Joint webinar: Health Data Research UK and Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research
02/04/2025
Categories: Research using linked data, Events, Datasets, Research findings, ADR Scotland, Children & young people, Health & wellbeing, Inequality & social inclusion, World of work
Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) Scotland and the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research (SCADR), part of ADR Scotland, are hosting a joint webinar to showcase two of their research projects.
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- 11.00 - Introduction (Honghan Wu, HDR UK Scotland Co-Director)
- 11.05 - Overview of ADR Scotland (Speaker TBC)
- 11.10 - Nursing and midwifery workforces: Opportunities to understand dynamics using linked census and administrative data (Iain Atherton, SCADR Co-Director)
- 11.25 - Linking health data for 'looked after' children in kinship care: Findings and challenges (Dr Robert Porter, SCADR Researcher)
- 11.40 - Q&A
Meet the presenters
Iain Atherton, SCADR Co-Director
Iain Atherton is Professor of Nursing and Data Science at Edinburgh Napier University, with expertise in population health and has previously worked in clinical nursing practice. Iain leads the Health and social care research programme at SCADR, and is interested in care provision in the context of an ageing population. A major focus of his work is developing understanding of the nursing and midwifery professions from a social sciences perspective using linked datasets.
Dr Robert Porter, SCADR Researcher
Dr Robert Porter is a Research Lead at the Centre for Excellence for Children's Care and Protection (CELCIS) and leads SCADR’s research project on kinship care. He's a socio-legal researcher, with an interest in the experiences of children and young people who have care experience. Primarily, he is interested in the ways that administrative data can enhance our understanding of care journeys and outcomes.
Event details
When: 11:00, Wednesday 2 April 2025
Where: Online
Cost: Free
How to attend: Register on Zoom.
