BLOG: Children’s Health in Care in Scotland This month we are delighted that Dr Mirjam Allik has written a guest blog, describing the journey of accessing administrative data and sharing findings…
BLOG: Automating Coding for Large Historical Datasets Colleagues from our eCohorts strand led an online workshop this month which showcased the innovative coding methods that we are…
BLOG: Ageing and Homelessness in Scotland In this guest blog, Dr Ian Thomas, Research Associate at ADR Wales, discusses his work on the ageing homeless population in Scotland. In this guest blog, Dr…
BLOG: Access to secure data during the Covid-19 pandemic - a model for the future? Two researchers, Ben and David, discuss what challenges occurred when staff needed to work from home, due to the…
BLOG: Using SafePods for accessing data: Looking beyond the administrative red-tape We are delighted to welcome Umair Ali to our team of researchers, who is working with Professor Iain Atherton,…
BLOG: RELEASE - Understanding contact with services for mental health and substance use on release from prison in Scotland In this guest blog, the RELEASE team talk about their data linkage research…
BLOG: Public attitudes on data sharing: ‘With us, not to us’ In this guest blog, Dr Vicky Gorton and Dr Morgan Currie, from the University of Edinburgh, reflect on the findings from their research…
BLOG: PhD Gathering - Day 1 review We are very grateful to Beth Lee-Shield, Richmond Opoku, Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi and Mridhula Gopalan for providing us with an overview of Day one. We are very…
BLOG: First class workshop on Privacy Preserving Record Linkage ADR Scotland was pleased to host a two-day Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage (PPRL) workshop in June 2025 at the Edinburgh Futures…
BLOG: How to bridge the gap between research and policy impact Good government policy needs good evidence. However, good quality evidence can be expensive and time-consuming to produce. By using the…
