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If you’re planning to apply for our funding opportunity for ADR UK Research Fellowships, you might be looking for ways to make your proposal impactful. Karen Powell, ADR UK’s Head of Research Strategy and Commissioning, explains how insights from our ADR England Research Community Catalysts can help you align your project to fill key evidence gaps.
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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.
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 is by Nisha da Silva, keynote speaker at the ADR UK Conference 2025 and contributor to the Ministry of Justice’s Data First programme. She explores how linked data reveals key insights into justice system journeys and how these findings are shaping policy, research, and technology.
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.
