Meetings

NPD User Group meetings focus on new data developments, analysis and research findings, and provide an opportunity to meet other users.

Next meeting

• Zoom webinar, Wednesday 7th July 2021 - Organised by George Leckie and Dave Thomson
  • Programme - NPD User Group Meeting 2021 (PDF, 192kB).
  • DfE Update (PDF, 633kB), Gary Connell, Gwen McGill, Clare Baker, and Oliver Anderson, DfE. Click here for the recording.
  • ONS SRS update (PDF, 331kB), Bill South, ONS. Click here for the recording.
  • Research Ready Data (PDF, 808kB), Karen Powell, ADR UK and Chris Douglas, DfE. Click here for the recording.
  • The ECHILD study: Education and Child Health Insights from Linked Data (PDF, 772kB), Katie Harron, UCL. Click here for the recording.
  • Relative age and the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (PDF, 882kB), Tammy Campbell, LSE. Click here for the recording.
  • The Challenges faced by FSM Pupils in Making the Transition to Post-Compulsory E (PDF, 560kB), Rhys Davies, University of Cardiff and ADR Wales. Click here for the recording.
  • TUNDRA: Tracking Underrepresentation by Area (PDF, 997kB), Catherine Barnaby and Nora Tengcharoensuk, Office for Students. Click here for the recording.

Past meetings

• London, Thursday 23rd January 2020 - Organised by Dave Thomson and George Leckie
  • Programme - NPD User Group Meeting 2020 (PDF, 91kB)
  • DfE NPD & Data: Sharing Update (PDF, 1,712kB), Gary Connell, DfE
  • Generating synthetic data: A example using National Pupil dataset (PDF, 264kB), Harvey Goldstein, University of Bristol
  • Linking longitudinal hospital and education data for children in England (PDF, 513kB), Ruth Gilbert, UCL
  • Mismatch in higher education: prevalence, drivers and outcomes: evidence from li (PDF, 1,433kB), Lindsay MacMillan, UCL
  • Lurking inferential monsters? Quantifying selection bias due to unobserved facto (PDF, 1,324kB), Ben Weidemann, EEF
  • School value-added models for multivariate academic and non-academic outcomes: A (PDF, 4,240kB), Lucy Prior, University of Bristol
  • Ethnic disproportionality in Special Educational Needs identification in England (PDF, 618kB), Ariel Lindorff, University of Oxford
• Bristol, Wednesday 19th September 2018 - Organised by George Leckie and Rebecca Allen
  • Programme - NPD User Group Meeting 2018 (PDF, 251kB)
  • Modernising 3rd party access to DfE data (PDF, 860kB), Neil McIvor and Richard Machen, DfE; Sarah Fisher and Nick O'Donnell, ONS
  • The value of for-profit organisations using the NPD (PDF, 839kB), Henry Morris and Mark Williams, PiC
  • Linking NPD with Longitudinal Educational Outcomes (LEO (PDF, 589kB), Dave Thomson, Education Datalab
  • Children in Need Dataset within the NPD (PDF, 1,017kB), Emily Emmot, UCL Institute of Education
  • Supporting school place planning in London local government (PDF, 2,786kB), Marta Lapsley, Greater London Authority
  • Ethnic disproportionality in the identification of Social, Emotional and Mental (PDF, 999kB), Steve Strand, University of Oxford
  • The effects of the academisation of English schools on educational trajectories (PDF, 1,065kB), Yi Liu, University of Exeter
  • Using the NPD to optimise education RCT design – the Literacy Octopus (PDF, 356kB), Ben Styles, National Foundation for Educational Research
  • ‌, Matthey Jay, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health
  • School restructuring & efficiency: analysing the impact of the academies act 2010 on primary education in England, Margaret Antony, Royal Holloway, University of London
  • The NCER Children Looked After Project (PDF, 59kB), John Freeman, National Consortium for Examination Results

• London, The Guardian Offices, 20th October 2017 - Organised by Rebecca Allen and George Leckie
  • Programme - NPD User Group Meeting 2017 (PDF, 154kB).
  • Latest developments in the NPD (PDF, 534kB), Iain Bradley, Department for Education.
  • Changes on attainment is measured at Key Stages and implications for researchers (PDF, 1,527kB), Philip Nye, Education Datalab.
  • ‌, Louise McGrath-Lone, UCL Institute of Child Health.
  • Home or care? The use of linked data to examine outcomes for maltreated children (PDF, 983kB), Linda Cusworth, University of York / Lancaster University.
  • SEND trends and the academisation effect (PDF, 1,228kB), Alison Black and Yi Liu, University of Exeter.
  • Locating students post-16 across multiple datasets (PDF, 1,653kB), Dave Thomson, Education Datalab.
  • The NPD: an open methodology (PDF, 734kB), Peter Kemp, University of Roehampton.

• Bristol, 7th September 2016 - Organised by George Leckie and Rebecca Allen
  • Programme - NPD User Group Meeting 2016 (PDF, 439kB)
  • Data modernisation and new developments in the NPD (PDF, 670kB), Iain Bradley, Department for Education
  • Creating sibling indicators in the NPD (PDF, 1,002kB), Becky Allen and Tom Holt, Education Datalab
  • Analysis of longitudinal NPD data for looked after children: strengths, limitati (PDF, 1,854kB), Ruth Gilbert, Louise Mc Grath-Lone and Lorraine Dearden, UCL Institute of Child Health
  • Clustering by characteristic among pre-school children: patterns and implication (PDF, 461kB), Tammy Campbell, Ludovica Gambaro and Kitty Stewart, London School of Economics
  • Should schools be held accountable for all the pupils they teach? (PDF, 887kB), Dave Thomson, Education Datalab
  • Identifying the link between socio-economic disadvantage and attainment and part (PDF, 479kB), Steve Strand, University of Oxford
  • Combining multiple equality measures to better understand progression into highe (PDF, 3,594kB), Seth Fleet, Charlie Brown and Sara Brady, UCAS
  • Best Practice in Grouping Students? Characteristics of students in English and m (PDF, 826kB), Becky Taylor and Dr Seaneen Sloan, UCL Institute of Education.

• London, DfE, 12th June 2015 - Organised by Rebecca Allen and George Leckie
  • Programme - NPD User Group Meeting 2015 (PDF, 86kB)
  • Update from DfE on the National Pupil Database (PDF, 356kB) Richard Lumley, Department of Education
  • Age 5 baseline testing and new KS2 scale (PDF) Colin Watson, Deputy Director, Assessment Policy and Development, Standards and Testing Authority
  • Changes to KS4 and implications for measuring pupil performance over time (PDF, 1,726kB) Mike Treadaway, Education Datalab and FFT
  • ADHD ratings and KS2 attainment (PDF, 729kB) Dr Christine Merrell and Prof Peter Tymms, University of Durham
  • Progression from age 5 PIPS baseline to GCSE attainment (PDF, 732kB) Prof Peter Tymms and Dr Christine Merrell, University of Durham
  • Linking Individual Learner Records to Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study and p (PDF, 406kB) Dave Thomson, Education Datalab
  • Fair access to Grammar Schools, linking NPD to 11+ data (PDF, 807kB) Dr Helen Wareham, University of Durham
  • Analysing examination board differences and trends over time for GCSE using NPD (PDF, 361kB) Prof Harvey Goldstein, University of Bristol
  • English as an Additional Language and educational achievement in England (PDF, 1,038kB) Professor Steve Strand, Professor of Education, University of Oxford
• Bristol, 17th June 2014 - Organised by George Leckie and Rebecca Allen
  • Programme and abstracts (PDF, 396kB)
  • NPD update (PDF, 252kB), Richard Lumley, DfE
  • ‌, David Robinson, DfE
  • School use of data, Amanda Spielman, Ofqual & ARK
  • Using longitudinal school census data (PDF, 1,011kB), Mike Treadaway and Dave Thomson, FFT
  • The construction and value of a school database (PDF, 447kB), Ellen Greaves, IFS
  • Linking 11+ assessments with NPD – some methodological issues (PDF, 536kB), Andy Wiggins and Helen Wareham, Durham
  • Interim findings from the second year of the phonics screening check evaluation, being carried out by NFER for DfE (PDF, 238kB), Jack Worth, NFER
  • Exclusion from English secondary schools - a cohort analysis (PDF, 517kB), Steve Strand, Oxford
  • Modelling peer effects on school attendance using the pupil absence module of the National Pupil Database (PDF, 445kB), Will Cook, MMU
  • What drives HE participation and outcomes? (PDF, 370kB), Claire Crawford, Warwick
• Bristol, 6th March 2012 - Organised by Simon Burgess and Harvey Goldstein
  • ‌General NPD update (PDF, 52kB), Paul Sinclair, DfE
  • PISA 2009 - How big are the gaps? (PDF, 396kB) Emily Knowles, DfE
  • Matching the NPD to longitudinal studies (PDF, 76kB), Clare Baker, Alicia Heptinstall and Helen Wood, DfE‌
  • An application of the School Census in migration research (PDF, 134kB), Stephen Jivraj, University of Manchester‌
  • Using the NPD to monitor the longitudinal impact of national curriculum reform: science as a case study (PDF, 697kB), Matt Homer, University of Leeds‌
  • ‌, Rebecca Grayson and Tim Gill, Cambidge Assessment
  • A GIS approach to school allocation patterns in Brighton and Hove (PDF, 425kB) (with Umar Yusuf), Judith Watson, University of Brighton‌
  • Sleepwalking towards Johannesburg? Local measures of ethnic segregation between London’s secondary schools 2003 – 2008/9 (PDF, 789kB), Rich Harris, University of Bristol‌
• London IOE, 5th/6th April 2011 - Organised by Simon Burgess and Harvey Goldstein
  • Introduction to School Workforce Census (PDF, 449kB), Emily Knowles and Jen Brown, DfE
  • NPD-wiki Sharing best practice in the use of NPD through a wiki (PDF, 28kB), Rebecca Allen, IoE
  • The administrative data liaison service and the future of administrative data access (PDF, 333kB), Mark Elliot, University of Manchester
  • Spacial analysis using NPD, Alex Singleton, University of Liverpool
    
  • Making the most of the NPD: Improving linkages (PDF, 300kB), Helen Evans, Steve Gills and Joanna Zwijacz, DfE
  • Teacher turnover in England: Results from the pilot SWC (PDF, 906kB), Simon Burgess, University of Bristol‌
  • School effects and equity gaps in educational attainment and progress at age 11 (PDF, 297kB), Steve Strand, University of Warwick‌
• Bristol, 29th October 2009 - Organised by Simon Burgess and Harvey Goldstein
  • Update and Developments (Office document, 709kB), Paul Sinclair, DCSF
  • The great divide: fixed vs. random effects in an education context (Office document, 156kB), Claire Crawford, IoE
  • Issues in sampling the PLASC/NPD data base for fitting of complex models (PDF, 315kB). Tony Fielding, University of Birmingham, and Harvey Goldstein, University of Bristol‌
  • Healthy school meals and educational outcomes (PDF, 369kB). Michele Belot, University of Oxford
  • Ungifted, Untalented and Not Even Special: the implications for “widening participation” of socio-spatial unevenness in educational labelling (PDF, 1,907kB), Judith Watson, University of Brighton
• Bristol, 18th/19th November 2008 - Organised by Simon Burgess and Harvey Goldstein
  • ‌, Paul Sinclair, Department for Children, Schools and Families
  • Widening Participation in Higher Education: Analysis using Linked Admin Data (Office document, 211kB) , Claire Crawford, Institute for Fiscal Studies, Institute of Education, University of London
  • Can school competition improve standards? The case of faith schools in England (Office document, 1,257kB), Rebecca Allen, Institute of Education, University of London
  • goldstein.ppt (Office document, 458kB)The limitations of using school league tables to inform school choice, Harvey Goldstein
  • School quality, school access and the formation of neighbourhoods (Office document, 339kB) , Simon Burgess, CMPO, University of Bristol
  • major.ppt (Office document, 107kB), Evidence-based policy: Hopes, Truths, and Lessons, Lee Elliot Major, The Sutton Trust
• London DCSF, 24th October 2007 - Organised by Simon Burgess and Harvey Goldstein
  • Evidence of Segregation? Using PLASC to model the core catchment areas of schools (Office document, 3,957kB), Rich Harris, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
  • Winning the War of Attrition: Sampling, response analysis and weighting using the National Pupil Database (Office document, 148kB), James Halse, Department for Children, Schools and Families
  • Special educational needs and ethnicity:Issues of over-and-under-representation (PDF, 238kB), Steve Strand, Centre for Educational Development, Appraisal and Research, Institute of Education, University of Warwick
• Bristol, 17th January 2007 - Organised by Simon Burgess and Harvey Goldstein
  • Missing data and school assessment measures (PDF, 114kB), George Leckie, Centre for Multilevel Modelling, University of Bristol
  • Change, or the lack of it (Office document, 109kB), Mick Quinlan, Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
  • Collecting Data for a School (Office document, 412kB), Hilary Rosina & Mathew Downs, Highcliffe School
  • The effects of class size on educational attainment: Danish quasi-experimental evidence and evidence that controls for family, school and neighbourhood effects (PDF, 192kB), Paul Bingley, University of Warwick
  • Who wins and who loses from school accountability? The distribution of educational gain in English secondary schools, (PDF, 141kB) Carol Propper, CMPO, University of Bristol
  • ‌, Anna Barker, Department for Children, Schools and Families
  • Cognitive Achievement and Behaviour in School (PDF, 475kB), James Foreman-Peck, Welsh Institute for Research in Economics and Development
  • Measuring School Segregation in Administrative Data: A Review (Office document, 718kB), Becky Allen, Institute of Education, University of London
• Bristol, 13th September 2006 - Organised by Simon Burgess and Harvey Goldstein
  • Is Free School Meal Status a Valid Proxy for Socio-Economic Status? (Office document, 92kB) , Anna Vignoles, Institute of Education
  • Use of Data by LAs and Schools (Office document, 155kB) , John Bertram, Consultant, DfES
  • Using the NPD: Some pitfalls and issues (Office document, 1,257kB) , Andrew Ray, DfES
  • ‌ , Dave Herrick and Andrew Boyd, ALSPAC, University of Bristol
  • Sampling designs using the National Pupil Database (Office document, 20kB) , Hugh Gravelle, University of Bristol
  • Merging Local Research Data with PLASC:An application on the Appropriateness of Free School Meals as a Measure of Deprivation in Educational Research in Hampshire (Office document, 1,468kB), Daphne Kounali and Tony Robinson, University of Bath.
• Bristol, 8th March 2006 - Organised by Simon Burgess and Harvey Goldstein
  • The Dynamics of School Attainment of England's Ethnic Minorities (Office document, 868kB) ( see abstract). Simon Burgess, CMPO, University of Bristol.
  • National Pupil Database: Current content & structure (Office document, 127kB), Anna Barker, DfES
  • Multilevel Modelling of PLASC data (Office document, 107kB), Harvey Goldstein, Centre for Multilevel Modelling, University of Bristol
  • National Pupil Database: The Future (Office document, 106kB), Catherine Blackham, DfES