Research output per year
Research output per year
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.
Grants awarded:
2024-2030: Co-Investigator. UK Data Service. Funded by ESRC.
2024-2027: Principal Investigator. Building computational capacity among global data service staff. Funded by UKRI
2022-2024: Principal Investigator. Building data skills capacity in Doctoral Training Partnerships. Funded by White Rose DTP, Midlands DTP and Scottish Graduate School.
2021-2022: Principal Investigator. CESSDA Training. Funded by Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives
2018-2020: Principal Investigator. Data Discovery & Research Data Management training. Funded by Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives
2019: Co-Investigator. EmpoderaData fostering data literacy skills in Latin America. Funded by UK Research Innovation, Global Challenges Research Fund Research Partnership Development Award
2018-2019: Principal Investigator. Data Skills for Development Data: Creating a Network for an ODA Hub. Funded by University of Manchester, Faculty of Humanities Strategic Investment Fund: Internationalisation
2016-2017: Principal Investigator. Data Discovery Training Needs Analysis in Europe. Funded by Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives
2012: Co-Investigator. Preparing Methodbox for National Service
2008-2009: Principal Investigator. Ethnic differences in obesity, diet and physical activity. Funded by Economic and Social Research Council
2007-2012: Co-Investigator. Economic and Social Data Service: Added value of large scale government datasets. Funded by Economic and Social Research Council
2007-2008: Co-Investigator. 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
Other activity
Membership of Professional Associations:
Specific research interests:
Keywords: Survey Research; Health and lifestyle, Ethnicity, Obesity, Diet, Physical Activity.
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 output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Preprint/Working paper › Discussion paper
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Price, D. (PI) & Higgins, V. (CoI)
1/04/24 → 31/03/30
Project: Research
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
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
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
Higgins, V. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation › Research
Higgins, V. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation › Research
Higgins, V. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation › Research
Higgins, V. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation › Research
Higgins, V. (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Research
14/05/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Blogs and social media
Student thesis: Phd