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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.
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ADR UK Research Fellow, Hope Kent, shares her personal reflections on her attendance at the Council of Europe Conference for Directors of Prison and Probation 2025.
This blog, written by the ADR England Research Community Catalyst: Children at risk of poor outcomes team, outlines key insights from recent research into how administrative data can be better used to support children’s social care (CSC). Drawing on three new reports launched in January, the authors highlight current evidence gaps, emerging priorities, and opportunities to strengthen the research infrastructure that informs policy and practice for children and families.
This blog by ADR UK Research Fellow Dr Hannah Dickson explores the challenges of violent reoffending in England and Wales, and how a risk assessment tool developed in Sweden – OxRec - might help improve decision making in the criminal justice system. The blog outlines why better risk assessment matters, how current tools could be improved, and what her study hopes to uncover.
This blog by Dr Liliana Belkin, an ADR UK fellow working with the Ministry of Justice-Department for Education (MoJ-DfE) linked dataset, explores the potential links between alternative provision and youth offending, and reflects on how better data can inform fairer and more inclusive education systems.
