Insights from linked data: School performance and criminal justice

About the talk.

From the winning commendation in the 2024 ONS Research Excellence Awards for work on Insights from linked education and justice data: Educational attainment and criminal offending.

In this talk, Dr Alice Wickersham will showcase work undertaken as part of a Research Fellowship funded by Administrative Data Research UK (ADR UK). She will introduce linked data from England’s Department for Education (DfE) and Ministry of Justice (MoJ), and show how these data facilitate important research into school performance and criminal justice. She will consider implications for the wider research and policy landscape, drawing on other work she has undertaken in the field of mental health, and the importance of public engagement in this research.

Read about Alice's ADR UK publication here.

Meet the presenter.

Dr Alice Wickersham Kings College London.

Alice is Academic Lead of the CAMHS Digital Lab at King’s College London, and a Lecturer in Mental Health Sciences at University College London. Alice's research interests are primarily in using linked administrative data to investigate issues affecting children and adolescents, particularly cutting across disciplines of mental health, education and criminal justice. Alice uses data assets from a range of disciplines to inform my research, and work with individuals from various professional backgrounds, including researchers, clinicians, and informaticians. She also has an active interest in public engagement, from creating outputs to engage young audiences, to incorporating advisory group input into research and analysis.

Learn more about the series

Each year, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) organises a collection of online research events called the Research Excellence Series. The series showcases exceptional research projects that use a diverse wealth of invaluable research data. These data are used by researchers to produce new insights, inform change and make a difference in people’s lives.

Research Excellence Series 2025 will delve into the story of a unique research project. From inception to methodology, dissemination and impact. These sessions will be hosted by an eclectic range of speakers from across the research community.

This year’s series will include the winners from the ONS Research Excellence Awards 2024.

The events will take place through Microsoft Teams. They will also be recorded and available to watch later.

Getting in touch

For more information about this event, please visit the ONS SRS website, or email srs.engagement.team@ons.gov.uk.

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