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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.
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ADR UK’s annual PhD student gathering wrapped up this week in Edinburgh, bringing together final-year doctoral researchers from across the UK for two days of learning, reflection and connection. Hosted by ADR Scotland at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, the event marked a key moment for students preparing to move beyond their PhDs and into the next stage of their careers.
Nearly half of Northern Ireland’s population experienced a change in their level of deprivation between 2010 and 2016, according to new ADR Northern Ireland research using linked administrative data. The Data Insight finds that while upward mobility is generally associated with better health outcomes, improvements in deprivation do not automatically translate into better health.
The winners of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Research Excellence Awards 2025 were announced, at the Research Capability 2025 event, held on Thursday 4 December at the Leonardo Royal Hotel London St Paul’s. The awards recognise excellent and innovative analyses carried out using secure data, and promote best practice research methodologies and data matching or linking.
New research by ADR Northern Ireland (ADR NI) has played a central role in informing the Northern Ireland Executive’s recently launched New Foundations Programme, a major cross-departmental initiative to support young people leaving care.
