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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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