ADR England
The year ahead promises further development across the ADR England portfolio, with this year’s activities coming into fruition. More ADR UK Research Fellows than ever before will use ADR England flagship datasets, with ADR UK's support to share their findings and maximise their impact. The team will also continue to support the progress of the ADR England research-ready data projects, as they generate outputs that enrich the landscape of administrative data available to accredited researchers.
His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is progressing a funded project to explore how to improve external research through HMRC's administrative data. This includes investigating improvements across areas of mutual interest, researcher engagement, data access methods, data quality and cataloguing, and partnership working. HMRC will continue to meet regularly with ADR UK to discuss current and future research projects relating to HMRC data.
ADR UK’s programme of training and capacity building activities will continue to build on the progress made this year. The Strategic Hub will work to further build the usability of ADR England flagship datasets, and the communities around them. The ADR England Research Community Catalysts will promote their co-created research agendas, using them as a focal point to build diverse communities of practice using data to address priority evidence gaps.
Meanwhile, two projects newly-funded this year will begin to generate insights around the benefits, costs and utility of low-fidelity synthetic data. One project is gathering perspectives from data owners and data providers around costs, benefits and models for sharing synthetic data. The other is leading a public consultation to explore the public’s understanding of and attitudes towards the use of synthetic data for research. Their findings will inform a cross-cutting programme of work for operationalising scaled production and sharing of synthetic data in a way that is efficient and acceptable to the public, data owners and researchers.
