DataPod - ADR UK : Data-Driven Insights
ADR UK has now taken over the DataPod from ADR Scotland, as from January 2024 it will become a podcast which will be used by all the ADR UK members, such as ADR England, ADR Wales, ADR Northern Ireland and ADR Scotland.
Whether you are an expert in your field, a data scientist or are science curious then we hope you will enjoy this podcast. Find out more by visiting our Datapod podcast page.
Further information can be found at our ADR UK webpage, or please search #Datapod on Twitter/ X.
The initial podcasts recorded in 2023, were solely ADR Scotland, who link datasets of administrative data from Education, Health, Social Care, the Environment, Housing, Community safety & Justice.
· Their Datapod podcast lets you hear from our leading academics, data scientists and data analysts involved in researching Scotland’s public sector data covering Health, Nursing, Social Care, Children, Education, Crime, Justice, Safety, Environmental and Housing sectors, in order to complete our administrative data research, to deliver data driven insights to government departments, charities and communities to inform them and provide support to encourage policymakers to amend regulations to improve people's lives and to benefit society.
· With unprecedented access to the partners within ADR Scotland, namely SCADR and the Scottish Government - their podcasts will either offer you a '10 minute Research Update' or invite you to join 'Datapod discussions' from leading academics, data scientists and experts from a particular sector, who together are transforming how public sector data in Scotland is curated, accessed and explored - so they can deliver data driven insights that highlights issues affecting communities and encouraging policymakers to amend regulations in order to benefit society.
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DataPod - ADR UK : Data-Driven Insights
Trends of violence across Scotland.
In the 1980 and 90s, Glasgow was notorious for a knife crime and had a high rate of homicide – which, in 2005, resulted in the World Health Organization dubbing Glasgow the “murder capital of Europe.”
In this second episode of our podcast pilot, Mr Alastair McAlpine discusses with
Professor Susan McVie how Glasgow has seen a 60% drop in homicide, and violent crime in Scotland has fallen to historic lows over the last two decades, and asks whether she believes that 'this was a miracle' or whether there were other reasons.
In this episode, Susan discusses:
- The development of the Violence Reduction Unit’s approach to dealing with violence as a public health issue and how that shifted from Enforcement to Empowerment
- How reductions in youth crime and changes in the social behaviours of children, including their use of technology, may have shaped patterns of violence
- The potential impact of the Scottish Government’s development of 'Getting it right for every child' focused on child wellbeing and the development of a whole systems approach for dealing with young people who offend
- The value of administrative research data in studying violence, including how using ambulance, hospital and A&E data is helping to show the relationship between levels of repeat violence, deprivation and alcohol availability in Scottish communities
- And the valuable contribution of linking police and health data in understanding patterns of compliance during the pandemic in Scotland.
You may wish to refer to the following documents after listening to the podcast, which demonstrate the value of researchers having secure access to datasets from Police Scotland, Hospital A&E, Census 2011 or Ambulance Service.
Violence and vulnerability
Covid19 - Policing the Pandemic
Professor Susan McVie has recently joined a European research group on crime register data, who hope to expand and formalise into a more formal group of the European Society of Criminology. It is hoped that future funding will allow joint research.
For further information on ADR Scotland including all the research projects we are involved in, please visit the SCADR website or follow us on Twitter and Linkedin.
