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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 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
Spotlight on Dr Elizabeth Lemmon
Spotlight on Jan Savinc
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
Spotlight on Peter Christen
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 - Cycling to work can benefit your mental health
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 - Automatic Coding of Occupations: Methods to create the Scottish Historic Population Database (SHPD)
DATA INSIGHTS - Selective schools: do they improve health?
DATA INSIGHTS - Were people who died at home less likely to attend hospital at the end of life during the Covid pandemic?
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
DATA INSIGHTS - Community mortality due to Covid-19
Future-proofing investment into administrative data research announced in Scotland
NEWS - Understanding the dynamics of the nursing workforce: the potential of routinely collected data
Spotlight on Joanna Soraghan
Spotlight on Katherine Falconer
Why misconceptions about population data can lead to bad outcomes
ADR Scotland publishes its strategy for 2022-2026
BLOG - A recap of our experience at IPDLN 2024 conference
BLOG - Developing and re-shaping our public panel
BLOG - Review of the recent DWP Areas of Research Interest Workshop
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 - Occupation and COVID-19 deaths: Scotland in a comparative perspective
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 - 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?
Scotland’s portfolios: Research and Statistical Data - building a new approach to thematic data linkage
Spotlight on Cecilia Macintyre
Spotlight on Dr Evan Williams
Spotlight on Fernando Pantoja
Spotlight on Laurie Berrie
The launch of the Researcher Access Service
2024 International Population Data Linkage Network (IPDLN) Conference
ADR Scotland Winter Partnership Session - **internal event**
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 - Good Things Take Time and Teamwork
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: Growing up in kinship care
Congratulations to Alastair McAlpine, the new Chief Statistician for Scottish Government
DATA INSIGHT - Understanding exclusions in Scottish secondary schools
DATA INSIGHTS - Analysing a season of death and excess mortality in Scotland’s past
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 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: Our role supporting the new Covid-19 research data service in Scotland
Spotlight on Gina Anghelescu
Spotlight on Michelle K Jamieson
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 - Improving justice data to promote data justice in Scotland
BLOG - Location of death in 2020: a changing trend from hospitals to homes
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 - Understanding the experiences of children growing up in kinship care in Scotland
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
DATA INSIGHTS -Postal deliveries of drugs in Scotland
EVENT - 'Getting things done with data in government'
EVENT - Linking public sector data for research: an ADR UK showcase event
EVENT Seminar - Administrative data for social policy research: potential and pitfalls
NEWS - ADR Scotland launches new podcast series
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
Spotlight on Atreyi Saha
Spotlight on Dr Patricio Troncoso
Spotlight on Renata Samulnik
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
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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