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From helping us draft emails to supporting healthcare diagnostics, AI tools are increasingly becoming part of everyday life. But as these technologies move faster into public services and workplaces, an important question remains: are people being brought along for the journey? In the latest episode of Connecting Society, co-host Mark Green spoke to Eleanor O’Keeffe and Roshni Modhvadia from the Ada Lovelace Institute about how the public understands, experiences and responds to AI.
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In the latest episode of Connecting Society, co-host Shayda Kashef sits down with Daniel Jonusas, Project Lead at UCL’s Climate Action Unit, to explore a different approach that combines data-led insights with storytelling and psychology.
ADR UK Research Fellow Hanna Creese has been using the Education and Child Health Insights from Linked Data (ECHILD) dataset to explore how health and socioeconomic factors relate to school attendance. But data alone rarely tells the whole story. So Hanna turned to the experts themselves: young people with lived experience of struggling to attend school.
On 3 March 2026, ADR Northern Ireland hosted an event at Parliament Buildings, Stormont - Children’s Social Care and Homelessness in Northern Ireland: Connecting Data, Changing Futures. The event brought together experts by experience, policymakers, data owners, service providers and researchers to explore how using linked administrative data and lived experience can better inform policy and practice to prevent homelessness among social care experienced young people.
In this blog post, Shayda Kashef, Senior Public Engagement Manager, shares highlights and successes from her work leading the ADR England Public Insights Panel, which plays an important role in ensuring we hear and respond to the views of the public.
