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On Thursday 4 December 2025, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Secure Research Service hosted its annual Research Capability event at the Leonardo Royal Hotel London St Paul’s. This free, in-person conference brought together researchers, data owners, policymakers, and government representatives to celebrate research excellence and explore how data can be used for the public good. Here, Alana Bowen-Burford, Senior Analytical Impact Manager at the ONS, reflects on the day.
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This blog by Xingna Zhang, an ADR UK Research Fellow using the Education and Child Health Insights from Linked Data (ECHILD) dataset, explores whether an autism diagnosis helps children and young people access the support they need, and what she found out by consulting doctors and people with lived experience directly.
Footage from the ADR UK Conference 2025 is now available to watch.
The winners of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Research Excellence Awards 2025 were announced, at the Research Capability 2025 event, held on Thursday 4 December at the Leonardo Royal Hotel London St Paul’s. The awards recognise excellent and innovative analyses carried out using secure data, and promote best practice research methodologies and data matching or linking.
Data First – the Ministry of Justice’s ambitious data linking and research programme – recently received funding from UK Research and Innovation to undertake new work in support of the UK Government’s Safer Streets Mission. In this blog, the Data First team tell us more about this and highlight the opportunity for researchers to use Data First data to explore important research themes for the Mission.
