Watch now: ADR UK Conference 2025 videos

Footage from the ADR UK Conference 2025 is now available to watch.

Held in Cardiff and hosted by ADR Wales, the conference brought together researchers, policymakers, data owners and practitioners from across the UK and beyond. Across the week, delegates shared research, debated challenges, and explored how administrative data can inform policy, improve services and deliver public good.

Whether you attended the conference or are catching up afterwards, the videos below capture key moments, ideas and reflections from the event.

Conference film: Reflections from the ADR UK Conference 2025

This longer conference film brings together moments from across the programme, alongside interviews with speakers, organisers and attendees. It offers an overview of the event, featuring keynote talks, parallel sessions, workshops, poster presentations and informal conversations between delegates.

Those interviewed reflect on what makes ADR UK conferences distinctive, the value of coming together as a community, and how administrative data research continues to evolve while opening up new opportunities for impact.

Highlights reel: A snapshot of the week

The short highlights reel offers a quick visual overview of the conference for anyone interested in the people and energy behind administrative data research. Set to music, it captures the atmosphere of the week through clips of sessions, networking, posters and shared moments across the venue.

Hearing from attendees

We also recorded a series of short interviews, with speakers discussing what they valued most about the ADR UK Conference 2025, including the openness of the community, the quality of discussion, and the chance to learn about new methods, datasets and policy applications.

These reflections highlight a recurring theme of the week: the importance of collaboration, accessibility and shared learning in ensuring administrative data research delivers real-world impact.

A conference shaped by momentum and community

The ADR UK Conference 2025 marked a point of growing confidence for the administrative data research community. The programme reflected a field that has matured, while still pushing into new territory.

Across the week, speakers and delegates emphasised the need to balance innovation with trust, safeguards and public engagement. The conversations captured in these videos reflect that shared commitment, as well as the collective ambition to use administrative data for the public good.

If you'd like to read more about the conference:

• Read some reflections a week on from the event, from ADR UK's Director, Dr Emma Gordon
• Discover the winners of the ADR UK Conference 2025 Awards
• Hear insights from our intern about her experience of attending an academic conference for the first time - and watch a video she recorded at the event
• Read about a researcher's experience of attending a datathon in advance of the conference, and read more about the datathon in a blog by the organisers
• Hear some reflections on the researcher capability workshop, written by two facilitators.