ONS Research Excellence Awards 2025: Vote now for the People's Choice Award

As part of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Research Excellence Awards 2025, voting is open for the People's Choice Award category. Cast your vote for one of the eligible projects by Friday 31 October.

The ONS Research Excellence Awards recognise excellent and innovative analyses carried out in ONS trusted research environments. They celebrate best practice research methodologies and data matching or linking, as well as promoting greater awareness and understanding of the data made available and the public good achieved from statistical analyses of the data.

You can vote for the winner of the People's Choice Award until Friday 31 October. Awards will be presented at the ONS Research Capability event on Thursday 4 December.

We are delighted that several projects in the running for this year's award utilise ADR UK data.

All of the projects eligible for the award are listed below. You can read more about each shortlisted project and place your vote on the ONS website:

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Projects eligible for the People's Choice Award

• Carly Lightowlers, University of Liverpool: Court enforced alcohol abstinence: does it reduce reoffending? Carly is an ADR UK Research Fellow using data made available through the Ministry of Justice Data First programme.
• Economics Department, University of Kent: Market concentration and productivity: evidence from the UK
• Hope Kent, University of Exeter: A ‘double disadvantage’: neurodevelopmental profile and poverty confer synergistic risk of youth justice involvement. Hope is an ADR UK Research Fellow using the Education and Child Health Outcomes from Linked Data (ECHILD) - England dataset. 
• Microeconomics Unit, Competition and Markets Authority: The State of UK Competition 2024
• Ezgi Kaya, Cardiff Business School: Exploring the Nexus Between Immigration, Integration, and Labour Market Outcomes. Ezgi is an ADR UK Research Fellow using the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings linked to 2011 Census - England and Wales dataset.
• Department of Economics, University of Surrey: Should we stay or should we go? Firms' decision on services mode of supply 
• The Free Schools Project Team, University College London Institute of Education: The impact of free schools on neighbouring schools and their students 
• Advanced Skills and Learning Analysis Team, Scottish Government: Scottish Longitudinal Education Outcomes University extract in the UK. Read more about ADR Scotland's work to make this data available. 
• Sure Start Evaluation Team, Institute for Fiscal Studies: The short- and medium-term effects of Sure Start on children’s outcomes
• Health Research Group, Office for National Statistics: Connecting the dots: the benefit of linking data on health and wealth
• Multi-organisation team from the ONS, Nursing and Midwifery Council, ADR UK and ADR Scotland: Nursing and Midwifery Council Register - Census 2021 England and Wales. Find out more about this dataset.
• CeLCIUS Team, University College London and the ONS: ONS Longitudinal Study 1971 to 2021
• John Hughes, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency: Understanding disability and gender pay gaps in Northern Ireland through linked Census and earnings data. Read more from ADR Northern Ireland. 

Read the full project summaries and cast your vote on the ONS website.