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This blog by Evie Parmenter, Senior Research Portfolio Manager at the Economic and Social Research Council, explores the powerful connection between our environment and our health. Drawing on insights from research funded by ADR UK, it highlights how factors like pollution, green space access, and housing conditions shape wellbeing, and how linked administrative data can help drive better decisions and healthier outcomes.
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Dr. Ian Thomas and Prof Peter Mackie from the ADR Wales Housing and Homelessness team share insights on their collaboration with youth homelessness charities across Great Britain. By enhancing how charities use data from the 'Upstream' prevention initiative, they aim to drive more effective, evidence-based interventions.
Rob French, lead of the ADR Wales Education research theme, highlights the opportunities and challenges of linking child health and education data for research – both on a national and international scale. These will be explored in a new special edition of the International Journal of Population Data Science.
The ADR UK Annual Report 2023 – 2024 gathered key developments from across the partnership. Here are some highlights from ADR Wales.
ADR Wales has published a report examining how to estimate the number of children not enrolled in state schools across Wales. Using linked data from the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) Databank, the study supports potential regulations to create a database for tracking children missing from state education.
