Pollution, green spaces, and housing: How our environment affects our health
This blog by Evie Parmenter, Senior Research Portfolio Manager at the Economic and Social Research Council, explores the…
Linking data to improve outcomes for neurodivergent young people
This blog by ADR UK Research Fellow Dr Justin Yang explores the risks neurodivergent pupils face in secondary school, and how linked…
How does early socio-emotional development in childhood relate to later offending?
In this blog, ADR UK Research Fellow Dr Paul Garcia Hinojosa introduces his project which is using linked…
Spotlight on early intervention: Evidencing impact and progressing understandings of preventative support for children using administrative data
Explore how administrative data is being used to…
Behind the red tractor: Who are our farming families?
In this blog, Dr Claire Hargreaves, an ADR UK Research Fellow based at Lancaster University, explains why understanding the farming household is…
Policy brief: Self-harm & suicide in Northern Ireland: New evidence from linked administrative data
The information presented in this policy brief summarises findings from five published research…
Working with charities to prevent youth homelessness
Dr Ian Thomas and Prof Peter Mackie from the ADR Wales Housing and Homelessness team share insights on their collaboration with youth homelessness…
Data Insight: Disengagement from school among pupils experiencing homelessness in Wales
This Data Insight explores the association between disengagement from school and youth homelessness. The team…
Creating the Virus Watch dataset
Virus Watch was a community cohort study of Covid-19, with around 60,000 participants across England and Wales. It ran from June 2020 until April 2025. Virus Watch…
Informing mental health initiatives for workers
Across two projects, researchers used linked administrative data to explore how mental ill health varies across occupations in Northern Ireland (NI),…
