BLOG - Join us at the ADR UK Conference in Wales

ADR Scotland has a range of workshops, presentations and academic posters from colleagues at the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research (SCADR), the Scottish Government, Research Data Scotland (RDS), and the National Records of Scotland (NRS). We look forward to sharing our new outputs and methodologies with the conference delegates at the ADR UK Conference in Cardiff from 16 September 2025.

Workshops

Are you attending the pre-conference on Tuesday 16 September? 

With 23 pre-conference workshops running throughout the day, there's ample opportunity to learn from peers, build your skills in data research and analysis or join discussions before the main event begins. Don't forget to investigate the exciting workshops that ADR Scotland has to offer, including:

• A full days training on Data quality aspects of administrative data, delivered by our Professor Peter Christen over four sessions in the Corus Recital Room, which starts at 09.00 (Session 34).
• For those of you wanting to learn more about Expanding Environmental and Administrative Data Linkage Research, our Professor Chris Dibben, ADR Scotland Co-Director, is delivering a workshop alongside colleagues from UCL, Bristol and Swansea at 09.00 (Session 217).
• If you are interested in learning more about areas of research interest and engaging with policy, attend our ADR Scotland Impact & Engagement Team's workshop on the Routes to Maximising Impact in Administrative Data Research, which starts at 09.00 (Session 95).
• Or why not discover what you can learn from English and Scottish Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) data, and how we can support researchers to use it? Presented by colleagues from UCL and Sheffield (using English data), and RDS's Data Sourcing Manager, Eleanor Mitchell and Scottish Government's Cecilia MacIntyre (using Scottish data) at 15.30 (Session 317).

Presentations

From Wednesday onwards, conference attendees have a host of fantastic presentations to choose from this packed programme, which includes five distinguished keynote talks, a ministerial address, 257 oral presentations, and 23 poster presentations.  

ADR Scotland are delivering presentations across both Wednesday and Thursday, so please try to join us. 

On Wednesday: 

• Jan Savinc will be sharing his research on the relationship between social care receipt and home death in Scotland during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic (session 152).
• Our delivery partner, National Records of Scotland (NRS) will be presenting at 12.35, discussing Scotland’s Integrated Demographic Dataset and Administrative Data Based Ethnicity Dataset (session 259).
• Peter Christen will be presenting 1 of his 3 sessions at the conference, this one focusing on Identifying Scottish siblings: A population-scale approach to link historic birth, marriage, and death certificates at 11.55 (session 36).
• On Wednesday afternoon, Professor Morag Treanor's research team will present their findings on Predictors of Authorised and Unauthorised Absence of Secondary School Pupils in Scotland (Session 004), highlighting the factors associated with increased absenteeism in Scottish secondary schools.

On Thursday:

• Those of you who are keen to tackle poverty will enjoy ADR Scotland's presentation on: The importance of geography in understanding the nature, size and trends of poverty experienced in rural and island communities in Scotland (Session 66).
• Or if you are interested in how we can use administrative data to assess policing mental health distress, please do attend Professor Susan McVie's session at 15.00 (Session 11).
• Linus Chirchir from RDS is presenting on Automating Low-Fidelity Synthetic Data Generation from Metadata: A Reproducible Approach Using R (session 129).
• Alternatively, if you are interested in ongoing work taking place in Scotland exploring the benefits, challenges and risks around using equalities data for research, you can attend Siân Robson’s presentation on improving practice around the use of linked equalities data in Scotland from 14.10 (Session 131).

Posters

You can also chat with members of the ADR Scotland team when browsing our poster presentations.

At this conference, we have several poster presentations covering a variety of research themes. Feel free to come and chat to Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi about the associations between household living arrangements and COVID-19 outcomes (infection and severity) among people with intellectual and physical disabilities in Scotland, Siân Robson on improving the match rate of Looked After Children data in Scotland, or Rosie Seaman about novel network analysis.  

You can find poster presentations displayed throughout the two-day conference in the Foyer and Gallery on the ground floor of the conference venue. Our presenters will be available to talk with you and answer any questions during the lunch break on both Wednesday and Thursday of the conference.

Exhibition Stand

Finally, our delivery partner, Research Data Scotland (RDS) will be hosting an exhibition stand across the two main conference days. Please go and say hello!

You can find out more about what’s on at the conference by exploring the full programme. 

General information

Date: Wednesday 17 and Thursday 18 September, plus pre-conference workshops on Tuesday 16 September

Location: Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Cardiff, Wales, UK

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