ADR UK

👋 Did you know we share all our latest news, insights, and updates on LinkedIn? You can keep up with everything we’re working on by following us there, at linkedin.com/company/adr-uk/.

There's also an introduction to the National Pupil Database — a free, online course offering a detailed overview of England’s main education administrative dataset. 🗓 10–11 Feb (+ optional 1:1s on 13 Feb) 🎓 Ideal for new users seeking maximum insight 👉 adruk.org/news-publicati…

Join us for an in-person computer workshop on working with the National Pupil Database using R 🧑‍💻 Led by experts, this explores NPD structure, key datasets and policy-relevant analysis using synthetic data. 📍 UCL Institute of Education 📅 25 Feb 👉adruk.org/news-publicati…

A new ADR England flagship dataset is now available 🎉 ASHE linked to Migrant Workers Scan offers unprecedented insight into migrant workers’ earnings, employment and progression across the UK. Available via @ONSfocus SRS for accredited researchers. adruk.org/news-publicati…

Learn more about this funding opportunity at adruk.org/news-publicati….

Interested in applying for the @YouthEndowFund Secondary Data Analysis call? Join the Administrative Data for Social Policy hub for a lunch session on developing strong proposals, with insights from experienced admin data researchers. 📅 20 Jan eventbrite.com/e/adsop-mmu-ap…

"What is it that makes a job 'good'? Who has access to 'good jobs', and through what mechanisms?" ADR UK Fellow Guglielmo Ventura reflects on an LSE workshop bringing together research & policy to explore better data, better evidence, better policy. adruk.org/news-publicati…

You can learn about synthetic data, and how ADR UK is pioneering work in this space, at adruk.org/learning-hub/e….

New guidance published 📄 Following our May 2025 workshop, ADR UK collaborators developed shared principles for creating and sharing low-disclosure synthetic data. Supporting responsible use in research, training & TREs. Now available on Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/179802…

Join ADR UK Fellow Dr Paul Garcia Hinojosa (University of Essex) for a @ONSfocus Research Excellence talk on how early childhood socio-emotional & cognitive difficulties relate to adolescent offending, using linked MoJ–DfE data. 📅 29 Jan, 10:30–11:30 eventbrite.co.uk/e/socio-emotio…

Calling all MoJ–DfE data users 📊 Join the Administrative Data for Social Policy Hub (MMU) online on 13 Jan, 1–2pm, for the first MoJ–DfE data user drop-in. A community space to share ideas, learning and troubleshoot together. teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/la…

Join us on 23 Jan for the launch of the CHILI Hub Seminar Series 🧠🏫🌱 Experts will explore how children’s learning environments affect health and wellbeing under Net Zero. 🕐 13:00–14:30 | 💻 Online | 🎟️ Free adruk.org/news-publicati…

🚀 Join SynthSprint: a 4-week hands-on sprint exploring synthetic data across real-world use cases. Collaborate, test fidelity levels, & shape a synthetic data utility framework. EOIs open until 31 Jan 2026! adruk.org/news-publicati…

📢 New funding from the @YouthEndowFund Funding for secondary data analysis on children & young people’s involvement in violence, inc. health, social care, youth justice, violence against women/girls & online violence. 🗓 Deadline: 13 Feb 2026 adruk.org/news-publicati…

🎄 12 days of ADR UK: Day twelve 📆 Dec: ADR UK launched a bonus episode of Connecting Society — answering listener questions and some of the most common queries that come up during ADR UK’s public engagement work. 🔗 connecting-society.buzzsprout.com/2058571/episod…

🎄 12 days of ADR UK: Day eleven 📆 Nov: @NISRA, as part of ADR Northern Ireland, opened access to the Business Data for Research 2022 dataset. Covering 2014–2022, it supports research on NI business, trade, employment and economic policy. 🔗 adruk.org/data-access/fl…

🎄 12 days of ADR UK: Day ten 📆 Oct: The launch of ADR UK Research Fellowships 2025 — supporting researchers to tackle real-world challenges using linked administrative data. 🔗 adruk.org/news-publicati…

🎄 12 days of ADR UK: Day nine 📆 Sep: #ADRUKConf25 was hosted by @ADR_Wales in Cardiff, marking a year of major progress across the UK research data landscape. 🔗 adruk.org/news-publicati…

🎄 12 days of ADR UK: Day eight (happy new year!) 📆 Aug: ADR UK confirmed a five-year funding extension to 2031, with £168m investment from DSIT, securing the future of administrative data research across the UK. 🔗 adruk.org/news-publicati…

🎄 12 days of ADR UK: Day seven 📆 Jul: ADR UK was recognised in the UK’s new Modern Industrial Strategy, published by the Department for Business and Trade — reflecting the growing importance of data-enabled research. 🔗 gov.uk/government/col…