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This month’s episode of the Connecting Society podcast looks a little different. ADR UK recently took part in Pint of Science, a worldwide science festival which brings researchers to the pub to share their knowledge with local communities. At the event, we recorded a special two-part live episode of the podcast – part one is available now!
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From helping us draft emails to supporting healthcare diagnostics, AI tools are increasingly becoming part of everyday life. But as these technologies move faster into public services and workplaces, an important question remains: are people being brought along for the journey? In the latest episode of Connecting Society, co-host Mark Green spoke to Eleanor O’Keeffe and Roshni Modhvadia from the Ada Lovelace Institute about how the public understands, experiences and responds to AI.
In the latest episode of Connecting Society, co-host Shayda Kashef sits down with Daniel Jonusas, Project Lead at UCL’s Climate Action Unit, to explore a different approach that combines data-led insights with storytelling and psychology.
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.
On 3 March 2026, ADR Northern Ireland hosted an event at Parliament Buildings, Stormont - Children’s Social Care and Homelessness in Northern Ireland: Connecting Data, Changing Futures. The event brought together experts by experience, policymakers, data owners, service providers and researchers to explore how using linked administrative data and lived experience can better inform policy and practice to prevent homelessness among social care experienced young people.
In this blog post, Shayda Kashef, Senior Public Engagement Manager, shares highlights and successes from her work leading the ADR England Public Insights Panel, which plays an important role in ensuring we hear and respond to the views of the public.
This blog by Xingna Zhang, an ADR UK Research Fellow using the Education and Child Health Insights from Linked Data (ECHILD) dataset, explores whether an autism diagnosis helps children and young people access the support they need, and what she found out by consulting doctors and people with lived experience directly.
We are delighted to share the ADR UK Annual Report 2024–25. Following a year of ambitious projects and growth, the report highlights how we continue to unlock the power of administrative data to inform policy and improve lives across the UK.
This blog features an interview with Sienna-Mae Yates, a member of the ADR UK Conference 2025 Scientific Committee. Sienna-Mae brings an important perspective as a public contributor, helping ensure that the voices of people and communities are represented in discussions about research and data.
