Administrative Data Research Centre

This project is part of a UK wide multi-million pound ESRC investment, known as the Administrative Data Research Partnership (ADRP). Alongside investments in Scotland and Wales, ADRC-NI in Northern Ireland is a joint investment with Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), Ulster University (UU) and the Northern Ireland Statistics Research Agency (NISRA) working together as stakeholders to strategically acquire and curate administrative data and make these available to researchers in a secure way. This project delivers approved Strategic Impact Programs (SIPs) of policy led research using available data to address major societal challenges to improve public service provision across a range of areas including education, housing and health and social care.

The key outcomes of the project are:

• Evidence based findings for enhancing social mobility and neighbourhood stagnation through the assessment of social mobility and community determinants of social distress
• Evidence based findings for enhancing physical healthcare/outcomes of people with severe mental illness (SMI)
• Evidence based findings for aging population, comorbidy and service use, examining health outcomes associated with service use for those persons age 60+. This includes examination of comorbidities, delayed discharges from hospital and attendant outcomes associated with urban/rural health inequalities (and rural pockets of deprivation and relative rural isolation)