Dr Aideen Maguire is a Psychiatric Epidemiologist by training and a Reader in Social Epidemiology within the School of Medicine at Queen’s University Belfast. She is Co-Director of Administrative Data Research Northern Ireland (ADR NI), part of the larger UK-wide ADR UK consortia and runs the team of research specialists within ADRC Northern Ireland from Queen’s University Belfast and Ulster University who are focused on delivering high-quality and impactful evidence that supports policy and practice. The ADRC research portfolio includes work examining income, poverty, deprivation, education, air pollution, the built environment, children in care, homelessness, the justice system, self-harm, suicide, and mental ill-health. Aideen leads up the Northern Ireland DATAMIND team, utilising administrative data to better understand population mental health, with a particular focus on people in typically underserved groups.
