Training. Funded by Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (PI)
2018-2020 Data Discovery & Research Data Management training. Funded by Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (PI)
2019 EmpoderaData fostering data literacy skills in Latin America. Funded by UK Research Innovation, Global Challenges Research Fund Research Partnership Development Award (Co-I)
2018-2019 Data Skills for Development Data: Creating a Network for an ODA Hub. Funded by University of Manchester, Faculty of Humanities Strategic Investment Fund: Internationalisation (PI)
2016-2017 Data Discovery Training Needs Analysis in Europe. Funded by Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (PI)
2012 Preparing Methodbox for National Service (Co-I)
2008-2009 Ethnic differences in obesity, diet and physical activity. Funded by Economic and Social Research Council (PI)
2007-2012 Economic and Social Data Service: Added value of large scale government datasets. Funded by Economic and Social Research Council (Co-I)
2007-2008 Increasing the use of large scale social surveys in undergraduate dissertations in the Social Science: A pilot project. Funded by Economic and Social Research Council (Co-I)
Social responsibility
Specific research interests:
Keywords: Survey Research; Health and lifestyle, Ethnicity, Obesity, Diet, Physical Activity.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms
- Digital Futures
- Cathie Marsh Institute
Keywords
- Survey Research
- Health and lifestyle
- Ethnicity
- Obesity
- Diet
- Physical Activity
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The UK Data Service Data Skills Framework for working with large scale survey data, census, and macro-level aggregate data
Higgins, V., Price, D. & King-Hele, S., 3 May 2024, Zenodo.Research output: Preprint/Working paper › Discussion paper
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Developing data literacy: how data services and data fellowships are creating data skilled social researchers
Higgins, V. & Carter, J., 30 Sept 2022, In: IASSIST Quarterly (Print). 46, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Ethnic density and area-deprivation effects on central obesity among ethnic minority people in England – a cross-sectional, multi-level analysis
Higgins, V., 5 Oct 2022, In: Frontiers in Epidemiology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Rethinking the Teaching of University Statistics: Challenges and Opportunities Learned from the Colombia–UK Dialogue
Méndez-Romero, R. A., Carter, J., Carrerá-Martínez, S., Suavita-Ramírez, M. A. & Higgins, V., 23 Dec 2022, In: Mathematics. 11, 1, 52.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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EmpoderaData: Sharing a successful work-placement data skills training model within Latin America, to develop capacity to deliver the SDGs
Carter, J., Jones, P., Higgins, V. & Samartini, A. L. S., 1 Sept 2021, In: Statistical Journal of the IAOS. 37, 3, p. 1009-1021Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access
Projects
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Data Skills and Training Research Group
Price, D. (PI), King-Hele, S. (PI), Mackey, E. (PI), Williams, L. (PI), Higgins, V. (PI), Smyth, P. (PI), Kapadia, D. (PI), Buckley, J. (PI), Morales-Gómez, A. (PI), Carter, J. (PI), Shlomo, N. (PI), Meadows, G. (PI), Brown, M. (PI), Pampaka, M. (PI), Elliot, M. (PI), Spencer, C. (PI), Swift, L. (PI) & Gosling, Z. (Support team)
1/08/19 → 30/09/22
Project: Research
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Ethnicity and Migration
Laurence, J. (PI), Ali-Moore, R. (PI), Campion, K. (PI), Chandola, T. (PI), Begum, N. (PI), Haarmans, M. (PI), Hannemann, T. (PI), Higgins, V. (PI), Shankley, W. (PI), Buffel, T. (PI), Shryane, N. (PI), Brown, M. (PI), Wisniowski, A. (PI), Peters, S. (PI), Sobolewska, M. (PI), Ford, R. (PI), Nazroo, J. (PI), Kapadia, D. (CoI), Byrne, B. (PI), Troncoso Ruiz, P. (PI), Li, Y. (PI), Harris, S. (PI), Aparicio-Castro, A. (PI), Taylor, H. (PI), Cotterell, N. (PI), Chambers, R. (PI), Castillo Jaramillo, J. (PI) & Gosling, Z. (Support team)
1/08/19 → 30/09/22
Project: Research
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Lifelong Health
Price, D. (PI), Haarmans, M. (PI), Chandola, T. (PI), Higgins, V. (PI), Smith, N. (PI), Hannemann, T. (PI), Doran, P. (PI), Prattley, J. (PI), Taylor, H. (PI), Williams, B. (PI), Webber, R. (PI), Phillipson, C. (PI), Nazroo, J. (PI), Yarker, S. (PI), Shryane, N. (PI), Buffel, T. (PI), Cotterell, N. (PI), James, H. (PI), Pendleton, N. (PI), Mekli, K. (PI), Chatzi, G. (PI), Rémillard-Boilard, S. (PI), Pashazadeh, F. (PI), Li, Y. (PI), Matthews, K. (PI), Tampubolon, G. (PI), Kapadia, D. (PI), Gosling, Z. (Support team) & Zhang, N. (PI)
1/08/19 → 30/09/22
Project: Research
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Activities
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Expanding the user base for training events and training resources
Vanessa Higgins (Invited speaker)
21 Sept 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation › Research
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Health Studies User Conference 2022
Vanessa Higgins (Chair)
12 Jul 2022Activity: Participating in or organising event(s) › Participating in a conference, workshop, exhibition, performance, inquiry, course etc › Research
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Panel: Future Data, Future Tech: Centre for Digital Trust and Society Anniversary Forum (Digital Futures)
Vanessa Higgins (Invited speaker)
6 Jul 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Research
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Ch-ch-ch-ch changes......the future of data skills training within the UK Data Service
Vanessa Higgins (Speaker)
9 Jun 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation › Research
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Panel: That all our knowledge begins with experience there can be no doubt' (Kant 1781): The Role of Experiential Learning in Methods Training
Vanessa Higgins (Invited speaker)
25 Oct 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Research
Press/Media
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COVID-19: Social surveys are now more important than ever
14/05/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Blogs and social media
Thesis
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Ethnic Differences in Obesity
Higgins, V. (Author), Brown, M. (Supervisor) & Nazroo, J. Y. (Supervisor), 31 Dec 2017Student thesis: Phd
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