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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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Applications are open to become a Parliamentary Thematic Research Lead for 2027 to 2029. The UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) is collaborating with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to place a cohort of Thematic Research Leads focused on a range of topics, including some relevant to ADR UK data and research.
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.
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.
A suite of new reports by the Ministry of Justice Data First team links education, social care and justice data to provide new insights into patterns of youth offending and the backgrounds of children and young people who offend.
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.
