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Safe Haven (DaSH)

The Grampian Data Safe Haven (DaSH) is a secure, virtual data analysis and storage centre, established by the University of Aberdeen and NHS Grampian, to allow for the secure processing and linking of sensitive health, social care and other population data for the Grampian and Scottish population.

DaSH ensures that routinely-captured, individual-level sensitive data are accessible for research and clinical purposes, whilst protecting individuals' privacy through rigorous de-identification and quality assurance processes.

Our ethos is built on working with clinicians, researchers and industry partners to improve population-wide outcomes by providing a safe and secure environment to enable cutting-edge research.

Digital research in action

Explore our case studies to see how working with the Digital Research team can benefit your research

DaSH

Linking local data for national insights

Using our Grampian Data Safe Haven to process unconsented patient data and link datasets within and outside of healthcare is bringing new insights to public health.

HPC

Accelerating genomic research with High Performance Computing

Our supercomputing clusters boost the University's capacity for research, for example supporting the Centre for Genome Enabled Biology & Medicine.

Secondment

Embedding expertise across the University

Our digital research specialists are experts who work with researchers across the University to provide anything from an advisory email to a multi-month secondment.

SBRI

Bringing academics and AI companies together for fracture diagnosis

This Small Business Research Initiative, a joint venture between clinicians and commercial companies, allows us to develop AI technology to improve the diagnosis of limb fractures.

SHAIP

Creating a safe haven for image data

We have created a new data safe haven for highly sought-after sensitive image and free text data, making them available for valuable research projects.