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How can bringing together information from different parts of our lives help us understand national and global issues? ADR UK Director Dr Emma Gordon reflects on the International Population Data Linkage Network (IPDLN) Conference 2026, where experts from around the world gathered to explore the opportunities and challenges of linked data.
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Administrative data is transforming understanding of crime and justice, helping researchers uncover patterns, evaluate interventions, and generate evidence that can improve outcomes across the justice system. Yet unlocking the full potential of this data requires collaboration across academia, government, policy, and practice. In this blog, Dr Bogusia Wojciechowska, Senior Research Manager at ADR UK, reflects on the launch of the Criminal Justice Administrative Data Network.
This blog by the Data First team at the Ministry of Justice explores new analysis on the education and social care backgrounds of children and young people cautioned or sentenced for knife offences, anti-social behaviour (ASB) and acquisitive offences, and violence against women and girls (VAWG) offences. It highlights how linked administrative data can strengthen the evidence base for early intervention and prevention in support of the UK Government’s Safer Streets Mission.
Ensuring data is used securely and ethically – and maintaining public trust – is at the heart of ADR UK’s work with administrative data. In this blog, ADR UK's Director Dr Emma Gordon explains how we do this, and why it’s so crucial.
This blog by Dr Bogusia Wojciechowska, Senior Research Manager for Training & Capacity Building at ADR UK, reflects on the growing role of communities of practice in administrative data research, and the impact they are having in building skills, confidence and collaboration across the researcher community.
Research using administrative data can offer unprecedented insights into youth experiences of the criminal justice system – but this comes with some challenges. In this blog, Professor Alex Sutherland explores some of the complexities around using this data. Alex is a co-Investigator on the ADR England Research Community Catalyst: Youth Transitions project.
ADR UK Research Fellow Hanna Creese has been using the Education and Child Health Insights from Linked Data (ECHILD) dataset to explore how health and socioeconomic factors relate to school attendance. But data alone rarely tells the whole story. So Hanna turned to the experts themselves: young people with lived experience of struggling to attend school.
In this blog, Professor Claire Crawford shares her experience leading an ADR UK ‘research ready data’ grant-funded project to develop synthetic data. Find out how this project aims to support researchers using the Longitudinal Education Outcomes dataset and how you can share feedback on the synthetic data produced.
In this blog, ADR UK Research Fellows Dr Taheya Tarannum and Dr Farshad Ravasan explore some early insights from their fellowship project. Taheya and Farshad are using the Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) – England dataset to explore the impact of austerity measures on outcomes for university students.
In today's blog, ADR UK's Head of Communications and Engagement, Holly Greenland, shares a behind-the-scenes look at the ADR UK brand refresh, along with a sneak peak of our new national logos and colours.
