ADR UK Ambassadors' Handbook
Find resources and guidance to help ADR UK Ambassadors advocate for administrative data research.
As an ADR UK Ambassador, you play a critical role in our mission to drive impact and improve lives through administrative data research.
ADR UK Ambassadors use their existing position and networks to support ADR UK’s mission to improve lives through administrative data research. They span a wide variety of roles and sectors across the four nations of the UK, creating a vital network to help spread the word about the power and potential of administrative data research. They build relationships and promote engagement with our programme, advocate for secure research access to data, and encourage the uptake of data-driven evidence to inform policy and practice.
By advocating for ADR UK's mission across your networks and platforms and identifying opportunities for collaboration, you are building a culture of support for administrative data research for the public good.
Use our digital badge
Let your network know you're an ADR UK Ambassador! You can download a branded badge to add to your email signature and presentations:
The Ambassadors Exchange
Introducing the Ambassadors Exchange, a new quarterly newsletter exclusively for ADR UK Ambassadors. We'll share highlights from ADR UK, updates from your fellow Ambassadors, and key resources. We'll also ask you to share your news with us.
How can I support ADR UK?
There is no formal time or work commitment to being an ADR UK Ambassador, and it is anticipated that each Ambassador will undertake different activities depending on their role. In practical terms, supporting ADR UK as an Ambassador might include some or all of the following:
- Advocate for the secure sharing of administrative data for research purposes, and/or the uptake of insights from research using administrative data. For example, this might involve including ADR UK in presentations, writing blogs, writing and sharing on social media, bringing ADR UK’s work to roundtables and other engagement events, facilitating the contribution of evidence.
- Act as a relationship broker between ADR UK and your organisation or wider professional community.
- Promote ADR UK’s work to your network.
- Attend and engage with ADR UK events where feasible, especially events organised for Ambassadors.
- Proactively inform ADR UK about relevant activities, engagement and opportunities for collaboration, using our online form:
Let us know about your activities!
We really want to understand the engagement activities and conversations ADR UK Ambassadors are undertaking. These could be major milestones, like joining an advisory panel, building a community or presenting at an event.
However, we're also really interested in hearing about smaller engagements which are hard to capture elsewhere, for example, a sentence or two to let us know: “I attended an economics conference and advised a researcher to look at ADR UK funding opportunities”, or “I joined a roundtable on children's social care and emphasised the importance of evidence from administrative data”. These insights are really valuable to help us understand the spaces where our Ambassadors have influence, and how we can best support you.
Use our quick online form to share your activities with us. We'll send you a quarterly reminder in the Ambassadors Exchange, but you can submit the form at any time.
We may include highlights from these updates in future editions of the Ambassadors Exchange - please indicate if you would prefer for your news not to be included.
Advocate for us in your presentations
If you're delivering a presentation - whether at a conference, another event, or to stakeholders in your network - please consider sharing ADR UK's work with your audience. Is there information you can give them to help them drive impact from administrative data research? Here are some resources you can use in your presentations.
These resources will be updated regularly, so please bookmark this page and check here to download the latest versions.
ADR UK stock slides
To give an overview of ADR UK, our mission and the model of our programme, add these slides to your presentations.
ADR UK flagship dataset slides
Our collection of flagship linked datasets are available for public good research. Covering a wide range of themes including the economy, education and health, and crime and justice, these datasets enable research that has a high potential to generate policy impact. Use these slides to give an overview of the datasets relevant to your audience - whether that's a particular research theme, coverage by nation, or all the available data.
ADR UK impact story slides
Do you want to demonstrate the real-world impact of administrative data research, and how it can improve people's lives? These slides summarise some top impact stories from across the ADR UK programme, giving you compelling stories to help bring your presentation to life.
ADR UK branded PowerPoint template
If you're giving a presentation in your capacity as an ADR UK Ambassador, please use this branded template to create your slides.
Useful resources
Here are some resources you might find helpful when engaging on behalf of ADR UK:
- ADR UK at a glance: If you're speaking to people unfamiliar with administrative data research, you can share this accessible summary of our work as a way into the conversation.
- ADR UK Annual Report 2025 - 2026: Our latest annual report, published in September 2026, brings together key developments, stories of impact, new datasets and more from the last year.
- Connecting Society: Our podcast invites a range of guests to explore how everyday data shapes our lives, from driving action on climate change to public attitudes to AI.
- Brand toolkit: Your one-stop bank of ADR UK brand resources, including logos, colour palettes, fonts and brand guidelines, covering both ADR UK and our national partnerships.
- ADR UK website: Our website contains a wealth of information, including research findings, available datasets, funding opportunities, our impact, public engagement and how we use data responsibly. Take a look around and let us know if you need help finding something specific.
Directing someone to ADR UK?
If you think someone in your network should connect with ADR UK, you can ask them to:
They can also contact the team directly at hub@adruk.org.
Get in touch
If you have questions, suggestions, or would just like to chat more about the ADR UK Ambassadors programme, contact the ADR UK communications team.
