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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
- 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 - The value of social science and administrative data research in Scotland: how we are helping respond to COVID-19
- DATA INSIGHTS - Exploring illegal drug consignments in Scotland
- DATA INSIGHTS -Linking two administrative data sets about looked after children
- NEWS – ADR Scotland data ambassadors launched
- The importance of administrative data
- Virtual Conference - Data Linkage: Information to Impact
- 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 - Exploring the potential of synthetic data
- DATA INSIGHTS - Automatic Coding of Occupations: Methods to create the Scottish Historic Population Database (SHPD)
- 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
- IPDLN Conference - Data linkage research: informing policy and practice
- BLOG - Geospatial Ambitions
- BLOG - Taking historical death records and developing a database for future analysis
- DATA INSIGHTS - Community mortality due to Covid-19
- DATA INSIGHTS - What makes people more likely to cycle to work?
- 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
- ADR Scotland publishes its strategy for 2022-2026
- 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
- NEWS - Report published on our children’s engagement pilot study
- Spotlight on Dr Evan Williams
- Spotlight on Fernando Pantoja
- Spotlight on Laurie Berrie
- 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 - The Dynamics of the Nursing Workforce in the UK: Using data to support our nurses
- BLOG: Growing up in kinship care
- DATA INSIGHTS - Analysing a season of death and excess mortality in Scotland’s past
- EVENT - ADR UK Virtual Half Day event
- Event - Public data for public good: towards better understanding children's lives
- NEWS - Data research initiative secures £90 m funding extension
- NEWS: Our role supporting the new Covid-19 research data service in Scotland
- Spotlight on Michelle K Jamieson
- Webinar - An Introduction to Looked-After Children Dataset
- 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 - Seeking feedback on Research Data Scotland’s core principles via our public panel
- 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 - 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 Dr Patricio Troncoso
- 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
Community safety, equality and wellbeing
This research strand focuses on improving safety, equality and wellbeing across communities by linking data from law enforcement, justice and health. It examines the challenges to society caused by drug use, alcohol consumption, mental health and violence and seeks to understand how health and justice organisations might work collaboratively to alleviate them.
Lead: Professor Susan McVie, University of Edinburgh
Our research looks at patterns of demand for public services and provides insights on demand failure, increasing efficiency and organisational learning. A key tenet of our research is the promotion of community safety, equality and wellbeing through a public health approach founded on effective cross-sectoral working partnerships.
Research projects within Community Safety, Equality and Wellbeing include:
- a study of the potential harm of illegal drug parcels entering Scottish communities through the international postal network;
- analysis of repeat patterns of violent victimisation in Scotland;
- examination of the association between violence, deprivation and alcohol in Scottish communities;
- exploration of the outcomes for problem drug users seeking treatment, comparing those that are and are not referred via justice organisations;
- unique analysis of the association between health vulnerabilities and non-compliance during the pandemic using linked police data on enforcement.
We look forward to working with the Scottish Prison Service, to review the profile of the prison population, assessing the health and justice outcomes using linked administrative data.
There is broad recognition that community safety, equality and wellbeing can only be achieved by partnership working and organisational collaboration across different domains within the public sector. Our research focuses on learning insights from linked health and justice data to better inform a public health approach to reducing harm.
Problems within communities that arise as a result of drug and alcohol misuse, mental health conditions and violence cannot be resolved through policing alone, and Scotland has been at the forefront of identifying and delivering a range of public health approaches to reduce crime and disorder within communities. Our research seeks to explore factors that impact on community safety and wellbeing and identify ways to improve and influence service planning, delivery and, in the longer term, infrastructure development. Evidence will be generated that responds to several areas of policy and practice, in particular concern over vulnerable groups, mental health & wellbeing, violence, substance use, poverty and inequality.
Events and Engagement
We work closely with stakeholders in health, crime and justice to raise awareness, identify research priorities and reframe research agendas for administrative data in this area. Our research advisory groups help to shape the aims, objectives and questions for each project and ensure they best meet the needs of stakeholder groups.
We have hosted and participated in a number of events aimed at promoting our research findings to policymakers and practitioners. These include:
- a workshop on ‘Driving forward data informed approaches to policing’ held in partnership with Police Scotland;
- a seminar on ‘Using criminology, police data and a lot of nouse’ by head of evidence and insight in the Mayor of London’s Office for Policing and Crime, Professor Betsy Stanko;
- membership of the Independent Advisory Group on Police use of the temporary powers created under the Coronavirus Regulations in Scotland;
- a public webinar on ‘Police Use of Fixed Penalty Notices under the Coronavirus Regulations in Scotland’ organised by the Scottish Police Authority;
- and a series of presentations to MSPs and Parliamentary Researchers on how Scotland’s administrative data can be linked and used to create insights to inform crime, justice and equality policy and support effective decision-making as part of Holyrood Evidence Week.