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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.
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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.
ADR Scotland are pleased to share our '12 Days of Christmas'. We've looked back over 2024 and selected twelve highlights from our year.
Having recently joined SCADR, I have been both excited and overwhelmed by the prospect of working with administrative data. Administrative data differs from other forms of data collected for research, such as surveys in the social sciences, and comes with its own benefits and challenges. To learn more about administrative data, its use in research and the practical approaches to analysing large quantities of this particular data type, I recently took part in the Introduction to Administrative Data Research & Analysis course (IADRA).
