University of Edinburgh 2022-2026 ADR UK Programme

行政数据（即主要为行政目的收集的信息）长期以来一直为中央政府和其他统计数据做出贡献。技术进步已经形成了由政府和英国各地的专业机构持有的非常大的行政数据库。这种数据库的存在增加了行政数据以匿名形式成为社会科学学术研究核心资源的可能性。在ADR UK试点阶段，苏格兰行政数据研究中心（SCADR）与苏格兰政府的合作伙伴一起，在连接新行政数据集的基础上，交付了一系列与政策相关的项目。在ADR UK的下一阶段，我们的目标是与政府合作，在具有战略意义的重要政策领域提供一个有影响力的研究项目，展示行政数据基础设施投资的价值，并作为方法论、知识和政策创新的中心。我们的五个政策关键研究方向是：住房、健康和福利，这是对苏格兰政府包容性增长、健康和平等的关键主题的回应，并将获取新的数据来研究健康和劳动力市场、财富和住房的相互作用。-保健和社会护理，重点是临终关怀（支持政府宣言中关于制定临终关怀缓和战略的承诺），并利用新的数据，审查护理人员的动态。-社区安全与平等将审查如何通过将执法、司法和卫生方面的数据联系起来，改善社区间的安全与平等。研究将审查频繁和重叠的用户对公共服务的需求，并就暴力、吸毒问题和犯罪上升等复杂问题提供见解。儿童的生活和成果将侧重于三个领域：(1)2019冠状病毒病对年轻人进步方面的疤痕效应；(2)加深对成就差距的理解；(3)支持政府政策产生的数据需求，如将《联合国儿童权利公约》纳入苏格兰法律。-终身健康和福利旨在提供证据，支持苏格兰公共卫生部的“更公平、更健康的苏格兰战略框架”，设计项目，探索不同因素如何影响人们的生活和健康，并确定有助于减少健康不平等的干预措施和政策领域。一个跨领域的研究主题将解决与COVID-19大流行及其对社会的影响有关的问题。这将继续探讨长期成果和复苏，并将扩大到包括未来四年出现的任何其他优先事项。我们工作的一个世界领先的方面是创建可以用于研究的新研究队列。在接下来的四年里，我们将进行一项重大的工作计划，将重建几代人的家庭（称为苏格兰历史人口平台，或SHiPP）。最终，这些数据可以（在适当保护个人匿名的情况下）与生物医学数据联系起来，从而为研究基因、环境和社会流动性的作用——将生活条件、家庭结构和基因组学联系起来——提供机会。参与SCADR的研究人员将与苏格兰政府的同事密切合作，开发关于平等、弱势群体和家庭、囚犯和健康的核心国家关联数据集、护理人员数据集和药物死亡研究。SCADR将继续致力于建设研究能力，方法是扩大其培训项目，并与合作伙伴和数据控制者合作，开发关于如何获取数据和数据集本身的更好信息。

Administrative data (that is, information collected primarily for administrative purposes) has long contributed to central government and other statistics. Technological advancement has resulted in the formation of very large administrative databases held by government, and by specialist agencies across the UK. The existence of such databases raises the possibility that administrative data could become, in an anonymised form, a core resource for social science academic research. During the pilot phase of ADR UK the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research (SCADR) has, together with partners in the Scottish Government, delivered a series of policy-relevant projects based on the linking of novel sets of administrative data. In the next phase of ADR UK we aim to work with government to deliver a programme of impactful research in strategically important policy areas which demonstrates the value of investment in administrative data infrastructure, and to act as a centre for methodological, intellectual and policy innovation.Our five policy-critical research strands are: - Housing, Health and Welfare, which responds to the Scottish Government's key themes of inclusive growth, health and equality and will access new data to look at the interaction of health and labour market, and wealth and housing. - Health and Social care, which will have a focus on end of life care (supporting the government manifesto commitment to develop a palliative end of life care strategy) and, drawing on new data, examine the dynamics of the nursing workforce.- Community Safety and Equality will examine how to improve safety and equality across communities by linking data from law enforcement, justice and health. Studies will examine frequent and overlapping user demand for public services and provide insights on complex problems such as violence, problem drug use and rising crime.- Children's Lives and Outcomes will focus on three areas: (1) the scarring effect of COVID-19 on aspects of young people's progress, (2) deepening the understanding the attainment gap and (3) support the data needs resulting from government policies such as the incorporation of the UNCRC into Scots Law.- Lifelong Health and Wellbeing aims to provide evidence in support of Public Health Scotland's 'Fairer, healthier Scotland strategic framework', designing projects that explore how different factors can impact on people's lives and health as they age and identify interventions and policy areas that will help reduce health inequalities.A cross-cutting research theme will address issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences for society. This will continue to explore longer term outcomes and recovery and will be expanded to include any further emerging priorities over the next four years.A world-leading aspect of our work is the creation of new study cohorts that can be made available for research use. In the next four years we will undertake a major programme of work that will reconstruct families over multiple generations (called the Scottish Historical Population Platform, or SHiPP). Ultimately the data could (with appropriate safeguards for anonymity of the individual) be linked to biomedical data, opening up the opportunity to investigate the role of genes, environment and social mobility - linking living conditions, family structure and genomics. The researchers involved in SCADR will work closely with colleagues in the Scottish Government on the development of core national linked datasets on equalities, vulnerable people and families, prisoners and health, a care leaver's dataset and a study of drug deaths. SCADR will continue its commitment to build research capacity though expansion of its training programmes and by working with partners and data controllers to develop better information about how to access data and about the datasets themselves.