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As part of a wider project to co-produce data research with care-experienced young people, the Administrative Data Research Centre Northern Ireland (ADRC NI, part of ADR Northern Ireland) offers a summer internship for a Research Assistant post. The internship is supported by Voice of Young People in Care (VOYPIC) and the Widening Participation Unit at Queen’s University Belfast. As an expert by lived experience, the intern’s role was to develop resources to support co-produced research. In this blog, we hear directly from the successful applicant, Ash Salem, on how he found the internship experience.
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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).
ADRC NI, Communications and Impact Manager, Elizabeth Nelson, discusses public engagement work from ADR Northern Ireland to make one year since the publication of the ADR UK Public Engagement Strategy.
A report from a pilot initiative has recommended establishing a public panel to consider how data is used in research, innovation and decision-making in Northern Ireland.
Sarah McKenna, an ADR Northern Ireland Research Assistant at Queen’s University Belfast, discusses a recently piloted workshop, which focused on involving those with lived experience of care in administrative data research.
