It provides a government research function delivering a research programme anchored on the NI Programme for Government (PfG). The ARU team continuously engage with departmental policy leads to identify novel data linkage opportunities to take forward timely and policy-relevant research.
Published research
Upcoming research
Date |
Project |
Theme |
Description |
Spring 2024 |
School size and educational outcomes |
Children and young people |
This research seeks to identify key post-primary educational outcomes and explore if/how they are impacted by school size. |
Spring 2024 |
Mortality risk for ex-prisoners |
Crime and justice |
This proof-of-concept research is being done in collaboration with NISRA DoJ colleagues. It builds on a bespoke, novel data linkage between DoJ ex-prisoner data and General Regitrar Office deaths data to to explore deaths of ex-prisoners with a particular focus on the period immediately following release. |
Spring 2024 |
Preventable deaths - exploration of deaths associated with drugs, alcohol and/or suicide |
Health and wellbeing |
This research seeks to explore the profile of deaths by suicide, drugs and/or alcohol; and, examine individual and household characteristic associations with these deaths with a particular focus on assessing occupations that may be at highest risk from suicide, drug and alcohol mortality. |
Spring 2024 |
Assessing equality pay gaps in northern ireland - gender |
Inequality and social inclusion |
This research uses the novel Earnings and Employees Study 2011 and will contribute to the existing evidence base quantifying gender pay gaps in Northern Ireland. Pay gaps between men and women across a number of personal and job-related characteristics will be quantified. The research will also use statistical modelling to identify key job-related and personal factors associated with the gender pay gap. |