ADR England
ADR England is a portfolio of data linking and research projects, delivered by an array of academic and government partners to provide policy-relevant insights using data held by UK Government departments and public bodies.
The geographic scope of ADR England projects varies depending on the data holder, but is typically England-only, England and Wales, Great Britain or UK-wide. ADR England also provides a home for projects analysing data within or across English regions and local authorities.
Research partners delivering projects within the ADR England portfolio so far include UCL, the University of the West of England, the University of Liverpool, and more. Data holders include the Ministry of Justice, Department for Education, NHS Digital, and more.
Data for ADR England projects is accessed by accredited researchers via the Office for National Statistics’ Secure Research Service. With the roll out of remote data access infrastructure, including the SafePod Network and Assured Organisational Connectivity, ADR England researchers can be based throughout both England and the rest of the UK.
ADR England formalises the model of working with UK Government departments and public bodies successfully developed during the ADR UK pilot phase (2018-21), and is being delivered as part of the current phase of the ADR UK programme alongside the established ADR Wales, ADR Scotland and ADR Northern Ireland.
The ADR England portfolio is commissioned and managed by the ADR UK Strategic Hub team embedded within ADR UK’s funder, the Economic and Social Research Council. Projects are commissioned in line with the ADR England Strategy, which prioritises research for public good that cuts across traditional policy boundaries.
ADR England projects currently total over £6 million of investment, and are funded directly from ADR UK’s Strategic Research Fund, administered by the ADR UK Strategic Hub. To find out more about how ADR UK is funded, see About Us. Further details of individual ADR England project grants can be found on UK Research and Innovation’s Gateway to Research platform.
ADR England Projects
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ADR UK Research Fellows: Grading and Admissions Data for England
20 July 2022
ADR UK is funding a 12-month Research Fellowship to conduct analysis using the newly available Grading and Admissions Data for England (GRADE).
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ADR UK Research Fellows: Ministry of Justice and the Department for Education linked datasets fellowships
16 December 2021
ADR UK is funding five 12-month Research Fellowships to conduct analysis using the Ministry of Justice (MoJ)-Department for Education (DfE) linked dataset to understand links between childhood characteristics, educational outcomes, and offending.
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Improving data sharing and access with synthetic data
23 September 2021
This project, led by the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) and funded by ADR UK, is exploring whether and how synthetic data could aid cross-government data sharing for research.
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ADR England News
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Pilot mentoring scheme will help develop researchers’ administrative data skills
6 December 2022
ADR UK is piloting a mentoring scheme through ADR England, to support applicants to our Research Fellowship funding calls. All applicants to our open funding opportunity – for research using key ADR England flagship datasets – are invited to request a mentor through the pilot scheme.
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Finding out ‘what works and what doesn’t’ with administrative data
2 December 2022
This blog from Giulia Tagliaferri and James Farrington follows newly-published work linking archived trials data from the Education Endowment Foundation to administrative data – and reflects on the benefits of this kind of analysis. Giulia is Head of Quantitative Research for the Behavioural Insights Team; James the Research Advisor leading the analysis.
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Celebrating public engagement: Highlights from ADR England
24 October 2022
ADR UK Public Engagement Manager, Shayda Kashef, discusses public engagement work from ADR England and the wider ADR UK partnership to mark one year since the publication of the ADR UK Public Engagement Strategy.
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Expressions of Interest
Data holders and researchers who would like to express an interest in funding for new ‘research-ready’ data linkage projects as part of ADR England can do so via our funding opportunities page. Data holders and researchers who would like to express an interest in funding for new ‘research-ready’ data linkage projects as part of ADR England can do so via our funding opportunities page.