Leadership Committee
The ADR UK Leadership Committee brings together the accountable leads from ADR UK’s partners to develop and agree the strategic direction of ADR UK, and to develop the policies necessary for successful delivery.
Chris Dibben
Co-Director, ADR Scotland (Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research)
Professor Chris Dibben is Director of the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research (SCADR), and is Chair of Geography at the School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh. He is co-lead for the ADR Scotland partnership and runs a team of researchers within the Scottish Historic Population Platform (SHiPP) project and within the housing and environment theme, exploring data relating to the impact on a person's health and wellbeing - depending on how they commuted to work, what social and sporting groups they attended, what mode of transport they used to commute to school or work and the impact of time spent in sunlight.
Chris is also a member of the ADR UK Leadership Committee.
Alastair McAlpine
Chief Statistician, Scottish Government
Alastair McAlpine is the Scottish Government’s Chief Statistician. He has overall responsibility for the coordination and implementation of professional standards that help maintain trustworthiness in the use of data, its quality, and that deliver improved outcomes for people in Scotland. Ally brings a wealth of experience having worked previously as Head of Agricultural Statistics, within the Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services, and won several awards when he led the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation including the Civil Service award for ‘Use of evidence and analysis in policy making’ in 2017. Ally is co-director of ADR Scotland and a member of the ADR UK Leadership Committee.
In a previous post, Alastair was responsible for the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) which is the Scottish Government’s official tool for identifying deprived areas across Scotland. In this role, and in addition to publishing the SIMD in 2016, he led on work to open up the code behind SIMD to encourage its re-usability and facilitate analysts who were linking other data sources to the index.
Staff and collaborators
Spanning Scottish Government and academia, the ADR Scotland team combines strengths in data linkage, governance and analysis to improve how data is accessed and used. Together, ADR Scotland staff support high-quality research on key issues such as health, education and inequality, helping to inform policy and deliver public benefit across Scotland.
