Relevant Organisations
This page provides information about other organisations that are associated with administrative data.
ADMIN
Admin (Administrative data: methods inference and network) is a Research Node based at the Institute of Education, University of London. It’s aim is to exploit newly linked administrative and survey longitudinal data to develop and disseminate methodology for making the best use of administrative data and reassessing how best to deal with some of the common problems associated with using survey based longitudinal data.
The research program develops innovative methodological approaches for using administrative data when covariates or responses are missing and using longitudinal survey data when there are problems with measurement error, item non-response and attrition.
Click here for more information on ADMIN.
Economic and Social Research Council
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funds research and training in social and economic issues. They are an independent organisation, established by Royal Charter, but receive most of their funding through the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
The ESRC has an international reputation both for providing high-quality research on issues of importance to business, the public sector and government, and for our commitment to training world-class social scientists. Nearly two-thirds of their budget is allocated to research and just under one-third to postgraduate training.
The ESRC have strengthened their committment to developments in data services bycreating both the Administrative Data Liaison Service and the Secure Data Service.
Click here to visit the ESRC website
HeLEX (Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies)
HeLEX is an interdisciplinary research centre that carries out research on law, policy and practice in the area of emerging technologies in health. They use an interdisciplinary approach that uses tools and methods from the disciplines of law, philosophy and sociology. By combining the results of these investigations it is possible to generate insights for more effective policy making that is compliant with the law, is based on sound ethical principles and is grounded in an understanding of medical practice.
Their current research focuses on genomics with an emphasis on global governance, privacy, data-sharing frameworks, biobanks and translational research.
Click here to visit the HeLEX website.
Information Commissioner’s Office
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is the UK’s independent public body that has been set up to promote access to official information and protect personal information by promoting good practice, ruling on eligible complaints, providing information to individuals and organisations and taking appropriate action when the law is broken.
The ICO enforces and oversees the Data Protection Act and the Freedom of Information Act, as well as the Environmental Information Regulations, and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations. You can find copies of these Acts in our Downloads Page, under ‘Publications’.
Click here to visit the ICO website
PLUG
PLUG is the National Pupil Database Users’ Group, which supports researchers to use this database. They run workshops and conferences, as well as disseminating documentation and providing some support for the dataset.
Plug is funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (the owners and managers of the data) and also by the Economic and Social Research Council.
Click here to visit the PLUG website
Secure Data Service
The Secure Data Service (SDS) is a new service funded by the ESRC to promote excellence in research by enabling safe and secure remote access by researchers to data that is deemed too sensitive, detailed, confidential or potentially disclosive to be made available under standard licensing and dissemination arrangements.
The ADLS will work in partnership with the SDS to help facilitate access to such datasets.
Click here to visit the SDS website
WISERD (Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods)
WISERD is jointly funded by the Welsh Assembly Government (HEFCW) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to draw together and build upon the existing expertise in quantitative and qualitative research methods and methodologies at Aberystwyth, Bangor, Cardiff, Glamorgan and Swansea Universities.
WISERD aims to establish itself as a sustainable reserach institute built on the active engagement of social science staff from across the Welsh HE sector and the involvement of a complex set of audiences/users in the public and private sectors and is embarking on an ambitious data integration, primary reserach and capacity building programme in Wales.
