EVENT - ADR Scotland researchers present at international conference in Cardiff

Earlier this week, researchers from our centre joined colleagues from around the world at the 2019 Administrative Data Research Conference in Cardiff.

The 2019 conference was focused on the theme ‘Public Data for Public Good’, and organisers at the International Journal of Population Data Science said:

“The use of administrative data and the ability to link records at an individual level to produce empirically based insights, serves to effect positive change for public good through evidence based policy making. The increasing availability of government data for research is an important trend enabling population data science to penetrate deeper than ever before into social and economic issues. However, the use of these vast data resources is still in its infancy with considerable challenges to overcome. This year, the 4th International ADR Conference aimed to address such challenges towards lessening the gap between theory and practice.”

The conference shared presentations from dozens of speakers – researchers, data providers and beyond – on the topics of: Applied research; Case studies and concepts; Ethical, legal and social implications; Evidence to support policy making; and Methodological and analytical advances. Keynote speeches including addresses from Garry Coleman of NHS Digital, Rebecca Evans Welsh Government Minister for Finance, Leon Feinstein from the Office of the Children’s Commissioner for England and Wales, Matthew Whittaker of the Resolution Foundation, Betsy Stanko of the Ministry of Justice’s Data, Evidence and Science Board, and John Pullinger of the UK Statistics Authority.

Harriet Barker - Impact and Knowledge Exchange Manager here at the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research – led a workshop exploring mechanisms to deliver and maximise impact with research, alongside colleagues from Wales and Northern Ireland. ADR Scotland colleagues Alessia Morris and David Grzybowski from the Scottish Government also presented their work on a new data research infrastructure for Scotland at the pre-conference workshop.

You can read abstracts of all the presentations from the conference on the website of the International Journal of Population Data Science. Those by researchers connected with our centre and ADR Scotland included:

• Susan McVie - A public health approach to reducing violence: Can data linkage help to reduce demand on blue light services?
• Iain Atherton - Implications of socio-demographic change in place of death in Scotland 2001-2011: an analysis of linked census and death registration data
• David Henderson - Association between receipt of social care and multimorbidity: evidence from a population-sized cohort in Scotland
• Ben Matthews - Administrative Data as a Novel Source of Information on Postal Drug Delivery in Scotland: A Spatial Analysis of Illegal Consignment Seizure Data
• Lynne Forrest - Migration to Scottish New Towns and the impact on premature mortality in Glasgow: longitudinal analysis of linked Scottish Mental Survey 1947 and NHS Central Register data
• Gillian Raab and Cecilia MacIntyre - The looked-after child in time: Creating and analysing longitudinal data on placement history and educational outcomes
• Anna Schneider - Variations in the use and availability of formal and informal care at the end of life over time and space
• Matthew Iveson - Childhood cognitive ability and the use of long-term care in later life
• Richard Tobin and Elaine Farrow - Automatic coding of occupation and cause-of-death records
• Zhiqiang Feng - Does the risk of poor mental health rise before widowhood?
• Jade Hooper - Protecting children during child protection research using administrative data and Linking two administrative datasets about looked after children: testing feasibility and enhancing understanding