Looking forward

In the year ahead, ADR UK will continue working to meet the ambitions for our current funding period, which runs until 2026. Activities will be aligned to our national partnership strategies. Published in 2022, these strategies lay out how we will achieve our shared aims:  

• building trust and sustainability  
• supporting research for public good   
• improving data access for research  
• providing a seamless researcher service.  

Similarly, our training and capacity building strategy will continue to play a key role in directing our work. The candidates for the 20 PhD studentship opportunities using ADR UK flagship datasets will begin their research this year, and we look forward to supporting their development in collaboration with the Economic and Social Research Council Doctoral Training Partnerships.   

Over the next year, we will look to publish learning resources online and facilitate courses on specific administrative datasets. This will make datasets more accessible for research use, while at the same time supporting researchers to develop their skills. Our ultimate aim to maximise the value of these datasets for the public good, and supporting more researchers to be able to use them effectively is an important step in our mission.   

The role of synthetic data is also an important consideration for our training and capacity building work, as synthetic data provides an invaluable resource for training, exploratory analysis and code development. You can read our interim position statement on our website. We are committed to engaging the public around synthetic data and its use which will help determine how to operationalise the use of synthetic data at scale.