CPC researcher awarded funding for government data project

Professor Peter Smith, leader of CPC's Modelling strand and Director of the Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, is leading a consortium that has been awarded £7.6 million to help launch and run a project to give access to government data for academic research.

The Administrative Data Research Centre for England (ADRC) will enable information routinely collected by government departments and other agencies, such as tax, education and health data, to be shared with researchers. The centre, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), will be for approved academic projects and use anonymised data, accessed in a secure environment.

The ADRC for England will be led by the University of Southampton and run in collaboration with University College London, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the University of London's Institute of Education. It will be one of four such centres for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, which with the newly formed Administrative Data Service (ADS) acting as a 'gatekeepers' to the research data, will form the Administrative Data Research Network (ADRN). Read more.

Posted 09/04/2014 11:15