 Hi, I'm Oliver Exton. I'm a second year PhD student at the University of Cambridge. My current research is looking at how firms have changed their exporting decisions in response to the Brexit referendum. So I use the business structure database, which is a business registry of the universe of firms and plants in the UK. So this is the main dataset if you want to look at how firms have responded to trade shocks, so changes in import competition, changes in trade policy, movements in the exchange rate, and to understand how future policies might impact UK firms. The biggest pressures of being an early career researcher are trying to find the right topic to work on. I think once you find the right topic, then the research can flow quite easily, but early on it can be quite difficult to work out what the most important questions are to answer. The most exciting thing about being an early career researcher is the fact that you can research whatever you want, whatever you think is the important topic, both in terms of for academia and for policymakers, and you have the flexibility and opportunity to do so. So being a UKDS data impact fellow has greatly increased my exposure within the faculty, which has helped me to gain access to the datasets and increase awareness within the faculty of the data that you can get on UK firms and workers. It's also increased the exposure of my work and helped me to interact with policymakers.