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ADR Scotland was pleased to host a two-day Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage (PPRL) workshop in June 2025 at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, on behalf of ADR UK. PPRL has seen increasing interest across a variety of domains due to the challenges presented by conducting record linkage in the context of privacy regulations, which limit or prohibit the exchange of personal data.
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In April 2025, ADR Scotland held an Early Career Researcher's (ECR) Away Day, following SCADR's Communication and Engagement team receiving requests in December to hold an in-person networking event to welcome new ECRs. Our blog gives an overview of our day at Edinburgh Zoo.
We are delighted to welcome Umair Ali to our team of researchers, who is working with Professor Iain Atherton, to provide an overview of the social circumstances of the service leaver population in Scotland and to compare and contrast their situation to a comparable group of people drawn from the general population – at the point of the 2011 Census. As he is accessing sensitive data, Umair requires access to a SafePod, and therefore has been travelling to Glasgow when he wishes access to the data, to use the SafePod at Glasgow Caledonian (GCU). He has kindly shared his experiences with us.
On Wednesday, 19 March 2025, ADR Scotland hosted its second Data with Impact event in Edinburgh. I was delighted to Chair the event.
In this guest blog, Dr Vicky Gorton and Dr Morgan Currie, from the University of Edinburgh, reflect on the findings from their research into attitudes of those in receipt of benefits towards the sharing and linking of benefits data for social security administration and research.
