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ADR UK Research Fellow Hanna Creese has been using the Education and Child Health Insights from Linked Data (ECHILD) dataset to explore how health and socioeconomic factors relate to school attendance. But data alone rarely tells the whole story. So Hanna turned to the experts themselves: young people with lived experience of struggling to attend school.
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This blog by Xingna Zhang, an ADR UK Research Fellow using the Education and Child Health Insights from Linked Data (ECHILD) dataset, explores whether an autism diagnosis helps children and young people access the support they need, and what she found out by consulting doctors and people with lived experience directly.
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, Pia Hardelid, principal investigator for the Kids’ Environment and Health Cohort, shares her experiences of conducting meaningful engagement for the project. Pia is a Professor of Epidemiology (the study of health in populations of people) at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.
