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BLOG - Access to secure data during the Covid-19 pandemic - a model for the future?
Covid-19 and Care Homes: Advances in Administrative Data Research during the pandemic
DATA INSIGHTS: Deprivation and informal care at the end of life
BLOG - Reflections on engaging with children & young people about data
NEWS - Innovative new residential linkage tool launched
BLOG - Spotlight on Dr Elizabeth Lemmon
BLOG - Spotlight on Jan Savinc
BLOG SERIES - Dramatic increase in deaths at home- No.4
DATA INSIGHTS - Youth Movements, Social Mobility and Health Inequalities
NEWS - New report warns of deepening poverty crisis for Scottish families
New report on Infants Born into Care in Scotland
BLOG - Covid-19 fines in Scotland: What we know so far
BLOG - The value of social science and administrative data research in Scotland: how we are helping respond to COVID-19
NEWS - Joining together with Research Data Scotland to co-host existing public panel on data
DATA INSIGHTS - Exploring illegal drug consignments in Scotland
DATA INSIGHTS: Linking two administrative data sets about looked after children
NEWS - ADR UK grants 20 PhD studentship opportunities focused on quantitative research using linked administrative data
NEWS – ADR Scotland data ambassadors launched
The importance of administrative data
Virtual Conference - Data Linkage: Information to Impact
An Introduction to Data Science for Administrative Data Research course - March 2023
BLOG SERIES - Dramatic increase in deaths at home - No.7
BLOG SERIES - Dramatic increase in deaths at home
BLOG SERIES - Dramatic increase in deaths at home- No.3
DATA INSIGHTS - Investigating the effects of class composition and class size on pupils’ attainment in Scottish primary schools
NEWS - New opportunity to join ADR Scotland’s Public Panel
BLOG - Engaging the public through our public panel
BLOG - Exploring the potential of synthetic data
Children’s Health in Care in Scotland (CHiCS)
DATA INSIGHTS - Selective schools: do they improve health?
EVENT - Active Travel: New Data, New Insights
EVENT - Holyrood Evidence Week: Doing Data Better for Policy and Public Good
EVENT - Unlocking criminal justice data in Scotland: Findings from Data First
IPDLN Conference - Data linkage research: informing policy and practice
NEWS - Making nursing data available to inform policy
NEWS - New report on The Impact of Covid-19 on Children’s Care Journeys in Scotland: An Analysis of the Administrative Data on 'Looked After' Children
NEWS - Updated report on Infants Born into Care in Scotland
Scout and Guide participation boosts later life health
BLOG - Geospatial Ambitions
BLOG - Taking historical death records and developing a database for future analysis
BLOG - Unlocking criminal justice data
Future-proofing investment into administrative data research announced in Scotland
NEWS - Understanding the dynamics of the nursing workforce: the potential of routinely collected data
News - A fantastic ADR UK PhD Student Gathering event!
Spotlight on Katherine Falconer
Why misconceptions about population data can lead to bad outcomes
ADR Scotland publishes its strategy for 2022-2026
ADR Scotland receives £25 million funding boost to enhance data-driven research
BLOG - A recap of our experience at IPDLN 2024 conference
BLOG - Developing and re-shaping our public panel
BLOG - Major Investment Secures Next Phase of ADR Scotland’s Vital Work Linking Data for Public Good
BLOG - Our Top 10 in 2024
BLOG - Review of the recent DWP Areas of Research Interest Workshop
BLOG - Spotlight on Dr Evan Williams
BLOG - Spotlight on Fernando Pantoja
BLOG - The value of collaboration: Unlocking data to better understand the nursing & midwifery workforce
BLOG: Developing a cross-national research agenda on crime and convictions
BLOG: Working together to make a difference with data
DATA INSIGHTS - Homelessness duration in Scotland: how long does rehousing take?
DATA INSIGHTS - The health and economic benefits of active commuting in Scotland
EVENT - ADR UK Conference 2023
EVENT - Introduction to Administrative Data Research & Analysis course (IADRA)
EVENT - RSE The secret world of data
NEWS - Growing up in Kinship Care
NEWS - Lessons for Policy - Occupational differences in Covid19 risks by sex
NEWS - New comic on children's rights and data
NEWS - Report published on our children’s engagement pilot study
NEWS - When did fines issued by the police for breaking Covid rules peak?
NEWS - Women more likely than men to be in poverty due to public debt
RELEASE: Understanding contact with services for mental health and substance use on release from prison in Scotland
Scotland’s portfolios: Research and Statistical Data - building a new approach to thematic data linkage
The launch of the Researcher Access Service
2024 International Population Data Linkage Network (IPDLN) Conference
ADR Scotland Winter Partnership Session - **internal event**
ADR Scotland launches new podcast series
BLOG - AGEING AND HOMELESSNESS IN SCOTLAND
BLOG - Can we use linked administrative data to identify social disadvantage?
BLOG - Commuting and its impact on health
BLOG - Data with Impact with a focus on 'adult social care research' event
BLOG - Good Things Take Time and Teamwork
BLOG - How to bridge the gap between research and policy impact
BLOG - Introducing the Scottish Government’s Data for Research: Change Management Board
BLOG - Love Data Week 2025
BLOG - Love Data Week 2026
BLOG - Our 12 Days of Christmas
BLOG - PhD Gathering - Day 1 review
BLOG - Public attitudes on data sharing: ‘With us, not to us’
BLOG - Research Data Scotland (RDS) delivering for ADR Scotland: our story so far
BLOG - The Dynamics of the Nursing Workforce in the UK: Using data to support our nurses
BLOG - Unlocking the Power of Place: why you should consider using UPRN in public good research
BLOG - What young people think of researching exclusions and absences from school
BLOG – First class workshop on Privacy Preserving Record Linkage
BLOG: Growing up in kinship care
Congratulations to Alastair McAlpine, the new Chief Statistician for Scottish Government
DATA INSIGHTS - Analysing a season of death and excess mortality in Scotland’s past
EVENT - ADR UK Researcher Symposium
EVENT - ADR UK Virtual Half Day event
EVENT - HDR UK Conference: Data for global health and society
EVENT - Quality aspects of administrative data course
Event - Public data for public good: towards better understanding children's lives
NEWS - ADR Scotland awarded £25 million funding
NEWS - ADR Scotland launch new linkable datasets
NEWS - ADR Scotland's first flagship dataset
NEWS - ADR UK Annual Report 2023 – 2024 out now!
NEWS - Data research initiative secures £90 m funding extension
NEWS - SCADR research featured in the UK Covid-19 Inquiry
NEWS - Scottish innovatars create the SafePoint
NEWS: Our role supporting the new Covid-19 research data service in Scotland
Spotlight on Ana Morales-Gomez
Webinar - An Introduction to Looked-After Children Dataset
Welcome to Professor Linda Bauld
ADR Scotland Away Day (**for staff only**)
BLOG - An Inside Job: Using Criminology, Police Data and a Lot of Nouse
BLOG - An update on our deaths at home project, Oct 2024
BLOG - Demonstrating the Research Potential of Scottish LEO: Nursing Graduate Pathways into Employment
BLOG - Engage with us at the ADR UK Conference, Wales
BLOG - Evidencing the Wider Impacts of the Scottish Child Payment: Challenges and Opportunities
BLOG - Getting to grips with administrative data analysis: My experience of the IADRA course
BLOG - Improving justice data to promote data justice in Scotland
BLOG - Location of death in 2020: a changing trend from hospitals to homes
BLOG - Making connections and happy hippos – our ECR Away Day at Edinburgh Zoo
BLOG - Reflecting on the ADR UK Conference: Insights from our new PhD Researchers
BLOG - Reflections from SafePod Network and HDR UK Scotland Webinar
BLOG - Release of new dataset: Nursing & Midwifery Council data linked to Census 2021
BLOG - Seeking feedback on Research Data Scotland’s core principles via our public panel
BLOG - Spotlight on Dr Patricio Troncoso
BLOG - Understanding the experiences of children growing up in kinship care in Scotland
BLOG - Using SafePods for accessing data: Looking beyond the administrative red-tape
BLOG - What skills, training and support are required by those wishing a career as an administrative data researcher?
BLOG No. 9 - Final blog in this 'deaths at home' series
BLOG SERIES - Dramatic increase in deaths at home - No. 6
BLOG SERIES - Dramatic increase in deaths at home - No.8
BLOG SERIES - Dramatic increase in deaths at home- No.5
BLOG: 5 things I've learnt about working with policymakers...
BLOG: Automating Coding for Large Historical Datasets
BLOG: COVID-19- How increased deaths at home impact the carer community
EVENT - 'Getting things done with data in government'
EVENT - Growing up in Kinship Care webinar
EVENT - Linking public sector data for research: an ADR UK showcase event
EVENT - RDS data application process: User testing session
EVENT Seminar - Administrative data for social policy research: potential and pitfalls
NEWS - ADR Scotland launches new podcast series
NEWS - ADR UK is a beneficial investment: returning significant value to both government and academic researchers
NEWS - Additional funding for Understanding Children’s Lives and Outcomes
NEWS - Engaging children and young people
NEWS: Police use of Fixed Penalty Notices under the Covid-19 regulations in Scotland: A new data report highlights links with deprivation and inequality
NEWS: Police use of the new Covid-19 powers: Using administrative data to analyse and evaluate practice
Research Data Scotland - New user forum
Summary of ADR Scotland Winter Partnership session
Directorship of the International Population Data Linkage Network (IPDLN) for 2021-22.
BLOG: In the light of experience: InterRAI and the final thousand days of life
DATA INSIGHTS: multiple health conditions and social care
NEWS - Susan McVie elected as Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
SCADR relocates to the Bayes Centre
EVENT: Four day introduction to using administrative data for social and health research
BLOG: The value of administrative data: DALYs and the Scottish Burden of Disease study
BLOG: Where to start with parliamentary and policy engagement
EVENT - International Conference on Administrative Data Research, Cardiff
EVENT - Using data to realise the potential of the 'Last 1000 days'
EVENT: TalkingData: ADR Scotland mini-summit
EVENT: “Let’s use data to save time, money and lives”: ADR Scotland partners gather for mini-summit
EVENTS: ADR Scotland researchers present at international conference in Cardiff
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BLOG - Demonstrating the Research Potential of Scottish LEO: Nursing Graduate Pathways into Employment
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BLOG - What young people think of our research outputs, on exclusions and absences from school
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BLOG - Evidencing the Wider Impacts of the Scottish Child Payment: Challenges and Opportunities
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BLOG - Unlocking the Power of Place: why you should consider using UPRN in public good research
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