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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.
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.
In this blog, ADR UK Research Fellow Dr Orian Brook describes how she is exploring the earnings of creative graduates, and graduate employment in creative industries. Her project looks at earnings in the context of her previous research on social mobility, precarity and multiple jobholding in creative careers, as well as classed, gendered and racialised inequalities in getting into – and getting on in – creative work. Orian is a Chancellor’s Fellow in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh.
In this blog, Ioana Filipas, Research Apprentice at the Wales Centre for Public Policy, shares her experience of attending a datathon as part of the ADR UK Conference 2025.
