ADR UK Conference 2025 Awards: Introducing the winners
Categories: Conferences, ADR Wales, ADR UK Partnership
2 October 2025
Congratulations to the winners of the ADR UK Conference 2025 Awards, who were recognised for their outstanding contributions to the programme.
Earlier this month, the ADR UK Conference 2025 took place in Cardiff. Hosted by ADR Wales, the event brought together the administrative data research community from across the UK and beyond, to share insights and exchange ideas.
The conference concluded with the presentation of the ADR UK Conference awards, which celebrated outstanding contributions from across the conference programme.
Dr Emma Gordon, Director of ADR UK said: “I was delighted to join ADR Wales in presenting the ADR UK Conference Awards 2025. The winners represent an incredible variety of work for the public good, reflecting the increasing diversity and quality of administrative data research that ADR UK is enabling across the UK. I’d like to congratulate the winners, along with all the wonderful presenters who contributed to such a great conference.”
Best oral presentation: Data linking and analysis methods, systems and innovations
Andrew Needham & Graham Knox: Department for Work and Pensions' Registration And Population Interaction Database (RAPID) – what is it and why researchers will want it
Best oral presentation: Ethics, governance, public engagement and involvement
Jano van Hemert: Understanding the barriers researchers face in accessing sensitive data across multiple trusted research environments in one study
Best oral presentation: Research findings and impact
Louise Marryat: Preschool developmental outcomes of children exposed to opioids in pregnancy: using Scottish health records to enhance children’s lives
Best oral presentation: Training and capacity building
Fiona Lugg-Widger: Building research capacity for data-enabled trials: Embedding public perspectives
PhD/Master's prize
Joseph Lam: Strategies for ascertaining timing of address changes in administrative data
Poster prize
Vishnuga Raveendran: Long COVID, post-viral fatigue syndrome, and fatigue consultation records in children in England using administrative primary care data
Datathon team prize
Primary care for mental health service continuation in looked after children in Wales:
- Ioana Filipas
- Lowri O'Donovan
- Rabeea'h Aslam
- Angela Kubik
- Lama Shakhshir
- Emel Yorganci.
The winning Datathon team, with awards presented by Dr Emma Gordon and Fergus McDonald (back centre)
Left: Mike Daly collecting the award for Data linking and analysis methods, systems and innovations, on behalf of his team.
Right: Dr Louise Marryat collecting the award for Research findings and impact.
Read some further reflections from Dr Emma Gordon about the conference.
