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This month’s episode of the Connecting Society podcast looks a little different. ADR UK recently took part in Pint of Science, a worldwide science festival which brings researchers to the pub to share their knowledge with local communities. At the event, we recorded a special two-part live episode of the podcast – part one is available now!
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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.
Shayda Kashef spoke to three care experienced young people about a soon-to-be-published report that reveals insights on the experiences of growing up in care. In this blog she shares some of their perspectives.
In this blog, Elizabeth Nelson and Dr Sarah McKenna look back on two years of working with a group of care experienced young people and reflect on what they have learned so far. Elizabeth is Public Engagement, Communications and Impact Manager and Sarah is a Research Fellow, both based at the Administrative Data Research Centre Northern Ireland (ADRC NI).
In this blog we hear directly from three members of the public about their perspectives on the use of ethnicity in research using health and administrative data.
