Overview
DAMES is an ESRC research Node in e-Social Science. The Node commenced 1st February 2008. The Node is based at the Universities of Stirling and Glasgow.
The Node's projects cover case studies, provision and support of data management activities undertaken by social scientists. By 'data management', we mean tasks associated with preparing and enhancing data for the benefit of analysis (such as recoding and constructing variables; linking datasets; 'cleaning data', and data 'preparation' or 'manipulation').
Specialist topics covered in DAMES are data on occupations; educational qualifications; measures of ethnicity and immigration; data on social care; and data on mental health. Our work with occupational data concerns further development of a service (that we launched in 2006) for specialist 'occupational informaton resources' - GEODE.
We will be adding information - and newly developed services - to this website over the lifetime of the Node. Please see our news and events page for updates on ongoing activities such as forthcoming Node workshops.
Some introductory slides on the Node are available here. The DAMES Node is one of a number of Nodes and projects funded by the ESRC in the domain of e-Science. Summaries of different UK-based projects can be found at the archived pages of the NCeSS Hub; the Manchester e-Research Centre; and via the ESRC website.
