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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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 themed projects: Social Care
15 January 2024
The ADR Wales Social Care programme is led by Social Care Wales, a Welsh Government-sponsored body which registers and sets standards for social workers and social care workers in Wales. This programme will promote the benefits of linked data research and demonstrate its potential for understanding social care in Wales and beyond.
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ADR Wales themed projects: Social Justice
22 September 2023
This ADR Wales research agenda will cover inequalities in health outcomes, treatment, accessibility to services, opportunities, and education for the population of Wales. It will utilise linked anonymised, individual-level, population-scale data that is routinely collected. This includes demographic, health, environmental, administrative and social data.
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ADR Wales news
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Exploring differences in chronic disease and mortality by area-level deprivation across Wales
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Linked data research and social care: Research priorities for adult social care across the UK
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Linked data research and social care: What data sources are available across the UK?
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Linked data research and social care: What we learned at the ADR UK Conference 2023
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Risk factors for domestic violence experienced by mothers in family court care proceedings
Publications
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Data Insight: Risk factors associated with primary care-reported domestic violence for women involved in Family Law care proceedings
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Data Insight: Effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the mental health of children that are clinically extremely vulnerable or living with clinically extremely vulnerable people in Wales
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Differences between estimates of Welsh language ability in Census 2021 and household surveys
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Data Insight: Clinical coding and capture of Long COVID: a cohort study in Wales using linked health and demographic data
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Data Insight: European Union Settled Status (EUSS) Data Linkage Project (Wales): Preliminary findings for education