Education

ADR Wales’ Education team have produced two new Data Insights looking at the composition of the science teacher workforce in Wales and how it differs across biology, chemistry and physics.…

The ADR Wales Education team have published a blog in The Conversation that asks ‘Why science GCSEs matter more than we think in a post‑truth age.’ Drawing on their research,…

On 13 May 2025, Dr Sophie Bartlett, an ADR Wales research associate based at WISERD, at Cardiff University, presented education research at ‘Science and the Senedd’, the Royal Society of…

In this blog, members of the ADR Wales Education research theme describe a new study that explores the factors that influence the identification of special education needs. Children with Special…

Rob French leads the ADR Wales Education research theme. In this blog, Rob describes how the intersection of education and child health data will be explored in a new special…

Jen Keating is a Research Associate from the ADR Wales Education theme and the WISERD Education Data Lab. In a new blog, she describes two workshops she led in November…

ADR Wales analysts within Welsh Government have published a new report that explores the feasibility of estimating the numbers of children not in state school. The report, which uses linked administrative…

Dr. Robert French is academic lead of ADR Wales’s education research programme. In this blog, he discusses his contribution to an inquiry begun by the UK Parliament examining persistent absence…

Recent analysis from ADR Wales’ researchers used administrative data to estimate career progression and pay differences among female and male teachers and school leaders in Wales. Using anonymised administrative data…

Dr Jennifer May Hampton, a researcher in the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data (WISERD) Education Data Lab at Cardiff University, discusses two new Data Insights concerning early and…