Inside the 2025 Data Collision Datathon: Using synthetic data for innovation and research capacity building
By Dr Stephanie Lee and Prof Adam Chee, Co-Directors of Datacise Open Learning. Datacise Open Learning is the ADR Wales Training and Capacity Building programme, dedicated to developing skills, advancing knowledge, and fostering collaboration across the administrative data research community. It is delivered as part of ADR UK, a UK-wide initiative funded by the Economic […]
Comfortable being uncomfortable and the rewards that come with it: a personal reflection on the ADR UK Datathon 2025
By Ioana Filipas, Cardiff University (Data Collision datathon participant) If you’d asked me a year ago what ADR was, I would’ve shrugged and moved on. Fast-forward twelve months, and not only I feel immensely inspired by ADR’s mission and work, I also had the amazing opportunity to participate and be part of the winning team […]
PhD Student Blog post: Personal Learnings from the ADR UK PhD Annual Gathering – Yu Cui
Biography Please tell us about your PhD project This study utilizes the Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) and Growing Up in England (GUiE) datasets to investigate the academic and early career outcomes of students from different socioeconomic and language backgrounds. By analysing Free School Meal eligibility (eFSM), English as an Additional Language (EAL) status, alongside household […]
PhD Student Blog post: Personal Learnings from the ADR UK PhD Annual Gathering – Yifan Ge
Biography Please tell us about your PhD project The Pension Act 1995 and 2011 raised women’s state pension age from 60 to 65 in 2018. Many women were unaware of these changes and had little time to adjust their pension plans. Therefore, this project aims to examine the socio-economic and demographic factors of subgroups most […]
PhD Student Blog post: Personal Learnings from the ADR UK PhD Annual Gathering – Vanessa Cieplinska
Biography Please tell us about your PhD project Children with neurodevelopmental conditions, such as intellectual disability and autism, are highly vulnerable to persistent school absence (missing 10% or more of school days in an academic year). My project aims to explore the prevalence, risk factors, and long-term consequences of persistent absenteeism in this population using […]
PhD Student Blog post: Personal Learnings from the ADR UK PhD Annual Gathering – Marta Stryjniak
Biography Please tell us about your PhD project My project explores how students of different sociodemographic backgrounds make key decisions during the university application process in England. By understanding the factors influencing their choices and the resulting outcomes, I aim to provide insights that inform policies focused on fair access to higher education. What are […]
PhD Student Blog post: Personal Learnings from the ADR UK PhD Annual Gathering – Louise Kay
Biography Please tell us about your PhD project This PhD aims to research the educational achievements and labour market outcomes for looked after and other vulnerable children (LAVC) in England who have attended boarding schools. Education and labour market outcomes for LAVCs are poor and the chances of becoming not employed or not in education or training outweigh those who […]
PhD Student Blog post: Personal Learnings from the ADR UK PhD Annual Gathering – Ella Christoforou
Biography Please tell us about your PhD project The World Health Organisation recognizes air pollution as the biggest environmental threat to human health in the current century. Adolescents are exposed to air pollution at critical stages in their mental development and during this period mental illness onset is common. Therefore, air pollution exposure during this […]
PhD Student Blog post: Personal Learnings from the ADR UK PhD Annual Gathering – Christy Coles
Biography Please tell us about your PhD project. My PhD project is looking at the main patterns of female re-offending across the life course, examining how these patterns are associated with changes in educational attainment and finally exploring whether we can predict female re-offending patterns based on early education and social care factors. I hope […]
PhD Student Blog post: Personal Learnings from the ADR UK PhD Annual Gathering – Cassandra Bossman-Dampier
Biography Please tell us about your PhD project. My project seeks to evaluate the youth intervention that made financial education compulsory in the secondary school curriculum and how this has impacted youth employment and financial wellbeing. It would seek to answer how effective it has been especially for children from socially and economically disadvantaged children. […]
