ADR Wales
ADR Wales brings together world-renowned data science experts, leading academics and specialist teams within Welsh Government to produce evidence that shapes future policy decisions in Wales. The partnership is ideally placed to maximise the utility of anonymous and secure data to shape public service delivery, which will ultimately improve the lives of people in Wales.
ADR Wales unites specialists in each field from Population Data Science at Swansea University and the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data (WISERD) at Cardiff University with statisticians, economists and social researchers from Welsh Government. The cutting-edge data analysis techniques and research excellence developed, along with the world-renowned SAIL Databank, allow the delivery of robust, secure and informative research.
The data linked and analysed by ADR Wales aims to address the priority areas for action in Wales, as identified in the Welsh Government’s Programme for Government. Early years, education, housing, social care, social justice, mental health, health and wellbeing, climate change, skills and employment and major societal challenges are at the centre of the partnership’s work.
For more information on ADR Wales projects, visit the ADR Wales website or browse the ADR Wales project list.
The Strategy
ADR Wales’ 2022 – 2026 Strategy recognises the team’s expertise, builds on existing relationships and imparts lessons learned to best support policy and practice in Wales and across the UK.
How is it funded?
ADR Wales is funded directly by the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) with a dedicated portion of the total investment in ADR UK, currently until March 2026. To find out more about how ADR UK is funded, see About Us. Further details of the grants awarded to Welsh Government and Swansea University can be seen on UK Research & Innovation (UKRI)’s Gateway to Research platform.
ADR Wales projects
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Cancer Data Driven Detection: Exploring cancer inequalities in Wales
22 January 2025
ADR UK is providing in-kind support to Cancer Research UK's Cancer Data Driven Detection initiative, by funding a project using linked administrative and health data to understand the incidence of breast and bowel cancer in Wales.
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ADR UK Research Fellows: Administrative Data | Agricultural Research Collection
9 January 2025
ADR UK is funding two Research Fellows to use the newly available Administrative Data | Agricultural Research Collection (AD|ARC) dataset to explore the socioeconomic characteristics and economic resilience of farming households. The successful Research Fellows, and the projects they carry out, are part of the ADR UK Fellowship programme, which promotes research using ADR UK flagship datasets.
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Healthy Households
12 March 2024
This project will create a new research-ready dataset by linking housing data with other administrative and health data for England, Scotland and Wales. The project team will also develop tools to support researchers in using this data. This will enable new, policy-relevant insights into the make-up of households and the circumstances they experience.
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ADR Wales news
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Highlights from the ADR UK PhD Annual Gathering 2025
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Exploring the causes of death among people experiencing homelessness in Wales
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ADR UK supports £10 million programme to identify individual cancer risk
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Bridging borders: Global perspectives on child health and education
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This year's highlights: ADR Wales - exploring active travel and informing interventions to prevent youth homelessness
Publications
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Data Insight: Causes of death among people experiencing homelessness in Wales
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Estimating numbers of children not in state education using linked administrative data
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Data Insight: BMI and immunisation uptake by different levels of engagement with Flying Start in Swansea
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Data Insight: Inequalities in severe COVID-19 outcomes in Wales, 2020 to 2022
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Data Insight: European Union Settled Status Data Linkage Project (Wales) - Preliminary findings for mental health
