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This blog by Professor Claire Crawford outlines recent updates to the Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) dataset, including the introduction of new derived variables designed to make the data easier to use while reducing the need to access more detailed personal data. Claire leads an ADR England-funded project, working in partnership with the Department for Education (DfE), to support the development of LEO.
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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.
New shared code is available to help users prepare ‘research-ready’ data from the large-scale Longitudinal Educational Outcomes (LEO) dataset in the ONS Secure Research Service (SRS). Developed by a team at University College London (UCL), the code focuses on using SQL to extract and link variables, and is available in the SRS Code Library.
In this blog, ADR UK Research Fellow, Xiaowei Xu, shares her reflections on her project on youth migration using Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) data.
ADR UK is delighted to announce the next phase of investment across our national partnerships. Following our successful reinvestment in 2025, we have now awarded funding to each UK nation: ADR England, ADR NI, ADR Scotland and ADR Wales.
If you’re planning to apply for our funding opportunity for ADR UK Research Fellowships, you might be looking for ways to make your proposal impactful. Karen Powell, ADR UK’s Head of Research Strategy and Commissioning, explains how insights from our ADR England Research Community Catalysts can help you align your project to fill key evidence gaps.
The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) linked to Migrant Workers Scan – England, Scotland and Wales dataset offers unique insights into the experiences of migrant workers in the UK labour market. This dataset is now available for accredited researchers to apply to access in the Office for National Statistics Secure Research Service.
This blog is by ADR UK Research Fellow Guglielmo Ventura, who reflects on a recent workshop hosted at the LSE Centre for Economic Performance. The event brought together leading academic and policy voices to explore how linked administrative data can deepen our understanding of young people’s labour market transitions and inform better policy.
