Delivering research that has clear public benefit to Government and public bodies with the aim of improving the lives of the people of Wales.
Enabling the research community in Wales, and the UK, through data acquisition, data curation and data protection.
Building capacity and training the research community through education and best practices.
This Data Insight summarises work undertaken within the ADR Wales Health and Care thematic research area to provide demographic insights into residents living in Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) in Wales. The work was initiated following a request from the Welsh Government building safety team to support evidence development for proposed building safety reforms following the Grenfell Tower disaster.
This report presents early findings and plans for the MAGENTA (Maternal And preGnancy hEalth aNd elevaTed heAt – https://magentaresearch.org/) project, a £2.2 million Wellcome Trust-funded research project led by Swansea University and partnered with the Kids’ Environment & Health Cohort at University College London. The overarching aim of this project is to provide evidence on whether exposure to higher temperatures during pregnancy is associated with adverse health outcomes for mother and baby.
In this Data Insight, the ADR Wales Housing & Homelessness research team explore experiences of ‘severe disadvantage’ among young people in Wales. These include homelessness, alcohol and drug misuse, and mental ill-health. Using linked administrative data, the team created a population-level cohort of young people. They then looked at the healthcare and other records of cohort members from their 16th birthday for a period of up to nine years. The analysis identified when young people were first recorded as experiencing each of the four severe disadvantages of interest. The findings help us understand how often severe disadvantages occur, how young people sometimes experience multiple different forms of disadvantage, and their timing as part of pathways to adulthood.
