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This is the third and final blog in a short series by Maggie, Communications & Engagement Intern at ADR UK. Maggie explores the complexity of Black British identities, drawing on the history of the Windrush generation and her own experiences of being Black British. She considers what these histories and experiences can tell us about the way ethnicity is categorised in data, and why recognising diversity within broad ethnic groups matters for research.
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This blog is the second in a series by Maggie, Communications & Engagement Intern at ADR UK. Maggie explores how people define their own ethnicity, and what this means when complex identities have to be translated into data.
Every day we're flooded with data. Election results, economic indicators, climate records, breaking news. But how do you turn millions of data points into something people can understand, trust, and act on? In the latest episode of Connecting Society, host Shayda Kashef meets Alan Smith OBE, Head of Visual and Data Journalism at the Financial Times, to explore the art and science of data storytelling.
This blog is the first in a short series by Maggie, Communications & Engagement Intern at ADR UK. Drawing on her lived experience and studies in sociology, Maggie explores how the language and classification of race and ethnicity have evolved. This provides essential context for later blogs examining how ethnicity is categorised, recorded, interpreted, and used in administrative data research.
In this blog, ADR UK Research Fellow Dr Liliana Belkin reflects on a recent roundtable that brought together researchers, practitioners and advocates to explore what linked administrative data can tell us about young people vulnerable to criminal justice system involvement, and how evidence can help shape future policy and practice.
