Consumer Data Research Support Service (CDRSS)

Lead Research Organisation: University of Leeds
Department Name: Sch of Geography

Abstract

This project will establish a unique Consumer Data Research Support Service (CDRSS) for the supply and provision of new forms of 'Big Data' which are emerging in consumer markets. Big Data are frequently characterised as being high in volume, variety and velocity. In other words the data are continually changing (for example traffic sensors may capture the position of individual vehicles which are rarely stationary); the data are diverse (for example relating to the demographic characteristics of people, their movement patterns, their lifestyles and attitudes, social networks); and simply large, so that for example it is possible to retain data over long time periods as computer storage has also expanded sufficiently to permit this in many situations.
Retail and consumer organisations have been leading the way in the creation and extraction of value from Big Data. For example Tesco has used data from its Clubcard scheme to profile its customers based on their shopping habits and expenditure patterns. This in turn has allowed the company to maintain a long-term competitive advantage in product development, promotion and store formatting and network development. Telecommunications providers are now processing billions of transactions each day as callers interact with mobile telephone cells and wireless devices.
The CDRSS will capitalise on the growing realisation that Big Consumer Data can provide unique insights into social science questions, for example relating to prosperity, deprivation and exclusion; physical movement and behaviour patterns; healthy living, crime, family activities and social networks. The CDRSS will:
* bring together diverse sources of consumer data for the first time within a secure environment;
* produce tools for the anonymisation, aggregation and analysis of big consumer data;
* develop flagship research projects which demonstrate the value of consumer data in research studies;
* create the means for widespread access to these data amongst academic research users;
* explore mechanisms for extending this engagement to business, government and the general public;
* make an important contribution to training and capacity-building in consumer data analytics, and in this way it will therefore have a significant positive effect on the quantitative skills gap in UK social science;
The CDRSS will interact with existing and proposed investments, for example in Administrative Data, Research Methods, and Social Media; but at the same time it will create unique resources and its own distinctive community of users.

Planned Impact

As well as the numerous academic benefits that will flow from the Centre we are confident that the research will have a wider impact on policy and practice, specifically for: policy-makers; Organisations (including business, public sector, industry associations and third sector); and the general public.

Where policy makers are concerned we will build on existing engagement activities and relationships with both national and local government to ensure that the fundamentally new knowledge derived from the Centre is made known and informs the policy agenda, policy formation and policy implementation. The outputs of the Centre will have relevance and application. Examples are in relation to the movement and mobility of people for Department of Transport, in relation to food consumption for Department of Health, in relation to drivers of consumption (e.g. ethics/sustainability, weather) for Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, and in relation to consumer spending and credit for HM Treasury/Bank of England. The letter of support from Leeds and Partners indicates the level of enthusiasm of prospective partners for this type of work. As more and more data is sourced and analysts are able to make linkages and connections that are pertinent to smaller geographic areas to facilitate comparisons, this will be of interest to policy makers locally as well as national government.

Organisations that will benefit from involvement with the Centre are wide ranging and include: business (both data providers and others), public sector organisations, industry associations (e.g. British Retail Association), consumer bodies, and third sector non-profit organisations/charities. The various retail organisations will benefit because their data will be exploited as a resource in a somewhat different way to what it is currently used. Other organisations will benefit too. We aim to demonstrate that data collected about sales/customers can inform not only commercial but also social issues more generally For example, research on how consumption varies in urban and rural areas at different times of the year and in different weather conditions could inform local tourism strategies but also open up new commercial opportunities for businesses. Visitor patterns for a particular shopping area (e.g. the new Trinity shopping centre in Leeds which has been mapped by the PI and colleagues from mobile phone data) has commercial implications for the Trinity retailers and shopping centre managers as well as operational implications for local town centre managers and planners and public services (e.g. police, transport). As well as providing businesses with the opportunity to expand their Corporate Social Responsibility aims, the Centre will play a significant role in building capacity in analytics and big data analysis that will benefit both businesses and public sector organisations (see details below). There is also potential for the Centre to preserve legacy data from retail organisations that would otherwise be lost.

Lastly, are benefits for the public and communities more generally. Public understanding and support for the big data initiative is essential and the Centre will work with partners in the ESRC Big Data Network to support this aim and allay fears that may arise. This will involve a two-way communication process where information about the work of the Centre and the benefits derived from it is clearly communicated to the public and there is also wide opportunity for public feedback and consultation. By demonstrating how the data is used in aggregate, anonymised form and is capable of benefitting communities in new ways we expect broad interest and support.

Organisations

Publications

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Malleson N (2015) Spatio-temporal crime hotspots and the ambient population in Crime Science

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Carter MC (2015) Development of a UK Online 24-h Dietary Assessment Tool: myfood24. in Nutrients

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Xu M (2015) Transport management measures in the post-Olympic Games period: supporting sustainable urban mobility for Beijing? in International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology

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Mussone L (2015) Sensitivity analysis of traffic congestion costs in a network under a charging policy in Case Studies on Transport Policy

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Maitra B (2015) Differences between the Perceptions of Captive and Choice Riders toward Bus Service Attributes and the Need for Segmentation of Bus Services in Urban India in Journal of Urban Planning and Development

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Grant-Muller S (2015) Enhancing transport data collection through social media sources: methods, challenges and opportunities for textual data in IET Intelligent Transport Systems

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Lovelace R (2015) Book review in Journal of Transport Geography

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Newing, A; Fearnside A (2015) Exploring the Diversity of the White Rose Centre Workforce - Report Prepared for Land Securities plc.

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Olner D (2015) An agent model of urban economics: Digging into emergence in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

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Clarke, G (2015) The emerging geography of e-commerce in British retailing in Regonal Studies, Regional Science

 
Title Internal Migration - Data Visualisations 
Description Series of graphic visualisations developed by Information and Graphic Designer, Herwig Scherabon. The posters visualize CDRC data from Whenfresh/Zoopla, providing the public with easy to understand visuals that convey the insights of the data on internal migration. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2016 
Impact We are currently awaiting approval from Whenfresh/Zoopla to release to the media/general public 
 
Description CDRC-Leeds has delivered research findings across all of its core research themes, which are: Health and Wellbeing; Urban Mobility; Retail; Population, Housing and Infrastructure; Crime and Emergency Services and Ethical and Sustainable Consumption. Up to and including March 2024, these research themes have produced findings and outputs that can be grouped as follows: COVID research findings (across health and wellbeing; retail; urban mobility; and population, housing and infrastructure themes); research findings from collaborative research with supermarkets (across health and wellbeing; retail; and ethical and sustainable consumption); emerging research findings in crime and emergency services; creation of data partnerships (data stored/shared through CDRC's Data Store) and other research partnerships; the provision of access to new data sets and the development of new derived data products for researchers within and outside academia; and other non-academic outputs.

Retail
Since 2021, CDRC Co-I, Prof Michelle Morris, had led a collaborative research project with the Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD) to identify and test strategies to help shift consumers towards affordable, healthier, and more sustainable diets using behaviour change levers. Research priorities are set in collaboration with IGD's Industry Nutrition Strategy Group (INSG), composed of senior nutritionists from leading companies throughout the food industry. CDRC then analyses retailer data (the sharing of which is negotiated individually with retailers) using a variety of data science methods, including interrupted time series (ITS) analysis. CDRC Senior Research Data Scientist, Dr Fran Pontin, has developed a highly innovative Eatwell algorithm that matches purchased items to the Government-recommended Eatwell diet, which is both healthier and more sustainable. To date, research findings from our collaborations with four supermarket retailers (Sainsbury's, Asda, Lidl, and M&S) have been made publicly available via IGD reports.

In Sainsbury's 60p fruit and veg trial, we saw a 78% uplift on promoted products in 2020 and 56% during the January 2021 COVID-19 national lockdown, compared to the baseline year. All fruit and vegetable sales increased during intervention, regardless of whether they were on offer, resulting in 4.9 additional portions sold across both interventions. In other research with Sainsbury's, we noted that when using Healthy Start top-up vouchers, shopping habits shifted positively towards the Eatwell Guide. This included: 13 extra portions of fruits and vegetables; 12% more fresh fruit; fewer composite dishes; fewer discretionary products; and less protein rich-food. Healthier habits continued after the trial finished, and focusing on the uptake of top-up vouchers revealed further opportunity for expansion/intervention: half of eligible customers used a top-up voucher only once during the six-month trial, and just 2.5% of customers used the voucher 15 or more times. Analysis of Asda's trial on placement of vegan alternatives showed sales of relocated products declined by 30% and shoppers did not switch to other food categories. With M&S, we found that changing the placement did not lead to increased salad sales, but that M&S shoppers are already purchasing in line with the Eatwell Guide. The DIO-Food grant, awarded in 2023 to Morris, Dr Vicki Jenneson (former CDRC PhD student), Pontin, and Dr Emily Ennis (CDRC Research and Impact Manager), extends the work with supermarket retailers focusing on the effectiveness of the implementation of the Government's legislation around pricing and location of foods high in fat, salt, and sugar, in England.

The IGD collaboration has enabled a number of CDRC researchers to contribute to industry-facing research. This way of working was celebrated in Morris and the Nutrition and Lifestyle Analytics sub-team winning an ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize in 2023 for their Outstanding Business and Enterprise impact. However, this collaboration has also drawn on the expertise of other CDRC researchers. For example Co-I Prof William Young has worked with retailers on green labelling. From 2022 onwards, both Young and Research Fellow, Dr Susan Lee have been part of IGD's work around green labelling and carbon footprinting, providing clear research direction where there is a global lack of data around food carbon emissions, and in the wake of many retailers facing claims of "greenwashing".

CDRC research in the retail domain extends beyond supermarkets. CDRC Research Fellow, Dr Stephen Clark, has published findings on the decline of British pubs according to neighbourhood type. In 'An exploration of recent trends in the number of British pubs and how these vary by neighbourhood type', published in The Geographical Journal (2023), Clark et al. concluded that there were clear differences in the number of pubs based on their location and function and that the decline in pub numbers is more pronounced in rural areas, particularly remoter communities. Overall, the findings indicate that urban areas are more likely to maintain and increase their number of pubs, while those in affluent suburban and rural areas are more likely to experience closures. However, the impact of these closures may vary.

Furthermore, Clark, along with CDRC Co-I Dr Andy Newing and PI Prof Mark Birkin conducted research into retail banking closures within the UK (Retail banking closures in the United Kingdom. Are neighbourhood characteristics associated with retail bank branch closures? Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2023). They found that branches that are part of a building society generally have a lower risk of closure than the traditional commercial banks. But a company that is undergoing consolidation after a merger shows higher risk of closure. Moreover, bank branches are, on average, more likely to close when there is a nearby Post Office outlet that is able to substitute for some of their services, especially as the Post Office network is more extensive in the UK than the combined branch network of all the retail banks. However, restricted Post Office opening hours in many rural localities, Post Office closures, and the limited range of banking tasks that can be completed at a Post Office, may limit the extent to which the Post Office is a viable substitute for bank branch closures, even though the government has made a commitment to maintain the Post Office network with the overall number of branches increasing in 2021-22, and the overall number of branches stable in comparison to 2015-16. Finally, as with Clark's discoveries with British pubs, there is evidence that retail bank branches are more at risk of closure in rural neighbourhoods, with an additional increased risk in some affluent neighbourhoods as well. The least at risk of closure being branches located in urban cosmopolitan neighbourhoods, with workplace zones (with a concentration of employment, particularly those that are linked to retail activities or of a high-end nature), the least at risk of closure.

Beyond the high street, CDRC has led and continues to lead research into traditional market spaces. Newing worked with colleagues from the School of Geography at the University of Leeds to explore the role of traditional retail market spaces in meeting food demand in food deserts (Andy Newing, Graham Clarke, Myfanwy Taylor, Sara González, Lisa Buckner & Rosie Wilkinson (2023), 'The role of traditional retail markets in addressing urban food deserts', The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research, 33:4, 347-370). Their analysis of comprehensive survey data and accompanying focus group insights highlighted the importance of traditional retail markets, such as Newcastle's Grainger market, as a source of affordable and accessible quality fresh food. This is particularly true for consumers classified as 'vulnerable' including the elderly, those from lower-income households and those living in relatively more deprived neighbourhoods. The analysis further identified that in the case of Grainger market, users are more likely than people living in its catchment area as a whole to come from lower social grades, to lack access to a car, to live in the most deprived neighbourhoods and to be pensioners living alone. As with Newing's other CDRC research into food deserts (see further: E-Food Desert Index), the research also explores users' propensity to shop online. Findings from this research strongly suggest that traditional market users show a low propensity to shop online. All data collected by the broader research project are available for wider research via the CDRC Data Store for other researchers to use.
Work exploring the role of traditional market spaces continues within CDRC, with Dr Ennis, and Prof Sara González (School of Geography) having been awarded a University of Leeds Policy Support Fund grant in 2023 to help Leeds City Council better understand the role of traditional market spaces in Leeds. This research brings together a CDRC output - the food carbon footprint calculator - and qualitative research experience of González and Ennis to understand how food culture, purchasing habits, and the environmental sustainability of the Leeds markets overlap.

Accessing healthy and sustainable diets
Much of CDRC's work in the retail sector targets food providers as part of its commitment to researching healthy and sustainable diets. In addition to the work with IGD listed above, CDRC colleagues Pontin, Dr Rachel Oldroyd, Clark, and Prof Nik Lomax, have worked with PhD student Tamara Garcia del Toro looking at online food delivery platform usage. Garcia del Toro is a former Data Scientist on the Data Scientist Development Programme at the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (LIDA), funded by CDRC. In their research ('Customer trends in take-away purchasing: Geospatial patterns of online food delivery platform usage in UK output areas', (2023) International Journal of Population Data Science), they found that demographic markers of affluence were highly associated with a higher median basket price and lower order frequency. Conversely, the research found that more deprived populations have a higher number of orders with lower basket prices, and that higher order frequency is associated with a higher number of orders to restaurants which cuisine type is defined as "burgers".

This work clearly demonstrates dietary inequalities as a direct result of measures of household deprivation. The connection between access to food and the socio-demographic barriers limiting that access is one of the key research areas explored in CDRC's Priority Places for Food Index (ver. 1 2021; ver. 2 2023). Priority Places for Food Index (PPFI) draws on a variety of CDRC-controlled and open data sources to rank neighbourhoods in the UK (approx. 650 households) based on their access to food and their food insecurity. These data span 7 domains, 4 of which constitute "access" to supermarkets and other food providers (=50%), and 3 of which constitute "obstacles" to accessing those food providers (=50%). These 7 domains are: proximity to supermarket retail facilities; accessibility to supermarket retail facilities; access to online deliveries; proximity to non-supermarket food PROVISION (including markets); socioeconomic barriers (e.g. income and access to a car); fuel poverty (e.g. energy prices and efficiency data, those on energy prepayment meters); and family food support (proximity to food banks, eligibility for free school meals and healthy start voucher uptake). The PPFI is interactive and has already become indispensable for local governments and policymakers, who are working hard to minimise the obstacles for those in the higher priority areas, particularly as part of localised health policies such as local food strategies. The 'Big five' supermarkets - Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's, Aldi and Morrisons - have a combined 74.4% market share in the UK (Kantar, 2023). Looking at the data generated by PPFI, within the top 10% Priority neighbourhoods for food insecurity across the UK, there are only 122 of these Big 5 supermarkets. By comparison the lowest Priority neighbourhoods for food insecurity contain over 3.5 times as many 'Big Five' supermarkets. This suggests that areas most at risk of food insecurity are under-served by the UK's top 5 supermarkets, either contributing to, or exacerbating, the risk of food insecurity. When we look at the distribution of Big 5 large- and medium-sized supermarket stores across the PPFI Deciles, we also see some retailers such as Morrisons and Asda have a larger proportion of their stores in higher priority deciles, therefore providing more affordable food choices to these communities. Conversely, the large proportion of Tesco and Sainsbury's supermarket stores, which typically have a higher price point, tend to be located in low priority areas for food support. However, access to food is not the key driver in food insecurity. Following feedback from the London region of The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID), former CDRC Lead Data Scientist, Dr Peter Baudains was able to adjust the Index within London based on the assumption that provision of food outlets did not mean access to healthy and affordable food. The justification for this change in assumption was the relative size of supermarkets within the Greater London area, which suggested that these food outlets likely had a higher price point than the food provided in larger outlets within the same retail brand. By down-weighting the access data domains to 1/3 rather than 1/2 of the Index's calculations, Baudains was able to demonstrate that the highest priority places remain high priority even after access to supermarkets becomes less significant to the calculations. Importantly, reweighting the Index to limit the effect of access to food locations also demonstrates that there are high areas of need that are currently being obscured by their proximity to food outlets. This demonstrates that in those priority places there are significant barriers to accessing affordable food that are likely not impacted by the proximity of food outlets.
Further analysis by Pontin and Ennis showed that when looking at the highest priority 10% of neighbourhoods in England, across the seven index domains by urban/rural location of the neighbourhood, 60% of neighbourhoods with poor proximity to supermarket food and 57.7% of neighbourhoods with poor proximity to markets and convenience stores are classed as 'rural village and dispersed communities', despite these neighbourhoods making up only 0.6% of the LSOAs in England. Conversely for affordability barriers we see those living in 'urban major conurbations' make up 66.6% of the highest priority neighbourhoods for socio-demographic barriers, 57% of the highest priority neighbourhoods for Family food support and 56% of neighbourhoods for fuel poverty. Finally, we see neighbourhoods in urban cities and towns, typically small cities and large UK towns, tend to make-up a substantial proportion of all top priority domains (9.6-43.8%). This demonstrates that there is an accessibility split between urban and rural locations, with rural areas less likely to have food accessible to them. However, there is also a split in terms of sociodemographic obstacles to accessing food between urban and rural areas, with urban areas most likely to have barriers that limit their ability to afford food. Additionally, smaller UK cities and towns risk scoring poorly for both access and affordability barriers to healthy and affordable food. In 2023, Pontin and Ennis began the supervision of a research project on the LIDA Data Scientist Development Programme (DSDP) exploring how food insecurity maps on to adverse health outcomes in the UK, in order to determine the correlation between the two.

COVID
CDRC continues to be a leader in health-focused spatial geography research. In 2019/20, CDRC demonstrated how data could rapidly be made available and analysed to meet the informational and capacity needs of the COVID-19 pandemic. This was made clear in our dedication to collaborations such as Emergent Alliance and RAMP, spearheaded by Professor Mark Birkin. In 2022, a meeting organised by and at the Royal Society brought together key advances and outcomes this two-year work project. The meeting included keynote presentations, panel discussion and posters, with panel members including Sir Patrick Vallance as Chief Scientific Adviser to Government. In 2021/22, we saw an increasing overlap between the CDRC's pre-existing areas of interest, such as in retail and healthy lifestyles, and COVID-19 research. In particular, CDRC was able to use the DSDP as a way of resourcing short-term, maximum-impact projects designed to answer key questions around COVID-19. The Local Data Spaces (LDS) project - run in collaboration between the CDRC-Leeds and CDRC-ULO, the Joint Biosecurity Centre (JBC), the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and ADR UK - engaged with 25 local authorities to better understand local priorities, contexts and research needs. This project received an ONS Research Excellence award in recognition of how it mobilised centralised secure data for the benefit of local policymakers across the country. A second DSDP project generated similar levels of insight used mobility data provided by Spectus.ai (part of Cuebiq's Data for Good initiative) in order to show the levels of adherence to lockdown policies between March 2020 and April 2021, with blog coverage focusing on the 2020 Christmas lockdown in England. This research was published as 'Household visitation during the COVID-19 pandemic' in Scientific Reports in November 2021, and has since been picked up by over 110 news outlets across the globe (e.g. The India Express, The Times of India, Nature Asia), and posted about globally by Twitter users in Japan, United States, Italy and India, among others. The research gained particular momentum during the 2021 festive period and again in February 2022 when England removed all COVID restrictions. This publication is in the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric. Another COVID-19 DSDP project, led by Tom Albone, 'Measuring Ambient Populations during COVID in Leeds City Centre' found that urban footfall and ambient population was significantly impacted by COVID-19 lockdown policies (as was intended), and that closure of indoor entertainment and non-essential retail appeared to be the most important lockdown-related factors in predicting footfall change. These preliminary findings were delivered to Leeds City Council (LCC), and will continue to benefit commercial and retail, governmental and policy, public, and academic stakeholders throughout the post-COVID period of economic recovery.

Emergency Services
In addition to health-focused research, CDRC continues to grow research expertise in the crime and emergency services theme. CDRC has supported, through the Data Service, the Recounting Crime research project, led by Prof Ian Brunton-Smith (University of Surrey), Dr Jose Pina-Sánchez (University of Leeds), Dr Alexandru Cernat (University of Manchester), and Dr David Buil-Gil (University of Manchester). There were three aims to this project: 1) Understand the measurement error mechanisms affecting crime data; 2) Combine crime survey estimates and police recorded crime counts; and 3) Generate bespoke adjustments and estimate corrected crime counts. CDRC continue to explore the best way to support this research further, including exploring whether new and recounted crime data can become a CDRC data product, and whether or not bespoke data training can be provided to the emergency services to recalibrate their data collection. CDRC Partnerships Development Manager, Francesco Mattiello continues to foster relationships within the emergency services. CDRC has also developed a strong relationship with the ESRC-funded Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre (led jointly by Universities of Leeds and York) through the DSDP, which has resulted in the Centre funding roles protected for women and Global Majority candidates on the DSDP for the next 5 years. This will inevitably result in further research findings under this theme. Finally, a CDRC-funded 2023/24 Data Scientist Development Programme project, titled 'Realtime Wildfire Risk Mapping', aims to create a web-based wildfire risk mapping tool, utilizing fine-resolution data to generate spatially distributed measures of relative wildfire risk. With wildfires increasing in frequency and complexity, the tool integrates various factors into GIS-mapped layers, allowing users to explore risk under different weights. The project, led by West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service (WYFRS), establishes workflows for dynamic data integration, provides a spatial back-end for process-based models, and fosters collaboration with key stakeholders, including WYFR, Natural England, the Moorland Association, and academic experts to enhance wildfire risk assessment and management.

Data partnerships
The partnerships we forge and strengthen at CDRC are part of our core research outcomes. As a data service, we work with 30+ data owners to make consumer data available to trusted researchers, Europe-wide, allowing a broader cohort of researchers to use such data to solve real-world problems. In 2021, CDRC-Leeds received an updated Whenfresh/Zoopla dataset which includes 2020-21 data. This has been pivotal to the work of Clark, who has published extensively on the interactions between rental prices and shopping behaviours (see: Clark S, Hood N, Birkin M. 2022. 'Identifying the effect of retail brands on private residential rental prices in Great Britain'. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment. 37(3), pp. 1489-1509 and Clark S, Hood N, Birkin M. 2021. 'A hedonic model of the association between grocery brand provision and residential rental prices in England'. International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis. 14(4), pp. 680-700). We have also received updated data from MIAC Analytics (Feb 2022) and a renewal and refresh of the Fuell activity dataset (Dec 2021) and continued access to data from Spectus.ai. In 2023, CDRC also received data from Compass Connected Car Vehicle Trajectories and Behaviours. The dataset is composed of vehicle trips undertaken across the UK during the month of October 2023. The dataset contains vehicle trips carried out across the UK. The dataset includes >4.3 million trips made by >930,000 vehicles. The dataset comprises vehicles of different types and sizes for commercial and private transportation. One of CDRC's most popular data sets made available by our partners is AirDNA Data (2023 - Still Active). CDRC also works with data from external organisations using the Leeds Analytics Secure Environment for Research (LASER) provided by Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (LIDA), and does not make these data available for other researchers. Data shared with CDRC in this way include all data provided by our retail partners under the IGD collaboration.
In 2022-23, CDRC expanded its reach through its development and launch of derived data products (see below for more information). These have been the result of, or have resulted in, partnerships or intentions to collaborate with a significant number of new organisations. These include: Which?, Food Foundation, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID), Statistics Norway, Good Food Oxfordshire, Veg Power, Birmingham City Council, DEFRA on Modelling Agri-Environmental Scheme, Office for National Statistics Methodology Division, as well as additional supermarket researchers and out-of-home food providers. CDRC also has a Master Collaboration Agreement (MCA) with Asda, which has enabled us to work together quickly and easily across a range of research projects, as well as to lead joint research priority-setting workshops, such as Ideathons and Hackathons. These partnerships are in addition to previous and well-established partnerships between CDRC-Leeds and stakeholders. Building on the success of the Local Data Spaces project, in collaboration with CDRC-ULO, the JBC, ONS and ADR UK, CDRC have initiated discussions with other data providers. Birkin has been a key stakeholder and advisor in discussions with Leeds City Council as they establish their Office for Data Analytics, and Lomax is part of an advisory group to the Ministry of Justice in data ethics and governance, as well as Member of the Data Analytic Facility for National Infrastructure Strategy Board. In September 2021, Birkin was part of a joint meeting with ONS, ADR UK and The Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC), which resulted in a 'harmonisation statement' between CDRC and UBDC relating to data acquisitions. We expect stronger connections in future through the Smart Data Research UK funding call. Clark, along with Pontin, also worked with UK Biobank physical activity data to analyse large-scale physical activity behaviour patterns using unsupervised machine learning methods. This novel use of data from another research repository has been an invaluable way to develop collaborations across institutions and with external partners like Fuell.

Work with one of our large retail partners has taken place on a range of projects across CDRC, including PhD projects and DSDP projects, and this collaboration has provided a platform from which further partnerships can be brokered. As an example, 2020-21 DSDP Data Scientist Rosalind Martin met with FoodDB at Oxford University to discuss approaches to calculating Fruit, Veg and Nut content from back-of-pack ingredients in order to develop a means of classification for a nutrient profile model (NPM) calculator (see below for information on its launch). For this project, Martin worked with not-for-profit GS1 UK and presented the digital output of the project to policymakers at the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID). The PhD project connected with this research, led by Jenneson, has been pivotal to managing the online relationship with this retail organisation and resulted in a policy report which gained significant recognition with policymakers in 2021 in the development of the new NFS.

Building on the ongoing collaboration between Leeds City Council and the University of Leeds through the University's Civic Collaboration (Birkin also sits on the Collaborations Reference Group between University of Leeds and Leeds City Council), CDRC has reacted at pace to forge a new partnership with the Sustainability, Catering, Food strategy, Markets, and Policy groups within the Council, across a variety of projects. One such project used data from Council-provided school meals to create a digital carbon footprint tool which will help inform the Council's decision making as part of their net zero strategy. CDRC provided strategic COVID-related underspend to rapidly resource this project from among its cohort of former DSDP Data Scientists. The digital tool developed by Alex Dalton is now being used by colleagues within the Council to develop low-carbon eating initiatives. Through this partnership, CDRC have also been able to grow new relationships with other Council-affiliated organisations, such as the educational charity Rethink Food, the National Farmers Union, Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust and the University's Sustainability Institute, who have engaged in knowledge-exchange and methodology-sharing. A 2022/23 DSDP project, focused on developing a Census Dashboard for Leeds City Council, has strengthened this pre-existing relationship. It has also helped maximise Council time, by reducing Census queries to the Council's Policy team by as much as 90%. We've also received interest from, and continue to have conversations with, Islington Council, London Borough of Camden, and Watford Council. These conversations present future opportunities in potential sustainability collaborations and research.

As part of ongoing work in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, former Senior Ops Co-Ordinator Kylie Norman led a widening participation project designed to make data science more inclusive for hard-to-reach communities. As a result of this work, she has developed strategic partnerships with the Keighley Schools Together network working group, the Centre for Applied Education Research (CAER), Raspberry Pi's Code Club Programme, Rethink Food, Bradford Council's Alliance for Life Chances, and a supermarket retailer. It is recognition of the impact of CDRC's capacity building that we have built these strong relationships as part of a future programme of capacity building work.

Our own data tools
CDRC's development of derived data products in 2022-23, under the guidance of former Senior Research Data Scientist, Baudains, has also played a pivotal role in the capacity building of the Centre. This is largely in response to the National Data Strategy's emphasis on reproducibility and opening up access to data, as many of these data products are targeted specifically at non-academic researchers, and those who are most able to effect real-world change. The data products developed in-house by CDRC are: the carbon calculator tool created by Alex Dalton, as part of her work with Leeds City Council (LCC); the Nutrient Profile Model Online Calculator, created by Research Fellow Dr Jenneson; the Priority Places for Food Index, methodology, and code, produced by Baudains, Pontin, Morris, and Ennis in collaboration with Which? (2022) (2023 version also includes input from Oldroyd and Alex Hambley); the Leeds City Council Observatory Census Dashboard; and the Eatwell Product Classification, produced by Pontin. These tools are designed specifically to meet a need by researchers and decision makers beyond academia. In 2022, CDRC also launched the educational game 'Planet Plates', based on Dalton's carbon footprint calculator, which is targeted at primary school-aged children and is designed to help them learn how their food choices impact the planet.

In addition to these data products aimed beyond academia, CDRC also has a range of data sets and products targeted at academic researchers. These include: Robin Lovelace's stats19 R package and CycleInfraLnd R package, both of which emerge from his open-source research into cycling infrastructure; Adam Keeley's Cube, a computer model/algorithm based on data from grocery retailer transactions for retailers between 2015 and 2017; SPENSER (a synthetic population estimation and projection model), which uses dynamic microsimulation to produce projections under different, user defined scenarios; CoSMoNorth (an agent-based simulation of transportation and mobility in the north of England, co-developed with Arup); a classification for English primary schools using open data, which examines how educational contexts can impact the curriculum for state-funded schools; and the e-food deserts index (EFDI), which is a multi-dimensional composite index which measures where neighbourhoods exhibit characteristics associated with food deserts across four key drivers of groceries accessibility. The aggregated data sets for the Local Data Spaces project, led by Leech, were made available as Open Source GitHub Code, and Albone's aggregated Leeds City Council footfall data is now accessible on the open data tier of the CDRC data store. Pontin has provided the Data Cleaning Process for the CDRC Fuell Dataset on CDRC's website. Dr Will James has created a food classification tool by demographic group. One of CDRC-Leeds's Research Data Scientists, Dustin Foley, has generated a model from his work on the CODiT (Covid Opensource Digital Twin) project. Customisable elements of the model include infection rates, lockdown measures/adherence, vaccination rates, households, workplaces, schools, care homes, hospitals, and random ephemeral contact with other individuals. Birkin created the Dynamic Modelling Environment, which is a highly efficient modelling environment that combines population microsimulation, a detailed modelling of social interactions and a SEIR-type model to study the spread of a pandemic in an area ranging from one MSOA to the entire Country of England with a runtime of under a few minutes. In addition to offering a platform to study the recent (and ongoing) COVID-19 pandemic, the model can be disaggregated into modules that offer a solid basis for other projects ranging from the study of spatial inequality and energy distributions to infrastructure investment and sustainable cities. It is currently being configured to examine environmental change through the DyME Climate, Heating and Health (CHH) project.

Other Non-academic Outputs
Our focus on generating data products and tools, as well as our dedication to open access publishing and the sharing of aggregated data sets, for example through the LDS project discussed above, shows our commitment to the accessibility of our research and our desire to reach non-academic audiences. Our research has been cited in a range of non-academic outputs and media, in part because we have broadened our avenues for dissemination through online engagement (see response to question below). The research conducted under the IGD collaboration has been published in IGD's reports and cited on the Sainsbury's websites. Our research has also supported the delivery of other non-academic outputs, such as the second part of the National Food Strategy (NFS) recommendations, launched in 2021, supported by DEFRA, to which Jenneson was seconded in 2020-21. CDRC have also replied to the NFS recommendations as part of a response written by the N8 Agrifood Policy Hub.
The launch of the Priority Places for Food Index secured significant press coverage, and so in 2022-23 we have seen an increase in non-academic, media-orientated outputs. The media coverage for the launch of the Index covered multiple media: TV (Good Morning Britain, BBC Breakfast (Yorks & Mids), BBC Look North, Panorama); Radio (BBC Leeds, BBC Merseyside); Broadsheets (The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, Financial Times, The Herald (Scotland), Belfast Telegraph (NI)); Online News (Sky News, Yahoo, ITV, STV, Wales Online, Local Gov); Tabloids (Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, Scottish Daily Express, Daily Record (Scot)); Regional News Yorkshire (Yorkshire Post, Telegraph & Argus, Hull Daily Mail, Huddersfield Daily Examiner, Yorkshire Examiner); and Regional News (other): Hertfordshire, Shropshire, Glasgow, Birmingham, Liverpool, Lincolnshire, North East, Wrexham. In 2023, CDRC also submitted evidence to the Fairness in the Food Supply Chain inquiry led by Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/122986/default/), using data from Priority Places for Food Index and the work with supermarket retailers. Dr Pontin was later invited to give oral evidence to this committee (https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/13825/pdf/). In 2022-23, CDRC research was also featured in a range of University of Leeds podcasts: Ennis and Birkin were invited to appear on the University's Research Culture podcast, as were Jenneson and Pontin, following CDRC's success in the 2023 ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize. Norman and Morris were also featured as part of a University podcast on Improving Representation on the DSDP. Morris also joined colleagues from the Global Food and Environment Institute on the University's 'How to Fix' podcast to discuss how given the rising cost of food, who are the communities hardest hit and how we can help. Morris outlined findings and highlighted how policy makers can utilise the Priority Places for Food Index to better understand and target help to those communities most in need.
Exploitation Route There are five ways in which our outcomes might be shared and put to use by others, all of which are capacity building routes to impact. These are through our partnerships, through strategic tools of engagement, our presence on advisory boards and professional bodies as a direct pathway to impact, the destinations of our alumni and former employees, and through our training and capacity building in industry and the third sector.

Partners
Our partnership with IGD has already enabled us to forge new relationships with retailers who work within the INSG. This has led to signing a master collaboration agreement with Asda, which will allow us to organise research projects with the retailer beyond the IGD agreement. We have also signed data sharing agreements with a variety of other retailers under this umbrella. In this way, IGD have become a useful platform in disseminating our research and sharing our methodologies with retailers without breaking competition law, and the success of the projects ongoing and completed as part of the IGD collaboration is building a momentum through which we are gaining additional partners and recognition as trusted researchers within the sector. This will mean we are able to reach a significant number of new retailers through the IGD partnership. Similarly, our collaboration with Which? allowed us to deepen pre-existing relationships with retailers by consulting with them on the Priority Places for Food Index. This collaboration also grew our network of policy and decision-makers, including developing stronger relationships with OHID regional offices and Good Food Oxfordshire. The Which? collaboration, as with the IGD collaboration, therefore works as an effective platform for future partnership building. Our successful work with the Sustainability, Catering, and Food Strategy teams within Leeds City Council has resulted in new networks within the Council and beyond, using various Council-run events as a platform. As we continue to bring in new data, we will also grow our network of data partners and research organisations. In parallel, we will be taking specific steps to raise the profile and benefits of our interdisciplinary expertise with the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, particularly in the light of the inaugural 2021 election of a Mayor of West Yorkshire.

Tools of engagement
We have fine-tuned our tools of engagement to maximise reach and broaden the demographic that our research reaches. Our multi-channel communications and engagement strategy, led by Naisbitt, drives engagement across CDRC-owned channels and maximises opportunities across partner-owned channels. We have worked on collaborative campaigns with high profile partners, including major retailers, Which?, IGD and the Food Foundation, to publish reports, lay summaries, videos and media releases which have resulted in significant media coverage across TV, Radio, Newspapers and digital publications. We have utilised podcasts, blogs (including Royal Geographic Society, Academy of Social Sciences, Science Breaker and the Conversation) and public engagement events (Be Curious, The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas and Leeds Digital Festival) to disseminate research and impact insights directly to the public. We continue to have a strong web presence with active social media channels driving traffic to the CDRC website, data store, maps and web apps. YouTube and X remain strong channels for research and training dissemination. Since 2021 we have also been using LinkedIn (organic and paid - LinkedIn Sales Navigator) for both dissemination of insights and relationship building with potential partners, alumni and former employees.

CDRC Leeds have hosted four Data Partner Forum events, with a total of 377 attendees from across industry, academia and public services. Participating organisations include Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury's, LIDL, Google, PWC, SkyBet, Virgin Media, Argos, Boots, Co-operative Group, Jet 2, various city council representatives and the Ministry of Justice.

Presentations and speaking opportunities continue to be one of the fastest and most direct ways of disseminating our research. With CDRC researchers and partner organisations presenting our work at industry conferences such as the Consumer Goods Forum (Morris), Nutrition Society (Pontin), Financial Times Conference (Young) and Department for Transport Data Science Conference (Birkin) and round table events with Which? (Ennis and Morris), Food Foundation (Baudains, Ennis, Morris & Pontin) and Google (Lomax). Core CDRC core data asset, PPFI, has been presented to at over 470 stakeholders through targeted presentations and work groups, which is in addition to local, regional, and national press coverage of the Index.
We have also expanded the reach of our research with Partnership Development Manager, Mattiello, attending events and presenting CDRC work and collaboration models. These include: West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA), High Opportunities vent in collaboration with the Department of Business and Trade; the Indian Tech Delegation (hosted by WYCA), creating awareness of CDRC, and creating new partnership opportunities with mid - large reputable Indian tech organisations; and the Employee Engagement Forum held at the University of Leeds, creating new relationships with other employees external to CDRC that work with organisations and students.

Memberships/Advisory Positions
The professional memberships held by CDRC staff and researchers is a key way to disseminate research findings and effect real world change. In 2021, Young became an Advisor to Defra and to UNEP. Birkin has also been part of a roundtable for the G7 on safe data access and use for health emergencies attended a 2-day meeting at the Isaac Newton Institute, in partnership with the Royal Society on new models for spatial and social behaviour in a pandemic, and participated in EDIF Steering Group, Department for Transport, Urban Observatories, Alan Turing Institute. Professor Alison Heppenstall was invited to be Scientific Board member for the Turing AIUK annual conference and was a scientific committee member for The International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) in 2021 and 2022. Norman has been invited to contribute to the Horizons Challenge Network Collaborative Lab in recognition of her work in Positive Action recruitment. Lomax sits on the ONS Methodological Assurance Review Panel, providing advice on the development future of UK population statistics including the incorporation of Digital Footprint data and the Scientific and Industrial Advisory Board for the UK's Exascale project, providing advise on the business case for UK high performance computing provision. These appointments and memberships allow CDRC staff to grow networks and have reputable platforms through which research and methodologies can be disseminated.

Career next steps
As CDRC offers a direct pipeline of staff and skills into the data workforce, the next destinations of our staff are pivotal in ensuring our research and methodologies are used in industry and across time. The 2020-21 DSDP cohort saw a record-breaking year with the highest number of academic papers submitted/ in press, the highest number of tangible outputs (dashboards, models, and calculators), and the highest number of open-source repositories detailing methods and code developed. This in turn led to a higher number of confirmed DSDP next destinations in industry/third sector organisations than in any previous DSDP cohort, including Morrison's, ONS, Geolytix, The Dog's Trust and a well-known insurance broker. CDRC has also managed to keep some of this talent, with four Data Scientists taking up positions in University research teams, and one going on to work in the Bradford partnership. Through its presence on LinkedIn, CDRC is also in touch with this DSDP alumni community and is starting to establish a pipeline of ambassadorship into industry organisations, with a view to these organisations then joining the ladder of engagement through sponsoring their own DSDPs or PhD projects with CDRC. Other next destinations of CDRC alumni include Asda, Bradford Council, DWP, The Data City, St John Ambulance, East Suffolk Council, Connected Yorkshire, the ONS, Geolytix and FareShare, as well as academic destinations for further study/ research at the Universities of Leeds, Cambridge, LSE, Lancaster, UCL, Warwick, Bristol, Melbourne, Auckland.

Training and capacity building
Our training is another way of ensuring our research methodologies are being used in industry. Metrics from the 2020-21 academic year indicate a high uptake within academia, in particular amongst PGR students and early career researchers, for whom CDRC training represents a vital springboard resource into early career data science. We have also seen repeated attendance from public sector organisations such as the BBC and the NHS, as well as new partner organisations Friends of the Earth. CDRC received Continuous Professional Development UK Certification for 6 CDRC Training Courses in 2022, which will grow the reputation and highlight the expertise of CDRC-led training. In 2022, CDRC also launched the Open Data Science Bursary using funding awarded as part of the University's Open Research and Impact award. This allows delegates who have protected characteristics, and/or who are from low-income households, to apply for funding to cover the costs of our short courses. This is just another way in which CDRC is a leader in making data science more accessible, but will also help us grow research capacity and impact, and disseminate our research further and within more diverse cohorts.
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Description CDRC-Leeds has produced award-winning impact from its research. In 2023, the Nutrition and Lifestyle Analytics sub-team, led by Prof Michelle Morris, won the ESRC Celebrating Impact prize for Outstanding Business and Enterprise impact. Furthermore, the outreach work led by former Senior Ops Co-Ordinator Kylie Norman (now in Leeds Institute for Data Analytics), LIDA Open Data Science for Schools, received a Highly Commended Award under the Research Initiative category at Celebrate as One: Bradford District and Craven Health and Care Partnership Awards in 2023. CDRC as a whole has won the University of Leeds's Research Culture award for Open Research and Impact (2022), as well as three Engaged for Impact Awards in the categories: "Building partnerships and networks", "Caring for the Future", and "Finding a Better Way". Since its inception in 2014, CDRC has generated an additional £4,307,351 of research income for small, impact-focused and/or place-based initiatives, for example through University of Leeds internal funding - such as Leeds Social Sciences Institute (LSSI) as part of the Local Acceleration Fund submission, Policy Support funding, and Enhancing Research Culture funding - information on which is detailed below. This is in addition to the research grants received from UKRI for core CDRC activity, or through UKRI-funded research fellowships and adjacent grants (such as DIO-Food and our work with IGD, see below). Our research has not only been commended for the quality of its impact; it has also demonstrated impact reach and significance for a range of beneficiaries. These include the capacity to influence, impact, and facilitate change for: local, national, and international governments and decision-makers; the wider public; commercial and retail organisations; and data users and researchers, both within academia and professional data workforces. CDRC has achieved instrumental and conceptual impact, and has built capacity across the following impact domains: attitudinal change, capacity building, changes to behaviour and decision-making, environmental benefits and impacts to sustainability, economic impact, policy change, influence on health outcomes and wellbeing, and overall cultural change in the prevailing values, attitudes, and beliefs surrounding the significance of consumer data analysis. Planned and completed engagement activities have taken place with the public and stakeholders at a local, regional, national, and international level through local and national press, reports, blogs, social media interactions, and academic outputs. Local Governments At a regional level, we have seen policy change and impact through a collaboration (initiated in 2021) between CDRC and Leeds City Council (LCC), designed to help the Council achieve their sustainability goals. In 2021, LCC launched their 'Leeds By Example' campaign and also began to consult on a city-wide strategy that implemented some of the recommendations made by the National Food Strategy. However, they were struggling to measure effectively the carbon footprint of their own Council-run catering subdivision. CDRC former Data Scientist Alexandra Dalton developed a digital carbon footprint tool for the Council using school meals data. This tool is now being used by council members, Councillors, and decision-makers in the catering branch of the Council to make more sustainable procurement choices. This will in turn generate a positive local environmental impact. Dalton also led a series of public engagement and dissemination events with the Council, local schools, and other third sector partners such as local sustainability educational organisation, Rethink Food. CDRC was successful in bidding for additional public engagement funding through Leeds Social Sciences Institute (LSSI) as part of the Local Acceleration Fund submission. This provided us with additional resource to convert the carbon calculator tool into a game suitable for primary school children, which was used in Dalton's work in schools and which is publicly available online to help build awareness and drive behavioural change in pupils surrounding sustainability. These citizen-centred engagement events, enabled by Dalton's research and tool, will also enable local children to feed into the decision-making process surrounding food planning and procurement. The success of the digital tool has also built further capacity: a similar project was developed as part of the 2022/23 Data Scientist Development Programme (DSDP) to help University of Leeds understand its own catering carbon footprint. CDRC also leads a further project with Leeds City Council using the carbon footprint calculator, along with qualitative interview data from market traders, to understand the role that Leeds traditional markets play in the food system of Leeds. This has been funded through the University's Leeds City Council call of the Policy Support Fund (Research England). The PI for this project is CDRC's Research and Impact Manager, Dr Emily Ennis. Beyond the carbon calculator project, CDRC-funded DSDP projects enable CDRC to build collaborations within local authorities. In 2021, the Local Data Spaces project - run in collaboration between the CDRC at both Leeds and Liverpool, the Joint Biosecurity Centre (JBC), the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and ADR UK - was a six-month Data Scientist Development Programme project engaging with 25 local authorities to better understand local priorities, contexts and research needs during COVID. From the meetings with local stakeholders, the huge variation in resources available for research and analytical capacity became clear. Using data from the ONS's Secured Research Service (SRS), the project team generated a series of reports, specific to each local area, investigating themes including demographic and ethnic inequalities in COVID-19, excess mortality, economic vulnerabilities and human mobility. Another DSDP project, from the 2022/23 cohort, worked with Leeds City Council to develop the Leeds Observatory Census Dashboard, which provides easy access to Leeds 2021 census data for a range of end-users including policy makers, citizens and academics. The Intelligence & Policy Team at LCC receives a substantial number of census-related data requests from Councillors, different departments, and members of the public. The process of downloading, manipulating, and analysing census data can be time-consuming and tedious. This dashboard minimised the time spent on this process, providing insights at the click of a button. Mike Eakins, Head of Policy for the Council commented that: "The Census is a vital tool in helping us to better understand our city and the people who live and work here. The depth of insight at the touch of a button this project has enabled us to access will change the game in supporting more people to access meaningful data in a user-friendly way. In addition, the results from the project will assist us through informing strategic conversations with councillors, helping to guide our work on equality diversity and inclusion, and generating further lines of enquiry more quickly than we've been able to previously." Likewise, Data Scientist, Tom Albone, along with seven other Data Scientists on the DSDP working in the Healthy Choices, Mental Health, and Life Choices/Aspirations research areas, have provided valuable research feedback to public and policy makers about the ActEarly: Holme Wood projects and other Bradford-based data science projects applying the "Holme Wood process". Providing an overview of the data science process being used and its importance in the policy-making context has led to increased interest in the project from stakeholders, which is especially significant as Bradford Council continue to invest in data services and repositories. Furthermore, Data Scientists Dalton and Albone, working closely with Morris, used open data on Free School Meals to investigate food inequalities in Bradford. During the national controversy surrounding the provision of free school meals during the pandemic, their findings became the focus of a press release issued by Jo Pike, Labour's Parliamentary Candidate for Shipley Constituency, to Bradford's Telegraph and Argus newspaper. See below for how these ties with local Bradford council policymakers and community groups have been developed in 2022-23 with the launch of the Leeds Open Data Science for Schools project. National Governments One of CDRC's most significant and far-reaching pathways to national policy impact has been through our collaboration with consumer champions, Which?. The project itself builds on strong retailer expertise from Morris, who leads CDRC's collaboration with the Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD) (see below for further info), focusing on changing consumer behaviour through retailer-run in-store and online interventions. It is this strong, pre-existing network and corpus of research that grew CDRC's reputation for impactful and responsible research with consumers and retailers, and which allowed CDRC to bring to the collaboration with Which? a mechanism to effect meaningful real-world change. The outcome of this collaboration was an interactive tool, the Priority Places for Food Index (PPFI) ( https://priorityplaces.cdrc.ac.uk/), which has become a mechanism for supplying intelligence to inform changes for both retailers and policymakers who can help to tackle food insecurity, particularly in a cost-of-living crisis. Launched late 2022 (ver. 2 launched in early 2024), PPFI, developed by Drs Fran Pontin, Peter Baudains, Ennis, Professor Morris, and Which?, scores food security by bringing together datasets on food accessibility and sociodemographic barriers to accessing that food. Areas of roughly 650 households across the UK are then scored within 10 deciles of food security, demonstrating the disparities in food access below constituency level. Because of the way the tool reframes debates and accentuates policy demands, it has already begun transforming the practice, thinking, and capacity of policymakers supporting the communities hardest-hit by the cost-of-living crisis. As of March 2024, the PPFI has been visited online 13,425 times by 8,509 unique users, and targeted engagement activities have been led by CDRC with policymakers at city, county, regional, and national levels. The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID), specifically in London, Yorkshire and Humber, and the South East, as well as Good Food Oxfordshire, a network of organisations working towards a fairer, healthier and more sustainable food system for Oxfordshire, have all identified the Index as a new way of monitoring and evaluating policy implementation. The tool will be used alongside health dashboards across the UK to assess how food insecurity overlaps with health outcomes. The Scottish Government have also recognised the capacity of the Index as a decision-making tool, providing a series of policy questions to "ask" the Index to solve. It has also been used as a foundation for local responses to the National Food Strategy at city- and county-level and their monitoring and evaluation. This means the tool has started to change thinking or capacity within public policy at local, regional, and national levels by targeting specific areas for effective and efficient public service provision. In 2023, CDRC also submitted evidence to the Fairness in the Food Supply Chain inquiry led by Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, using Priority Places data (https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/122986/default/). Pontin was later invited to give oral evidence to this committee (https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/13825/pdf/), calling for more top-down initiatives for food providers and local governments to help support the areas at higher risk of food insecurity. The framework for the Index builds upon Dr Andy Newing's innovative E-Food Desert Index (EFDI), deposited within CDRC Data Store, which captures data on proximity, density and accessibility of retail supply, neighbourhood socio-economic and demographic characteristics and e-commerce availability and propensity at a neighbourhood level to identify potential food deserts. The EFDI (https://data.cdrc.ac.uk/dataset/e-food-desert-index ) also has an accompanying technical 'user guide' and interactive visualisation via CDRC maps (with >5000 views to date), in order to make the data highly accessible to both researchers and the wider public. Baudains and Pontin used this framework and additional data in order to create the PPFI, with economists at Which? and Ennis ensured the data used is representative and most likely to serve a use, or create an impact, beyond academic communities. The PPFI, as well as its data sources and methodologies (https://data.cdrc.ac.uk/dataset/priority-places-food-index), have been made open access to ensure interested stakeholders and policymakers can continue to draw benefit from the work. This provides opportunity for non-academic researchers to learn from CDRC's process and to participate in ongoing refinement of the tool. CDRC has committed to updating the tool annually in autumn ahead of increased household costs due to heating in the winter months, as it is clear that heating plays an important part in household decisions around food purchasing. The Centre has also developed two further research projects through the DSDP, one focusing on health outcomes in priority places, and another focused on how to maximise food redistribution networks to ensure hardest-hit communities have access to food. These projects enable us to work with partners in the food sector to make a more convincing argument for the impacts of food scarcity upon health, as well as evaluate how food insecurity can be limited within the food system, which will provide additional resource for policymakers to make targeted interventions. The Wider Public The policy change effected by CDRC research has also impacted on the lives of the wider public. The most significant of these impacts have been on the health and wellbeing of the public. As with the LCC carbon footprint project, short-term projects led by CDRC have shown incredible capacity at answering urgent questions and addressing governmental demand for information using data science skills. These same skills were rapidly mobilised on a number of different projects designed to provide expertise to help solve national and local government challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2021 Covid Opensource Digital Twin project (CODiT), led by Dr Jeremy Large at University of Oxford, was supported by CDRC Research Data Scientist Dustin Foley and developed a codebase using agent-based methods to simulate the spread of an epidemic such as Covid-19 through a population. In 2020-22, we saw a change in a variety of health outcomes effected by two CDRC DSDP projects, both which fell broadly under our Urban Analytics research theme. The insights generated by the Local Data Spaces project (mentioned above) fed into Liverpool City Council's evaluation of the 'mass testing' pilot helping to refine the delivery of the programme and influencing the national roll-out of asymptomatic COVID-19 testing. Additionally, evidence of inequalities in testing uptake allowed Liverpool City Council to revise their strategy to tailor their outreach activities and data insights from project evidence were incorporated into oral presentations to Department of Health and Social Care, UK Government and Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) on lessons learnt for shaping the national roll-out asymptomatic COVID-19 testing. Pivotally, the project won the ONS Research Excellence Award in 2021, which highlighted how the project brought health and economic data together in an accessible, digestible format for local authorities. The second DSDP project which has received considerable media and academic interest, as well as generated policy influence, used mobile phone data to assess the public's adherence to England's COVID lockdown laws. Using mobility data provided by Spectus.ai (part of Cuebiq's Data for Good initiative), the research team demonstrated the levels of adherence to lockdown policies between March 2020 and April 2021, with blog coverage focusing on the 2020 Christmas lockdown in England specifically. This research was published as 'Household visitation during the COVID-19 pandemic' in Scientific Reports in November 2021, and has since been picked up by over 110 news outlets across the globe (e.g. The India Express, The Times of India, Nature Asia), and posted about globally by Twitter users in Japan, United States, Italy and India, among others. The research gained particular momentum during the 2021 festive period and again in February 2022 when England removed all COVID restrictions, and was presented as part of a Select Committee hearing. The research has also been used by Dr Raghib Ali, a clinical epidemiologist at the University of Cambridge and an honorary consultant in acute medicine at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, to inform his work on public health. On March 2 2022, Ali testified to Parliament at a meeting/hearing of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee (the full recording of which can be accessed here: https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/3ccd0195-b4d8-4e2d-a1a7-12265fda811d), during which he referred to the results of this research multiple times and from multiple angles. From this testimony, it can also be gleaned that the article was briefed to the Secretary of State for Education Nadhim Zahawi in mid-December 2021, ahead of the UK Cabinet meeting on 20th December 2021. It also highlights that Ali most likely played a quiet (but potentially influential) role in advising No.10 on the integrity of Covid-19 data on lockdowns throughout the pandemic: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2022-01-18/debates/AB251DCA-8088-485C-BF49-3999C4EE9AC5/details#contribution-34E21174-E6F4-4892-A4FC-BE0C65B2458B. Ali also referred to this research in a Guardian opinion piece published on January 28 2022, calling for an end to harsh restrictions but also for continued caution in the wake of COVID Omicron surges (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/28/lift-plan-b-restrictions-england-vaccines-restrictions). The CDRC's use of population data to address key health concerns enabled it to become integral to the COVID modelling being led by the Rapid Assistance in Modelling the Pandemic (RAMP) collective of researchers. RAMP, convened by the Royal Society, are a group of 70 independent researchers who aimed to assist pandemic modelling and to brief COVID-19 policymakers by mobilising effectively the UK's wider scientific modelling community. Prof Mark Birkin led the Covid-19 RAMP initiative workstream, connecting epidemic models to transport and urban analytics using CDRC and LIDA data and methodologies. Focusing on predictive analytics, the work conducted by RAMP played a vital role in understanding and imagining different exit strategies for national and devolved UK lockdowns. In 2022, the Royal Society convened a meeting to bring together key advances and outcomes from this two-year project designed to accelerate advances in both scientific and social modelling of pandemic diseases, specifically covid. The meeting included keynote presentations, panel discussion and posters, with panel members including Sir Patrick Vallance as Chief Scientific Adviser to Government. Birkin has also contributed as section lead for urban analytics to the RAMP Rapid Review Group which provided rapid peer review for research papers prior to evaluation by SAGE, Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (SPI-M) and other policymaking groups. This has meant that important scientific findings and guidance have been made publicly available at rapid speed. Professor William Young has likewise provided an expert interview on how digitally enabled collaboration can support a sustainable and inclusive recovery from COVID-19 during a workshop led by Accenture, Axis & Innovate UK project. With more than 500 in attendance, composed of professional practitioners, policymakers and politicians, and industry and business representatives from around the UK, the CDRC takes prominence as a leading consultant in both COVID-19 rapid response and post-pandemic social and economic recovery. CDRC's impacts on the wider public is not limited to health and wellbeing impacts from COVID-19. In the 2021-22 cohort of DSDP projects, Professor Lovelace and Data Scientists James Hulse and Greta Timaite explored how OpenStreetMap (OSM) data can be used to support sustainable transport planning objectives, particularly in the wake of Department for Transport's £250m Active Travel Fund (ATF) and £2bn allocated to walking and cycling over the next 5 years in the UK alone. The aims of the project included generating new research and publications on additional uses of open data to support sustainable transport planning objectives, and the research team engaged with stakeholders, students, and partners by tasking them to go out into Leeds and correct errors in real time in OSM data. Also benefitting the wider public, Morris's collaboration with the IGD demonstrates improved nutrition outcomes of supermarket consumers by nudging them towards the Eatwell guide using in-store and online interventions. Our relationships with, and networks of, retailers allow us to improve health outcomes of consumers and the health of the planet through interventions targeting healthy and sustainable diets, but these networks also allow us to build capacity that has a wider reach for impact. In the video and case study produced for the 2023 ESRC Celebrating Impact prize (https://www.ukri.org/who-we-are/how-we-are-doing/research-outcomes-and-impact/esrc/driving-the-smart-use-of-consumer-data-in-supermarkets/ ) retailers have testified to how instrumental our research with IGD has been in changing how retailers operate, and this in turn has impacts on the lives of everyday people. Furthermore, our networks of retailers and our partnership with Which? have allowed us to impact the lives of the wider public during the cost-of-living crisis. Which? have used the PPFI in their #AffordableFoodForAll campaign, and the Index has provided leverage in conversations with retailers around provision of affordable food. Aldi has already agreed to follow Which?'s recommendations to increase food accessibility. Since the campaign's launch, more than 113,000 people have signed Which?'s petition urging supermarkets to take action. This has led to a further two major supermarkets committing to stocking budget ranges in their smaller convenience stores and the UK's largest grocer has begun making its pricing clearer. This demonstrates how changes in industry practice can have powerful impacts on the lives of a large number of consumers. Commercial and Retail Organisations In May 2021, CDRC entered into collaboration with IGD. This partnership was partly in recognition of the work Co-I Morris and PhD student Dr Victoria Jenneson (now Research Fellow) had already accomplished with Sainsbury's, on a project which used transaction data to better understand health and sustainable diets. However, this partnership also recognised the important work Morris and other CDRC researchers were already doing into the insight provided by retail transaction data. Under the IGD partnership, future in-store and online trials have been set up in collaboration with additional retail organisations, hoping to gain insight into healthy and sustainable living from store transaction data. As a result of our collaboration with industry, our retailer partners have made public commitments to lasting change. Sainsbury's have used our data analysis results of their The Great Big Fruit and Veg Challenge in 2021 to inform their "Help Everyone Eat Better" initiative (see: https://www.nutritioninsight.com/news/sainsburys-helps-shoppers-set-personalized-fruit-and-veg-intake-goals-with-nectar-app.html, https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/1444053/sainsburys-nectar-card-points-bonus-fruit-vegetables-healthy-eating-latest-uk and https://internetretailing.net/mobile/sainsburys-brings-back-mobile-gamification-to-drive-up-fruit-and-veg-sales-23248/). Moving away from "Live Well For Less" demonstrates a change in thinking towards the accessibility of healthy and sustainable diets. Extending the price incentivisation of fruit and vegetables also shows a change in practice. The capacity for these decisions was generated through our research analysis. Other work with Sainsbury's also demonstrated how their top-up coupons for the Healthy Start voucher scheme significantly increased the number of fruit and vegetable portions purchased per customer year on year. Our analysis revealed overall movement towards the Eatwell Guide by shoppers using the top-up coupons, which resulted in Sainsbury's extending the scheme to Wales and Northern Ireland (see: https://www.about.sainsburys.co.uk/news/latest-news/2022/10-10-2022-sainsburys-could-help-feed-half-a-million-as-cost-of-living-rises). Additionally, under this collaboration, Morris's research has contributed to Sainsbury's ongoing health and sustainability strategies. Sainsbury's presence at COP26 included two talks ('Helping Everyone Eat Better' and 'Measuring What Matters') and a physical booth/stand which focused on the Eatwell Guide. The environmental and sustainable commitments Sainsbury's made as part of COP26 were made possible by understanding how their customers shopped and what could motivate them to shop differently. This CDRC research with Sainsbury's is recognised as part of their 'Helping Everyone Eat Better' work (https://www.about.sainsburys.co.uk/food-back-at-heart/helping-everyone-eat-better) and was also discussed by Sainsbury's at the 'What Works for diet shift' workshop hosted jointly by the Food Standards Agency and Behavioural Insights Team in February 2022. CDRC work with IGD was also presented at the same workshop, is featured as part of IGD's report in the final quarter of 2021 (https://www.igd.com/articles/article-viewer/t/driving-change/i/29113) and the results of this research published as an online news piece (https://www.igd.com/articles/article-viewer/t/first-findings-in-series-of-retail-trials-show-a-78-uplift-in-promoted-fruit-and-veg-sales-when-prices-are-reduced-from-in-store-trials-at-sainsburys/i/29135). Through our IGD collaboration, we have also worked closely with Asda to analyse in-store vegan swaps. Analysing Asda's in-store intervention relocating plant-based options alongside meat, found that sales of these vegan options decreased. Despite the decrease in sales, Beth Fowler, Asda's former Nutrition and Health Strategy Manager, noted that "it's important to share learnings with industry, NGOs and policy makers to build future research that adds value to all." This demonstrates the change in perception among industry stakeholders in order to build capacity. She added that based on the learnings from this research, Asda will expand their vegan range by approximately 50% in 2023, improve the price position of meat-free choices, place meat-free options in dedicated extended meat-free fixture in-stores, and work further to establish which behaviour change levers work best (see: https://www.igd.com/articles/article-viewer/t/healthy-sustainable-diets-driving-change/i/30157). This demonstrates a change in products availability to consumers following our research, and creates opportunity for future change in consumer diets. In fact, our work with Asda through the IGD collaboration allowed us to build a strong relationship with the organisation that has now resulted in a Master Collaboration Agreement (MCA) between the University of Leeds and Asda. This MCA abbreviates the sign-off process required to approve research projects and exchange data, which builds enormous research capacity for both the University and the business. This MCA has enabled us to co-design and co-produce research of value to Asda and the retail sector more widely. This has happened through co-hosted ideathons and hackathons, and collaborations on projects as part of the Data Scientist Development Programme. Through our funding of the DSDP, we have also built and deepened a significant relationship with Morrisons. CDRC alumni now form 10% of the data workforce at Morrisons, and Peter Laflin, Director of Data & Analytics, argues that CDRC's impact "comes by developing valuable skills in individuals and supporting them to join the workforce" but also by working on social problems "that will have a long-term impact on how we live as citizens." This highlights how our work with supermarket retailers grows capacity within the sector, and has the potential to impact the lives of everyday people through business decisions that impact consumers. Our collaborations with retailers have also allowed us to make significant interventions on organisational decision-making and governmental policy-making. Professor Susan Grant-Muller gave oral evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Built Environment Inquiry on Public Transport in Towns and Cities in March 2022. The session was considering the use of data innovation and data sharing to improve connectivity. Furthermore, Morris and Jenneson have worked closely with Sainsbury's and other leading retailers as part of their work on nutrient profiling. In 2021, this work created the opportunity for Jenneson to be seconded to the National Food Strategy team (DEFRA), to model potential food taxation strategies to improve public health and dietary sustainability and to inform recommendations for NFS part 2 report. Jenneson has also created a Nutrient Profile Model Calculator, hosted on CDRC, as a result of this work, in order to support dietitians, legislators, and enforcers. Between November 15 2022 and March 6 2024, the tool has been visited 8344 times by 2958 unique users. This is particularly significant following the implementation of legislation limiting the sale and promotion of foods high in fat, salt, and sugar in England since October 2022. Both Morris and Jenneson have also written responses to the second NFS report as part of a larger response from the N8 Agrifood Policy Hub. Data Users and Researchers (Academia and elsewhere) The interaction between the expertise of professional and support staff and the CDRC Leeds Co-Is have played an important role in the impact that has been effected for data users and researchers, both within and outside academia. While Co-Is on the grant are responsible for driving the research behind the real-world change CDRC has seen in researcher communities, this capacity building and upskilling would not have been possible without a cohort of experienced professional staff including CDRC's: (former) Senior Operations Co-ordinator and DSDP Co-Ordinator (Norman), Partnerships Development Manager (Mattiello, and former post-holder Evans), Communications and Public Engagement Manager (Naisbitt), Research and Impact Manager (Ennis), the Research Data Scientist team (Baudains, Pontin, Foley, Hambley), Teaching Fellow (Urquhart) and Centre Manager (Mansell). This core operational team have been pivotal in opening up our routes to both engagement and impact and, in the case of the Research Data Scientist team, developing the research tools and derived data products that are now at the centre of core CDRC-Leeds research activity. Capacity building/upskilling The CDRC prides itself on its commitment to developing a workforce able to use data skills with confidence. This is in response to the national and global need for such skills, as highlighted in the UK Government's National Data Strategy. The CDRC has developed training schemes for Python, R, QGIS and data analysis skills and has upskilled hundreds of data professionals across sectors via this short course training programme. Between March 2020 and March 2021, the CDRC was able to adapt to the coronavirus pandemic and to deliver its usual training virtually. Each year, whether online or in-person, we deliver training to over 100 individuals, including public sector employees from BBC, Friends of the Earth, Department for Work and Pensions, the Department of Levelling up, Housing and Communities, and NHS. This shows a clear need for data science training in the workforce, and in March 2022, CDRC's training courses were given full accreditation by CPD UK, which demonstrates the quality of our skills provision and provides us with a platform in future to reach a larger number of beneficiaries. As of 2023, CDRC are also able to deliver Safe Researcher Training - the only university accredited to do so - which allows researchers of all skill levels to gain the requirements needed to access the most secure data sets. Teaching Fellow, Urquhart, also sits on the Safe Researcher Expert Group, ensuring that CDRC continue to feed into safe researcher training and expertise. Another core strand of our commitment to building capacity within the data science workforce is our co-funding of the DSDP run via the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (LIDA). As of 2024, we have 84 alumni from our Data Scientist Development Programme who have gone into industry or further study, building capacity in private sectors and the academic community alike. As previously noted, DSDP alumni form >10% of the data workforce at Morrisons, a DSDP partner. Moreover, as the Programme Manager of the DSDP, Norman has been a trailblazer in increasing access to data science for the hardest groups to reach. The Government's AI Roadmap recognises that data science in the UK is not representative, and they call on the sector to 'make diversity and inclusion a priority'. With this in mind, Norman has led on developing a series of positive action recruitment initiatives, the process of which began in May 2021. The result of this was an increase from 12% to 44% of Data Scientists who identify as coming from the Global Majority, as well as an increase to 44% of women Data Scientists on the programme in the 2021-22 cohort. In 2022-23, in partnership with ESRC's Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre and Leeds Social Sciences Institute, Global Majority appointees on the DSDP have risen to 50% and women data scientist appointees to 50%. In 2023-24, women and Global Majority appointees respectively reached a record high on the DSDP of 55%. The impacts of this positive action recruitment work go beyond capacity building, though this is clear from the increased percentages of hard-to-reach groups within the DSDP cohort. Impacts from this work are also cultural, with the scheme receiving the University of Leeds 'Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Research Culture' prize in 2022, which in turn led to a podcast and article with Norman and Morris to further share this work in December 2022. There are also attitudinal changes - with Norman having worked extensively to change how the University thinks of positive action recruitment alongside the Equality Act - as well as changes in awareness and policy, where Norman's "Strength in Diversity" case study has informed the EDI strategy at Leeds, as well as being used at the Universities of York and Sheffield to enact their own positive action recruitment. We have made commitments to sustaining the impact of this work by using the prize money from the Research Culture award to invest in the Open Data Science for Schools project, working with Keighley Schools Together network to promote data science in hard-to-reach communities, and by writing into ESRC funding bids roles for positive action recruitment for the next 8 years, including positive action for those from low socio-economic backgrounds. Looking at the next destinations of many CDRC alumni gives some clarity on how far-reaching the data skills we develop are within different sectors. From the Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Analytics and Society (CDAS CDT) programme, we have seen researchers move into roles in Bradford Council, The Data City, St John Ambulance, and Health Determinants Research Collaborative at Bradford Council, in addition to those who have moved into roles in academic research. Non-CDAS CDRC PhD students have also gone on to roles at BlackRock and the Competition and Markets Authority. From the DSDP, we have seen alumni move to East Suffolk Council, Department for Work and Pensions, Connected Yorkshire, the ONS, Geolytix, FareShare, Asda, the Met Police, and The Dogs Trust, as well as those Data Scientists who have gone on to further study around the world, including at Leeds, Lancaster, Cambridge, LSE, UCL, Warwick, Bristol, Melbourne, and Auckland. This shows the diversity and multidisciplinarity of our alumni, and the success of both programmes. Our public engagement commitments and growth of new partnerships have provided expanded opportunities for engagement across sectors. We have built capacity by participating in Leeds Digital Festival annually, with a session led by CDRC Co-Investigator Dr Aulona Ulqinaku in September 2021. This innovative tech event continues to provide capacity building for industry and public sector employees through upskilling and knowledge exchange. In 2022, Urquhart and Research Data Scientist Dustin Foley also developed a short-course introduction to coding for the Festival of Social Science. The Leeds City Council Carbon Calculator project also featured as part of the University's 2022 Be Curious festival aimed at children and their families. This was part of a suite of engagement events designed to meet the National Food Strategy's recommendation for an "Eat and Learn" initiative. Other events in this engagement strategy were funded through LSSI as part of the Local Acceleration Fund, which allowed CDRC to turn the carbon calculator into an interactive game to be used in schools. Our capacity building also extends to the new ways in which CDRC has engaged strategically with larger stakeholder networks and the general public. In 2021, CDRC launched a LinkedIn page which has allowed us to share research and training opportunities to community and industry partners, as well as previous alumni. This has been beneficial in recruiting partners to our DSDP, and also enabled us to have record-breaking Conference sign-ups and attendance for CDRC's 2022 Conference: Inside Consumer Data, with over 190 conference registrations and 110 attendees on the day, including many of our project partners from retail and local government. Additionally, our partnerships grew and were strengthened throughout 2021 thanks to the Business Development Strategy launched in early 2021. Some of our key partnerships since then include: IGD, Leeds City Council, OHID, and Which?. We have also signed a master collaboration agreement with Asda, which is the first of its kind and has allowed us to work with the organisation on a range of different research projects. We have also been able to secure data sharing agreements with other key retailers as part of our strategic partnership with IGD. We have also extended our contract with Spectus.ai to have further access to their data. As these data formed the basis of the impactful research on COVID Christmas mobility patterns, we know this represents a substantial pathway to impact for CDRC. Through our Data Science and Society CDT, we have continued relationships with organisations such as TransUnion (formerly CallCredit), Myfood24, Leeds City Council, Improbable Worlds, Sainsbury's, Fuell (formerly Active Inspiration), CycleStreets.net, Arup, First Group, and Morelife and are continuing to seek further partnerships with transport organisations, nutrition organisations and a car rental organisation among others. Our partnerships through our Data Scientist Development Programme include Morrisons, Yorkshire Water, MOSL, Arup, REaD Group, Good Food Oxfordshire and Leeds City Council, and have prospective relationships with data providers, councils and combined authorities, and research consortia. This points to our ongoing excellence in securing and sustaining important relationships with data providers and users and is a clear recognition of our strengths in ethical and responsible data stewardship. Recognition of expertise The awards, prizes, and recognition CDRC research has received speaks to our research excellence. In 2022, Co-Director Professor Ed Manley received the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Geography, and CDRC as a whole received Research Culture prizes from the University of Leeds for our EDI approaches, and for our demonstration of Open Research and Impact. There were also 3 awards made by the University under the Engaged for Impact award scheme, with researchers and professional staff at CDRC receiving first place in the "Building partnerships and networks" and "Caring for the Future" categories, and second place in the "Finding a Better Way" category. Awards were judged by an external panel of impact experts. As a result of these awards, both Ennis and Birkin were invited to appear on the University's Research Culture podcast, and Norman and Morris were also featured as part of a University podcast on Improving Representation on the DSDP. Norman has also been invited to talk about positive action recruitment across the University, as an example of best practice. In 2023, the Nutrition and Lifestyle Analytics sub-team won the ESRC Celebrating Impact prize in the Outstanding Business and Enterprise impact category, which led to Dr Jenneson and Dr Pontin participating in the University's Research Culture podcast to discuss best practice in early career research impact. Our expertise as researchers has also been recognised through CDRC colleagues' appointments to advisory panels, in the public, private, and third sectors. Among our Professors, Birkin has participated in a consultation on Vulnerable Communities with Government Office for Science in 2021, as well as the EDIF Steering Group, held jointly by the Department for Transport, Urban Observatories, Alan Turing Institute, in 2022, and the Digital Twin Hub Advisory Board in 2023, hosted by the Connected Places Catapult on behalf of UK Government, Business and Industry. Birkin was also made Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2018. Manley is an Associate Editor of the Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy journal, and chaired the GIScience Research Group at the Royal Geographical Society between 2018 and 2021, where he remains a Fellow. Morris was appointed as Advisor on Food and Drink Sector Council Nutrition and Innovation Working Groups in 2020, and appointed to the Steering group for Centre for Applied Education Research in 2023. In 2022, Morris's research projects with Sainsbury's and IGD were referenced and recognised at the 'What Works for diet shift' workshop hosted jointly by the Food Standards Agency and Behavioural Insights Team, at which were researchers within the industry and policymaking. Morris was also invited to form part of Leeds City Council's local food strategy working group. Co-Director Professor Nik Lomax joined the Science and Industrial Advisory Board (SIAB) of the UK Exascale Project in 2023, as well as being a member of the Data Analytic Facility for National Infrastructure (DAFNI) Strategy Board. He was also an Advisor to Ministry of Justice work on data governance between 2021 and 2022. Following on from the CDRC's SPENSER project (a synthetic population estimation and projection model), evidence provided by Lomax to the National Infrastructure Assessment about the impact of transport and housing constraints on the growth potential of UK cities was used in recommendations which were partially endorsed by UK Government. In Professor Susan Grant-Muller attended the 1st Session of the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) Assembly, and was also appointed to the VOI advisory board (2020), the International Association of Public Transport (UITP), and the Department for Transport Scientific Advisory Council, all in 2020. In 2023, Grant-Muller also gave expert witness evidence to the House of Commons Transport Committee, on the topic of the Future of Transport Data. In 2022, former Co-I, Professor Alison Heppenstall was invited to be a Scientific Board member for the Turing AIUK annual conference (2022), was invited as a speaker at the International Spring School on Simulation (2022), and invited to be the keynote for European Social Simulation Association conference (2022). She was also appointed as scientific committee member for the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems for 2021 and 2022 as well as having been invited to join scientific organising committee for the International Workshop on Geospatial simulation, which took place in Beijing, China in November 2021. Professor William Young was invited as the keynote speaker to Financial Times conference (2021), as well as appointed as Advisor to Defra (2021) and Advisor to UNEP (2021). We have also seen the expertise of our early- and mid-career research staff recognised through appointments. Jenneson was seconded to the National Food Strategy team (DEFRA) during her CDRC-funded PhD. Former Data Scientist Simon Leech was awarded the ONS Research Excellence Award in 2021 for his Local Data Spaces Project, and Dalton was also recognised for her research in 2022 and was personally invited to participate in The Alan Turing Institute's 'The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas' (CoDI) and the Early Career Researchers' Net-Zero Retreat, to which Pontin was also invited. In February 2021, Lomax and Dr Stephen Clark also used their research into consumer vulnerability to respond to the Competition and Markets Authority's (CMA) call for information on 'Algorithms, competition and consumer harm'. CDRC also provided insight to the UK Government on its Data Strategy and its consultation, 'Data: A New Direction'. As an organisation that prides itself on its responsible data stewardship and security, as well as its research excellence in data science for public good, we want to ensure that the recognition of our expertise informs perceptions around public data and informs public trust. Therefore, we see one of CDRC's central impacts as not only increasing capacity and preparedness within universities and research institutions, but also in creating attitudinal change within the general public that allows data science research to continue to happen for public good. We are likewise increasing industry confidence in data analysis, with a number of our external collaborations happening because we are able to provide ethical and secure data analysis on projects that benefit the public.
Sector Agriculture, Food and Drink,Communities and Social Services/Policy,Construction,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Energy,Environment,Financial Services, and Management Consultancy,Healthcare,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice,Retail,Transport
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Description A roundtable for the G7: safe data access and use for health emergencies (Mark Birkin)
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
 
Description Advanced R for spatial data analysis Training Short Course - May
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Advances in Poverty Modelling using Microsimulation, Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact ...
 
Description Advisor to Defra
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact Defra want to improve UK resilience of the food system from low probability/high impact risks, by intelligently identifying key Emerging Technology for enhanced anticipation, preparedness, prevention, and/or mitigation. These consultations are leading to policy changes on food and agriculture.
URL https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs
 
Description Advisor to Ministry of Justice work on data governance - Nik Lomax (2021-22)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Membership of a guideline committee
 
Description Advisor to UNEP
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact Changes to the assessment of environmental project funding proposals at the UNEP Global Environment Facility of $$ Billion. GEF funds programmes to full-sized projects, medium-sized projects and enabling activities, UNEP works across all Global Environment Facility focal areas, with dedicated GEF technical teams in Biodiversity, Capacity Development, Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Change Mitigation, Chemicals & Waste, International Waters and Land Degradation.
URL https://www.stapgef.org/
 
Description An Introduction to ArcGIS Training Short Course - 23rd-24th Jan
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description An Introduction to GIS Using ArcGIS (Vector) Training Short Course - 15th Feb
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description An Introduction to Small Area Classification Training Short Course -12th Sept
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description ArcGIS for Transport Training Short Course - 11th-12th May
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description ArcGIS for Transport Training Short Course - 21st-22nd Jan
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description ArcGIS for Transport Training Short Course - 23rd-24th Jan
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Associating food environments with obesity?
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
URL https://www.tcpa.org.uk/Handlers/Download.ashx?IDMF=f5e87fe2-c146-48b6-8a67-c7426fd77e4d
 
Description Beginner's Python 2-day Training Short course - Oct 2020 (48 attendees; tutor Fran Pontin)
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Beginner's Python for Data Analysis Training course - March 2021 (28 attendees; tutor Fran Pontin)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Beginners Python for Data analysis training course, two days (10 attendees) - February 2024
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Beginners Python for data analysis training course, two days (11 attendees, including including external attendees) - December 2023
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Best practice publication through the IGD Healthy and Sustainable Food partnership
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or improved professional practice
Impact Retail sector changing approach to interventions to improve the health and sustainability of consumer diets.
URL https://www.igd.com/social-impact/health
 
Description Best practice publication through the IGD Healthy and Sustainable Food partnership
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or improved professional practice
Impact Retail sector changing approach to interventions to improve the health and sustainability of consumer diets.
URL https://www.igd.com/Social-Impact/Health/Reports/Healthy-sustainable-diets-Driving-change-April-2023...
 
Description Big Data and Predictive Analytics for Social Science - 21st May
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Big Data and Predictive Analytics for Social Science Research Training Short Course - 20th June
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Building Simple Smartphone Application without coding - 19th April
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Building Simple Smartphone Applications without coding - 23rd April
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description CDRC Data Partner Forum - Poster Presentation
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact The CDRC Data Partner Forum was designed for existing and potential data partners and interested academics to engage with current and future consumer data research initiatives through the ESRC's Consumer Data Research Centre. The day was led by Professors Mark Birkin, Paul Longley and Jonathan Reynolds. The Poster Presentation session was to engage the existing and potential data partners on the projects being fulfilled at the different CDRC nationwide centers. The poster I presented was titled Infilling Missing Values in Consumer Big Data.
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/events/datapartnerforum/
 
Description CDRC Engagement Event - Poster Presentation
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact The poster presentation was part of the CDRC introductory events. The aim was to engage with and introduce other CDRC centers that are co-sponsored by the ESRC. The poster presentation session was to enable members of the public to engage with CDRC to understand the range of data solutions and projects planned in the CDRC. During the poster presentation I engaged with members of the public as part of an enlightenment exercise about the importance of CDRC as a data provider for research and the essence of the projects, specifically the urban mobility and movement patterns project.
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/
 
Description Change in Industry Pricing Standards following Which? and Priority Places work
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or improved professional practice
Impact The retailer has decided to rectify the issue, with Tesco UK Chief Executive writing in a recent blog post: "If you are in store, you will now start to see that the way that we display our Clubcard Prices will not only show the total price, but also the unit price of the product (by volume or weight), to allow a direct comparison of the price per unit between the Clubcard Prices offer and the price of alternative products. "This is something that we have been planning to do for some time, and I am really pleased that we are ready to make the change. "Over the coming weeks, these changes will appear in all our stores, as our colleagues update millions of price labels on the shelf edge. We will also be adding these unit prices to our Clubcard Prices deals online."
URL https://www.journaloftradingstandards.co.uk/retail/unit-pricing-on-tesco-clubcard-deals/#:~:text=Tes...
 
Description Consulting on the development of a mentorship programme for the UoL Horizons Institute - Kylie Norman - Dec 2022
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
 
Description Contribution to "Data: A New Direction" consultation
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact The consultation response we provided led to further discussions with consumer champions, Which?, who were concerned about how changes in data legislation would impact consumers. Our further input into Which?'s thinking allowed them to lobby the Government further on safeguarding consumer data.
 
Description Contribution to consultation on Developing workforce skills for a strong economy
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
 
Description Data Analytics:Opportunities and Challenges for UK and US Research - Report of the UK-US Data Analytics Workshop
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Daytime Population Movements Training Short Course - 5th June
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description EDI Lead for Leeds Institute for Data Analytics Committee - Nov 2022 - Kylie Norman
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
 
Description EDIF Steering Group, Department for Transport, Urban Observatories, Alan Turing Institute - Mark Birkin
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
 
Description Expert witness to House of Commons Transport Committee: Future of Transport Data
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
 
Description Explaining Trump and Brexit using Tidy Data Graphics Training Short Course
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Fairness in the Food Supply Chain Inquiry (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee) - Oral evidence provided by Dr Fran Pontin
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://committees.parliament.uk/work/7682/fairness-in-the-food-supply-chain/publications/oral-evide...
 
Description Fairness in the Food Supply Chain Inquiry (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee) - Written evidence
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/122986/default/
 
Description GIS for Crime Data Analytics - 19th October 2018
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/events/gis-for-crime-data-analytics/
 
Description GIS for Social Sciences (Raster) - 19th-20th May
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description GIS for Transport Applications Training Short Course - 14th April
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description GIS for Transport Studies Training Short Course (April 7th-8th)
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description GIS for Transport Training Short Course (14th-15th April)
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Implementation of CDRC Open Data Science Bursary
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Influence on UoL EDI Strategy: Positive Action recruitment policy 2022
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or improved professional practice
Impact • This case study was successfully used by University of York in 2022 to enact their own positive action recruitment, and now represents a blueprint for how to do positive action effectively to level-up opportunities for underrepresented groups in recruitment to data science. • CDRC-Leeds's DSDP Co-ordinator, Kylie Norman, is an EDI Lead at the University of Leeds and spoke at the February 2023 Research Culture Carousel to an internal and external audience about the value of EDI allyship and how to carry out successful positive action recruitment. • Equitable recruitment practises within data science at CDRC-Leeds are part of a sustainable pipeline of EDI strategic activity, supported by CDRC-Leeds's suite of vision statements, in particular its Values Statement (see attached). EDI has been embedded as a strategic focus through appointments such as the DSDP academic advisory group EDI Chair, Dr Sajid Siraj. This appointment will enable CDRC-Leeds to further develop its approach to embedding EDI in its capacity building of early career data scientists. • CDRC-Leeds's work on positive action recruitment was recognised by the University of Leeds in June 2022 by being awarded the Research Culture EDI in Research prize which led to a podcast and article to further disseminate this work in December 2022. • The research prize from this award is funding a CDRC-Leeds project, Open Data Science for Schools, which is working with the Keighley Schools Together network in Bradford to widen participation from low income and protected characteristics years 8 & 9 students by inspiring them with data science careers, with the aim of encouraging them to stay in STEM education through GCSE into A Level. An outreach event is planned for May 2023, devised and delivered by CDRC data scientists, in partnership with Raspberry Pi's Code Club and local stakeholders such as Bradford City Council's Alliance for Life Chances. * DSDP Programme Co-ordinator Kylie Norman was invited to speak at the University Research Culuture Carousel alongside the Dean and Directors for EDI about the value of positive action recruitment as a tool for increasing equity in recruitment.
URL https://spotlight.leeds.ac.uk/EDI-strategy/
 
Description Intermediate R Training short course - Dec 2020 (35 attendees; tutors RH, EK and AC)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Intermediate R and the basics of R as a GIS Training Short Course - May
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Intermediate R training course - April 2021 (Hodgett, Konstantinidis and Choicharoon)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/intermediate-r-online/
 
Description Intermediate R training course - Jan 2022 (Hodgett, Konstantinidis and Choicharoon)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/intermediate-r-online/
 
Description Intermediate R training course - Sept 2021 (Hodgett, Konstantinidis and Choicharoon)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/intermediate-r-online/
 
Description Intermediate R training session (13 attendees) - November 2023
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Intro to R Training Course - April 2021 (Richard Hodgett, Manos Konstantinidis and Aritad Choicharoon)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/introduction-to-r-online/
 
Description Intro to R training course - Jan 2022 (Hodgett, Konstantinidis and Choicharoon)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/introduction-to-r-online/
 
Description Intro to R training course - Sept 2021 (Hodgett, Konstantinidis and Choicharoon)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/introduction-to-r-online/
 
Description Introduction to ArcGIS Training Short Course - 17th-18th June
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Introduction to ArcGIS Training Short Course - 19th March
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Introduction to ArcGIS Training Short Course - 1st-2nd Feb
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Introduction to ArcGIS Training Short Course - 2nd-3rd June
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Introduction to ArcGIS training course
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/events/introduction-to-arcgis/
 
Description Introduction to Basics in Smartphone Application Development for Data Collection Purposes Training short Course - 15th Dec
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Introduction to Data Science, Ethics and AI Training Course - 16th March 2020 (30 attendees, various tutors)
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Introduction to Forecasting in R Training Short Course - 6th Nov
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Introduction to GIS and Spatial Analysis for Retail Applications - 15th October 2018
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/events/introduction-to-gis-and-spatial-analysis-for-retail-applications/
 
Description Introduction to GIS for Social Scientists Training Short Course - 15th Dec
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Introduction to Python for Data Analytics - 1st-2nd November 2018
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/events/python-for-spatial-analytics/
 
Description Introduction to Python training - 10th May 2018
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/events/introduction-to-python/
 
Description Introduction to QGIS - 29th October 2018
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/events/introduction-to-qgis-3/
 
Description Introduction to QGIS Training Short Course - 17th-18th March
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Introduction to QGIS Training Short Course - 30th Nov
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Introduction to QGIS Training Short Course - 3rd-4th Oct
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Introduction to QGIS training course (13 academic staff attendees) - September 2023
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Introduction to QGIS training course (5 attendees) - October 2023
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Introduction to QGIS training short course - Dec 2020 (18 attendees; tutor Rachel Oldroyd)
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Introduction to R - 3rd December 2018
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/events/programming-short-course-in-r/
 
Description Introduction to R Training Short Course - 15th Sept
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Introduction to R Training Short Course - 16th April
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Introduction to R Training Short Course - 16th Sept
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Introduction to R Training Short Course - 3rd April
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Introduction to R Training short course - Nov 2020 (32 attendees; tutors RH, EK, and AC)
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Introduction to R and Rstudio Training Short Course - 25th Jan
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Introduction to R for Spatial Data Analysis Training Short Course - 26th Jan
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Introduction to R training course (17 attendees) - October 2023
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Introduction to R with data pre-processing and visualisation Training Short Course - 7th Sept
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Introduction to Spatial Microsimulation Using R Training Short Course - 28th-29th May
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Introduction to Spatial Microsimulation using R Training Short Course - 18th-19th Sept
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Introduction to Spatial Microsimulation using R Training Short Course - 8th-9th May
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Introduction to Spatial analysis for public health researchers Training Short Course - 17th Feb
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Introduction to Spatial analysis for public health researchers Training Short Course - 20th Oct
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Introductory R for Spatial Analysis - 12th June
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Introductory R for Spatial Analysis Training Short Course - 10th Nov
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Introductory R for Spatial Analysis Training Short Course - 16th March
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Investigating Domestic Energy Efficiency Data (InDEED) Innovation Fund Project: - EPC error identification results submitted to staff in Welsh government responsible for monitoring the EPCs of housing stock.
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
 
Description Ivana Kocanova's intern project in collaboration with Sainsbury's (Quanticode): Influenced retialer's product portfolio (2019/20)
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
 
Description Mark Birkin and Michelle Morris spoke at workshop on obesity at the Scottish Parliament 30th October 2017
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
 
Description Mark Birkin, Michelle Morris and Paul Gately spoke at Parliamentary workshop on childhood obesity, 29th June 2017
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
 
Description Member of Environmental Labelling Consult Group for development of UK cross-sector carbon eco-label led by IGD
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
 
Description Member of Environmental Labelling Consult Group for development of UK cross-sector carbon eco-label led by IGD
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or improved professional practice
Impact Research report shared with Defra Food Data Transparency Partnership
URL https://www.igd.com/Social-Impact/Sustainability/Reports/Environmental-labelling-for-the-UK-food-ind...
 
Description Molly Asher - 2016/17 Intern project assessing the effectiveness of the e-petition procedure through Twitter conversations with House of Commons
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
 
Description Networking event with senior colleagues in Cabinet Office and Geospatial Commission - Mark Birkin - 16th Jan 2020
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
 
Description Novel data linkages for health and wellbeing (Prof Michelle Morris)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.turing.ac.uk/research/interest-groups/novel-data-linkages-health-and-wellbeing
 
Description Open Data Science for Schools Outreach project and Priority Places for Food Index cited in the Child of the North APPG report 2023
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://www.healthequitynorth.co.uk/app/uploads/APPG-REPORT-SEPT-23.pdf
 
Description Participation in Safe Researcher Expert Group
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or improved professional practice
 
Description Participation in a consultation on Vulnerable Communities with Government Office for Science - Mark Birkin
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact CDRC Director Mark Birkin joined the Government Office for Science and the British Academy for a round table on factors affecting the prevalence of Covid-19 in different communities. The aim was to help identify and suggest ways to further understand and mitigate risks to vulnerable populations. Prof Birkin provided expert input on the following areas: 1. What does research tell us about the factors affecting vulnerable populations? 2. What do we know, and what don't we know about which populations and why? 3. How do we fill gaps in knowledge and why is it important for policymaking? 4. How do we turn data into evidence for policy making?
 
Description Priority Places for Food Index used in the decision to make a Tesco store an Asset of Community Value
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://committees.westminster.gov.uk/documents/s57263/2-4%20Dean%20Street%20ACV%20Officer%20Decisio...
 
Description R for Big Data Training Short Course - 17th-18th Sept
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description R for Spatial Analysis Training Short Course - 6th Oct
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description R for Transport Applications: Exploring Big Data in a Spatial World - 26th-27th April
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description R for Transport Applications: Handling Big Data in Spatial World Training Short Course - 26th-27th April
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description RAMP Rapid Review Group - Mark Birkin
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact Birkin has contributed to the section for urban analytics to the RAMP Rapid Review Group which has provided rapid peer review for research papers prior to evaluation by SAGE, SPI-M and other policy-making groups.
 
Description Research Mentioned 3 times in a Parliamentary Debate in the House of Commons
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact The impacts are described by Roger Geffen, Policy Director of the CTC, below: "Robin, James Just so say a huge thank you once again for an excellent and really timely piece of work. Just checking that you've seen that The Times referred to your work, both in a news article and in an editorial: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/cyclesafety/article4238059.ece and http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/cyclesafety/article4237832.ece? It also got mentions in the debate speeches by Ian Austin, Ben Bradshaw and Julian Huppert: http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/hansard/commons/todays- commons-debates/read/unknown/466/ So, really well done - and I owe you a serious thank-you at some point! Be in touch. Roger"
URL https://theconversation.com/hint-of-proper-funding-for-cycling-but-we-must-fight-for-it-with-evidenc...
 
Description Research that helped to force the government's hand to pass the Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Strategy (CWIS)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact This research was instrumental in the passage of the CWIS amendment to the Infrastructure Bill through the House of Commons: "On the eve of Monday 26 January cycling in the UK reached a turning point, as a Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy was voted into the Infrastructure Bill by the House of Commons. The vote came less than a week after CTC unveiled new research by Leeds University showing that, if England were to meet the targets for increased cycle use by 2050 as proposed in the parliamentary 'Get Britain Cycling' report, this would yield economic benefits worth £248bn between now and then. The Get Britain Cycling report proposed raising cycle use from 2% of trips at present, to 10% (below German levels) by 2025 and to 25% (nearly Dutch levels) by 2050." The report mentioned was written by myself and Fiona Crawford (Institute for Transport Studies). Source: http://www.ctc.org.uk/news/20150128-cycling-walking-investment-strategy-agreed
URL http://www.ctc.org.uk/news/20150128-cycling-walking-investment-strategy-agreed
 
Description Response to the National Food Strategy
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://policyhub.n8agrifood.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/NFS-Food-Systems-Policy-Hub-Response.p...
 
Description Safe Research Training course (14 attendees) - October 2023
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact Attendees of this training course are encouraged to complete post-course assessment to achieve Safe Researcher Accreditation. Safe Research Accreditation is a recognised qualification across academia and all data services, allowing researchers to work with secure and safeguarded data sets responsibly.
 
Description Safe Researcher Training - Pilot event - June 2023 - 5 PGR attendees
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Small Area Geodemographics Training Short Course - 6th June
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Spatial Analytics for Public Health Researchers - 24th Oct
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Spatial Modelling for Retail Analytics - 28th January 2019
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/events/spatial-modelling-for-retail-analytics/
 
Description Statistical Methods for Geographers and Social Scientists Training Short Course - 16th Dec
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Summer School - Causal Inference with observational data; challenges and pitfalls - 9th-13th July 2018
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/events/summer-school-causal-inference-with-observational-data-challenges-and-...
 
Description Summer School in Spatial Modelling - 21st-27th July
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Summer School on Spatial Modelling - 3rd-10th Sept
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Summer School: Advanced Modelling Strategies: challenges and pitfalls in robust causal inference with observational data - 17th-20th July
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description TRAINING: Geocomputation and Data Analysis with R (25-26/04/2019)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/events/geocomputation-and-data-analysis-with-r/
 
Description TRAINING: Intermediate R (19/07/2019)
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/events/introduction-to-r-3-copy/
 
Description TRAINING: Intermediate R, 23rd January 2020 (39 attendees, 16 from the private sector)
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/events/intermediate-r/
 
Description TRAINING: Introduction to Data Science (5-6/12/2019)
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description TRAINING: Introduction to Python for Data Analytics (14-15/11/2019)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/events/introduction-to-python-for-data-analytics-2/
 
Description TRAINING: Introduction to Python for Data Analytics (2-3/05/2019)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/events/introduction-to-r-3/
 
Description TRAINING: Introduction to QGIS (15/03/2019)
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/events/introduction-to-qgis-4/
 
Description TRAINING: Introduction to QGIS (17/10/2019)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/events/introduction-to-qgis-4-copy/
 
Description TRAINING: Introduction to QGIS with Raster data, 24th January 2020 (commissioned by private company JBA Risk Management)
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/events/introduction-to-qgis-with-raster-data/
 
Description TRAINING: Introduction to R (22/10/2019)
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description TRAINING: Spatial Analysis for Public Health Researchers (21/10/2019)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/events/spatial-analytics-for-public-health-researchers/
 
Description TRAINING: Spatial Analysis for Public Health Researchers, 17th Feb 2020 (10 attendees)
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/events/spatial-analytics-for-public-health-researchers-copy/
 
Description TRAINING: Tableau Workshop (27/06/2019)
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/events/tableau-workshop-3/
 
Description TRAINING: Transport Data Science with R (05/04/2019)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/events/transport-data-science-with-r/
 
Description TRAINING:Introduction to R (29/04/2019)
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/events/introduction-to-r-3/
 
Description Tableau Visualisation Workshop - March 2021 (Roy Ruddle)
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/education-and-training/annual-training-programme/tableau-workshop-on-data-vis...
 
Description Tableau Workshop Training Short Course - 22nd Feb
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Tableau Workshop Training Short Course - 8th Feb
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description The University of Leeds, EU EMPOWER project and ESRC HABITS project hosted a workshop with Cabinet Office on:New and Emerging Data Forms - Ethical Guidance (11th December 2017)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL http://empowerproject.eu/articles/workshop-new-emerging-data-forms-ethical-guidance
 
Description Two Day Python for Data Analysis training course (21 attendees) - August 2023
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Two day beginners Python training course (10 attendees) June 2023
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Using Quantum GIS Training Short Course - 19th-20th June
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Which? Consumers in Northern Ireland - A food briefing
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
 
Description Which? Consumers in Wales - a food briefing
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://www.which.co.uk/policy-and-insight/article/consumers-in-wales-a-food-briefing-aWZeE3U41iVb
 
Description Written evidence to "The right to privacy: digital data" inquiry
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
URL https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/43526/html/
 
Description 'MAAP Leeds (Mapping Advertising Assets Project' - Victoria Jenneson Principle Investigator, Michelle Morris, Imani Wilson (Research Assistant)
Amount £10,454 (GBP)
Organisation University of Leeds 
Department Impact Accelerator Award
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2023 
End 03/2023
 
Description ADR UK Local Data Spaces Pilot Project (Simon Leech internship 2020-21)
Amount £15,500 (GBP)
Organisation Administrative Data Research Network 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 11/2020 
End 04/2021
 
Description Additional capital funding
Amount £77,000 (GBP)
Funding ID ES/L011891/1 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2016 
End 03/2016
 
Description Alan Turing Institute - Fellows and Turing sponsored projects
Amount £399,768 (GBP)
Organisation Alan Turing Institute 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2019 
End 03/2021
 
Description Alan Turing Institute fellowship
Amount £105,000 (GBP)
Organisation Alan Turing Institute 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2018 
End 09/2020
 
Description Alan Turing Project
Amount £357,700 (GBP)
Organisation Alan Turing Institute 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2018 
End 05/2022
 
Description BRIDGE (University of Birmingham)
Amount £13,000 (GBP)
Organisation University of Birmingham 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 07/2018 
End 07/2019
 
Description Bringing the Social City to the Smart City
Amount £232,909 (GBP)
Funding ID ES/R007918/1 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 06/2018 
End 06/2021
 
Description CDRC
Amount £1,261,204 (GBP)
Funding ID ES/S007164/1 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 02/2019 
End 02/2024
 
Description CRUK Programme
Amount £3,400,000 (GBP)
Funding ID 107888 
Organisation Cancer Research UK 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2017 
End 03/2022
 
Description Catch! Citizens at the City's Heart
Amount £1,150,000 (GBP)
Funding ID 102426 
Organisation Innovate UK 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start  
 
Description Centre for Doctoral Training in New Forms of Data
Amount £2,011,000 (GBP)
Funding ID ES/P000401/1 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2017 
End 09/2023
 
Description Centre for Spatial Analysis and Policy funding
Amount £510 (GBP)
Organisation University of Leeds 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 05/2019 
End 07/2019
 
Description Colorectal Cancer Intelligence Network
Amount £3,400,000 (GBP)
Organisation Cancer Research UK 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start  
 
Description Consumer Data Research Centre - Legacy Status
Amount £106,513 (GBP)
Funding ID ES/Y010620/1 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 02/2024 
End 02/2029
 
Description Consumer Data Research Support Service (CDRSS)
Amount £8,827,316 (GBP)
Funding ID ES/L011891/1 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 02/2014 
End 02/2025
 
Description Creating a UK Colorectal Cancer Intelligence Hub - Supported by the Bobby Moore Fund
Amount £3,207,986 (GBP)
Funding ID 23706 
Organisation Cancer Research UK 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2017 
End 03/2025
 
Description DIO-Food (Diet and Health Inequalities)
Amount £500,000 (GBP)
Organisation United Kingdom Research and Innovation 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 07/2023 
End 10/2024
 
Description Data Analytics and Society CDT Industrial Strategy 2017
Amount £344,368 (GBP)
Funding ID ES/R501062/1 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2017 
End 09/2021
 
Description DataStream: Centre for Doctoral Training in New Forms of Data
Amount £2,200,000 (GBP)
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start  
 
Description DigitalFootprint Data service funding
Amount £175,119,534 (GBP)
Funding ID ES/L011891/1 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2022 
End 09/2024
 
Description ESRC Collaborative studentship
Amount £28,161 (GBP)
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2016 
End 09/2019
 
Description ESRC IAA: Local Acceleration Fund (via Leeds Social Sciences Institute)
Amount £13,725 (GBP)
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2022 
End 06/2022
 
Description ESRC Industrial Strategy PhD studentships within the Data Analytics and Society Centre for Doctoral Training
Amount £80,000 (GBP)
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2017 
End 09/2021
 
Description ESRC Industrial Strategy PhD studentships within the Data Analytics and Society Centre for Doctoral Training
Amount £80,000 (GBP)
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2017 
End 09/2021
 
Description ESRC Strategic Network
Amount £93,376 (GBP)
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Department ESRC Seminar Series
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 11/2015 
End 10/2016
 
Description Effects of Multinational Firms' Exit Strategies Following Economic Sanctions
Amount 706,663 kr. (DKK)
Funding ID CF22-0635 
Organisation Carlsberg Foundation 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country Denmark
Start 01/2023 
End 06/2024
 
Description Engaged for Impact Award Funding, "Caring for the Future"
Amount £3,000 (GBP)
Organisation University of Leeds 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 07/2022 
End 07/2023
 
Description Engaged for Impact Award Funding, Building partnerships and networks
Amount £3,000 (GBP)
Organisation University of Leeds 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 07/2022 
End 07/2023
 
Description FIO-FOOD, Food Insecurity in people living with Obesity - improving sustainable and healthier food choices in the retail FOOD environment.
Amount £2,117,714 (GBP)
Funding ID BB/W018020/1 
Organisation Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 08/2022 
End 08/2025
 
Description H2020 research and innovation action
Amount € 4,898,621 (EUR)
Funding ID 636249 - EMPOWER 
Organisation European Commission 
Department Horizon 2020
Sector Public
Country European Union (EU)
Start 04/2015 
End 04/2018
 
Description Health and Sustainability Diets Project
Amount £72,477 (GBP)
Organisation Institute of Grocery Distribution 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2021 
End 12/2021
 
Description Healthy and Sustainable Diets
Amount £137,000 (GBP)
Organisation Institute of Grocery Distribution 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2022 
End 12/2022
 
Description Healthy and Sustainable Diets
Amount £900,000 (GBP)
Organisation Institute of Grocery Distribution 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2021 
End 12/2026
 
Description Healthy soil, Healthy food, Healthy people (H3)
Amount £6,394,271 (GBP)
Funding ID BB/V004719/1 
Organisation Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2021 
End 01/2026
 
Description IGD Healthy and Sustainable Diets programme evaluation
Amount £72,500 (GBP)
Organisation Institute of Grocery Distribution 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2021 
End 12/2021
 
Description Knowledge Exchange Fellowship
Amount £10,877 (GBP)
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2017 
End 03/2018
 
Description Leeds for Life Conference Award
Amount £400 (GBP)
Organisation University of Leeds 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 05/2019 
End 07/2019
 
Description Micromobility behaviour
Amount £104,000 (GBP)
Organisation World Resources Institute 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United States
Start 09/2019 
End 12/2020
 
Description Misinformation vulnerabilities among the elderly during infectious disease outbreaks.
Amount $49,614 (USD)
Organisation Facebook 
Sector Private
Country United States
Start 02/2019 
End 03/2021
 
Description Mistral: Multi-scale Infrastructure Transitions Analytics
Amount £5,350,000 (GBP)
Funding ID EP/N017064/1 
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start  
 
Description Network Studentship
Amount £170,745 (GBP)
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2015 
End 09/2018
 
Description New and Emerging Data Forms
Amount £250,000 (GBP)
Funding ID ES/P01139X/1 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 02/2017 
End 02/2018
 
Description Open Data Science for Schools continuation funding 2023-24
Amount £3,500 (GBP)
Organisation Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 07/2023 
End 07/2024
 
Description Open Research and Impact Award Funding
Amount £3,000 (GBP)
Organisation University of Leeds 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 07/2022 
End 07/2023
 
Description PROSPER: Promoting Recruitment for Open Science & Pipelines of Employment for Retention; PI = Kylie Norman, CoI = Emily Ennis
Amount £15,947 (GBP)
Organisation University of Leeds 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2023 
End 07/2024
 
Description PigSustain: Intensification of the UK Pig Industry
Amount £2,000,000 (GBP)
Funding ID BB/N020790/1 
Organisation Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2017 
 
Description Probiotics-related consumer confidence and labelling effects in ASEAN
Amount $10,000 (USD)
Organisation Nutrition and Food Experts Society of Indonesia 
Sector Public
Country Indonesia
Start 07/2020 
End 02/2021
 
Description Provision of Research Programme into Cycling: Propensity to Cycle ref: RM5019 SO7766 Phase 2
Amount £59,657 (GBP)
Organisation Department of Transport 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 02/2016 
End 03/2017
 
Description Q-Step
Amount £718,980 (GBP)
Organisation Nuffield Foundation 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 08/2014 
End 08/2018
 
Description Quanticode: Quantitative Encoding of Longitudinal Data
Amount £980,000 (GBP)
Funding ID EP/N013980/1 
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start  
 
Description Quantifying Utility and Privacy Preservation in Synthetic Populations (QUiPP)
Amount £408,611 (GBP)
Funding ID TPS2019\100019 
Organisation Alan Turing Institute 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2019 
End 03/2021
 
Description RAIM
Amount £622,000 (GBP)
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 02/2020 
End 01/2023
 
Description RAMP Continuity Network: Scientific Meetings, Rapid Review Group, and Policy Support for COVID-19
Amount £527,213 (GBP)
Funding ID EP/V053507/1 
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2021 
End 07/2022
 
Description Raphtory: a practical system for the analysis of dynamic graphs
Amount £193,000 (GBP)
Organisation Alan Turing Institute 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 12/2019 
End 11/2020
 
Description Real-Time Advanced Data assimilation for Digital Simulation of Numerical Twins on HPC (RADDISH)
Amount £400,000 (GBP)
Organisation Alan Turing Institute 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2019 
End 03/2021
 
Description Research Culture EDI in Research Award Funding - June 2022
Amount £3,000 (GBP)
Organisation University of Leeds 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 11/2022 
End 07/2023
 
Description Responsive mode impact fund
Amount £12,853 (GBP)
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2017 
End 03/2018
 
Description SPENSER - Synthetic Population Estimation and Scenario Projection Model
Amount £464,632 (GBP)
Organisation Alan Turing Institute 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2018 
End 09/2020
 
Description School of Design Research Fund
Amount £299 (GBP)
Organisation University of Leeds 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 02/2024 
End 04/2024
 
Description Starting Grant
Amount € 1,500,000 (EUR)
Funding ID 757455 
Organisation European Research Council (ERC) 
Sector Public
Country Belgium
Start 01/2018 
End 12/2022
 
Description Swedish Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
Amount £2,679,221 (GBP)
Funding ID Science and Proven Experience 
Organisation Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country Sweden
Start 01/2015 
End 12/2020
 
Description System-science Informed Public Health and Economic Research for Non-communicable Disease Prevention (the SIPHER Consortium)
Amount £6,926,748 (GBP)
Funding ID MR/S037578/1 
Organisation Medical Research Council (MRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 05/2019 
End 07/2024
 
Description TRACK: Transport Risk Assessment for COVID Knowledge
Amount £3,126,526 (GBP)
Funding ID EP/V032658/1 
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 08/2020 
End 03/2023
 
Description The Alan Turing Institute - Urban Analytics Programme
Amount £8,000,000 (GBP)
Organisation Alan Turing Institute 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 11/2018 
 
Description The Carbon Footprint of Traditional Food Markets (Collaboration between CDRC and Global Food and Environment Institute) PI = Emily Ennis
Amount £45,094 (GBP)
Organisation University of Leeds 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 11/2023 
End 07/2024
 
Description The Role of Big Data in Addressing the Determinants of Non-communicable Diseases in the Ageing Era
Amount £6,000 (GBP)
Organisation Worldwide Universities Network 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 12/2017 
End 11/2019
 
Description Transformative Routemapping for Urban Environments (TRUE)
Amount £400,000 (GBP)
Funding ID EP/P001785/1 
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start  
 
Description Transforming Urban Simulation Methods through Real-Time Data Assimilation
Amount £105,351 (GBP)
Organisation University of Leeds 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2019 
End 10/2019
 
Description Turing fellowship
Amount £10,000 (GBP)
Organisation Alan Turing Institute 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2019 
End 12/2020
 
Description UK Data Service Data Impact Fellowship Scheme
Amount £2,000 (GBP)
Organisation UK Data Service 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 12/2016 
End 12/2018
 
Description Understanding bowel cancer in people aged less than 50 years - investigating changes to the microbiome
Amount £25,000 (GBP)
Funding ID 18PT0011 
Organisation Bowel Cancer UK 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 11/2018 
End 05/2022
 
Description Understanding health-related misinformation and conflicting Information on social media through public engagement and big data analytics.
Amount £5,500 (GBP)
Organisation CHERISH-de escalator fund 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 02/2019 
End 05/2020
 
Description University of Birmingham Impact Acceleration Account
Amount £13,000 (GBP)
Organisation University of Birmingham 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 12/2018 
End 06/2019
 
Description University of Leeds Seed Corn Funding for social Science/STEM Collaborations
Amount £2,000 (GBP)
Organisation University of Leeds 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2014 
End 12/2014
 
Description Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre
Amount £7,976,109 (GBP)
Funding ID ES/W002248/1 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 04/2022 
End 04/2027
 
Description Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund Fellowship
Amount £20,846 (GBP)
Organisation Wellcome Trust 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2016 
End 06/2016
 
Description Worldwide Universities Network Research Development Fund
Amount £6,000 (GBP)
Organisation Worldwide Universities Network 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 12/2017 
End 06/2019
 
Description i3food: Information, Interventions and Inequalities in the UK food system
Amount £47,729 (GBP)
Funding ID MR/T045027/1 
Organisation Medical Research Council (MRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 04/2020 
End 10/2020
 
Title Cycling Infrastructure Prioritisation Toolkit (CyIPT) 
Description The Cycling Infrastructure Prioritisation Toolkit, is a prototype developed by the University of Leeds and funded by the Department of Transport. The purpose of the toolkit is to aid decision makers in finding the best places to put new cycle infrastructure. CyIPT uses data about the existing road network, such as speed limits, road types and traffic levels combined with information about cycling levels to recommend the most appropriate type of cycle infrastructure on each road in England. CyIPT then attempts to group its recommendations into buildable schemes, and evaluate those schemes by estimating: Construction costs Increase in number of cyclists Benefits from increased cycling Benefit cost ratios 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2018 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Partnerships with Cycle Streets.net and Department for Transport, leading to projects in the Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Analytics and Society (e.g. Caroline Tait's project with Dr Roger Beecham, Towards data-driven policy development: the case of London's built cycling infrastructure in collaboration with Cycle Streets). 
URL https://www.cyipt.bike/
 
Title Ethical guidance on new and emerging data forms 
Description Guidelines for a range of stakeholders on the ethics of handling new and emerging data forms in transport. The guidelines were developed jointly with the EMPOWER project and form the basis for a joint workshop with the cabinet office. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2017 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact The guidelines formed a basis for a training workshop with a range of city stakeholders from the UK and Europe. The participating stakeholders reported that they had adjusted their written policies and consent forms and also amended their internal data handling procedures. 
URL https://empowertoolkit.eu/ethics/
 
Title National Propensity to Cycle Tool (NPCT) 
Description Method and software to identify where active travel has the most potential to grow, to inform new infrastructure at the local level. Funded by the Department for Transport, the tool has potentially global impacts. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2015 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Requests to do contract work for Surrey and Hackney Councils; requests to demonstrate the work at Leeds City Council. 
URL https://github.com/npct/pct
 
Title Nutrient Profile Model Calculator 
Description The CDRC have developed an online calculator which facilitates easy calculation of the UK's Nutrient Profile Model (NPM) for use in research, policy making and implementation. In particular, it supports assessment of food and beverage products under the new UK Government restrictions around in-store and online product placements for HFSS (High in Fat, Sugar or Salt) products. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact The NPM calculator has been accessed hundreds of times to date. It has been shared on the Chartered Institute for Trading Standards Officers Knowledge Hub and improving the efficiency of the way the assess compliance with UK Government legislation around HFSS product placement in store. It has also been shared by the Obesity Health Alliance on twitter, who flagged it as a useful tool to their followers. The existence of the NPM online calculator directly led to the receipt of further funding (£95,000 for the MAAP project) to work with Leeds City Council to map outdoor food advertising across Leeds. The work won a £1000 Engaged for Impact Award prize from the University, which has been re-invested back into the tool to further develop its capacity for multiple product assessment which will bring about greater benefits for the research and policy communities. 
URL https://npmcalculator.cdrc.ac.uk/
 
Title Active Inspiration 
Description The dataset comprises primarily the activity data, which includes activity episodes recorded in the app or from fitness trackers and comprises pseudonymised data at the user level. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2017 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact CDRC has received 2 research applications to use this data set. 
URL https://data.cdrc.ac.uk/dataset/active-inspiration-activity-data
 
Title Acxiom 
Description Data includes average income and household information including age, tenure and household size in each geographical area 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2016 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact CDRC has received 9 research applications to use this data set 
URL https://data.cdrc.ac.uk/dataset/acxiom-small-area-income-data
 
Title Aggregated Department of Transport Data Cycling for Bradford: Hourly, Daily, Monthly, and Yearly Timeframes Dataset (2000-2022) 
Description The dataset comprises aggregated cycling data for Bradford, sourced from the Department of Transport. It features several temporal resolutions: daily, monthly, and yearly. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact The cycling dataset for Bradford, with time series, has allowed analysis of cycling trends and their relationship with weather and facilitated the creation of an interactive map denoting active travel in Bradford. Additionally, it has been utilised as ground truth data. Plans to publish this dataset in the near future. 
 
Title Aggregated Traffic Count Data for Quantifying Active Travel in Bradford 
Description The dataset aggregates active travel data, including pedestrians, cyclists, and e-scooters, from converted Excel files to CSV format. It filters and sums specific activity counts while incorporating site and date details for context. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact This streamlined dataset has aided in analysing active travel trends. 
 
Title Airbnb Property Rentals and Reviews 
Description The dataset includes (from the years 2012-2018): Total historical data (monthly and daily listing performance) for London, UK and Leeds, UK Total host data for London, UK and Leeds, UK Property data for London, UK and Leeds, UK Total review data for London, UK and Leeds, UK 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2018 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact CDRC has received 5 research applications to access this dataset. 
URL https://data.cdrc.ac.uk/dataset/airdna-property-rentals-and-reviews
 
Title Bike Citizens 
Description Anonymised cyclist movement data in GPX format by users of the "Bike Citizens" app in London. 100 metres from the start and end of each route have been cut to provide anonymisation. The Bike Citizens app uses the know-how of bike couriers. The bike app is specifically designed for the needs of cyclists in cities. It favours cycle paths and side streets and avoids busy main streets. Data are provided in a GPX track file containing latitude, longitude, elevation and horizontal dilution of precision at multiple points along the track. The distance covered and the duration are provided for each track. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2016 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact CDRC has received 3 research applications to use this data set. 
URL https://data.cdrc.ac.uk/dataset/bike-citizens-cyclist-movement-data
 
Title CDRC Carbon Footprint Calculator - Prototype version. 
Description An interactive dashboard, co-produced with Leeds City Council to provide a decision-making tool as part of their net-zero strategy. The tool requires an upload of a menu with ingredient breakdown. Using the recipe upload, the tool uses a carbon footprint lookup created using open data, to generate UK based estimated for the carbon footprint of the ingredients in the meal along with an aggregated value for each meal. The dashboard was created using Rshiny apps and is available as a webpage, provided to Leeds City Council members and catering staff. The prototype version has been developed to evaluate school meals in Leeds, as a follow up analysis of the recent 'climate friendly' menus introduced across the city. 
Type Of Material Computer model/algorithm 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact The Carbon Footprint Calculator has been developed to support decision making as part of the Leeds Climate Strategy and to help achieve their Net Zero targets, by reducing the greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the Leeds food system. The development of this prototype tool has enabled conversations with and presentations to policy makers and social impact organisations in Leeds, sparking further application of the tool and engagement work. The development of this tool has also resulted in us running school engagement workshops with primary schools in Leeds, to extend the benefits and learnings from the tool to school children. Insights from the tool are being used to shape the type of data requested in future food contracting/supplier choice by the council. The insights are also being used to inform and re-design the school meals setting and meals that are on offer. The prototype has been trialled and feedback has been obtained as to the tool's current usability. This feedback has now been used to refine a final version of the CDRC Carbon Footprint Calculator and develop strategies to reduce Leeds' carbon footprint, future-proofed for application to be explored beyond school meals. 
URL https://daltona.shinyapps.io/CF_Calculator_Prototype1/
 
Title Call Credit 
Description A wide range of consumer postcode classifications. These segmentation systems are supplied under license and are delivered as postcode directories. For each system, each postcode in the country has a classification code attached. These postcode labels can be used to segment, code and profile customer files for analysing the characteristics of customers and responders. The CAMEO Analysis Suite provides the six CAMEO Classifications with a wealth of expanded data variables provided as postcode indicators for analysing and segmenting customer databases. These datasets include: ? CAMEO UK Analysis providing additional data on demographics, household composition, lifestage, economic activity and tenure. ? CAMEO Financial Analysis providing data on county court judgement activity. ? CAMEO Income Analysis providing additional data on directors, millionaires, social class, occupation, presence of mortgage and house size. ? CAMEO Investor Analysis providing additional data on shareholdings in terms of shares held, value of shares and number of companies invested in. ? CAMEO Unemployment Analysis providing additional data on economic inactivity. ? CAMEO Property Analysis providing additional data on house age, household density, council tax band, location and housing type. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2017 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact CDRC has received 4 research applications to use these data sets 
URL https://data.cdrc.ac.uk/product/cameo-postcode-directories
 
Title CoSMoNorth: Comprehensive Spatial Model of the North 
Description The research outputs are i) the calibrated baseline agent base simulation model for the Northern Powerhouse region using tools that aid modelling in MATSim (Arup developed and otherwise) and support from City Modelling Lab at Arup and ii) the scripts to extract/handle data, apply the tools and regenerate the model. The data used for this model cover datasets from National Travel Survey, 2002-2020: Special Licence Access (i.e. households, persons and trips datasets), projected household and person datasets using SPENSER, Census, OSM, GTFS etc. One reason behind the construction of a large-scale transport model of the North is to apply the model to implement and address policy, societal and economic changes/plans happening in the North due to the government's Northern Powerhouse vision. Another purpose of the project stems from the need to have a baseline consolidated modelling framework for spatial simulation research applications at LIDA and University of Leeds. 
Type Of Material Computer model/algorithm 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact This simulation is still a work in progress and there have been minor updates of the overall direction of the project in the course of the development. One notable impact was that collaborations with University of Newcastle has been pursued which it has resulted in significant progress in terms of incorporating SPENSER outputs into population synthesis stage of the model construction. 
 
Title Code to cluster properties and hosts in the AirDNA short term rentals dataset 
Description This code details the applications of K-means and K-medoid algorithms for the classification of hosts and properties belonging to the AirDNA dataset. 
Type Of Material Computer model/algorithm 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact The classification results are to be used in conjunction with the results of a sentiment analysis of guest review text to identify and determine correlations between clusters and guest sentiments. Intended realisation of impact not known yet. 
 
Title Code to perform analysis in journal article: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2022.106895 
Description This github repo provides the code and data that underpin the analysis published in the above article. 
Type Of Material Data analysis technique 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Journal article: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2022.106895 
URL https://github.com/PublicHealthDataGeek/Contraflow_cycling_safety/tree/v1.0
 
Title Compass Connected Car Vehicle Trajectories and Behaviours 
Description This data profile describes a dataset held by the CDRC which has been supplied by Compass IoT. The dataset is composed of vehicle trips undertaken across the UK during the month of October 2023. The dataset contains vehicle trips carried out across the UK. The dataset includes >4.3 million trips made by >930,000 vehicles. The dataset comprises vehicles of different types and sizes for commercial and private transportation. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2024 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact To our knowledge, this is one of the first times connected vehicle trajectory data with detailed information on breaking and swerving has been made available for academic research purposes. This dataset can help improve understanding of urban mobility parameters of interest such as travel times, trip distribution and identification of common UK travel routes. Also, this dataset can provide useful research insights to characterize mobility and dangerous driving behaviour, help minimize commute times, and increase individual productivity, as well as transportation planning. Advancing research within these aspects could ultimately impact in reducing injury and mortality rates, as well as greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption. 
 
Title Consumer Confidence in Probiotics Products in ASEAN 
Description Survey data from a representative sample of N=1000 consumers across five countries in the ASEAN region (Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia) who responded to questions surrounding probiotics consumption behaviours, information exposure to probiotics (channels and content), trust in different types of probiotics stakeholders, psychological motivators related to functional foods, beliefs in health claims, and an online survey experiment. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2020 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact Data from this dataset is currently being organised and will inform the development of a research paper and a future research grant surrounding the larger issue of conflicting nutritional information. 
 
Title Consumer Confidence in Probiotics Products in Singapore 
Description Survey data from a representative sample of N=400 Singapore consumers who responded to questions surrounding probiotics consumption behaviours, information exposure to probiotics (channels and content), trust in different types of probiotics stakeholders, psychological motivators related to functional foods, beliefs in health claims, and an online survey experiment. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2019 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact Data from this dataset is currently being organised and will inform the development of a research paper and a future research grant surrounding the larger issue of conflicting nutritional information. 
 
Title Consumer Confidence in Probiotics Products in the UK 
Description Survey data from a representative sample of N=2000 UK consumers who responded to questions surrounding probiotics consumption behaviours, information exposure to probiotics (channels and content), trust in different types of probiotics stakeholders, psychological motivators related to functional foods, beliefs in health claims, and an online survey experiment. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2018 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact A research paper from this dataset is now under review at a top tier food journal and has informed the development of a future grant focused on the problem of conflicting nutritional information. 
 
Title Consumer Confidence in Probiotics Products in the USA 
Description Survey data from a representative sample of N=1000 UK consumers who responded to questions surrounding probiotics consumption behaviours, information exposure to probiotics (channels and content), trust in different types of probiotics stakeholders, psychological motivators related to functional foods, beliefs in health claims, and an online survey experiment. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2019 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact Data from this dataset is currently being organised and will inform the development of a research paper and a future research grant surrounding the larger issue of conflicting nutritional information. 
 
Title Consumer Vulnerability 
Description Some consumers are more vulnerable to marketing practices due to their personal traits such age, health or household makeup. This vulnerability varies by product and industry. Consumer vulnerability here is defined as the risk that a consumer's mental, physical or financial welfare may be damaged when engaging in a market interaction. While consumer vulnerability has been discussed at length in academic literature and regulatory guidelines, there has not been a comprehensive geographical assessment of consumer vulnerability in the United Kingdom. This study creates a geodemographic classification of consumer vulnerability at output area level. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2020 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact This is an open data map which is available publicly via the CDRC website, and which has led to further projects in the theme of consumer vulnerability. 
URL https://data.cdrc.ac.uk/dataset/consumer-vulnerability
 
Title Continuous Flow Detection Algorithm 
Description The developed algorithm analyses smart meter consumption data to detect instances of continuous flow (likely pipe leaks). A continuous flow is defined as being any flow that exceeds a user-defined minimum flow value for a continuous, prolonged, user-defined time frame. 
Type Of Material Computer model/algorithm 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact Allowed the demonstration of the effects of increasing/decreasing data granularity and the information loss with increased data granularity with respect to the detection of continuous flows within smart meter data. 
 
Title CycleInfraLnd R package - Robin Lovelace - 2019 
Description CDRC Co-I Robin Lovelace (first grant) released the CycleInfraLnd R package with his CDT student: https://github.com/PublicHealthDataGeek/CycleInfraLnd. The goal of this CycleInfraLnd R package is to download data from the Transport for London Cycling Infrastructure Database and import it into R as spatial data (Simple features). The Cycling Infrastructure Database contains the following assets that are either lines(l) or points(p): Advanced Stop Line (l) Crossing (l) Cycle lane/track (l) Restricted Route (l) Cycle Parking (p) Restricted Point (p) Signage (p) Signal (p) Traffic Calming (p) More information on the CID can be found here and in this TFL blog. The Database Schema, Asset Information Guide and README provide important and useful information about the content of the database and how it was collected. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2019 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact No known impacts yet. 
URL https://github.com/PublicHealthDataGeek/CycleInfraLnd
 
Title Data Collection - Local level estimates of food, drink and tobacco expenditure for Great Britain 
Description Expenditure estimates for individual commodities (n = 106) at the Local Authority District level (n = 380) in Great Britain for the years 2008 - 16 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2019 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Utilised by researchers as part of the PigSustain project, which uses a multi-disciplinary, integrated systems approach to model and assess the resilience of the UK pig industry historically, currently and in the future. 
URL https://springernature.figshare.com/collections/Local_level_estimates_of_food_drink_and_tobacco_expe...
 
Title Dataset: Roads that introduced contraflow cycling in Inner London, UK 1998-2019 
Description This dataset contains details of all roads in Inner London UK where contraflow cycling (legally cycling against the flow of motor vehicles) was introduced between 1998 and 2019. It was constructed as a primary data collection from the National Public Record (The Gazette) from the Traffic Regulation Orders that provide the legal exemption for cyclists to legal cycle in this way. It includes multiple variables including spatial representation of the roads and date of implementation. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Published in the following journal article based on analysis of this dataset: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2022.106895 
URL https://github.com/PublicHealthDataGeek/Contraflow_cycling_safety/tree/v1.0
 
Title EPC error database 
Description This EPC database is an open database describing building characteristics and energy efficiency for homes in the the UK. This version of the database includes flags for EPC entries that are likely incorrect. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2018 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact The database was only recently created, but is expected to create considerable impact when published. 
 
Title Ethical Consumer Research Association (ECRA) 
Description 15 data sets - The Ethical Consumer Markets Report has been produced annually by Ethical Consumer (ECRA) since 1999 and aims to provide a barometer on ethical spending in the UK. This is the report for 2001, and is published in partnership between the ESRC Consumer Data Research Centre and ECRA. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2015 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact - 
URL https://data.cdrc.ac.uk/product/ethical-consumer-markets-report-uk
 
Title Fuell - Activity Data 
Description Fuell is a free, innovative and popular lifestyle and fitness app (iOS and Android) which incentivises and challenges its members to be more active. Users can track steps in the app or connect it to a fitness tracker. Users can join challenges to unlock vouchers, sports goods, exclusive experiences and much more. This dataset contains anonymised data at the user level. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Available through the CDRC safeguarded Data Service for applications and is currently being used in a project bid as part of the LIDA data science Internship Programme 2022-23. 
URL https://data.cdrc.ac.uk/dataset/fuell-activity-data
 
Title GeoUniq 
Description GeoUniq is a location analytics company which leverages mobile apps as a data source. Thanks to their location Software Development Kit (SDK), they collect more than 100 positions/device/day, in real-time. They can then use collected positions for doing three kinds of analysis: Geo-Behavioural user profiling POI audience analysis Pattern analysis GeoUniq's analyses are being used by customers from several industries, such as retail, real-estate, out-of-home advertising, banks and insurance etc. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2017 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact na 
URL https://data.cdrc.ac.uk/dataset/geouniq-location-data-series
 
Title Geographically Weighted Regression Models with a health outcome as the dependent variable and the Priority Places for Food Index combined/separate dimension(s) as the independent variable(s) 
Description The Geographically Weighted Regression is a statistical and spatial technique which estimates the relationship between the dependent and independent variables by fitting a model at every location within a dataset. Coefficient estimates are computed at every location whilst using the optimal bandwidth parameter - which determines the number of geographic neighbours taken into consideration when fitting the location-specific models. 
Type Of Material Data analysis technique 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact The ability to identify areas where specific risk factors of food insecurity (e.g., barriers to food purchase, poverty, and deprivation - based on the Priority Places for Food Index) could be contributing to poor health outcomes and high health inequalities. This is done through examining the magnitudes, signs, and spatial distribution of the statistically significant coefficient estimates computed by the model. Ultimately, this would empower policymakers to focus their efforts on ensuring a healthy, safe, affordable, and sustainable food system in areas where it is potentially stretching the already exhausted NHS resources. 
 
Title Geoindex based on the JISC UK Web Domain Dataset 
Description This is the expansion of the Geoindex data that the British Library has initially constructed for the 1996-2010 period. The British Library has now expanded these data to the 2011-2013 period for the needs of our project. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2017 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact This is the very beginning of our project, so no notable impacts can be identified yet. 
URL http://www.webarchive.org.uk/datasets/ukwa.ds.2/geo/2011-201304/
 
Title GitHub for IGD data visualisation 
Description A GitHub account to unify data visualisation techniques and approaches across all IGD intervention analysis. This will allows cross-trial comparison of intervention success across a set of standardised metrics and visualisations. The visuslistaiosm have been designed in conjunction with retailers, and third party organisations to ensure maximum impact in communication to policy makers. 
Type Of Material Data analysis technique 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact Not only has this saved time but it allows improved knowledge sharing between researchers and clearer output communication. 
 
Title Grocery retailer transactions for all stores 2014-2017 (Adam's Cube, 2019) 
Description Seven dimensional SQL Server OLAP Cube containing item category level transactions, by loyalty card where available, for all stores over four years. 
Type Of Material Computer model/algorithm 
Year Produced 2019 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact Research was able to be undertaken using a recordset of ~7.5 billion transaction records, without the need for high performance computing. 
 
Title Heart Research UK 
Description Heart Research UK conduct employee health surveys for companies that wish to support their staff in adopting healthy lifestyles. The de-identified data from these surveys is available through collaboration between the CDRC and HRUK. The dataset contains the below listed items collected from 5,951 people from 109 organisations, between 2007 and 2015 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2015 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact CDRC has received 2 research application to use this data set 
URL https://data.cdrc.ac.uk/dataset/hruk-staff-health-survey-data
 
Title Leeds City Council Footfall Camera Aggregated Data 
Description The dataset contains footfall counts in Leeds City Centre supplied by Leeds City Council. There are 10 cameras around the city that monitor numbers of people walking past. These cameras calculate numbers on an hourly basis. The raw data is freely available on Data Mill North; however a cleaned and aggregated dataset has been produced for the purposes of analysis by Leeds Institute for Data Analytics in collaboration with the Consumer Data Research Centre. The dataset is comprised of hourly footfall counts and has been cleaned according to the needs of the research project for which they were gathered. Variables for British Retail Consortium (BRC) weeks and months are also present. Data are provided (as of 30th April 2021) in respect of: 10 locations identified by name. Further details can be gained by contacting Leeds City Council. The date and hour of each record Counts of hourly footfall generated by the cameras and cleaned of duplicates Filename of the csv file made available by Leeds City Council British Retail Consortium (BRC) week number, month number, month name and year The raw data for the study is generated independently by Leeds City Council and available for public use. Whilst it is already used commercially to show footfall trends in the city centre, it has featured in several pieces of novel research investigating suitability for representing the ambient (daytime) population. The project that generated the current version of the aggregated dataset focused on use modelling how changes in COVID-19 lockdown policies impacted footfall and predicting what 'business as usual' may have looked like. The locations with a full set of 104904 records (hours) are: Albion Street South, Briggate, Briggate at McDonalds, Commercial Street Combined, Dortmund Square and headrow. The data has been filtered to start in August 2008, which is when 7 cameras were fully operational - the 6 above and Albion Street North, which only has 83398 records due to missing data. The other cameras, which came online later, are Albion Street at McDonalds (2184 records), Commercial Street at Barratts (76368) and Park Row (2184). Some files were either missing data or structured in such a way that made it difficult to automate aggregation. These were omitted and are classed as missing, despite data being present. There are 793,558 records in total. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Further projects in collaboration with Leeds City Council on ambient infrastructure. 
URL https://data.cdrc.ac.uk/dataset/leeds-city-council-footfall-camera-aggregated-data
 
Title MIAC Analytics dataset 
Description 1. Monthly House Price Index covering the UK split by Land Registry defined property types (All, Detached, Semi-detached, Terraced, Flat): Country (GB, England & Wales, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) Regions (ONS defined) County/Local Authority London Borough This equates to 940 time series; 6 Country, 9 Region, 140 County and 33 London Borough, each with 5 property type combinations. Each series includes the following output: Month Average property price Index value Index multiple Monthly Delta (% change monthly) Annual Delta (% change annually) Confidence bands for property values (using +/- 1 and 2 standard deviations) This data series starts at 1995 for England and Wales and 2003 for Scotland. 2. Monthly Rental Index covering the UK split by number of beds (0, 1, 2, 3, >3, All): Country (UK (with/without London), England (with/without London), Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland) Regional County London Borough This equates to circa 1,128 time series; 7 countries, 9 regions, 139 Counties and 33 London Boroughs each with 6 bed combinations (as above). Each series includes the following output: Month Rental value Index value Index multiple Monthly Delta (% change monthly) Annual Delta (% change annually) Confidence bands for rental values (Percentiles) This data series starts at 2012. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact No impacts as yet. 
 
Title MOESM1 of Classification of Westminster Parliamentary constituencies using e-petition data 
Description R Workspace. (zip) 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2017 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://springernature.figshare.com/articles/dataset/MOESM1_of_Classification_of_Westminster_Parliam...
 
Title MOESM1 of Classification of Westminster Parliamentary constituencies using e-petition data 
Description R Workspace. (zip) 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2017 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://springernature.figshare.com/articles/dataset/MOESM1_of_Classification_of_Westminster_Parliam...
 
Title Manually Collected Footfall Counts in Leeds 
Description Manual footfall counts (counts of people who walk past a particular point) were collected at ten sites between the 5th to the 9th of July 2021 between 10:00 and 16:00 each day. At the time of data collection, footfall cameras were installed at three of the ten sites: Briggate, Headrow and Commercial Street. The coordinates of each site are available in the 'LocationData.csv' file. Footfall counts were collected at two sites per day and three data collectors were located at each site. Data collectors were replaced during breaks to ensure continuity. The aim of the project was to capture manual counts of pedestrians to: Validate estimates of the ambient populations produced using a statistical model in three geographic areas within the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, UK: Headingley, Wetherby and Leeds city centre. Validate the accuracy of footfall camera data captured in Leeds city centre. The accompanying dataset consists of 24 files providing manual footfall counts at ten locations. Each file contains the collection date and a timestamp, with each timestamp representing one count/one pedestrian. For each location, the files are numbered 1 to 3, representing the three data collectors. Due to data collection issues, timestamped data for the 5th of July 2021 at Bond Street and Vicar Lane are not available; however, the total counts recorded by each data collector at these locations are included in the dataset. Counting application Counts were logged using the iOS application Counter+ which is available free of charge via the App Store. The application allows counts to be logged with an associated timestamp, enabling the data to be used in temporal analysis. The data can be exported from the application as a .txt file for further analysis. The application stores a maximum of 1000 records, thus the data must be exported prior to reaching over 1000 counts to avoid data loss. Counting methodology Data collectors were recruited from the student body at the University of Leeds. The data collectors were instructed to count all pedestrians who were not cycling, skateboarding, scootering, or using any form of transport. Individuals using motorised mobility aids were counted. All children were counted including those in pushchairs or being carried. Data collectors were located in positions which did not impede the flow of pedestrians and allowed them to have an uninterrupted view of the count location. To ensure that all data collectors were enumerating pedestrians in the same geographical area, pedestrians were counted as they passed a pre-determined physical marker, for example a lamppost. At locations with a footfall camera installed, the footfall camera was the selected physical marker. Novelty There are currently no, or very limited, publicly available manually collected footfall counts. This makes it difficult to assess the accuracy of automatically collected footfall counts, which are commonly used in mobility and urban analytics research. Quality On Tuesday 6th July, there was heavy rain from 10:00 to 16:00 at both locations, North Street (Wetherby) and B6167 Otley Road (Headingley) which may impact the number of pedestrians. During the other data collection days, the weather was dry with no cloud between 10:00 and 16:00. On Friday 9th July at Commercial Street, a sales cart was in proximity to the footfall camera. This partially obscured the data collectors' view of pedestrian flows; it is unknown whether the sales cart would impact counts recorded by the footfall camera. Representation and Bias There are no expected representational issues or biases in the data. All people have a similar chance of being recorded by the human data collectors. See 'Counting Methodology' for details about people who were deliberately excluded due to their chosen transport method. Citation The following statement should be included when citing the use of this dataset: "The data for this research were funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 757455), and provided by the Consumer Data Research Centre, an ESRC Data Investment (grant ES/L011840/1; ES/L011891/1)" 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Further collaborations with Leeds City Council, especially through the Intern Programme. 
URL https://data.cdrc.ac.uk/dataset/manually-collected-footfall-counts-leeds
 
Title Mapping Advertising Assets Project (MAAP) - by Francesca Pontin, Alex Hamberley, Imani Wilson and Vicki Jenneson 
Description Over 5 weeks in May and June 2023, 30 neighbourhoods (LSOAs) were visited in Leeds and photographed all the outdoor advertising assets that were found. In particular, we were interested in food and drink products. The data collected help explore the healthfulness of adverts across Leeds. 
Type Of Material Data analysis technique 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Partnerships - Maintained and strengthened partnership with Leeds City Council, new relationship with Sustain, new relationship with Bite Back 2030, Adfree Cities, new academic relationships - University of Newcastle, and University of Liverpool. Development of a new dashboard tool (MAAP) for exploration of outdoor advertising exposures in visited areas in Leeds. Presentations: • Presentation to Healthier Food Advertising Policy Sub-Group consisting of Public Health representatives from Yorkshire and Humber local authorities - 26th September 2023 9attended by representatives from four local authorities) • Presentation to Leeds City Council Public Health Tam - 11th October 2023 • Presentation at internal research seminar - CDRC research reveals - 7th December 2023 • Presentation at policy projects networking event, University Funding awarded: Leeds Social Sciences Institute (LSSI) and ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA), 'MAAP Leeds (Mapping Advertising Assets Project', 2023 (3 months) (£10,454.48) - Victoria Jenneson Principle Investigator, Michelle Morris, Imani Wilson (Research Assistant) Research England (ESRC), University of Leeds Policy Support Fund, 'MAAP - Mapping Advertising Assets across Leeds Project', 2023 (7 months) (£95,408.11) - Victoria Jenneson Principle Investigator, Francesca Pontin, Charlotte Evans, Michelle Morris, Imani Wilson (Research Assistant) 
URL https://maap-dashboard.azurewebsites.net/
 
Title Mastercard In-Person Transaction Volumes and Values Index (Yorkshire and the Humber) 
Description This data profile describes a dataset held by the CDRC which has been supplied by Mastercard Europe SA. The dataset is composed of anonymised and aggregated data sourced from card transactions. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact This transactional dataset provides insight into the relative growth of 14 different retail industries since January 2020. Six different measures of growth are provided: total spend, number of transactions, number of cards used, average spend per transaction, average transactions per card, and average spend per card. The geographic scale is at the level of postcode sector; roughly, this level is more granular than MSOA but not as granular as LSOA. The diverse variety of retail industries present makes this a particularly novel dataset in the CDRC's data store. The dataset will also be updated monthly, showing relatively current trends, rather than being limited to historical analyses. 
URL https://data.cdrc.ac.uk/dataset/mastercard-person-transaction-volumes-and-values-index-yorkshire-and...
 
Title Micro-level transport-health interactions model 
Description The model takes new mobile phone location data (Track and Trace data) to calculate individual exposure to activity and pollutant related health burdens arising from travel choices. The model is also able to calculate an equity outcome for the resultant health burdens. The model has significantly adapted an existing macro level model of transport-health (ITHIM). 
Type Of Material Data analysis technique 
Year Produced 2017 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact The model is still under further development and hasn't yet been made available to others. The background input data is not publicly available. 
 
Title New version of Robin Lovelace's stats19 R package - 2019 
Description CDRC Co-I Robin Lovelace's stats19 R package - R package for working with open road traffic casualty data from Great Britain https://docs.ropensci.org/stats19. stats19 provides functions for downloading and formatting road crash data. Specifically, it enables access to the UK's official road traffic casualty database, STATS19. (The name comes from the form used by the police to record car crashes and other incidents resulting in casualties on the roads.) A full overview of STATS19 variables 
Type Of Material Computer model/algorithm 
Year Produced 2019 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact No known impacts yet. 
URL https://github.com/ropensci/stats19
 
Title Nightline Analysis Algorithm 
Description Algorithm that uses industry classification labelled smart meter consumption data to analyse the minimum and average flow over the nightline (2-4AM, though this is user definable) on a per-premises basis. Next, the algorithm groups premises-level analysis by the industry classification label to report the minimum and average nightline flow values by industry grouping. 
Type Of Material Computer model/algorithm 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact Aided in the construction of consumption benchmarks by industry segment. 
 
Title Nutrient and Promotion Profile Model - Vicki Jenneson, Janet Cade and Rachel Oldroyd. 
Description Use the NPPM calculator to assess how baby food products perform on aspects of nutrition and promotion. 
Type Of Material Data analysis technique 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Consumer Data Research Centre, Support for LIDA Data Science Development Programme 2023-24. 'Understanding Public Health Priorities for Baby Foods Across Europe.' (6 months) (£19,500) - Victoria Jenneson Principle Investigator, Janet Cade and Rachel Oldroyd. New partnerships: • WHO European Office for Non-Communicable Diseases • WHO Collaborating Centre for Nutritional Epidemiology, University of Leeds 
URL https://babyfoodnppm.org/
 
Title OpenInfra package 
Description The package is being develop as part of the CDRC internship 2021-2022 (supervisors: R. Lovelace, V. Houlden, E. Manley). It aims to be a go-to space for citizens and policy makers who want to learn about and/or use OpenStreetMap data in transport research. 
Type Of Material Data handling & control 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact The package is open-source and published on GitHub. This contributes to (open) knowledge production by encouraging other to both use and contribute to the development of the package. So far an article published as part of the package has received substantial interest on social media (link: https://twitter.com/robinlovelace/status/1498952906015264769). 
URL https://github.com/udsleeds/openinfra
 
Title Otley BID 
Description This dataset has been provided by Otley Business Investment District (BID), an investment scheme for local businesses based in Otley, West Yorkshire. The data is an hour-by-hour account of footfall for four separate locations around Otley. Each site contains a sensor - typically by the ground-floor or first-floor window - which counts the distinct number of devices detected by nearby wireless-enabled devices. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2017 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact na 
URL https://data.cdrc.ac.uk/dataset/otley-bid-footfall-data
 
Title Priority Places for Food Index Version 2 
Description Location, ranks and deciles for the combined index and its contributory domains across the UK. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2024 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Please see Narrative of Impact 
URL https://data.cdrc.ac.uk/dataset/priority-places-food-index-version-2/resource/priority-places-food-i...
 
Title Probiotics Chatter on UK Twitter 
Description This dataset comprises nearly N=75,000 tweets on UK chatter related to probiotic products. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2018 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact A research paper reporting the findings from two sets of analyses from this dataset is under review at a top tier journal. 
 
Title Psychological Effects of Exposure to Conflicting Nutritional Information 
Description This survey dataset N = 676 UK consumers comprises responses to questions surrounding levels of exposure to conflicting information about nutritional issues in the news and social media, and the effects of such exposure to nutrition confusion and backlash. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2018 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact We published a paper in Public Health Nutrition journal detailing the psychological effects of exposure to conflicting nutritional information. 
URL https://osf.io/zpa5b/
 
Title Strava Metro Activity, Environmental and Socioeconomic Conditions in Bradford 
Description The dataset integrates Strava Metro data, capturing cycling and running activities across age and gender, with key weather variables such as temperature and precipitation (MIDAS) alongside the Index of Multiple Deprivation. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2024 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact The dataset enables analysis of weather and socioeconomic factors on active travel in Bradford. It will form the basis of a visual dashboard and will allow more complex analysis through machine learning. Full impacts not realised yet. 
 
Title Synthetic Population 
Description This synthetic population contains individual level data from England and Wales, generated from the 2011 census data. Individual row level data is available for MSOA geography. A description of the variables in the dataset is attached. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2016 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact CDRC has received 2 research applications to use this data set. 
URL https://data.cdrc.ac.uk/dataset/synthetic-population
 
Title Topic Modelling and Social Network Analysis 
Description We performed automated topic modelling and social network analysis on a dataset of nearly N=75,000 tweets related to probiotic products in the UK. 
Type Of Material Data analysis technique 
Year Produced 2020 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact Research findings using these techniques have been submitted to a journal and these techniques will be made publicly available upon publication. 
 
Title UK Women's Cohort Questionnaire Data 
Description The UK Women's Cohort Study is one of the largest cohort studies investigating associations between diet and cancer in the UK. It was established in 1995 with the aim of investigating links between diet and health. A large cohort of over 35,000 middle aged women has been created encompassing a wide range of different eating patterns, including diets currently of interest to research into protection against cancer and coronary heart disease. Women in the cohort are health conscious with only 11% current smokers and 58% taking dietary supplements. 28% of the subjects self-report being vegetarian and 1% vegan. Participants are regularly followed up to study the effects of different food and nutrient intakes on long-term health outcomes. A cohort profile has been published in the International Journal of Epidemiology: International Journal of Epidemiology, 2015, 1-11 doi: 10.1093/ije/dyv173 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2019 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Used in multiple CDRC-Leeds Data Service projects since 2019, as well as the CDRC Innovation Fund. 
URL https://data.cdrc.ac.uk/dataset/uk-womens-cohort-questionnaire-data
 
Title UK Womens Cohort Study 
Description The UK Women's Cohort Study is one of the largest cohort studies investigating associations between diet and cancer in the UK. It was established in 1995 with the aim of investigating links between diet and health. A large cohort of over 35,000 middle aged women has been created encompassing a wide range of different eating patterns, including diets currently of interest to research into protection against cancer and coronary heart disease. Women in the cohort are health conscious with only 11% current smokers and 58% taking dietary supplements. 28% of the subjects self-report being vegetarian and 1% vegan. Participants are regularly followed up to study the effects of different food and nutrient intakes on long-term health outcomes. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2016 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact na 
URL https://data.cdrc.ac.uk/dataset/uk-womens-cohort-questionnaire-data
 
Title Ubiquitous Digital Technologies and Spatial Structure; an update 
Description This is the data set required to reproduce Tranos and Ioannides (2021). The code and more information can be found in https://github.com/etranos/ict.un.us.uk. The paper can be found in https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248982 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://zenodo.org/record/4630728
 
Title Urban Transport Modelling for Sustainable Well-Being in Hanoi: Implementing a classification model for opinions on proposed motorbike ban 
Description This model is part of a British Academy project undertaking urban transport modeling in Hà N?i, aimed at creating statistical and spatial models of transport behaviors and attitudes. The model is a Gradient Boosting Machine which classifies whether respondents agree/disagree with a proposed motorbike ban based on socio-demographic attributes, travel behaviours and choices on the perceptions of people using transport. 
Type Of Material Computer model/algorithm 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact The model has revealed interesting insights and patterns that affect people's opinion to the ban such as distance to public transport, ownership of certain types of cars, occupation age and spatial location. This has helped steer more focused Exploratory Data Analysis of such factors, gather more insights and understanding. The results will be shared on an interactive dashboard with policy makers. This will help policy makers understand the process driving different travel behaviors within Hanoi. 
 
Title Urban Transport Modelling for Sustainable Well-Being in Hanoi: New Data Dashboard 
Description This project develops a data dashboard using R Shiny to serve as a communication tool of the survey findings. The dashboard will allow policy makers in Vietnam to interrogate models and data in order to develop an understanding of the trends in the data, and answer research questions, and to thereby make informed decisions. As well as generating summaries of the data, the dashboard will allow policy makers to explore 'what if' scenarios around attitudes towards a proposed motorbike ban in Hà N?i and stated transport preferences. 
Type Of Material Data analysis technique 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact The dashboard development is still ongoing. 
 
Title Urban Transport Modelling for Sustainable Well-Being in Hanoi: Spatial Interaction Model by Transport mode 
Description This model is part of a British Academy project undertaking urban transport modeling in Hà N?i, aimed at creating statistical and spatial models of transport behaviors and attitudes. This model is a novel approach of extending the existing Spatial Interaction Model to simulate the number of journeys made from an origin to a destination using a given mode of transport. The modes allows the effect of trip cost on the flows to change depending on the means of transport used hence unravelling how the journey costs for each mode could affect its corresponding trips, how flows by transport mode would shift if a ban were introduced, and the effects on the destination areas. 
Type Of Material Computer model/algorithm 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact This is still a work in progress. It is hoped that this will elucidate new insights and answer policy development questions such as how, where, and when motorbikes should be banned (if at all) and the impacts on existing modes of transport. 
 
Title Using loyalty card data to investigate food purchasing shift to Eatwell Guide 
Description Code written up for analysis investigating whether a particular major food retailer's intervention shifted a specific customer group's food purchasing patterns towards the Eatwell Guide. The code handles transaction and consumer data provided by a Major Food Retailer. The code is subject to Data Sharing Agreement between the Retailer providing the code and LIDA. It is currently in LIDA's secure research platform LASER and is accessible by a small number of people within the team who have been granted access to the virtual research environment. The code cannot be extracted from the VRE without permission from the Retailer. 
Type Of Material Data handling & control 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact The code is helping determine the success of the Retailer's trial. It is also helping to determine the success of the behavioural lever used in the trial for the specific demographic concerned. It is generalisable and reproducible so "anonymised" version of the code can be used in the context of analysing other trials either by the same or a different retailer if given appropriate clearance. 
 
Title WhenFresh/Zoopla Property Transactions and Rentals 
Description These data relate to property transactions, rentals and associated migration within England and Wales between 2014 and 2021. Transaction data covers over 5M property listings from major England and Wales property portals while rental data covers over 4M listings. The series have been corroborated with land registry sales and Royal Mail re-directions to produce a hindsight data view of: Listings for Sale; Transactions recorded; Move Dates evidenced; Destination postcodes Listings for Rent; Transactions recorded; Rental Dates; Destination postcodes 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Will be used in a CDRC project on the LIDA Intern Programme 2022-23. Is currently receiving applications through the CDRC Secure Data Service which will lead to project and research outputs. 
URL https://data.cdrc.ac.uk/dataset/whenfreshzoopla-property-transactions-rentals-and-associated-migrati...
 
Title Whenfresh 
Description 1. This data relates to property rentals and associated migration within the England and Wales for 2014 and 2015. It covers 0.5m rental listings from major England and Wales property portals. It has been corroborated with land registry sales and Royal Mail re-directions to produce a hindsight data view of: Listings for Rent; Transactions recorded; Rental Dates; Destination postcodes 2. This data relates to property transactions and associated migration within the England and Wales for 2014 and 2015. It covers 1.8m property listings from major England and Wales property portals. It has been corroborated with land registry sales and Royal Mail re-directions to produce a hindsight data view of: Listings for Sale; Transactions recorded; Move Dates evidenced; Destination postcodes 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2016 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact CDRC has received 14 research applications to use these data sets 
URL https://data.cdrc.ac.uk/product?q=whenfresh&sort=name+asc
 
Title Which? Priority Places for Insulation Index 
Description The Priority Places for Insulation Index (PPII) ranks geographical areas within each nation of the UK across eight different indicators relating to insulation needs. The index is produced by weighting and combining the eight indicators to construct an overall ranking of Priority Places for Insulation within each nation. It has been produced at three levels of geographical: local authorities, parliamentary constituencies and small local areas. A web tool to display, map and graph the results for your local area can be found at https://insulation.which.co.uk/. The index was developed by Which?. It was constructed using open data and web-scraped data from the publicly accessible Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) register for Northern Ireland as well as relevant sites where installers can be found or listed. The index is novel because it incorporates both aspects of housing stock and household circumstances which exacerbate the need for insulation. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact The Prioirty Places for Insulation Index was created to build upon the success of the CDRC's Priority Places for Food Index in collaboration with Which?. Which? have shared this data product to be hosted by the CDRC to increase the academic impact and dissemination of their research in response to rising energy bills. 
URL https://data.cdrc.ac.uk/dataset/which-priority-places-insulation-index
 
Title YouGov 
Description This dataset contains survey data collected and analysed by YouGov plc between 27/7/15 and 27/7/16. Data on the following subjects is available: ? Supermarket shopping behaviours ? Attitudes to sustainability, environmental issues and food ? Food-related behaviours ? Commuting The Data is also separated along the following lines: • Location • Age • Gender • Social Demographic 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2017 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact CDRC has received 5 research applications to use this data set 
URL https://data.cdrc.ac.uk/dataset/yougov-survey-data
 
Title YouGov 
Description Updated data set for 2018-2019 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2019 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact New data set, already 1 application to use the dataset in conjunction with supermarket data to find those areas of the country that are least served by supermarkets i.e. delivery service. 
URL https://data.cdrc.ac.uk/dataset/yougov-survey-data
 
Title ijgis_data_and_code.zip 
Description This repository contains the code, data and environments required to reproduce certain parts of the paper, "How can object detection be used to understand drivers of consumption space attractiveness?" 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact No known impacts yet. 
URL https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/ijgis_data_and_code_zip/14079842
 
Title system dynamics model for the contribution of new micro level data in capturing transport related health outcomes 
Description A new system dynamics model of transport-health interactions that specifically includes the contribution and influence of new data forms. 
Type Of Material Computer model/algorithm 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact Too early to say 
 
Description AirBNB 
Organisation AirDNA
Country Spain 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Data license agreement signed between 2 parties and UK academics have been able to apply to use the data for their novel research
Collaborator Contribution Data provider
Impact Data provider - individual projects / users are entered separately.
Start Year 2018
 
Description AirDNA - expanded agreement 
Organisation AirDNA
Country Spain 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Having initially tested feasibility via developing and agreeing a series of potential applicable research questions, we successfully negotiated a two-year subscription to AirDNA's UK-wide property performance data. This represented a considerable improvement on and update to the data behind our original agreement with AirDNA agreement, which had covered London and Leeds alone and represented activity no later than the end of 2018.
Collaborator Contribution AirDNA's responsibilities under the new agreement chiefly lie in ensuring monthly deliveries of data. As a result of AirDNA's more recent corporate shift to a subscription model, the CDRC also now benefits from a dedicated account manager; ensuring researcher or administrator queries on data quality can be resolved in a timelier manner.
Impact Multi-disciplinary research using this data is ongoing, including (currently) a PhD focusing on how households in England and Wales evaluate the time value of housing. Thematically, research using the data will relate most closely to the themes of population, infrastructure and housing.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Asda Sustainable Business team 
Organisation Asda Stores Limited
Department Sustainability at Asda
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Provided data analysis to Asda sustainability decision-making on green marketing and product development. Focused on dairy and poultry categories. Developed national Every Day Expert questionnaires every quarter 2012-16 on consumer attitudes and behaviour on sustainability issues with panel of 20,000 customers.
Collaborator Contribution Provided data and use of Insight consumer panel.
Impact Journal papers in writing.
Start Year 2012
 
Description Bike Citizens - data partner 
Organisation Bike Citizens
Country Austria 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Bike Citizens data will be made available for researchers nationwide to access
Collaborator Contribution Anonymised cyclist movement data in GPX format by users of the "Bike Citizens" app in London
Impact Data made available via the CDRC data store
Start Year 2016
 
Description Born in Bradford - CDRC Internship 2020/21 (intern Tom Albone) 
Organisation Bradford Institute for Health Research (BIHR)
Department Born in Bradford
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution CDRC Co-I Michelle Morris is supervising intern Tom Albone working on the project Healthy Choices, Healthy Lives in partnership with Bradford Institute for Health Research (Born in Bradford).
Collaborator Contribution BIHR is providing data for the project as well as a framework for community outreach and support.
Impact Blog series on Free School Meals in Dec 2020 and Jan 2021 (URL above) which received significant impact: The first blog receiving in the first 24 hours after release 3756 Impressions, 166 engagements (liked, retweeted, clicked for more info etc), and 112 read the article in full on the website. Case study from Tom will be forthcoming at the end of March 2021.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Bounts - Data partner 
Organisation Bounts Limited
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Bounts data has been made available for researchers nationwide to access
Collaborator Contribution Bounts is a fitness app and activity data has been made available via the CDRC data store
Impact Data made available via the CDRC data store
Start Year 2016
 
Description Bradford Opportunity Area and CAER Intern Projects 2019-20 (Holly Clarke) and 2020-21 (Bradford interns x7) 
Organisation Centre for Applied Education Research
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution CDRC Co-Is Nick Malleson and Alison Heppenstall are co-supervising the project, Modelling the impact of school admission criteria on pupil distribution across the City of Bradford, and intern Holly Clarke. In collaboration with BOA and CAER. CDRC Co-I Michelle Morris is supervising Bradford intern Tom Albone (2020/21) who is looking at the impact of deprivation and inequality in health in the Bradford interns as part of a wider cohort of 7 Bradford-based interns. Former CDRC colleague Ning Lu is facilitating these projects with supervision and data access.
Collaborator Contribution Funding put up by BOA for the 6 month project and Bradford City Council has provided data and work placement for intern Holly Clarke to work on the data at their premises. Ongoing partnership in 2020/21 on the x7 Bradford intern projects which are exploring issues of deprivation, inequality, Covid-impact, mental health impact, and impact on education in the Holme Wood and wider Bradford areas.
Impact 10th Jan 2020 Bradford Opportunity Area workshop; hosted at the Wolfson in Bradford, attended by the interns and Holly gave a presentation on this project to much acclaim. She has also presented to the Dept for Education on her work to similar acclaim.
Start Year 2019
 
Description British Library - expansion of the Geoindex 
Organisation The British Library
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Provided a theoretical and analytical framework to utilse the JISC UK Web Domain Dataset and the derived Geoindex data in a meaningful geographical research.
Collaborator Contribution Expanded the Geoindex for the years 2011-2013 and publish it freely online
Impact This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration which involves geographers, data analysts and archivists. This is the very beginning of our project, so no further outputs can be identified
Start Year 2017
 
Description CDRC Internship (Allan Jard) - Physical activity and sleep of 100 000 people, with data partner UK Biobank (2016/17) 
Organisation UK Biobank
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Intern Allan Jard worked in partnership with UK Biobank to complete a project to better understand physical activity and sleeping patterns in a cohort of 100,000 people. Intern utilised UK Biobank data. Dr Law was the internship supervisor and is on the Wellcome-funded UK Biobank Activity Expert Group, with membership of the Sleep Working Group. An important focus is to build a resource that can explore questions about how sleep may affect clinical and health outcomes. The aim of this project will be to develop and validate methods/algorithms for using UK Biobank accelerometry data to estimate sleep and wake periods. In addition to the biostatistical expertise provided by Dr Law, the work will be done in close collaboration with Dr Eleanor Scott a clinical expert in sleep/circadian rhythms and cardiometabolic disease (Dr Eleanor Scott). This is a unique opportunity for LIDA, as very few large scale epidemiological studies collect objective measures of sleep/activity.
Collaborator Contribution UK Biobank provided the data for this internship. Between 2013-2016 UK Biobank invited participants to wear a wrist-worn accelerometer to measure 7-day activity, with over 103,000 datasets collected.
Impact The initial output was the development of the sleep and activity measures for quantifying accelerometer data within UK Biobank. These can be used as a key resource for other sleep researchers as part of the UK biobank. In view of the size of the dataset, the complexity and depth of the accelerometer data that will be obtained, and its potential value to sleep and activity researchers, we anticipate that these results will be published in a high impact journal.
Start Year 2016
 
Description CDRC Internship (Bethan Swift) - Investigating factors behind low or zero household recycling rates in Leeds - Leeds City Council 
Organisation Leeds City Council
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Intern worked in partnership with LCC and the University of Leeds Sustainability team to complete a project to better understand the areas of the City with very low or zero household recycling. Intern utilised LCC data and conducted attitudinal surveys to better understand the issues and to identify the most successful interventions.
Collaborator Contribution Leeds City Council provided funding, data and joint supervision.
Impact An interactive visualisation tool is currently being developed for use by Leeds City Council. The tool will display recycling rates in each of the Leeds Wards and provide advice for people living in those wards to increase their recycling rates.
Start Year 2016
 
Description CDRC Internship (Charlotte Sturley) - Real time simulation of daily travel patterns - Catch! (Transport Systems Catapult) 
Organisation Transport Systems Catapult
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Project designed to answer the following questions: How can crowd-sourced smartphone application data be used to better understand individuals spatial and temporal movement patterns? Can the behaviours observed in the sample of app users be scaled up to city level? Do behaviour patterns vary by person type? Age Gender Socio-economic group
Collaborator Contribution Overall data project partner for this internship is Catch! Data Partners: Transport Systems Catapult University of Glasgow (Urban Big Data Centre) University of Leeds (Consumer Data Research Centre) - also provided supervision from Prof Mark Birkin, Dr Robin Lovelace, Prof Susan Grant-Muller and Dr Nikee Groot.
Impact A methodology for generating a synthetic population of individuals from Census tables for any Local Authority area. A process for linking a synthetic population to crowdsourced mobile app data. A microsimulation model for the case study area of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Start Year 2016
 
Description CDRC Internship (Ed Berry) - Identifying problem gamblers - SkyBet 
Organisation Sky Betting & Gaming
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Supervised by Richard Mann, this internship is a collaboration with Sky Bet in order to explore their data on problem gamblers in order to identify risks.
Collaborator Contribution Sky Bet are contributing to this internship with their data in order to identify problem gamblers.
Impact No outputs yet.
Start Year 2017
 
Description CDRC Internship (Evie Rothwell Douglas) - Involving cancer patients in decisions about how their data is used - useMYdata 
Organisation MY data movement
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Evie worked with data provided by useMYdata in order to demonstrate ways in which cancer patients can be involved in decisions on how their data is used.
Collaborator Contribution Provided datasets for the intern project.
Impact No known outputs.
Start Year 2016
 
Description CDRC Internship (Jamie Peterson) - Multi-scale infrastructure systems analytics in collaboration with the ITRC MISTRAL project 
Organisation UK Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution This internship supported the work of ITRC Mistral by examining multi-scale infrastructure systems, with the goal to provide models and evidence to influence the planning and design of national infrastructure, such as: Transport, Water Supply, Waste water, Energy, Digital communications and Waste.
Collaborator Contribution This internship was supported by ITRC MISTRAL and fed into their ongoing work to ensure that its research is taken up and used to improve the resilience of infrastructure systems in the UK and further afield. The ITRC MISTRAL academic partners include the universities of Oxford, Newcastle, Southampton, Cardiff, Cambridge, and Sussex. ITRC's external partners are from across the infrastructure community. It works with infrastructure providers, investors and associated businesses, but also talks to policy makers and the organisations that are supporting the sector, including encouraging innovation. This includes the external partners listed here: http://www.itrc.org.uk/about-us/partners/#.WqjkMWrFKUk.
Impact No known outputs.
Start Year 2016
 
Description CDRC Internship (Katie Nicol Baines) - Linking nutritional intake of phytosterols with breast cancer outcomes: a spatial microsimulation approach - Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust 
Organisation Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution This 16 week internship will take a two stage format: stage 1 - training; stage 2 - applied research. Skills learnt during the training stage (1) will be demonstrated during the applied research element (2). Stage 1 - Training The first two weeks of the project will be comprised of self-directed learning. Support and guidance will be available from Michelle and James as required. Primary learning materials will be as follows: • Book: Spatial Microsimulation: A Reference Guide for Users ed's Tanton and Edwards • Book chapter: Birkin et al: Using census data in microsimulation modelling • Familiarisation with the National Diet and Nutrition Survey • Familiarisation with PPM+ http://www.slideshare.net/TonyShannon1/nhs-england-open-source-event-tony-shannon-open-platform) Support acquiring and working with clinical data from PPM+ will be provided by the LIDA Data Services team. Stage 2 - Applied research The remainder of the project will consist of applied research and writing up of findings. The student will join an already established project which utilizes microsimulation methods to understand diet and health outcomes. The student will: a) Identify phytosterol or oxidized cholesterol rich foods in the NDNS b) link these nutritional data from the NDNS to synthetic population for Leeds c) link breast cancer outcomes to the synthetic dataset d) investigate associations between sterol intake and breast cancer outcomes cross-sectionally in this dataset
Collaborator Contribution Data sources used: • Breast cancer outcomes and chemotherapy treatments in PPM+ data (available via the MRC Medical Bioinformatics Centre). • Synthetic population for all Leeds residents at small area geography level (available via the ESRC Consumer Data Research Centre). This is CDRC 'safeguarded' data and will be subject the RAG approval. • Nutritional records reported in the National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) which will be appended to the synthetic population for Leeds
Impact No outputs reported as yet.
Start Year 2016
 
Description CDRC Internship (Michael Adcock) - Creating a vulnerability score for the UK adult population - REaD Group 
Organisation REaD Group Ltd
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Supervised by Nik Lomax, this internship is a collaboration with REaD Group in order to create a vulnerability score for the UK adult population.
Collaborator Contribution REaD Group are collaborating with the CDRC by providing data for this internship.
Impact No outputs yet.
Start Year 2017
 
Description CDRC Internship (Molly Asher) - Petition Parliament Debates on Twitter - Petitions Committee (UK Parliament Committee) 
Organisation House of Commons
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution The CDRC intern contributed to a pilot study in preparation for an ESRC grant application/ESRC project on the effectiveness of the UK Parliament's e-petitions system with the goal to determine whether e-petitions have led to a rise in trust in parliament, the development of new engagement with parliament and/or policy changes. The main output of the internship project was Python (and some R) code scripts together with a technical documentation/report to be used and extended in the ESRC project (provided it is funded).
Collaborator Contribution Joint supervision and provision of data for pilot study
Impact Pilot study led to a ESRC White Rose DTP Collaborative Studentship to further the research.
Start Year 2016
 
Description CDRC Internship (Natacha Chenevoy) - Monitoring hate crime and community tensions through innovative social media analysis, in collaboration with Lancashire Police 
Organisation Lancashire Police Service
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Intern worked in partnership with Lancashire Police Service to complete a project to monitor hate crime and community tensions, using innovative social media analysis. Intern utilised Lancashire Police data for the study. Supervised by Carly Lightowlers and Nick Malleson. The overarching research question is: can the analysis of social media data provide an insight into changing community tensions and hate crime? This question will be addressed through two objectives. The first objective will be to determine whether the language of used in social media might be indicative of strong or weak community relations. It will begin with simple keyword-based analysis of the social media data, moving on to more nuanced natural language processing. The second objective will be to overlay alternative data sources that might supplement and validate the text analysis such as demographic statistics, the index of multiple deprivation, voting records, smart phone mobility data, etc., as well as routinely captured police hate crime data. This work will serve to scope the potential use of social media data for monitoring community tensions and hate crime alongside routine secondary data sources. The findings are thought to offer valuable insights into monitoring and developing effective policing strategies around hate crime and community policing.
Collaborator Contribution Lancashire Police Service provided the data for this internship, specifically police recorded hate crime data. Delivery of these data was agreed by Lancashire and South Yorkshire Constabularies and LIDA has adequate facilities to store the data (it already houses data provided by West Yorkshire Police for another project lead by the supervisors).
Impact Natasha has been nominated for an international award (IALEIA Award for Excellence) by Lancashire Police Service for the quality of her research and is due to collect this in 2018 from the awarding body in Los Angeles, US.
Start Year 2016
 
Description CDRC Internship (Ryan Ritchie) - Investigating the potential future size and configuration of the ATM network across the UK - LINK Scheme Ltd 
Organisation Link Scheme Holdings Ltd
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Supervised by Chris Duley, this internship is a collaboration with LINK in order to investigate the potential future size and configuration of the ATM network across the UK, using LINK data.
Collaborator Contribution LINK Scheme Ltd are collaborating on the internship by sharing data and will use any outcomes of the research to inform their business plan.
Impact No outputs yet.
Start Year 2017
 
Description CDRC User Application 009: North Yorkshire Council 
Organisation North Yorkshire County Council
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to Acxiom data for project 009: The Director of Public Health Annual Report for North Yorkshire
Collaborator Contribution Submitted an application to CDRC Secure Service for access to Acxiom data for project 009: The Director of Public Health Annual Report for North Yorkshire. The project required a highly aggregated level of data, therefore with the agreement of the data partner, the CDRC data scientists analysed the data on behalf of NYCC and provided highly aggregated outputs.
Impact Approved and completed CDRC User application 009.
Start Year 2016
 
Description CDRC User Application 010: Looking at the redevelopment around Elephant and Castle and the associated movement of people in and out of the area/ changes in property purchases - Whenfresh/Zoopla (25/05/2016) 
Organisation Emu Analytics Ltd
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Controlled Whenfresh/ Zoopla data for project 010 - Looking at the redevelopment around Elephant & Castle and the associated movement of people in and out of the area/ changes in property purchases. Application rejected by CDRC on commercial grounds.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Secure Service for access to Whenfresh and Zoopla data for project 010 - Looking at the redevelopment around Elephant & Castle and the associated movement of people in and out of the area/ changes in property purchases. Application rejected by CDRC on commercial grounds.
Impact Rejection of CDRC user application 010.
Start Year 2016
 
Description CDRC User Application 015: Transport and Land Value Uplift (received 08/07/2016) 
Organisation University of Leeds
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Controlled Whenfresh and Zoopla data for project 015 - Transport and Land Value Uplift. Application was withdrawn before being passed to CDRC Research Approvals Group.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Secure Service for access to Whenfresh and Zoopla data for project 015 - Transport and Land Value Uplift. Application withdrawn however.
Impact None.
Start Year 2016
 
Description CDRC User Application 016 - Developing a dynamic risk model for temporally clustered crime series (12/07/2016) 
Organisation University of Leeds
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Controlled Acxiom data for project 016 - Developing a dynamic risk model for temporally clustered crime series. Application approved by CDRC Research Approvals Group.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Secure Service for access to Acxiom data for project 016 - Developing a dynamic risk model for temporally clustered crime series. Full proposal submitted.
Impact CDRC User Application 016 - full proposal on record. In progress as part of a PhD project which is in its final year.
Start Year 2016
 
Description CDRC User Application 020 - Investigating the relationship between income, tenure, household composition and a range of health outcomes, e.g. obesity, diabetes and mental health - Acxiom (27/07/2016) 
Organisation University of Leeds
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Controlled Acxiom data for project 020 - Investigating the relationship between income, tenure, household composition and a range of health outcomes, e.g. obesity, diabetes and mental health. Application on hold.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Secure Service for access to Acxiom data for project 020 - Investigating the relationship between income, tenure, household composition and a range of health outcomes, e.g. obesity, diabetes and mental health. Project on hold.
Impact No outputs yet as project is currently on hold.
Start Year 2016
 
Description CDRC User Application 021 - Housing Market Indicators - Whenfresh/ Zoopla (27/08/2016) 
Organisation University of Liverpool
Department Department of Geography and Planning
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Controlled Whenfresh/ Zoopla data for project 021 - Housing Market Indicators. Application approved by CDRC Research Approvals Group on 06/10/2016.This project will create a series of indicators about different aspects of the GB housing market including search intensity in aggregate and then also compiled for a series of sub markets such as sales V rental, or housing types (e.g. flats, detached etc).
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Secure Service for access to Whenfresh/ Zoopla data for project 021 - Housing Market Indicators. Project halted because funding request was unsuccessful.
Impact No outputs yet as project is still underway.
Start Year 2016
 
Description CDRC User Application 022 - To examine house market in Liverpool - Whenfresh/ Zoopla (05/10/2016) 
Organisation Queen Mary University of London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Controlled Whenfresh/ Zoopla data for project 022 - To examine house market in Liverpool. Application withdrawn by applicant.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Secure Service for access to Whenfresh/ Zoopla data for project 022 - o examine house market in Liverpool. Application withdrawn by applicant.
Impact No outputs as application was withdrawn.
Start Year 2016
 
Description CDRC User Application 025: Zone design for statistical disclosure risk in population data 
Organisation University of Southampton
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Safeguarded Synthetic Population data for project 025: Zone design for statistical disclosure risk in population data. Application approved by CDRC Research Approvals Group and project completed by researcher.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application CDRC Safeguarded Service for access to CDRC Safeguarded Synthetic Population data for project 025: Zone design for statistical disclosure risk in population data. Project now complete.
Impact Approved CDRC User Application 025
Start Year 2016
 
Description CDRC User Application 027 - An exploration of Bike Citizens Data: developing tools and applications for enhanced analysis 
Organisation University of Leeds
Department Faculty of Environment
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Safeguarded Bike Citizens data for project 027 - An exploration of Bike Citizens Data: developing tools and applications for enhanced analysis. Application approved by CDRC Research Approvals Group.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Safeguarded Service for access to Bike Citizens Safeguarded data for project 027 - An exploration of Bike Citizens Data: developing tools and applications for enhanced analysis. Project now complete.
Impact Approved CDRC User Application 027
Start Year 2016
 
Description CDRC User Application 031 - Determinants of yields on private lettings in the UK - Whenfresh/ Zoopla (29/10/2016) 
Organisation University of Cambridge
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Controlled Whenfresh/Zoopla data for project 031 - Determinants of yields on private lettings in the UK. Application withdrawn before going to CDRC Research Approvals Group.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Secure Service for access to Whenfresh/Zoopla data for project 031 - Determinants of yields on private lettings in the UK. Application withdrawn by applicant.
Impact No outputs as application was withdrawn.
Start Year 2016
 
Description CDRC User Application 034 - Examining the role of consideration in made choice situations concerning food consumption or supermarket choices - YouGov (09/11/2016) 
Organisation University of Leeds
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Controlled YouGov data for project 034 - Examining the role of consideration in made choice situations concerning food consumption or supermarket choices. Application withdrawn before it reached CDRC Research Approvals Group.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Secure Service for access to YouGov data for project 034 - Examining the role of consideration in made choice situations concerning food consumption or supermarket choices. Application withdrawn by applicant.
Impact No outputs as application was withdrawn.
Start Year 2016
 
Description CDRC User Application 043 - Can new and emerging forms of data be used to better understand obesity in children? 
Organisation University of Leeds
Department Faculty of Environment
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Controlled Acxiom data for project 043 - Can new and emerging forms of data be used to better understand obesity in children? Application approved by CDRC Research Approvals Group.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Secure Service for access to Acxiom data for project 043 - Can new and emerging forms of data be used to better understand obesity in children? Project underway.
Impact Approval of CDRC User Application 043
Start Year 2017
 
Description CDRC User Application 058 - Can new and emerging forms of data be used to better understand obesity in adults? - Callcredit Cameo (26/04/2017) 
Organisation University of Leeds
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Controlled Callcredit data for project 058 - Can new and emerging forms of data be used to better understand obesity in adults? Application on hold.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Secure Service for access to Callcredit data for project 058 - Can new and emerging forms of data be used to better understand obesity in adults? Application on hold by applicant.
Impact No outputs as yet as project currently on hold.
Start Year 2017
 
Description CDRC User Application 068 - What is the impact of urban realm improvements on residential property prices in London? - Whenfresh/Zoopla (12/06/2017) 
Organisation University of Leeds
Department Institute of Transport Studies
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Controlled Whenfresh/Zoopla data for project 068 - What is the impact of urban realm improvements on residential property prices in London? Application approved by CDRC Research Approvals Group on 31/07/2017. The project is a hedonic house price study that aims to estimate the willingness to pay for urban realm improvements by measuring the land value uplift they provide. Using London as a case study, and with Transport for London (TfL) supporting by providing input and data, the work will provide an update to the established literature in this area with more comprehensive data and up to date techniques.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Secure Service for access to Whenfresh/Zoopla data for project 068 - What is the impact of urban realm improvements on residential property prices in London? Full proposal submitted 20/06/2017. Application approved but user decided not to use the dataset.
Impact No outputs as applicant decided not to use the CDRC dataset.
Start Year 2017
 
Description CDRC User Application 069 - Initial proposal only to use Synthetic Population dataset (16/06/2017) 
Organisation University of Salamanca
Country Spain 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Controlled Synthetic Population data for project 069 - Initial proposal only. Application withdrawn by applicant.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Secure Service for access to Synthetic Population data for project 069 - Initial proposal only. Application withdrawn by applicant.
Impact No outputs as application withdrawn by applicant.
Start Year 2017
 
Description CDRC User Application 071 - Residential Location Choice Modelling - Whenfresh/Zoopla (29/06/2017) 
Organisation City, University of London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Controlled Whenfresh/Zoopla data for project 071 - Residential Location Choice Modelling. Application approved by CDRC Research Approvals Group with requirement for major revision.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Secure Service for access to Whenfresh/Zoopla data for project 071 - Residential Location Choice Modelling. Application approved by CDRC Research Approvals Group with requirement for major revision. Project suspended by applicant.
Impact No outputs as project suspended by applicant.
Start Year 2017
 
Description CDRC User Application 073 - Initial proposal only for access to HRUK dataset (29/06/2017) 
Organisation Villanova University
Country United States 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Controlled HRUK data for project 073 - Initial proposal only, not pursued by applicant.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Secure Service for access to HRUK data for project 073 - Initial proposal only, not pursued by applicant.
Impact No outputs as application not pursued by applicant.
Start Year 2017
 
Description CDRC User Application 074 - Space-Time Modelling of discreet, cross-sectional and sparse social survey data - Synthetic Population (30/06/2017) 
Organisation University College London
Department Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC safeguarded Synthetic Population data for project 074 - Space-Time Modelling of discreet, cross-sectional and sparse social survey data. Application approved by CDRC Research Approvals Group on 14/08/2017. Neighbourhood level approaches to modelling phenomena are hampered by data sparsity. This sparsity, also called the small number problem, results in estimates that are unstable and uncertainty in the results. This research explores the impact of this sparsity in spatiotemporal Bayesian approaches for estimating and forecasting phenomenon at the neighbourhood level. Safeguarded data delivered to User.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Secure Service for access to Synthetic Population data for project 074 - Space-Time Modelling of discreet, cross-sectional and sparse social survey data. Full proposal submitted on 26/07/2017. Project now complete.
Impact No known outputs.
Start Year 2017
 
Description CDRC User Application 075 - Housing market forces and population mobility: the effects of the growth of the private rented sector in London - Whenfresh/Zoopla and Acxiom (04/07/2017) 
Organisation University College London
Department Bartlett Development Planning Unit
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Controlled Whenfresh/ Zoopla and Acxiom data for project 075 - Housing market forces and population mobility: the effects of the growth of the private rented sector in London. Application approved by CDRC Research Approvals Group on 26/09/2017. The research investigates the extent to which housing market forces are contributing to increasing transience levels in urban areas, particularly in London, wherein access to housing has become even more linked with the ability to pay. The research focuses on the private rented sector and investigates how its regulatory framework and the length of tenancy agreements impact the sense of security of private renters and social cohesion in neighbourhoods. The research also investigates issues of governance by exploring the work of local authorities as they are responsible for enforcing housing standards, and how these are being affected by the growth of the sector at a time of austerity cuts. Semi-structured interviews with private renters and those working for local authorities are being conducted and statistical analysis on rental transaction data and associated migration is being planned to shed further light on transience levels associated with the private rented sector Research underway at UCL lab.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Secure Service for access to Whenfresh/ Zoopla and Acxiom data for project 075 - Housing market forces and population mobility: the effects of the growth of the private rented sector in London. Application approved by CDRC Research Approvals Group and project underway at UCL secure facilities.
Impact No known outputs as yet.
Start Year 2017
 
Description CDRC User Application 083 - FixMyStreet: Micro-geographies of civic engagement and neighbourhood environmental quality - Acxiom, Whenfresh/Zoopla, Bike Citizens (31/07/2017) 
Organisation Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Country United States 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Controlled Acxiom, Whenfresh/Zoopla and Bike Citizens data for Innovation Fund project 083 - FixMyStreet: Micro-geographies of civic engagement and neighbourhood environmental quality. Application approved by CDRC Research Approvals Group on 03/09/2017. Also use of Leeds secure facilities for data access. This project would make use of a large street quality reporting dataset in combination with existing CDRC data assets, in order to explore micro-geographies of civic engagement and neighbourhood environmental quality. Specifically, we will use data provided by FixMyStreet (c.1m records) to explore local neighbourhood conditions across the UK in relation to income, deprivation, household moves, transport, health and internet penetration. A secondary aim of the project is to engage MySociety, the creators of FixMyStreet, more fully in the wider CDRC project (including making FixMyStreet data available via CDRC). The research team have already secured access to the data and begun to explore it. We now need funding to take the work forward. With the support of the CDRC, we will produce findings of particular interest to local authorities across the UK, in addition to academic researchers and neighbourhood residents. User Agreements signed and project underway.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Secure Service for access to Acxiom, Whenfresh/Zoopla and Bike Citizens data for project 083 - FixMyStreet: Micro-geographies of civic engagement and neighbourhood environmental quality. Project underway.
Impact No known outputs as yet as project started in Jan 2018.
Start Year 2017
 
Description CDRC User Application 085 - A Data-Driven Approach to Unlocking the Probiotics Controversy, Understanding Public Confidence and Analysing Consumption in the UK - YouGov (31/07/2017) 
Organisation Northumbria University
Department Department of Psychology
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Controlled YouGov data for Innovation Fund project 085 - A Data-Driven Approach to Unlocking the Probiotics Controversy, Understanding Public Confidence and Analysing Consumption in the UK. Application approved by CDRC Research Approvals Group on 04/09/2017). The demand for probiotics (or good bacteria) products surges on in the UK and globally despite lack of consumer understanding of how they work, equivocal evidence about their effectiveness, and regulatory caution about health claims made by probiotics manufacturers. The project deconstructs this important public health debate by asking a fundamental question: what drives consumer confidence in probiotics products when the evidence, and labelling policies, are fraught with controversy? We explore this question using datasets from three sources: a) a national socio-behavioural online survey of probiotics confidence and consumption, b) a social media analytics platform, and c) YouGov and British Population surveys from CDRC's data repository. Using geo-visualization methods, we will construct geographical profiles of probiotics understanding, confidence, sentiments, and consumption in the UK. Our project will culminate with dissemination of findings to schools, parents, practitioners and policymakers through theatre workshops, research and policy briefs, and a virtual seminar series. User agreements signed and project underway.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Secure Service for access to YouGov data for project 085 - A Data-Driven Approach to Unlocking the Probiotics Controversy, Understanding Public Confidence and Analysing Consumption in the UK. Application approved by CDRC Research Approvals Group and project underway
Impact No known outputs as yet as project commenced in Nov 2017.
Start Year 2017
 
Description CDRC User Application 087 - Data driven, social, economic and spatial profiles; obesity DSESP-obesity/ Data driven, social, economic and spatial profiles; physical activity - D-SESP-PA - Active Inspiration, Callcredit and Whenfresh/Zoopla (31/07/2017) 
Organisation Leeds Beckett University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Controlled Active Inspiration, Callcredit and Whenfresh/Zoopla data for Innovation Fund project 087 - Data driven, social, economic and spatial profiles; obesity DSESP-obesity/ Data driven, social, economic and spatial profiles; physical activity - D-SESP-PA. Application approved by CDRC Research Approvals Group on 29/09/2017, and Leeds safe rooms will be used for data access. Obesity and physical activity are both national priorities for the UK Government - yet to date, approaches to reduce obesity and increase physical activity, have been meet with limited success. Both are now viewed through a social lens (oppose to a medical one). These aim of these projects are twofold: (1) investigate if the economic and social environment in which an individual lives is associated with attendance to and effectiveness of weight management interventions and physical activity levels; (2) identify if attendance at weight management interventions and self-tracking app use for physical activity are socially patterned. At the individual level results will allow targeting of resources to individuals, or subgroups of individuals most in need and at the area level results could inform intervention design and also be of interest policy makers in terms of increasing the effectiveness of public services and policy decision. User Agreements signed and project underway.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Secure Service for access to Active Inspiration, Callcredit and Whenfresh/Zoopla data for project 087 - Data driven, social, economic and spatial profiles; obesity DSESP-obesity/ Data driven, social, economic and spatial profiles; physical activity - D-SESP-PA. Application approved by CDRC Research Approvals Group and project underway.
Impact No known outputs as yet as project has been delayed in starting.
Start Year 2017
 
Description CDRC User Application 088 - Investigating Domestic Energy Efficiency Data (InDEED) - Acxiom and Whenfresh/Zoopla (31/07/2017) Innovation Fund user 
Organisation Leeds Beckett University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Controlled Acxiom and Whenfresh/Zoopla data for Innovation Fund project 088 - Investigating Domestic Energy Efficiency Data (InDEED). Application approved by CDRC Research Approvals Group on 05/09/2017. Leeds safe rooms will be used for data access. Improving the energy efficiency of homes reduces energy bills and carbon emission. Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) were introduced in the UK to measure the current efficiency of homes and encourage these improvements. Evidence from national EPC datasets show that the energy efficiency of homes is steadily improving over time. In these databases, many homes have multiple EPCs which indicate they have had some form of retrofit. However, it appears that the majority of houses with multiple EPCs do not, in fact, show much improvement in their score. This project aims to determine if national datasets around household and community income, property-value or other geographic measures can explain why people improve their homes. The outcome of this research could shape targeted policy to improve the thermal performance of homes, specifically those in community whose socio economic characteristics suggest they may be in greatest need of support. User Agreements signed and project underway.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Secure Service for access to Acxiom and Whenfresh/Zoopla data for Innovation Fund project 088 - Investigating Domestic Energy Efficiency Data (InDEED). Application approved by CDRC Research Approvals Group and project underway.
Impact No known outputs as yet as project only started in Nov 2017.
Start Year 2017
 
Description CDRC User Application 089 - Impact of investments in local public goods and planning decisions on house prices, rents and equilibrium sorting - Whenfresh/Zoopla (31/07/2017) - Innovation Fund user 
Organisation University of Essex
Department Department of Economics
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Controlled Whenfresh/Zoopla data for Innovation Fund project 089 - Impact of investments in local public goods and planning decisions on house prices, rents and equilibrium sorting. Application approved by CDRC Research Approvals Group on 05/09/2017. Detailed microdata on house prices, rents, infrastructure, and planning permission are crucial for understanding the impact of local public goods and planning decisions on prices, tax revenue, who can afford to live where, and on social welfare. We will combine microdata on local infrastructure and planning decisions with the CDRC's Whenfresh/Zoopla data sets on house values and rents. We will then use these data to measure the social value of public goods and to predict the impacts of investments and planning decisions on urban mobility, house prices and rents, tax revenue, and social welfare. User Agreements signed and project underway.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Secure Service for access to Whenfresh/Zoopla data for Innovation Fund project 089 - Impact of investments in local public goods and planning decisions on house prices, rents and equilibrium sorting. Application approved by CDRC Research Approvals Group and project underway.
Impact No known outputs as yet as project commenced in Jan 2018.
Start Year 2017
 
Description CDRC User Application 090 - Using small area income data to better understand society - Acxiom and Callcredit - Innovation Fund user (31/07/2017) 
Organisation National Centre for Social Research
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Controlled Acxiom and Callcredit data for Innovation Fund project 090 - Using small area income data to better understand society. Application approved by CDRC Research Approvals Group on 07/09/2017. This project has both methodological and substantive purposes. We aim to add substantially to national debates about the distribution of household income and geographical polarisation by describing patterns of income at the very local level. This will include examining between and within area measures of the income distribution. We will also show how small area income data can be used to add explanatory power to the housing thematic areas of interest to CDRC by including it in a model to predict residential property prices. In addition, we will also undertake validation work on the administrative data held by CDRC by comparing it with government survey data. The outputs will include a substantive policy report, methodological discussion paper, as well a new dataset. The resulting report, data and analytical models will enable new measures to be included in indices of local areas, such as the Index of Multiple Deprivation. User Agreements signed and project underway.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Secure Service for access to Acxiom and Callcredit data for Innovation Fund project 090 - Using small area income data to better understand society. Application approved by CDRC Research Approvals Group and project underway.
Impact Website page and possible blog planned for next quarter of project.
Start Year 2017
 
Description CDRC User Application 091 - Data on housing returns for the UK, with an application to quantifying the value of local healthcare and schools quality - Whenfresh/Zoopla (31/07/2017) - Innovation Fund user 
Organisation National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Controlled Whenfresh/Zoopla data for Innovation Fund project 091 - Data on housing returns for the UK, with an application to quantifying the value of local healthcare and schools quality. Application approved by CDRC Research Approvals Group on 06/09/2017. Housing is by far the largest asset in UK household portfolios, and its importance has grown over the last two decades. It is necessary to have data on the returns to owning a home in order to be able to investigate a wide range of key policy issues for the UK. Because housing is such an important asset, gaining a full picture of regional inequalities requires data on how the returns to home ownership vary across regions. Similarly, understanding trends in intergenerational inequality requires evidence on returns to home ownership. However, there is little evidence on the returns to owner-occupied housing in the UK. Our project uses the unique CDRC data on UK housing sales prices, rental prices and mortgage lending to construct measures of the returns, to owner occupied housing for local areas in the UK, and uses them to value local amenities such as school and healthcare quality. User Agreements signed and project underway.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Secure Service for access to Whenfresh/Zoopla data for Innovation Fund project 091 - Data on housing returns for the UK, with an application to quantifying the value of local healthcare and schools quality. Application approved by CDRC Research Approvals Group and project underway.
Impact No known outputs as yet as project commenced Jan 2018.
Start Year 2017
 
Description CDRC User Application 093 - Initial proposal only for access to HRUK dataset (04/09/2017) 
Organisation University of Nottingham
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Controlled HRUK data for project 093 - initial proposal only. Application withdrawn.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Secure Service for access to HRUK data for project 093 - initial proposal only. Application withdrawn.
Impact No outputs as application withdrawn by applicant.
Start Year 2017
 
Description CDRC User Application 098 - initial proposal only for access to Active Inspiration dataset (02/10/2017) 
Organisation Leeds City Council
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Controlled Active Inspiration data for project 098 - Initial proposal only. Application withdrawn.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Secure Service for access to Active Inspiration data for project 098 - Initial proposal only. Application withdrawn.
Impact No outputs as application withdrawn by applicant.
Start Year 2017
 
Description CDRC User Application 102 - initial application only for access to Callcredit cameo data (18/10/2017) 
Organisation University of Leeds
Department Leeds Institute of Data Analysis
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Controlled Callcredit data for project 102 - initial application only. Application withdrawn by applicant.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Secure Service for access to Callcredit data for project 102 - initial application only. Application withdrawn by applicant.
Impact No outputs as application withdrawn by applicant.
Start Year 2017
 
Description CDRC User Application 105 - The impact of housing market investors: theory and evidence from the UK - Whenfresh/Zoopla (09/11/2017) 
Organisation Imperial College London
Department Imperial College Business School
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Controlled Whenfresh/Zoopla data for project 105 - The impact of housing market investors: theory and evidence from the UK. Application approved by CDRC Research Approvals Group on 11/01/2018. What role do investors in housing markets play? Due to the lack of data availability, very little is known about the impact of investors in the UK housing market. Despite this, policy proposals are being implemented that aim to discourage investors from buying investment property. However, in recent academic work, it is far from evident that investors are necessarily detrimental to welfare. Additionally, the role of foreign investors is often questioned and looked adversely upon. Theoretical results in the economic literature have shown that the welfare loss caused by foreign investors is essentially zero so long as the investment property is rented out. This paper aims to provide empirical evidence of what investors do with the houses they purchase in the UK housing market. The research questions are: (i) who are the investors in the housing market? (ii) why do investors buy houses? (iii) how do investors buy houses? And, finally, (iv) what do investors do with their properties? The last question will have a strong focus on what foreign investors in particular do with their investment properties. User Agreement in preparation.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Secure Service for access to Whenfresh/Zoopla data for project 105 - The impact of housing market investors: theory and evidence from the UK. Application approved by CDRC Research Approvals Group and user agreement in preparation.
Impact No outputs as yet as project not yet underway.
Start Year 2017
 
Description CDRC User Application 107 - PIGSustain: Predicting the Impacts of Intensification and Future Changes on UK Pig Industry Resilience. Work Package 2: Forecasting consumer trends and market stability over time - YouGov (24/11/2017) 
Organisation University of Leeds
Department Leeds Institute of Data Analysis
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Controlled YouGov data for project 107 - PIGSustain: Predicting the Impacts of Intensification and Future Changes on UK Pig Industry Resilience. Work Package 2: Forecasting consumer trends and market stability over time. Application currently undergoing review by RAG approvals group.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Secure Service for access to YouGov data for project 107 - PIGSustain: Predicting the Impacts of Intensification and Future Changes on UK Pig Industry Resilience. Work Package 2: Forecasting consumer trends and market stability over time.Full proposal submitted on 20/12/2017.
Impact No outputs at this stage as project not yet underway.
Start Year 2017
 
Description CDRC User Application 110 - initial proposal only for access to YouGov dataset (19/12/2017) 
Organisation University of Leeds
Department Leeds Institute of Data Analysis
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Controlled YouGov data for project 110 - initial proposal only. Application approved by CDRC Research Approvals Group. Awaiting full proposal.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Secure Service for access to YouGov data for project 110 - initial proposal only. Application approved by CDRC Research Approvals Group. Awaiting full proposal.
Impact No outputs as yet as application not yet approved due to waiting for full proposal.
Start Year 2017
 
Description CDRC User Application 112 - An exploration of the relationships between health, physical activity and climate change - Active Inspiration 
Organisation Active Inspiration
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC safeguarded Active Inspiration data for project 112 - An exploration of the relationships between health, physical activity and climate change. Awaiting full project proposal form.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC safeguarded service for access to Active Inspiration data for project 112 - An exploration of the relationships between health, physical activity and climate change. Initial application only; full project proposal in progress.
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2018
 
Description CDRC User Application 114 - The effects of diet and exercise on cancer, metabolic syndrome, chronic inflammation, and mortality - UK Women's Cohort Study 
Organisation University of Leeds
Department UK Women's Cohort Study
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC secure UKWCS data for project 114 - The effects of diet and exercise on cancer, metabolic syndrome, chronic inflammation, and mortality. Awaiting full project proposal form.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC secure service for access to UKWCS data for project 114 - The effects of diet and exercise on cancer, metabolic syndrome, chronic inflammation, and mortality. Initial application only.
Impact No outputs yet.
Start Year 2018
 
Description CDRC User Application 117 - To understand the cost of flooding using revealed preference methods (using house property prices to measure the value of disamenities) - Whenfresh/Zoopla 
Organisation Whenfresh Ltd
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC secure Whenfresh/Zoopla data for project 117 - To understand the cost of flooding using revealed preference methods (using house property prices to measure the value of disamenities) . Awaiting full project proposal form.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC secure service for access to Whenfresh/Zoopla data for project 117 - To understand the cost of flooding using revealed preference methods (using house property prices to measure the value of disamenities). Initial application only; full project proposal in progress.
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2018
 
Description CDRC User Application 118 - Speculative application to support MSc work - Active Inspiration 
Organisation Active Inspiration
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC safeguarded Active Inspiration data for project 118 - Speculative application to support MSc work. Awaiting full project proposal form.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC safeguarded service for access to Active Inspiration data for project 118 - Speculative application to support MSc work. . Initial application only; full project proposal in progress
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2018
 
Description CDRC User Application 124 - Exploring associations between cycling patterns and weather conditions in London - Bike Citizens 
Organisation Bike Citizens
Country Austria 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC safeguarded Bike Citizens data for project 124 - Exploring associations between cycling patterns and weather conditions in London. Awaiting full project proposal form.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC safeguarded service for access to Bike Citizens data for project 124 - Exploring associations between cycling patterns and weather conditions in London. Initial application only; full project proposal in progress.
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2018
 
Description CDRC User Application 129 - To develop a new, place-specific geodemographic classification for the city of Leeds - Whenfresh/Zoopla 
Organisation Whenfresh Ltd
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC secure Whenfresh/Zoopla data for project 129 - To develop a new, place-specific geodemographic classification for the city of Leeds. Awaiting full project proposal form.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC secure service for access to Active Inspiration data for project 112 - Whenfresh/Zoopla data for project 129 - To develop a new, place-specific geodemographic classification for the city of Leeds. Initial application only; full project proposal in progress.
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2018
 
Description CDRC User Application 147 - to explore consumer preference for on-line/ off-line shopping in the UK Grocery Retail Industry - YouGov Survey (08/05/2018) 
Organisation YouGov
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC safeguarded YouGov data for project 147 - to gain understanding of consumer E-commerce engagement. Full project proposal form submitted. Project approved by SMT and RAG committee to go ahead in July 2018.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC secure service for access to YouGov data for project 147 -to gain understanding of consumer E-commerce engagement. Full project proposal submitted and approved, and project completed.
Impact A publication (working paper) has been shared with the data partner and will be published shortly.
Start Year 2018
 
Description CDRC User Application 175 - what motivates people to become more physically active? (11/06/2018) 
Organisation Active Inspiration
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Safeguarded Active Inspiration data for project 175 - what motivates people to become more physically active? Awaiting full project proposal form.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC safeguarded service for access to Active Inspiration data for project 175 - what motivates people to become more physically active? Initial application only; full project proposal in progress.
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2018
 
Description CDRC User Application 186 - To examine the housing transaction across the UK (30/06/2018) 
Organisation Whenfresh Ltd
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC controlled Whenfresh/ Zoopla data for project 186 - To examine the housing transaction across the UK. Awaiting full project proposal form.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Secure Service for access to Whenfresh/ Zoopla data for project 186 - To examine the housing transaction across the UK. Project application underway.
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2018
 
Description CDRC User Application 186 - To examine the housing transaction across the UK (30/06/2018) 
Organisation Zoopla Property Group Ltd
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC controlled Whenfresh/ Zoopla data for project 186 - To examine the housing transaction across the UK. Awaiting full project proposal form.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Secure Service for access to Whenfresh/ Zoopla data for project 186 - To examine the housing transaction across the UK. Project application underway.
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2018
 
Description CDRC User Application 189 - applying machine learning to explaining difference in house prices in different areas (02/07/2018) 
Organisation Whenfresh Ltd
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC controlled Whenfresh/ Zoopla data for project 189 - applying machine learning to explaining difference in house prices in different areas. Awaiting full project proposal form.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC controlled service for access to Whenfresh/ Zoopla data for project 189 - applying machine learning to explaining difference in house prices in different areas. Initial application only; full project proposal in progress.
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2018
 
Description CDRC User Application 189 - applying machine learning to explaining difference in house prices in different areas (02/07/2018) 
Organisation Zoopla Property Group Ltd
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC controlled Whenfresh/ Zoopla data for project 189 - applying machine learning to explaining difference in house prices in different areas. Awaiting full project proposal form.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC controlled service for access to Whenfresh/ Zoopla data for project 189 - applying machine learning to explaining difference in house prices in different areas. Initial application only; full project proposal in progress.
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2018
 
Description CDRC User Application 200 - An exploration of indoor and outdoor mobility/activity patterns in relationship with built environment. (07/08/2018) 
Organisation Active Inspiration
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC safeguarded Active Inspiration data for project 200 - An exploration of indoor and outdoor mobility/activity patterns in relationship with built environment. Project proposal currently under review.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC safeguarded service for access to Active Inspiration data for project 200 - An exploration of indoor and outdoor mobility/activity patterns in relationship with built environment. Full project proposal submitted and currently under review.
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2018
 
Description CDRC User Application 219 - To explore the relationships between different aspects of users comments on service performance (19/09/2018) 
Organisation AirDNA
Country Spain 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC safeguarded AirDNA data for project 219 - To explore the relationships between different aspects of users comments on service performance. Awaiting full project proposal form.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC safeguarded service for access to AirDNA data for project 219 - To explore the relationships between different aspects of users comments on service performance. Initial application only; full project proposal in progress.
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2018
 
Description CDRC User Application 222 - To highlight the effects of various forms of goal monitoring on perseverance and motivation (26/09/2018) 
Organisation Active Inspiration
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC safeguarded Active Inspiration data for project 222 - To highlight the effects of various forms of goal monitoring on perseverance and motivation. Full project proposal form reviewed by RAG committee and revisions requested.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC safeguarded service for access to Active Inspiration data for project 222 - To highlight the effects of various forms of goal monitoring on perseverance and motivation. Full project proposal review in progress.
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2018
 
Description CDRC User Application 230 - For access to Whenfresh/Zoopla and CAMEO data (03/10/2018) 
Organisation Callcredit Limited
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC controlled Whenfresh/Zoopla and CAMEO data for project 230. Awaiting full project proposal form.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC controlled service for access to Whenfresh/Zoopla and CAMEO data for project 230. Initial application only; full project proposal in progress.
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2018
 
Description CDRC User Application 230 - For access to Whenfresh/Zoopla and CAMEO data (03/10/2018) 
Organisation Whenfresh Ltd
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC controlled Whenfresh/Zoopla and CAMEO data for project 230. Awaiting full project proposal form.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC controlled service for access to Whenfresh/Zoopla and CAMEO data for project 230. Initial application only; full project proposal in progress.
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2018
 
Description CDRC User Application 230 - For access to Whenfresh/Zoopla and CAMEO data (03/10/2018) 
Organisation Zoopla Property Group Ltd
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC controlled Whenfresh/Zoopla and CAMEO data for project 230. Awaiting full project proposal form.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC controlled service for access to Whenfresh/Zoopla and CAMEO data for project 230. Initial application only; full project proposal in progress.
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2018
 
Description CDRC User Application 237 - to analyse the impact of Airbnb listings on local house prices (11/10/2018) 
Organisation AirDNA
Country Spain 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC safeguarded AirDNA data for project 237 - to analyse the impact of Airbnb listings on local house prices. Full project proposal form submitted and approved and project underway.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC safeguarded service for access to AirDNA data for project 237 - to analyse the impact of Airbnb listings on local house prices. Project is underway.
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2018
 
Description CDRC User Application 243 - to access YouGov data (30/10/2018) 
Organisation YouGov
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC safeguarded YouGov data for project 243. Awaiting full project proposal form.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC safeguarded service for access to YouGov data for project 243. Initial application only; full project proposal in progress.
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2018
 
Description CDRC User Application 255 - To understand the impact of airbnb on the hotel market (14/11/2018) 
Organisation AirDNA
Country Spain 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC safeguarded AirDNA data for project 255 - To understand the impact of airbnb on the hotel market. Awaiting full project proposal form.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC safeguarded service for access to AirDNA data for project 255 - To understand the impact of airbnb on the hotel market. Initial application only; full project proposal in progress.
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2018
 
Description CDRC User Application 266 - To explore the geography of housing affordability in England (13/12/2018) 
Organisation Acxiom
Country United States 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC controlled Acxiom, Whenfresh/ Zoopla data for project 266 - To explore the geography of housing affordability in England. Awaiting full project proposal form.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC secure service for access to Acxiom, Whenfresh/ Zoopla data for project 266 - To explore the geography of housing affordability in England. Initial application only; full project proposal in progress.
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2018
 
Description CDRC User Application 266 - To explore the geography of housing affordability in England (13/12/2018) 
Organisation Whenfresh Ltd
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC controlled Acxiom, Whenfresh/ Zoopla data for project 266 - To explore the geography of housing affordability in England. Awaiting full project proposal form.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC secure service for access to Acxiom, Whenfresh/ Zoopla data for project 266 - To explore the geography of housing affordability in England. Initial application only; full project proposal in progress.
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2018
 
Description CDRC User Application 266 - To explore the geography of housing affordability in England (13/12/2018) 
Organisation Zoopla Property Group Ltd
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC controlled Acxiom, Whenfresh/ Zoopla data for project 266 - To explore the geography of housing affordability in England. Awaiting full project proposal form.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC secure service for access to Acxiom, Whenfresh/ Zoopla data for project 266 - To explore the geography of housing affordability in England. Initial application only; full project proposal in progress.
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2018
 
Description CDRC User Application 272 - To understand what is IMPORTANT to the citizens of the city in relation to food concerns (04/01/2019) 
Organisation YouGov
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC safeguarded YouGov data for project 272 - to understand what is IMPORTANT to the citizens of the city in relation to food concerns. Awaiting full project proposal form.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC safeguarded service for access to ouGov data for project 272 - to understand what is IMPORTANT to the citizens of the city in relation to food concerns. Initial application only; full project proposal in progress.
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2019
 
Description CDRC User Application 276 - Determine favourable areas in the UK for the installation of electric vehicle charging points (10/01/2019) 
Organisation Acxiom
Country United States 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC controlled Acxiom data for project 276 - Determine favourable areas in the UK for the installation of electric vehicle charging points. Awaiting full project proposal form.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC secure service for access to Acxiom data for project 276 - Determine favourable areas in the UK for the installation of electric vehicle charging points. Initial application only; full project proposal in progress.
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2019
 
Description CDRC User Application 281 - The associations between physical activity and its interaction with diet on healthy state (22/01/2019) 
Organisation University of Leeds
Department UK Women's Cohort Study
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC safeguarded UK Women's Cohort Study data for project 281 - The associations between physical activity and its interaction with diet on healthy state. Full project proposal form reviewed and approved.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC safeguarded service for access to UK Women's Cohort Study data for project 281 - The associations between physical activity and its interaction with diet on healthy state. Project is currently underway.
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2019
 
Description CDRC User Application 282 - To build a map of the physical retail banking infrastructure (branches & atms) in order to identify areas underserved (22/01/2019) 
Organisation Link Financial
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC controlled LINK data for project 282 - To build a map of the physical retail banking infrastructure (branches & atms) in order to identify areas underserved. Awaiting full project proposal form.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC secure service for access to LINK data for project 282 - To build a map of the physical retail banking infrastructure (branches & atms) in order to identify areas underserved. Initial application only; full project proposal in progress.
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2019
 
Description CDRC User Application 292 - To research the proliferation of Airbnb in Leeds and Manchester comparatively (06/02/2019) 
Organisation AirDNA
Country Spain 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC safeguarded AirDNA data for project 292 - To research the proliferation of Airbnb in Leeds and Manchester comparatively. Awaiting full project proposal form.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC safeguarded service for access to AirDNA data for project 292 - To research the proliferation of Airbnb in Leeds and Manchester comparatively. Initial application only; full project proposal in progress.
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2019
 
Description CDRC User Application 296 - To explore the situation of airbnb occupancy in London in different periods and adjust house prices accordingly (13/02/2019) 
Organisation AirDNA
Country Spain 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC safeguarded AirDNA data for project 296 - To explore the situation of airbnb occupancy in London in different periods and adjust house prices accordingly. Awaiting full project proposal form.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC safeguarded service for access to AirDNA data for project 296 - To explore the situation of airbnb occupancy in London in different periods and adjust house prices accordingly. Initial application only; full project proposal in progress.
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2019
 
Description CDRC User Application 298 - An analysis of the Dietary Fibre intake of women living in the North West of England. (18/02/2019) 
Organisation University of Leeds
Department UK Women's Cohort Study
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC safeguarded UK Women's Cohort Study data for project 298 - An analysis of the Dietary Fibre intake of women living in the North West of England. Awaiting full project proposal form.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC safeguarded service for access to UK Women's Cohort data for project 298 - An analysis of the Dietary Fibre intake of women living in the North West of England. Initial application only; full project proposal in progress.
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2019
 
Description CDRC User Application 310 - To understand the potential uptake of groceries home delivery and its link to the supply side. (06/03/2019) 
Organisation YouGov
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC safeguarded YouGov data for project 310 - To understand the potential uptake of groceries home delivery and its link to the supply side. Application currently under review.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Safeguarded Service for access to YouGov data for project 310 - To understand the potential uptake of groceries home delivery and its link to the supply side. Project proposal form under review.
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2019
 
Description CDRC User Application 312 - To gain an understanding of the health environment in the neighbourhood of the lettings (11/03/2019) 
Organisation AirDNA
Country Spain 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC safeguarded AirDNA data for project 312 - To gain an understanding of the health environment in the neighbourhood of the lettings. Awaiting full project proposal form.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC safeguarded service for access to AirDNA data for project 312 - To gain an understanding of the health environment in the neighbourhood of the lettings. Initial application only; full project proposal in progress.
Impact No Outputs as yet.
Start Year 2019
 
Description CDRC User Application 355 - Medium-Long Term Impact of AirBnB on cities 
Organisation London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Controlled Whenfresh/Zoopla data for project 355. Application approved by CDRC Research Approvals Group. Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC safeguarded AirBNB data for project 355 also.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Secure Service for access to Whenfresh data for project 355 - Medium-Long Term Impact of AirBnB on cities. Project underway.
Impact Approval of CDRC User Application 355 No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2019
 
Description CDRC User Application 357 - Are vegans and vegetarians healthier than other people? Analysis of the UK Women's Cohort Study 
Organisation University of Leeds
Department School of Food Science and Nutrition Leeds
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Safeguarded UKWCS data for project 357 - Are vegans and vegetarians healthier than other people? Analysis of the UK Women's Cohort Study
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC safeguarded service for access to UKWCS data for project 357 - Are vegans and vegetarians healthier than other people? Analysis of the UK Women's Cohort Study
Impact No outputs yet
Start Year 2019
 
Description CDRC User Application 373 - Every Digit Counts: Heuristic Thinking and Biased Reference Points 
Organisation University of Cambridge
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Controlled Whenfresh/ Zoopla data for project 373 - Every Digit Counts: Heuristic Thinking and Biased Reference Points. Application approved by CDRC Research Approvals Group.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Secure Service for access to Whenfresh/Zoopla data for project 373 - Every Digit Counts: Heuristic Thinking and Biased Reference Points. Project underway.
Impact No outputs yet.
Start Year 2019
 
Description CDRC User Application LEEDS003 - Re-Counting Crime: New methods to improve the accuracy of estimates of crime 
Organisation University of Manchester
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Safeguarded Synthetic Population data for project LEEDS003 - Re-Counting Crime: New methods to improve the accuracy of estimates of crime. Application approved by CDRC Research Approvals Group.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Safeguarded Service for access to Synthetic Population data for project LEEDS003 - Re-Counting Crime: New methods to improve the accuracy of estimates of crime. Project underway.
Impact No outputs yet.
Start Year 2020
 
Description CDRC User Application LEEDS005 - Isolation and Inclusion in a Post-Social Distancing COVID World (intern project DS application) 
Organisation Newcastle University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Processed and managed data access application and review process to CDRC Safeguarded Synthetic Population data for intern project LEEDS005 - Isolation and Inclusion in a Post-Social Distancing COVID World. Application approved by CDRC Research Approvals Group.
Collaborator Contribution Submitted application to CDRC Safeguarded Service for access to Synthetic Population data for project LEEDS005 - Isolation and Inclusion in a Post-Social Distancing COVID World. Project underway.
Impact No outputs yet - case study planned end of March 2021.
Start Year 2020
 
Description CODiT (Covid Opensource Digital Twin project) - Collaboration with Leeds City Council, Sciteb and University of Oxford 
Organisation Leeds City Council
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution CODiT (Covid Opensource Digital Twin project) - Collaboration with Leeds City Council, Sciteb and University of Oxford, March 2021 - October 2021. Spatial and demographic implications of covid vaccinations in Leeds. CDRC Data Scientist Dustin Foley analysed vaccination rates within the Leeds area and produced a Jupyter Notebook documenting this for reproducibility. This work was helpful in allowing the public health department at LCC to see where take-up of vaccinations was poor and to investigate why.
Collaborator Contribution Data provided by Leeds City Council. Project led by Jeremy Large at Oxford University.
Impact Representatives from Sciteb invited to the CDRC Partner Forum and AI-UK. Sharing data and analytical capability between the city and the university and its constituent research centres remains a priority for pursuit through the Office for Data Analytics.
Start Year 2021
 
Description CODiT (Covid Opensource Digital Twin project) - Collaboration with Leeds City Council, Sciteb and University of Oxford 
Organisation Sciteb
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution CODiT (Covid Opensource Digital Twin project) - Collaboration with Leeds City Council, Sciteb and University of Oxford, March 2021 - October 2021. Spatial and demographic implications of covid vaccinations in Leeds. CDRC Data Scientist Dustin Foley analysed vaccination rates within the Leeds area and produced a Jupyter Notebook documenting this for reproducibility. This work was helpful in allowing the public health department at LCC to see where take-up of vaccinations was poor and to investigate why.
Collaborator Contribution Data provided by Leeds City Council. Project led by Jeremy Large at Oxford University.
Impact Representatives from Sciteb invited to the CDRC Partner Forum and AI-UK. Sharing data and analytical capability between the city and the university and its constituent research centres remains a priority for pursuit through the Office for Data Analytics.
Start Year 2021
 
Description CODiT (Covid Opensource Digital Twin project) - Collaboration with Leeds City Council, Sciteb and University of Oxford 
Organisation University of Oxford
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution CODiT (Covid Opensource Digital Twin project) - Collaboration with Leeds City Council, Sciteb and University of Oxford, March 2021 - October 2021. Spatial and demographic implications of covid vaccinations in Leeds. CDRC Data Scientist Dustin Foley analysed vaccination rates within the Leeds area and produced a Jupyter Notebook documenting this for reproducibility. This work was helpful in allowing the public health department at LCC to see where take-up of vaccinations was poor and to investigate why.
Collaborator Contribution Data provided by Leeds City Council. Project led by Jeremy Large at Oxford University.
Impact Representatives from Sciteb invited to the CDRC Partner Forum and AI-UK. Sharing data and analytical capability between the city and the university and its constituent research centres remains a priority for pursuit through the Office for Data Analytics.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Callcredit - data partner 
Organisation Callcredit Limited
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Callcredit data will be made available for researchers nationwide to access
Collaborator Contribution Callcredit will be providing nationwide geodemographic segmentation data via the CDRC data store
Impact Data made available via the CDRC data store
Start Year 2016
 
Description Can Loneliness be modelled? Data Scientist Development Programme in collaboration with Bradford Institute for Health Research and Connected Yorkshire 
Organisation Bradford Institute for Health Research (BIHR)
Department Born in Bradford
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution The Consumer Data Research Centre has contributed to this research project with funding to cover the cost of the data scientist and their training for six months, which is the duration of the research.
Collaborator Contribution The partner will be contributing data as per the academics requests for this research to take place, and also providing optional working space within their premises for the data scientist for the duration of the research, should they decide to use it.
Impact This is an interdisciplinary project: Disciplines: 1: Consumer Psychology; Psychological threats; Restrictions; Digital communications 2: Agent-based modelling; Decision making in complex systems; AI and multi-agent systems; Urban analytics; Housing markets
Start Year 2023
 
Description Carbon Calculator and Leeds City Council 
Organisation Leeds City Council
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution CDRC have worked directly with Leeds City Council Climate, Energy & Green Spaces Communities, Housing & Environment team to develop a carbon footprint calculator for food procured by Leeds City Council. It was designed to provide the Council with a baseline for their emissions before embarking upon their road to Net Zero by 2030.
Collaborator Contribution Leeds City Council provided time and expertise on the project, as well as school meals data that allowed us to build a carbon calculator suitable to their needs, data, and format.
Impact Creation of carbon footprint of food calculator (see data products). Creation of Planet Plates game (see data products). Awards and recognition from the University of Leeds Engaged for Impact prize. Impact includes: project within Leeds City Council using carbon labelling on food products; further project looking at carbon footprint of foods in Kirkgate Market (see further funding section).
Start Year 2021
 
Description Collaboration with Department for Environment, Farming, and Rural Affairs (Defra) 
Organisation Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Working with Defra to look at uptake of Agri-Environmental Schemes (AES). I have worked to produce statistical analyses examining how various factors, including geospatial and social, influence the uptake of AES. THis will be used to inform policy makers.
Collaborator Contribution Provision of data and knowledge of current and upcoming AES schemes.
Impact Presentation to Project Partner LIDA Seminar Series Presentation/Webinar to Defra
Start Year 2021
 
Description Collaboration with Office for National Statistics Methodology Division 
Organisation Office for National Statistics
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Various ONS departments are interested in novel data sources which could support the production of small-area population statistics. As part of methodological decisions around future censuses, ONS have a number of active projects seeking to assess the feasibility of administrative and commercial data sources in capturing population and household statistics. Andy Newing (School of Geography), Jacob Van Alwon and Owen Hibbert (both LIDA DSDP) have explored the potential of dwelling-level water metering data to: 1. Assess the quality of dwelling-level water metering data supplied by an external data provider (a UK water supplier) and develop processes for data clearning and leak detection. 2. Assess the ethical and privacy concerns associated with working with these data at the dwelling and aggregate level and identify the appropriate temporal resolution for analysis. 3. Develop methodoloical approaches to determine characteristics of dwelling occupancy from these data - specifically to identify periods when a given dwelling is occupied/vacant. 4. Consider the extent to which these approaches could be used to classify properties according to their occupancy status and therefore to identify unoccupied properties, or those that may be associated with tourism. 5. To report on the potential future value of these data as a tool to capture small area tourism statistics and indicators of neighbourhood type/change.
Collaborator Contribution Alongside the project team, ONS co-organised a Methodological Workshop to bring the project team together with a range of stakeholders within ONS, representing different teams/business functions. The workshop enabled detailed dialogue between the project team and methodological/domain experts at ONS, enabling us to: - Optimise some data cleaning processes based on ONS expertise and experience - Understand ONS' specific interests within this work and to adapt approach/outputs accordingly, thus maximising impact - Enter into ongoing dialogue with specific teams to further shape this and follow on work. Four further follow up meetings have taken place with specific individuals/teams and a publication (outlined below) has resulted from this work.
Impact https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/189680/
Start Year 2021
 
Description Communication with Department for Transport - OpenInfra project (CDRC internship 2021-2022) 
Organisation CycleStreets
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The above mentioned partners (except for University of Leeds, Centre for Disability Studies) are part of the steering group which meets every 2-3 months to discuss and advice on the direction of the OpenInfra (supervisors: R. Lovelace, V. Houlden, and E. Manley) project. This helps to tailor the project and its outcomes to make it as relevant to the policy-makers as possible. A project run at the Centre for Disability Studies has been invited to discuss the potential of open data for planning accessible and inclusive public spaces as well as discuss the potential of future collaborations between the two projects.
Collaborator Contribution The partner provides expertise on active travel and the data needed to inform active travel planning in the UK. OpenInfra project highlights the importance of inclusivity and accessibility, hence a project team at the Centre for Disability Studies (University of Leeds) was contacted to discuss (in)accessibility of public spaces and potential intersections between the two projects.
Impact No outputs yet.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Communication with Department for Transport - OpenInfra project (CDRC internship 2021-2022) 
Organisation Department of Transport
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution The above mentioned partners (except for University of Leeds, Centre for Disability Studies) are part of the steering group which meets every 2-3 months to discuss and advice on the direction of the OpenInfra (supervisors: R. Lovelace, V. Houlden, and E. Manley) project. This helps to tailor the project and its outcomes to make it as relevant to the policy-makers as possible. A project run at the Centre for Disability Studies has been invited to discuss the potential of open data for planning accessible and inclusive public spaces as well as discuss the potential of future collaborations between the two projects.
Collaborator Contribution The partner provides expertise on active travel and the data needed to inform active travel planning in the UK. OpenInfra project highlights the importance of inclusivity and accessibility, hence a project team at the Centre for Disability Studies (University of Leeds) was contacted to discuss (in)accessibility of public spaces and potential intersections between the two projects.
Impact No outputs yet.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Communication with Department for Transport - OpenInfra project (CDRC internship 2021-2022) 
Organisation Ordnance Survey
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution The above mentioned partners (except for University of Leeds, Centre for Disability Studies) are part of the steering group which meets every 2-3 months to discuss and advice on the direction of the OpenInfra (supervisors: R. Lovelace, V. Houlden, and E. Manley) project. This helps to tailor the project and its outcomes to make it as relevant to the policy-makers as possible. A project run at the Centre for Disability Studies has been invited to discuss the potential of open data for planning accessible and inclusive public spaces as well as discuss the potential of future collaborations between the two projects.
Collaborator Contribution The partner provides expertise on active travel and the data needed to inform active travel planning in the UK. OpenInfra project highlights the importance of inclusivity and accessibility, hence a project team at the Centre for Disability Studies (University of Leeds) was contacted to discuss (in)accessibility of public spaces and potential intersections between the two projects.
Impact No outputs yet.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Communication with Department for Transport - OpenInfra project (CDRC internship 2021-2022) 
Organisation University of Leeds
Department Centre for Disability Studies
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The above mentioned partners (except for University of Leeds, Centre for Disability Studies) are part of the steering group which meets every 2-3 months to discuss and advice on the direction of the OpenInfra (supervisors: R. Lovelace, V. Houlden, and E. Manley) project. This helps to tailor the project and its outcomes to make it as relevant to the policy-makers as possible. A project run at the Centre for Disability Studies has been invited to discuss the potential of open data for planning accessible and inclusive public spaces as well as discuss the potential of future collaborations between the two projects.
Collaborator Contribution The partner provides expertise on active travel and the data needed to inform active travel planning in the UK. OpenInfra project highlights the importance of inclusivity and accessibility, hence a project team at the Centre for Disability Studies (University of Leeds) was contacted to discuss (in)accessibility of public spaces and potential intersections between the two projects.
Impact No outputs yet.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Compass - new Data-Sharing Agreement 
Organisation Compass
Country Brazil 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution During the 2023 calendar year we completed negotiations with a connected vehicles provider, Compass, and signed a data-sharing agreement. We are contributing to continuing discussions with the partner on a joint communications approach that will promote example use cases more widely.
Collaborator Contribution The dataset provided by the partner covers the month of October 2023 and includes both trajectory and sensor-level information for vehicles across 14 UK urban areas, including the West Midlands and West Yorkshire Combined Authority areas, Greater London, Greater Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast, and Cardiff. The data has been provided to the CDRC free-of-charge
Impact The partnership to date has resulted in a new deposit of proprietary data in the CDRC data store (in the Safeguarded tier).
Start Year 2023
 
Description Connected Places Catapult - Business Fellowship Scheme 
Organisation Transport Systems Catapult
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Paul Evans was appointed Business Fellow at the Transport Systems Catapult which is now named the Connected Places Catapult from January 2019
Collaborator Contribution Enhancing knowledge of the CDRC throughout the academic network and within mobility / transport related companies. CDRC related projects started as a result of the partnership. Opportunities to influence policy
Impact Connected Places Catapult / University of Leeds discovery day ONS Energy Data Visibility Discovery funding application ABM / Smart sensor project with CPC
Start Year 2019
 
Description Contribution to training network convened by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) 
Organisation University of Southampton
Department ESRC National Centre for Research Methods
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution As part of a quarterly meeting of lead training contacts at data centres and investments from across the UK (known as the Data Resources Training Network), initiated by the NCRM in February 2021, the CDRC Centre Manager was invited to present on the research team's recent experience applying for accreditation of its data science short course training offer by CPD UK. Via the Centre Manager, the team continues to engage with this forum, and plans are in train for contributions to organisation of a webinar on social deprivation as a research theme.
Collaborator Contribution The NCRM provide secretariat support for each of the meetings of the Data Resources Training Network (DRTN).
Impact No research outputs applicable.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Cuebiq - CDRC Internship 2020/21 (Interns Stuart Ross and George Breckenridge) 
Organisation Cuebiq
Country United States 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution This partnership is governed by CDRC Data Sharing Agreements on the LIDA Intern Programme for Cuebiq mobile phone data which is being used to track responses to Covid restrictions in the UK. CDRC Business Support facilitated the contract and DSA for this intern project, and CDRC Co-Director Ed Manley is the project PI who has been leading the project team (and providing mentorship and supervision to) CDRC interns Stuart Ross and George Breckenridge, with support provided by CDRC affiliates at UCL.
Collaborator Contribution Cuebiq have shared the data and their data infrastructure with the project team.
Impact One blog post published in January on the CDRC website (URL above) which explored mobility responses to the Government change to policy over Christmas travel and mixing 2020. Case studies expected from the interns at the end of March 2020.
Start Year 2020
 
Description DSDP project on Early Help Analytics - Michael Baidu with Leeds City Council 
Organisation Leeds City Council
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution As part of the Government Data Accelerator Fund, for linking data to support trauma-informed practice and tackling adversity, Leeds City Council and the Leeds Institute of Data Analytics (LIDA) embarks on this 6-month project. The project is expected to identify factors correlated with lower levels of children's engagement in education and lower levels of return to school after the COVID lockdowns. It is anticipated that the research will provide insights for policy makers about which sub-groups of the population (e.g. by socio-economic group; geographical area; age) could potentially benefit from supportive interventions to address the ACEs that are associated with absence from school.
Collaborator Contribution Funding, data and expertise.
Impact Research findings shared with LCC with potential for policy impact; an impact case study written by the project data scientist Michael Baidu.
Start Year 2022
 
Description DSDP: Approved Intent to Collaborate: Electronic/Online Word of Mouth (EWOM) DSDP in Collaboration with Morrisons 
Organisation Morrison Supermarkets plc
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Via the Data Scientist Development Programme (DSDP), the aim of the research is to investigate how resource scarcity influences grocery consumers' EWOM (Electronic/Online Word of Mouth) and how the effects of resource scarcity evolve over time. The research is investigating how comsumers react to resource scarcity via online word of mouth (twitter). Generally speaking, consumers EWOM swings between scarcity-reduction response (e.g., asking for a cheaper product option) and control-restoration response (e.g., showing more lenience towards vulnerable others, or consuming high-calorie food) over time.  The academics will develop a programming function that the business partner can use to monitor the sentiment of consumers' EWOM on Twitter. Monitoring sentiment of consumers' EWOM on Twitter is important for businesses, as twitter sentiment is strongly associated with stock returns. They will also provide insights into dynamic change of consumers' response to resource scarcity, which helps the business partner to anticipate consumers' needs under scarcity and get prepared to meet consumers' needs.
Collaborator Contribution Besides the data that we can collect, we also welcome partner/collaborator to provide matching datasets covering: 1. Data containing store geolocation and in-store foodbank donations at each location. This dataset can be used to study consumers' pro-social behavior (a type of control-restoration response) under scarcity. 2. Weekly cost of baskets and similar data that show the weekly change of product price, for example, weekly change of food price. This data can possibly work together with Twitter data to provide insights into customers' sentiment under scarcity.
Impact Outputs from this research project include: 1. 4*/3* academic journal publications. 2. Conference paper and conference presentations at major conferences in marketing and data science. 3. A report of data-analysis results and implication to the businesses partner. The data scientist will lead the writing of this report. 4. A monitoring system (this might be a series of R programmes) on consumer sentiment, useful for businesses and policymakers to monitor consumer concern and wellbeing. We expect to have these research impact activities: - A network activity (a seminar, for example) with the business partner, policymakers and charities to disseminate the research findings and discuss the implication that helps the community mitigate the cost-of-living crisis.
Start Year 2023
 
Description DSDP: Approved Intent to Collaborate: Perceptions of COVID Safety Measures in Guest Reviews from AirDNA Data 
Organisation AirDNA
Country Spain 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution The landscape of the hospitality and tourism sectors changed drastically throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. As lockdowns were lifted, accommodation hosts contended with continuously evolving health and safety guidance. For Airbnb properties in particular, often hosted by non-professionals, guests couldn't expect consistency for thoroughness of compliance. Using AirDNA data previously acquired by CDRC, this work will examine Airbnb hosts' ability to meet guests' health expectations, based on perceptions derived from reviews. In contrast with publicly available Inside Airbnb data, the AirDNA data includes actual booking dates and revenue. Unsupervised segmentation of hosts and properties into categories will be performed, using features including hosts' status, time on platform, response metrics, revenue, listing type, booking cost, and maximum guests. Concurrently, reviews concerned with COVID-19 and topics around cleanliness will be identified, using fuzzy text matching or topic modelling. Sentiment analysis on this review subset will assess the performance of hosts/properties. Relationships between these sentiments and the host and property segmentation will be analysed. The data scientist can achieve quick wins with summary statistics for this recently acquired data, particularly regarding guest-written reviews of properties. They will get the opportunity to learn and apply knowledge of unsupervised classification methods and natural language processing techniques.
Collaborator Contribution This projects uses already paid for AirDNA data, so we don't expect them to contribute further data per se. Our expectation is that if the DSDP participant ecounters any issues with the data, then a knowledgeable point of contact at AirDNA could potentially answer their questions more quickly and directly than a project supervisor could. Also, our plan is to check in with them monthly to present our progress, which provides the project with informal goalposts, and is an opportunity for AirDNA to potentially guide the course of the project if they have any insights to share. For example, if an intriguing pattern has emerged in the data, AirDNA could potentially identify it as an artefact of data collection that should be ignored, or alternatively confirm that it's of great interest to them.
Impact The academics would expect to produce an academic paper, a derived dataset composed of categorisations of hosts/properties, and potentially a map or visualisation tool that shows geographic spread of types of properties (including properties that fared well/poorly against expectations of COVID-related health safeguards).
Start Year 2023
 
Description DSDP: Intent to Collaborate: Can loneliness be modelled? Investigation of consumer loneliness models using Agent-Based Modelling 
Organisation Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution This project is a clear intent to collaborate, pre approved by the research partner, Bradford Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust (BTHFT). BTHFT/Connected Yorkshire has agreen to work with us should CDRC funding be approved. I was tasked to find a partner for a DSDP research project on loneliness with Dr Aulona Ulqinaku, Associate Professor of Marketing, Leeds University Business School and Dr Jiaqi Ge, University Academic Fellow, School of Geography. In a climate of social distancing and emphasis on handling most of the activities online and in isolation rather than in person and in company, we are dealing with mental health deficit. Only 20% of respondents of the Community Life Survey in 2021 reported not feeling lonely, with almost 4 million reporting often being overburden by feelings on loneliness. This situation is burdening the NHS that is trying to outsource mental wellbeing to charities. Loneliness is a subjective feeling caused by lack of quality social connections, social rejection, exclusion, or marginalization. Prior research suggests different behaviour and coping mechanisms based on whether loneliness is to be considered a trait (i.e., chronic and long-term) or a state (i.e., short term and momentary). We believe that by investigating the different models of loneliness, we can get a better understanding of how to mitigate loneliness. Using agent-based modelling, the project aim is to model social connections, rejection, exclusion and marginalization-all strictly related to loneliness-by simulating the interactions between agents of different characteristics and state, who are connected in a social network with varying number of links and link strengths.
Collaborator Contribution The partner will provide the academics with data including anonymized reports and notes from GPs and mental health reports. The datasets allow for matching between the mental health reports and the GP notes, to associate loneliness with other potential symptoms either mental or physical.
Impact Planned outputs include: 1. To create an aggregated dataset that wIll be used for theresearch, containing information on these variables that will be used and collected. The aggregated data sets will be made available to add to the CDRC repository at data.cdrc.ac.uk. 2. Visualisations, e.g. CDRC Maps or other interactive outputs. 3. Work will be submitted to academic conferences but also out to calls such as Parliamentary Inquiries (e.g, https://committees.parliament.uk/work/7205/prevention-in-health-and-social-care/). 4. Academic paper in a marketing or public policy outlet (e.g., Journal of Public Policy and Marketing).
Start Year 2023
 
Description Data Scientist Internship (Alex Coleman) - Extracting actionable insights from free text police data (08/10/2018-30/03/2019) 
Organisation Leeds City Council
Department Safer Leeds
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Intern project is supervised by Dr Dan Birks who is part of the N8 police partnership -- training and data challenge opportunities hosted by the N8 partnership have been made available to the intern in order to help develop their work on extracting actionable insights from free text police data.
Collaborator Contribution The intern has attended events hosted by the partner where discussion of critical ideas around categorising police data have helped with shaping the direction of the internship.
Impact The intern has already presented findings at The Alan Turing Institute on 12th March 2019, and will be presenting at the LIDA seminar series on 28th March 2019.
Start Year 2018
 
Description Data Scientist Internship (Alex Coleman) - Extracting actionable insights from free text police data (08/10/2018-30/03/2019) 
Organisation N8 Research Partnership
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Learned Society 
PI Contribution Intern project is supervised by Dr Dan Birks who is part of the N8 police partnership -- training and data challenge opportunities hosted by the N8 partnership have been made available to the intern in order to help develop their work on extracting actionable insights from free text police data.
Collaborator Contribution The intern has attended events hosted by the partner where discussion of critical ideas around categorising police data have helped with shaping the direction of the internship.
Impact The intern has already presented findings at The Alan Turing Institute on 12th March 2019, and will be presenting at the LIDA seminar series on 28th March 2019.
Start Year 2018
 
Description Data Scientist Internship (Ivana Kocanova) - Understanding customers' missions from the products they purchase - Sainsburys (08/10/2018-30/03/2019) 
Organisation Sainsbury's
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution 6 month intern project supervised by Prof Roy Ruddle and funded by the University of Leeds' EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account, exploring customers' shopping missions from the products they purchase. Data has been provided via the Quanticode partnership (which Ruddle leads) on customer purchases and the task of the intern is to trend analyse this data and produce visualisations which could help Sainsbury's target their stock more, with a potential impact on store layout etc.
Collaborator Contribution Data on customer purchases has been shared by Sainsbury's for the intern's analysis.
Impact Intern Ivana Kocanova has so far presented her findings at the 28th Feb LIDA seminar and at The Alan Turing Institute on 12th March 2019.
Start Year 2018
 
Description Data Scientist Internship (Stelios Theophanous) - Synergy PRIME - Multi Level Modelling, Simulation, and Visualization (08/10/2019-30/03/2019) 
Organisation Transport Systems Catapult
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Supervision by CDRC Co-Is Nik Lomax and Nick Malleson. Project simulates travel flows around Otley using Otley BID data in order to draw conclusions about traffic flows around Otley and extrapolate wider implications for town planning and infrastructure.
Collaborator Contribution Engagement through Transport Systems Catapult- hosted seminars and events.
Impact Intern Stelios Theophanous has been invited to speak at a Transport Systems Catapult event on the 5th March 2019. He has also spoken on his findings at The Alan Turing Institute on 12th March, and will be presenting his findings to LIDA at the Seminar series on 28th March 2019.
Start Year 2018
 
Description Data Scientist Internship - Luke Archer - Improbable: Probabilistic Programming and Data Assimilation for Next Generation City Simulation (08/10/2018-30/03/2019) 
Organisation Improbable
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution 2x 6 month Data Scientist Intern Projects under the supervision of CDRC Co-I Nick Malleson, looking at Probabilistic Programming and Data Assimilation for Next Generation City Simulation, especially understanding agent-based models. Meetings between the interns, supervisors and Improbable are scheduled for every couple of months.
Collaborator Contribution Keanu model developed as part of wider Improbable project is available for the intern to use.
Impact Intern Luke Archer has already delivered his conclusions so far at the LIDA Seminar on 28th Feb and at The Alan Turing Institute on 12th March 2019. His paper has also been accepted at the 2019 GISRUK conference in Newcastle.
Start Year 2018
 
Description Digime 
Organisation Digi.me Ltd
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution CDRC PhD student Ning Lu is leading on a joint project between CDRC and Digime. The project involves jointly developing an app which will use some of the technology Digime has developed to collect data from students (consented) on social media habits. The app will allow direct access to the participants social media activity and therefore the data collected will be primary. Its hoped that this pilot study will lead to more substantial research with the partner.
Collaborator Contribution Expertise and technology in developing the app and software to collect the primary data.
Impact na
Start Year 2017
 
Description EMPOWER project 
Organisation EMPOWER project
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution HABITS research has provided additional, in-depth analysis of EMPOWER Take-Up-City data, bringing an increased understanding of a range of impacts from positive incentives and the value of new Track and Trace data.
Collaborator Contribution Take-up-City operational infrastructure and outcomes.
Impact This collaboration is multi-disciplinary, spanning data analytics, transport science, health, ICT, behavioural science.
Start Year 2015
 
Description ESRC Collaborative Award studentship 
Organisation Callcredit Limited
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution I am the lead supervisor on this ESRC Collaborative award studentship, recruited the partners and submitted the funding application. I interviewed the student and continue supervision of the student.
Collaborator Contribution Leeds City Council and Callcredit group contributed to the funding application, interviewing of the applicants. The partners will be involved with the supervisory team and research studyg ruop meetings. They will each host placement/project visits for the student.
Impact Multidisciplinary. No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2016
 
Description ESRC Collaborative Award studentship 
Organisation Leeds City Council
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution I am the lead supervisor on this ESRC Collaborative award studentship, recruited the partners and submitted the funding application. I interviewed the student and continue supervision of the student.
Collaborator Contribution Leeds City Council and Callcredit group contributed to the funding application, interviewing of the applicants. The partners will be involved with the supervisory team and research studyg ruop meetings. They will each host placement/project visits for the student.
Impact Multidisciplinary. No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2016
 
Description ESRC Industrial strategy studentship in Data Analytics and Society CDT - Active Inspiration 
Organisation Active Inspiration
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution I have been working with Active Inspiration for a number of years. My collaboration with them has resulted in them becoming a data partner for the CDRC and co-funding a PhD studentship.
Collaborator Contribution Active Inspiration have contributed data and time to support our research.
Impact Studentship and a conference presentation at ECTQG York 2017.
Start Year 2016
 
Description ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity 
Organisation Cancer Research UK
Department Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Michelle Morris is Director of the ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity. Mark Birkin is PI. Other team members have contributed to organisation and attendance of meetings.
Collaborator Contribution Partners in this collaboration have contributes to seminars, workshops and paper writing.
Impact Multidisciplinary and multi-sector. Meetings recorded elsewhere. Outputs forthcoming.
Start Year 2015
 
Description ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity 
Organisation Durham University
Department Department of Geography
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Michelle Morris is Director of the ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity. Mark Birkin is PI. Other team members have contributed to organisation and attendance of meetings.
Collaborator Contribution Partners in this collaboration have contributes to seminars, workshops and paper writing.
Impact Multidisciplinary and multi-sector. Meetings recorded elsewhere. Outputs forthcoming.
Start Year 2015
 
Description ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity 
Organisation Free University of Amsterdam
Country Netherlands 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Michelle Morris is Director of the ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity. Mark Birkin is PI. Other team members have contributed to organisation and attendance of meetings.
Collaborator Contribution Partners in this collaboration have contributes to seminars, workshops and paper writing.
Impact Multidisciplinary and multi-sector. Meetings recorded elsewhere. Outputs forthcoming.
Start Year 2015
 
Description ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity 
Organisation Leeds Beckett University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Michelle Morris is Director of the ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity. Mark Birkin is PI. Other team members have contributed to organisation and attendance of meetings.
Collaborator Contribution Partners in this collaboration have contributes to seminars, workshops and paper writing.
Impact Multidisciplinary and multi-sector. Meetings recorded elsewhere. Outputs forthcoming.
Start Year 2015
 
Description ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity 
Organisation Leeds City Council
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Michelle Morris is Director of the ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity. Mark Birkin is PI. Other team members have contributed to organisation and attendance of meetings.
Collaborator Contribution Partners in this collaboration have contributes to seminars, workshops and paper writing.
Impact Multidisciplinary and multi-sector. Meetings recorded elsewhere. Outputs forthcoming.
Start Year 2015
 
Description ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity 
Organisation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
Department Department of Clinical Research
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Michelle Morris is Director of the ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity. Mark Birkin is PI. Other team members have contributed to organisation and attendance of meetings.
Collaborator Contribution Partners in this collaboration have contributes to seminars, workshops and paper writing.
Impact Multidisciplinary and multi-sector. Meetings recorded elsewhere. Outputs forthcoming.
Start Year 2015
 
Description ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity 
Organisation Northumbria University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Michelle Morris is Director of the ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity. Mark Birkin is PI. Other team members have contributed to organisation and attendance of meetings.
Collaborator Contribution Partners in this collaboration have contributes to seminars, workshops and paper writing.
Impact Multidisciplinary and multi-sector. Meetings recorded elsewhere. Outputs forthcoming.
Start Year 2015
 
Description ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity 
Organisation Queen's University Belfast
Department Inhaled Antibiotics in Bronchiectasis and Cystic Fibrosis
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Hospitals 
PI Contribution Michelle Morris is Director of the ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity. Mark Birkin is PI. Other team members have contributed to organisation and attendance of meetings.
Collaborator Contribution Partners in this collaboration have contributes to seminars, workshops and paper writing.
Impact Multidisciplinary and multi-sector. Meetings recorded elsewhere. Outputs forthcoming.
Start Year 2015
 
Description ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity 
Organisation Town & Country Planning Association
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Michelle Morris is Director of the ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity. Mark Birkin is PI. Other team members have contributed to organisation and attendance of meetings.
Collaborator Contribution Partners in this collaboration have contributes to seminars, workshops and paper writing.
Impact Multidisciplinary and multi-sector. Meetings recorded elsewhere. Outputs forthcoming.
Start Year 2015
 
Description ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity 
Organisation University College Cork
Country Ireland 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Michelle Morris is Director of the ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity. Mark Birkin is PI. Other team members have contributed to organisation and attendance of meetings.
Collaborator Contribution Partners in this collaboration have contributes to seminars, workshops and paper writing.
Impact Multidisciplinary and multi-sector. Meetings recorded elsewhere. Outputs forthcoming.
Start Year 2015
 
Description ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity 
Organisation University of Cambridge
Department Department of Surgery
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Michelle Morris is Director of the ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity. Mark Birkin is PI. Other team members have contributed to organisation and attendance of meetings.
Collaborator Contribution Partners in this collaboration have contributes to seminars, workshops and paper writing.
Impact Multidisciplinary and multi-sector. Meetings recorded elsewhere. Outputs forthcoming.
Start Year 2015
 
Description ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity 
Organisation University of Lincoln
Department Laboratory of Vision Engineering
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Michelle Morris is Director of the ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity. Mark Birkin is PI. Other team members have contributed to organisation and attendance of meetings.
Collaborator Contribution Partners in this collaboration have contributes to seminars, workshops and paper writing.
Impact Multidisciplinary and multi-sector. Meetings recorded elsewhere. Outputs forthcoming.
Start Year 2015
 
Description ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity 
Organisation University of Liverpool
Department Institute of Integrative Biology
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Michelle Morris is Director of the ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity. Mark Birkin is PI. Other team members have contributed to organisation and attendance of meetings.
Collaborator Contribution Partners in this collaboration have contributes to seminars, workshops and paper writing.
Impact Multidisciplinary and multi-sector. Meetings recorded elsewhere. Outputs forthcoming.
Start Year 2015
 
Description ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity 
Organisation University of Nottingham
Department Division of Epidemiology and Public Health
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Michelle Morris is Director of the ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity. Mark Birkin is PI. Other team members have contributed to organisation and attendance of meetings.
Collaborator Contribution Partners in this collaboration have contributes to seminars, workshops and paper writing.
Impact Multidisciplinary and multi-sector. Meetings recorded elsewhere. Outputs forthcoming.
Start Year 2015
 
Description ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity 
Organisation University of Southampton
Department Physics and Astronomy
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Michelle Morris is Director of the ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity. Mark Birkin is PI. Other team members have contributed to organisation and attendance of meetings.
Collaborator Contribution Partners in this collaboration have contributes to seminars, workshops and paper writing.
Impact Multidisciplinary and multi-sector. Meetings recorded elsewhere. Outputs forthcoming.
Start Year 2015
 
Description ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity 
Organisation University of Washington
Country United States 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Michelle Morris is Director of the ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity. Mark Birkin is PI. Other team members have contributed to organisation and attendance of meetings.
Collaborator Contribution Partners in this collaboration have contributes to seminars, workshops and paper writing.
Impact Multidisciplinary and multi-sector. Meetings recorded elsewhere. Outputs forthcoming.
Start Year 2015
 
Description Emergent Alliance - Mark Birkin 
Organisation Elder Research
Country United States 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution University of Leeds is one of eight full members of EA, with Birkin sitting as a Director on the EA Board. The other full members represented on the Board are Rolls Royce, Google, IBM, Whitespace, Elder Research, Iotics and the ODI. Birkin has led in the design and administration of challenge statements, chairing the review panel which determines the focus and content of EA business.
Collaborator Contribution Eight full members and 49 associate members (March 2021) contribute resources voluntarily to project teams which deliver analytics and reporting to meet agreed challenges with importance for society, economy and policy. To date twelve challenges have been supported, with results reported from five which have been preserved online, presented as policy briefs and promoted through all forms of media.
Impact To date the Emergent Alliance has developed five products and services and addressed five challenges which are described on the EA website, details below: 1. Emergent Economic Engine - This app allows users to see how a shock to one sector of a national economy propagates throughout the national economic network and how it is eventually absorbed over time - essentially a 'what-if' type of simulation. 2. Emergent Alliance Chatbot - provides users with live international Covid travel advice, based on health and travel restriction measures. 3. Emergent Alliance Cookie Cutter - a labelling and data selection tool to help organise and manage Covid-19 infection datasets and anlyses. 4. International Travel Restriction Dashboard - shows users the entry limitations for foreign travellers for a selected country on the map, alongside any available travel destinations for that country. 5. DECISIONX:AIRBRIDGE - a platform aimed at policymakers and operational leaders in airport and airlines, which calculates and forecasts Covid-19 transmission risk along air-bridges (or travel corridors) between the UK and worldwide locations. There will be reports and legacy case study material with value to specific sectors (e.g. railway, airlines) and lessons/ recommendations for preparedness and resilience in future. Strengthened networks with a variety of business partners in EA (e.g. Rolls Royce, Microsoft, Reed).
Start Year 2020
 
Description Emergent Alliance - Mark Birkin 
Organisation Google
Department Google UK
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution University of Leeds is one of eight full members of EA, with Birkin sitting as a Director on the EA Board. The other full members represented on the Board are Rolls Royce, Google, IBM, Whitespace, Elder Research, Iotics and the ODI. Birkin has led in the design and administration of challenge statements, chairing the review panel which determines the focus and content of EA business.
Collaborator Contribution Eight full members and 49 associate members (March 2021) contribute resources voluntarily to project teams which deliver analytics and reporting to meet agreed challenges with importance for society, economy and policy. To date twelve challenges have been supported, with results reported from five which have been preserved online, presented as policy briefs and promoted through all forms of media.
Impact To date the Emergent Alliance has developed five products and services and addressed five challenges which are described on the EA website, details below: 1. Emergent Economic Engine - This app allows users to see how a shock to one sector of a national economy propagates throughout the national economic network and how it is eventually absorbed over time - essentially a 'what-if' type of simulation. 2. Emergent Alliance Chatbot - provides users with live international Covid travel advice, based on health and travel restriction measures. 3. Emergent Alliance Cookie Cutter - a labelling and data selection tool to help organise and manage Covid-19 infection datasets and anlyses. 4. International Travel Restriction Dashboard - shows users the entry limitations for foreign travellers for a selected country on the map, alongside any available travel destinations for that country. 5. DECISIONX:AIRBRIDGE - a platform aimed at policymakers and operational leaders in airport and airlines, which calculates and forecasts Covid-19 transmission risk along air-bridges (or travel corridors) between the UK and worldwide locations. There will be reports and legacy case study material with value to specific sectors (e.g. railway, airlines) and lessons/ recommendations for preparedness and resilience in future. Strengthened networks with a variety of business partners in EA (e.g. Rolls Royce, Microsoft, Reed).
Start Year 2020
 
Description Emergent Alliance - Mark Birkin 
Organisation IBM
Department IBM UK Ltd
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution University of Leeds is one of eight full members of EA, with Birkin sitting as a Director on the EA Board. The other full members represented on the Board are Rolls Royce, Google, IBM, Whitespace, Elder Research, Iotics and the ODI. Birkin has led in the design and administration of challenge statements, chairing the review panel which determines the focus and content of EA business.
Collaborator Contribution Eight full members and 49 associate members (March 2021) contribute resources voluntarily to project teams which deliver analytics and reporting to meet agreed challenges with importance for society, economy and policy. To date twelve challenges have been supported, with results reported from five which have been preserved online, presented as policy briefs and promoted through all forms of media.
Impact To date the Emergent Alliance has developed five products and services and addressed five challenges which are described on the EA website, details below: 1. Emergent Economic Engine - This app allows users to see how a shock to one sector of a national economy propagates throughout the national economic network and how it is eventually absorbed over time - essentially a 'what-if' type of simulation. 2. Emergent Alliance Chatbot - provides users with live international Covid travel advice, based on health and travel restriction measures. 3. Emergent Alliance Cookie Cutter - a labelling and data selection tool to help organise and manage Covid-19 infection datasets and anlyses. 4. International Travel Restriction Dashboard - shows users the entry limitations for foreign travellers for a selected country on the map, alongside any available travel destinations for that country. 5. DECISIONX:AIRBRIDGE - a platform aimed at policymakers and operational leaders in airport and airlines, which calculates and forecasts Covid-19 transmission risk along air-bridges (or travel corridors) between the UK and worldwide locations. There will be reports and legacy case study material with value to specific sectors (e.g. railway, airlines) and lessons/ recommendations for preparedness and resilience in future. Strengthened networks with a variety of business partners in EA (e.g. Rolls Royce, Microsoft, Reed).
Start Year 2020
 
Description Emergent Alliance - Mark Birkin 
Organisation Iotics
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution University of Leeds is one of eight full members of EA, with Birkin sitting as a Director on the EA Board. The other full members represented on the Board are Rolls Royce, Google, IBM, Whitespace, Elder Research, Iotics and the ODI. Birkin has led in the design and administration of challenge statements, chairing the review panel which determines the focus and content of EA business.
Collaborator Contribution Eight full members and 49 associate members (March 2021) contribute resources voluntarily to project teams which deliver analytics and reporting to meet agreed challenges with importance for society, economy and policy. To date twelve challenges have been supported, with results reported from five which have been preserved online, presented as policy briefs and promoted through all forms of media.
Impact To date the Emergent Alliance has developed five products and services and addressed five challenges which are described on the EA website, details below: 1. Emergent Economic Engine - This app allows users to see how a shock to one sector of a national economy propagates throughout the national economic network and how it is eventually absorbed over time - essentially a 'what-if' type of simulation. 2. Emergent Alliance Chatbot - provides users with live international Covid travel advice, based on health and travel restriction measures. 3. Emergent Alliance Cookie Cutter - a labelling and data selection tool to help organise and manage Covid-19 infection datasets and anlyses. 4. International Travel Restriction Dashboard - shows users the entry limitations for foreign travellers for a selected country on the map, alongside any available travel destinations for that country. 5. DECISIONX:AIRBRIDGE - a platform aimed at policymakers and operational leaders in airport and airlines, which calculates and forecasts Covid-19 transmission risk along air-bridges (or travel corridors) between the UK and worldwide locations. There will be reports and legacy case study material with value to specific sectors (e.g. railway, airlines) and lessons/ recommendations for preparedness and resilience in future. Strengthened networks with a variety of business partners in EA (e.g. Rolls Royce, Microsoft, Reed).
Start Year 2020
 
Description Emergent Alliance - Mark Birkin 
Organisation Open Data Institute
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution University of Leeds is one of eight full members of EA, with Birkin sitting as a Director on the EA Board. The other full members represented on the Board are Rolls Royce, Google, IBM, Whitespace, Elder Research, Iotics and the ODI. Birkin has led in the design and administration of challenge statements, chairing the review panel which determines the focus and content of EA business.
Collaborator Contribution Eight full members and 49 associate members (March 2021) contribute resources voluntarily to project teams which deliver analytics and reporting to meet agreed challenges with importance for society, economy and policy. To date twelve challenges have been supported, with results reported from five which have been preserved online, presented as policy briefs and promoted through all forms of media.
Impact To date the Emergent Alliance has developed five products and services and addressed five challenges which are described on the EA website, details below: 1. Emergent Economic Engine - This app allows users to see how a shock to one sector of a national economy propagates throughout the national economic network and how it is eventually absorbed over time - essentially a 'what-if' type of simulation. 2. Emergent Alliance Chatbot - provides users with live international Covid travel advice, based on health and travel restriction measures. 3. Emergent Alliance Cookie Cutter - a labelling and data selection tool to help organise and manage Covid-19 infection datasets and anlyses. 4. International Travel Restriction Dashboard - shows users the entry limitations for foreign travellers for a selected country on the map, alongside any available travel destinations for that country. 5. DECISIONX:AIRBRIDGE - a platform aimed at policymakers and operational leaders in airport and airlines, which calculates and forecasts Covid-19 transmission risk along air-bridges (or travel corridors) between the UK and worldwide locations. There will be reports and legacy case study material with value to specific sectors (e.g. railway, airlines) and lessons/ recommendations for preparedness and resilience in future. Strengthened networks with a variety of business partners in EA (e.g. Rolls Royce, Microsoft, Reed).
Start Year 2020
 
Description Emergent Alliance - Mark Birkin 
Organisation Rolls Royce Group Plc
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution University of Leeds is one of eight full members of EA, with Birkin sitting as a Director on the EA Board. The other full members represented on the Board are Rolls Royce, Google, IBM, Whitespace, Elder Research, Iotics and the ODI. Birkin has led in the design and administration of challenge statements, chairing the review panel which determines the focus and content of EA business.
Collaborator Contribution Eight full members and 49 associate members (March 2021) contribute resources voluntarily to project teams which deliver analytics and reporting to meet agreed challenges with importance for society, economy and policy. To date twelve challenges have been supported, with results reported from five which have been preserved online, presented as policy briefs and promoted through all forms of media.
Impact To date the Emergent Alliance has developed five products and services and addressed five challenges which are described on the EA website, details below: 1. Emergent Economic Engine - This app allows users to see how a shock to one sector of a national economy propagates throughout the national economic network and how it is eventually absorbed over time - essentially a 'what-if' type of simulation. 2. Emergent Alliance Chatbot - provides users with live international Covid travel advice, based on health and travel restriction measures. 3. Emergent Alliance Cookie Cutter - a labelling and data selection tool to help organise and manage Covid-19 infection datasets and anlyses. 4. International Travel Restriction Dashboard - shows users the entry limitations for foreign travellers for a selected country on the map, alongside any available travel destinations for that country. 5. DECISIONX:AIRBRIDGE - a platform aimed at policymakers and operational leaders in airport and airlines, which calculates and forecasts Covid-19 transmission risk along air-bridges (or travel corridors) between the UK and worldwide locations. There will be reports and legacy case study material with value to specific sectors (e.g. railway, airlines) and lessons/ recommendations for preparedness and resilience in future. Strengthened networks with a variety of business partners in EA (e.g. Rolls Royce, Microsoft, Reed).
Start Year 2020
 
Description Emergent Alliance - Mark Birkin 
Organisation Whitespace
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution University of Leeds is one of eight full members of EA, with Birkin sitting as a Director on the EA Board. The other full members represented on the Board are Rolls Royce, Google, IBM, Whitespace, Elder Research, Iotics and the ODI. Birkin has led in the design and administration of challenge statements, chairing the review panel which determines the focus and content of EA business.
Collaborator Contribution Eight full members and 49 associate members (March 2021) contribute resources voluntarily to project teams which deliver analytics and reporting to meet agreed challenges with importance for society, economy and policy. To date twelve challenges have been supported, with results reported from five which have been preserved online, presented as policy briefs and promoted through all forms of media.
Impact To date the Emergent Alliance has developed five products and services and addressed five challenges which are described on the EA website, details below: 1. Emergent Economic Engine - This app allows users to see how a shock to one sector of a national economy propagates throughout the national economic network and how it is eventually absorbed over time - essentially a 'what-if' type of simulation. 2. Emergent Alliance Chatbot - provides users with live international Covid travel advice, based on health and travel restriction measures. 3. Emergent Alliance Cookie Cutter - a labelling and data selection tool to help organise and manage Covid-19 infection datasets and anlyses. 4. International Travel Restriction Dashboard - shows users the entry limitations for foreign travellers for a selected country on the map, alongside any available travel destinations for that country. 5. DECISIONX:AIRBRIDGE - a platform aimed at policymakers and operational leaders in airport and airlines, which calculates and forecasts Covid-19 transmission risk along air-bridges (or travel corridors) between the UK and worldwide locations. There will be reports and legacy case study material with value to specific sectors (e.g. railway, airlines) and lessons/ recommendations for preparedness and resilience in future. Strengthened networks with a variety of business partners in EA (e.g. Rolls Royce, Microsoft, Reed).
Start Year 2020
 
Description Ethical Consumer Research Association 
Organisation Ethical Consumer Research Association
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Analysed date and provided open access on CDRC website
Collaborator Contribution Provided annual collected data on ethical and green product and services purchases in the UK.
Impact Data sets on data.cdrc.ac.uk
Start Year 2014
 
Description Ethical Consumer Research Association (ECRA) - data partner 
Organisation Ethical Consumer Research Association
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution ECRA data will be made available for researchers nationwide to access
Collaborator Contribution Ethical Consumer Markets reports annually from 2001- 2013
Impact Data made available via the CDRC data store
Start Year 2015
 
Description Evaluating strategies to promote healthier and more sustainable dietary choices (LIDA Data Scientist Development Programme Project) 
Organisation Institute of Grocery Distribution
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution I am the data scientist in training and main analyst for this project.
Collaborator Contribution Institute of Grocery Distribution - funders of the project Major food retailer - Provision of loyalty card, transaction, and aggregated data (retailer cannot be identified publicly yet, awaiting sign off)
Impact The collaboration is multidisciplinary. The disciplines involved include Data Science, Nutrition & Lifestyle Analytics, Sustainability. Outputs: LIDA Seminar Series (27 Jan 2022), CDRC 2022 Conference (Health & Wellbeing Stream), code for data pre-processing/handling, research update presentations for partners
Start Year 2021
 
Description Evaluation of Granular Consumption Data for the Non-Household Water Market to Support Market Efficiency, Efficient Water Use and Leakage Reduction 
Organisation Yorkshire Water
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Analysis of partner data - findings discussed within project report. Development of consumption benchmarks by industry divisions and groups. Expertise and intellectual input. Provision of progress update reports for immediate project partners.
Collaborator Contribution Facilitated Data Sharing Agreement (MOSL). Provision of monthly consumption data for construction of benchmarks.
Impact Construction of descriptive consumption benchmarks by industry classification at the division and group level.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Exploring machine learning approaches for uncovering spatial and temporal patterns in large data sets - The Alan Turing Institute - Kevin Minors intern project (April-Sept 2019) 
Organisation Alan Turing Institute
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution CDRC Co-I Alison Heppenstall supervised Kevin Minors on the project, Exploring machine learning approaches for uncovering spatial and temporal patterns in large data sets, in partnership with CDRC and The Alan Turing Institute.
Collaborator Contribution Use of facilities, sharing of expertise and Turing Urban Analytics network.
Impact Intern Kevin Minors was successful in applying to be a data scientist with the Oakland Group in Leeds as a result of his internship.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Exploring machine learning approaches for uncovering spatial and temporal patterns in large data sets - The Alan Turing Institute - Kevin Minors intern project (April-Sept 2019) 
Organisation University College London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution CDRC Co-I Alison Heppenstall supervised Kevin Minors on the project, Exploring machine learning approaches for uncovering spatial and temporal patterns in large data sets, in partnership with CDRC and The Alan Turing Institute.
Collaborator Contribution Use of facilities, sharing of expertise and Turing Urban Analytics network.
Impact Intern Kevin Minors was successful in applying to be a data scientist with the Oakland Group in Leeds as a result of his internship.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Generating a New Synthetic Population to Quantify Contemporary Urban Mobility - Telefonica - Ivana Kocanova intern project 
Organisation O2 Telefonica Europe plc
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution CDRC Co-Is Nik Lomax and Nick Malleson supervised intern Ivana Kocanova on the project, Generating a New Synthetic Population to Quantify Contemporary Urban Mobility.
Collaborator Contribution Telefonica shared data for the project.
Impact Intern Ivana Kocanova presented project findings at the LIDA Showcase in Sept 2019.
Start Year 2019
 
Description GeoUniq - data partner 
Organisation Geouniq
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Geouniq data will be made available for researchers nationwide to access
Collaborator Contribution GeoUniq is a location analytics company which leverages mobile apps as a data source. Their location Software Development Kit (SDK) collects more than 100 positions/device/day, in real-time.
Impact Data made available via the CDRC data store
Start Year 2017
 
Description Heart Research UK 
Organisation Heart Research UK
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Heart Research UK data has been made available for researchers nationwide to access
Collaborator Contribution Heart Research UK have provided data on employee health surveys from 109 organisations between 2007-2015. This data has been made available via the CDRC data store.
Impact Data made available via the CDRC data store
Start Year 2015
 
Description How and why do General Practice registers and ONS population estimates for Leeds differ? - Leeds Health and Care Hub - Rizwana Uddin intern project 
Organisation Leeds City Council
Department Public Health
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution CDRC Co-Is Nik Lomax and Nick Hood supervised intern Rizwana Uddin on the project, How and why do General Practice registers and ONS population estimates for Leeds differ?
Collaborator Contribution Leeds City Council Health and Care Hub shared data for the project.
Impact Intern Rizwana Uddin presented findings from the project at the Sept 2019 LIDA Showcase event.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Improbable - Mark Birkin 
Organisation Improbable
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution We reached out to Improbable to provide advanced expertise in software design and coding as an external partner to the RAMP consortium, with academic leadership and strategic direction to this partnership being provided by University of Leeds.
Collaborator Contribution Improbable have contributed two software engineers to work as members of the Urban Analytics team. They have developed an implementation of the REMUS simulator in OpenCL with a speed-up of 10,000x the base implementation facilitating advanced calibration and scenario optimisation.
Impact Improbable have contributed to papers (Rory Greig, Charlie Shenton - see RAMP entry); their OpenCL code appears in the RAMP github; and have blogged about the project - https://www.improbable.io/blog/improbable-synthetic-environment-technology-accelerates-uk-pandemic-modelling. Currently planning a joint workshop between Improbable and University of Leeds to co-design a new generation of simulation tools for scenario planning and resilience to support urban policy.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Innovation Fund Project 083 (Alasdair Rae) - FixMyStreet - Universities of Sheffield and Stirling and the charity FixMyStreet 
Organisation University of Sheffield
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The CDRC is funding this project and has made data available (Whenfresh/Zoopla and Bike Citizens) in support of the project. It is also supporting networking and research sharing by hosting events and workshops at which the PI will provide progress updates and have a chance to meet other project leads. The project in full is: FixMyStreet: Micro-geographies of civic engagement and neighbourhood environmental quality.
Collaborator Contribution PI is Alasdair Rae. This 8 month project seeks to bring together experienced and early-career academics from non-CDRC institutions (Sheffield, Stirling) and a registered charity (FixMyStreet, part of mySociety) to address key consumer-related questions about local neighbourhood quality across the whole United Kingdom. Through our early scoping work, we have also engaged directly with Keep Britain Tidy, Keep Scotland Beautiful and several local authorities (e.g. Trafford, Brent, Wirral, Cornwall, County Durham, Fife, North Lanarkshire) with a view to sharing our outputs with them at a later date. This project description sets out the motivation, aims and scope of the research programme, which we believe aligns well with ESRC themes on 'ways of being in a digital age' and 'housing'. Our project also has relevance to specific CDRC cross-cutting themes on 'urban mobility' and 'crime and policing'.
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2018
 
Description Innovation Fund Project 084 (Andrew Newton) - Urban Mobility and Crime: Examining consumer data to better measure crime rates in urban centres - University of Leicester 
Organisation University of Leicester
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The CDRC is supporting this project by enabling access to data through secure facilities at Leeds and Nick Malleson is collaborating on project as well. The CDRC is also funding this Innovation project and supporting networking and research sharing by hosting events and workshops at which the PI will provide progress updates and have a chance to meet other project leads.
Collaborator Contribution This project is very closely aligned to the CDRC theme crime and policing. Indeed, the growth of data in the Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC) offers a unique opportunity to examine alternative denominators of crime and explore the utility of this data for police forces in allocating resources and better understanding the mobility and crime patterns of their urban centres. This project aims to examine three types of CDRC data, travel data, retail data, and footfall data (for 7 specific datasets requested see part B - data requests), and to ascertain the merits of each to examine national and local crime patterns in urban areas. It will also use twitter data and crowd sourced data available to the research team. It will explore this across seven crime types, burglary; theft from person and other theft; violence and sexual offences and robbery; criminal damage and arson; vehicle crime, shoplifting, and drugs. These data have been selected as mobility patterns will impact on different crime types in different way. For example, burglary may be more likely in areas with high residential populations but low daytime population. Theft is likely to mirror retail and footfall data. Violent crime, criminal damage and drugs are more difficult to predict and a combination of datasets may be best suited to understand their spatio-temporal manifestation.
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2017
 
Description Innovation Fund Project 085 (Santosh Vijaykumar) - A Data-Driven Approach to Unlocking the Probiotics Controversy, Understanding Public Confidence and Analysing Consumption in the UK - Northumbria University and Du Pont Nutrition and Health 
Organisation Northumbria University
Department Department of Psychology
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The CDRC is funding this Innovation project and supporting networking and research sharing by hosting events and workshops at which the PI will provide progress updates and have a chance to meet other project leads.
Collaborator Contribution The aim of this study is to inform this debate through a national examination of probiotic consumption patterns in the UK vis-à-vis public confidence in these nutritional supplements. We aim to: 1. Identify gaps in knowledge and public understanding of probiotic products and their health effects; 2. Explore the effects of media preferences and health information seeking behaviours on knowledge and conceptual understanding; 3. Explore the effects of intergenerational communication on probiotics perception and consumption; 4. Analyse social determinants of probiotics buying and consumption; 5. Evaluate public sentiment surrounding probiotic products and perceptions of their health effects through real-time and historical, longitudinal analysis of social media data across platforms; 6. Construct geographical profiles of probiotics consumption and confidence based on aims 1-5. 7. Disseminate findings through active engagement with local communities, practitioners, policymakers and industry using creative devices and existing institutional networks and capacity Methodology: We propose to examine the problem using three data sources: a) national socio-behavioural survey, b) a social media analytics platform, and c) the Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC)'S existing datasets (YouGov and British Population surveys).
Impact The impact strategy for this project is as follows: Impact Summary # 1: Increase in understanding of probiotics concepts, probiotics' effects on health, and literacy related to interpreting health claims among UK consumers. Impact Summary #2: Strengthen the capacity of UK public health practitioners and policymakers (shortmedium term) and their global counterparts (long-term) to develop targeted interventions, and policies focused on probiotics. Impact Summary #3: According to our industry partner, DuPont Nutrition and Health, our project will help the customization of innovative food solutions based on health concerns among consumers, tailor health communication messages to create awareness of benefits of probiotics to audiences across generations, and strengthen food labeling practices and policies.
Start Year 2017
 
Description Innovation Fund Project 086 (Emmanouil Tranos) - Online behaviour in the UK: an individual and contextual analysis - University of Birmingham 
Organisation University of Birmingham
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The CDRC, as well as funding this project, is also providing opportunities for further networking amongst the research team from Birmingham involved through workshops and events.
Collaborator Contribution This project speaks directly to the ESRC priority regarding the Ways of Being in a Digital Age and CDRC's priority of Big Data and Retail. It will utilise the representative nature of the British Population Survey (BPS) to explain the determinants of individual internet usage and online shopping patterns. Using the postcode information we will link the BPS with secondary data from ONS and with a novel source of big data from the Internet Archive and the British Library. The latter will enable the building of longitudinal measures about the richness of the local internet content at the level of the BPS responders in order to test whether the availability of online content of local interest can affect individual online behaviour. By employing multilevel modelling (MLM), this project will reveal the individual and contextual determinants of internet usage and online shopping.
Impact This project will lead to 3 academic publications. The most matured one (attached here), which is about to be submitted for review and publication to a top academic journal, focuses on the individual and geographical predictors of internet usage. It tests whether the availability of online content of local interest can attract individuals online. Our underpinning assumption is that local internet content (LIC) in the form of websites with geographical reference represents online opportunities relevant at the local scale and, therefore, it can act as a pull factor for individuals to spend more time online. Such online opportunities can involve, for example, consumption opportunities of services and products provided by local businesses, governmental services such as services by local authorities, or third sector organisations present in a locality. An early draft of this paper was presented in the ERSA Congress in August 2018 (presentation attached) and a revised version will be presented in February 2019 in the Winter Seminar of the German Section of RSAI. A paper will be finalised and submitted for publication in semester 1 of 2019. The above were utilised for a keynote speech that the PI delivered during the 5th Greek Conference of Planning and Regional Development and an invited seminar at the British Library.
Start Year 2017
 
Description Innovation Fund Project 087 (Clare Griffiths) - Data driven, social, economic and spatial profiles for obesity and physical activity - Leeds Beckett University 
Organisation Leeds Beckett University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The CDRC is funding this project, but is also providing access to CDRC data from Whenfresh, Call Credit and Active Inspiration, as well as secure facilities in order to access these data. Networking opportunities have also been provided to further research opportunities with other project leads.
Collaborator Contribution This proposal includes three (funding is only sought for two) projects, that have distinct priorities in terms of public health however, the synergy between them will ensure a good return on investment, in terms of producing a several outputs within distinct priority areas demonstrating excellent return on investment. All three projects are linked to existing work including the ESRC funded obesity network (CG is an investigator) and associated projects with the CDRC and LIDA, investigating the geo-demographic profiling of obesity in children and adults (Morris, Lomax, Clark). Alongside the existing work, these projects will contribute to the CDRC thematic research area "Health and Consumer Behaviours" which is concerned with tackling obesity and related issues.
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2018
 
Description Innovation Fund Project 088 (David Glew) - Investigating Domestic Energy Efficiency Data (InDEED) - Leeds Beckett University 
Organisation Leeds Beckett University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The CDRC is funding this project as well as providing access to Whenfresh and Acxiom data through its secure facilities. Networking opportunities for future research collaborations have also been provided through events and workshops hosted at CDRC.
Collaborator Contribution With the public release of all EPC certificates in 2017, it has finally become possible to study all houses which obtained a new EPC since 2007. Of the ~15 million EPC certificates in this database, ~1.3 million are duplicates from the same houses obtained on different dates. Although the EPC data currently allows the study of which properties have been improved and to what extent, it is of crucial importance to understand why the owners of these particular properties decided to made the changes. Was it, for example, due to an increase in resident income? Or was it to make the property more attractive when sold? The CDRC is in possession of several data sets that may help to answer this question; The WhenFresh/Zoopla Property Transactions and Associated Migration database contains prices, listing durations and building characteristics of many recent property transitions. The ACXIOM - Small Area Income Database contains information on income levels and occupations at the postcode level for almost all postcodes in the UK. Additionally, the CDRC has publically available geographic data for changes in deprivation index, crime rates, OACs, education levels and many more.
Impact - An academic paper on the identification of errors in the EPC dataset. This has been submitted to Energy Policy and, at the time of writing, was under peer review. - The results of the EPC error identification have been submitted to the department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). BEIS held a call for evidence asking for ways in which EPCs could be improved. The timely nature of this call for evidence means the results have a high probability of influencing future policy. In particular, it was highlighted that machine learning has good potential in the future quality assurance of EPCs. - The results of EPC error identification have been submitted to staff in the Welsh government who are responsible for monitoring the EPCs of their housing stock. - The results of EPC error identification have been shared with members of staff in the office for national statistics - A version of the EPC dataset has been deposited with the CDRC. This version contains an additional flag to show if the EPC was identified as an error.
Start Year 2017
 
Description Innovation Fund Project 089 (Jonathan Halket/Lars Nesheim) - Impact of investments in local public goods and planning decisions on house prices, rents and equilibrium sorting - University of Essex 
Organisation University of Essex
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The CDRC is funding this project as well as providing access to Whenfresh data. Networking opportunities for future research collaborations have also been provided through events and workshops hosted at CDRC.
Collaborator Contribution This research project will provide a database to inform such decisions and will provide an analysis of this data that increases our understanding of these topics. As such, this project is squarely within the ESRC Priority Area of "Housing" and the CDRC Thematic Area on "Urban Mobility". We will combine several data sets to study how house prices, rents, and population flows respond to infrastructure and planning changes. The dataset we produce will contain rich data on these dimensions and so will allow us to estimate both households' Marginal Willingness to Pay (MWP) for public goods and other local amenities as well as the rate with which the value of those goods is capitalised into property values (capitalisation rates).The work described above will combine several data sources to create a new, comprehensive data set with detailed information on housing quality, prices, public infrastructure and local planning decisions.
Impact No outputs as yet.
Start Year 2018
 
Description Innovation Fund Project 090 (Kirby Swales/Robert Wishart) - Using small area income data to better understand society - National Centre for Social Research 
Organisation National Centre for Social Research
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The CDRC is funding this project as well as providing access to Acxiom and Call Credit data. Networking opportunities for future research collaborations have also been provided through events and workshops hosted at CDRC.
Collaborator Contribution This project has both methodological and substantive purposes. We aim to add substantially to national debates about the distribution of household income and geographical polarisation by describing patterns of income at the very local level. This will include examining between and within area measures of the income distribution. We will also show how small area income data can be used to add explanatory power to the housing thematic areas of interest to CDRC by including it in a model to predict residential property prices. In addition, we will also undertake validation work on the administrative data held by CDRC by comparing it with government survey data. The outputs will include a substantive policy report, methodological discussion paper, as well a new dataset. The resulting report, data and analytical models will enable new measures to be included in indices of local areas, such as the Index of Multiple Deprivation.
Impact To date the project has had some impact. The project has two dedicated pages on the NatCen website, where findings are published. Two presentations of early findings have been given at events with CDRC partners and a blog has been published on the importance of analyzing income at a local level. Two reports, one with methodological aims and another with a substantive focus on house prices, were published on the week commencing 17th December, alongside another blog.
Start Year 2017
 
Description Innovation Fund Project 091 (Marta Paczos) - Data on housing returns for the UK, with an application to quantifying the value of local healthcare and schools quality - National Institute of Economic and Social Research 
Organisation National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The CDRC is funding this project as well as providing access to Whenfresh data through its secure service. Networking opportunities for future research collaborations have also been provided through events and workshops hosted at CDRC.
Collaborator Contribution Housing is by far the largest asset in UK household portfolios, and its importance has grown over the last two decades. It is necessary to have data on the returns to owning a home in order to be able to investigate a wide range of key policy issues for the UK. Because housing is such an important asset, gaining a full picture of regional inequalities requires data on how the returns to home ownership vary across regions. Similarly, understanding trends in intergenerational inequality requires evidence on returns to home ownership. However, there is little evidence on the returns to owner-occupied housing in the UK. Our project uses the unique CDRC data on UK housing sales prices, rental prices and mortgage lending to construct measures of the returns, to owner occupied housing for local areas in the UK, and uses them to value local amenities such as school and healthcare quality.
Impact The project on various stages of development has been discussed with both academics and policy experts in the housing area (all the discussions are recorded in ResearchFish). Dr. Philippe Bracke has shared his knowledge of the work with his colleagues from the Bank of England. The aspect of regional disparities in housing returns was discussed with selected participants of the Broken Housing Market conference co-organized by NIESR, many of whom were policymakers. Finally, the research seminar organized in NIESR has generated a lot of interest in the CDRC datasets as potential valuable source to be exploited in the further research.
Start Year 2018
 
Description Innovation Fund Project 092 (Reka Solymosi) - Using Bayesian Surprise maps to explore debt and insolvency across the UK - University of Manchester 
Organisation University of Manchester
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The CDRC is funding this project. Networking opportunities for future research collaborations have also been provided through events and workshops hosted at CDRC.
Collaborator Contribution We propose to map data on debts and insolvencies by companies using a technique called Bayesian Surprise, to identify spatial patterns where levels of these outcomes deviate from what we would expect. This research would contribute to identifying unique areas of concentration for these outcomes. While analysis of 'new' sources of data allows for identification of crime hotspots, so does the application of 'new' techniques to data such as County Court Judgement (CCJ) Records. In particular, we consider the application of Surprise Maps to visualise CCJs. The implications of the project will be useful for creditors, company law practitioners, law enforcement in financial and corporate crime areas, so we trust that it complies with the crime and policing strand of the CDRC call. Further, we align with the ESRC call for interdisciplinary approach to methodological innovation in the study of macroeconomics, by applying the technique of Bayesian Surprise maps to explore data on debt and insolvencies across the UK.
Impact 1. Outputs have just started to emerge from this collaboration, with one working paper, 'Companies in Trouble': Exploring Debt, Insolvency and Corporate Noncompliance in the UK, having been shared with us prior to going out for peer review at the end of Jan 2019; 2. One-page document with key findings to be distributed to stakeholders after the dissemination event 3. Dissemination event - we will be presenting our results at the January meeting of the London Business Analytics Group (https://www.meetup.com/London-Business-Analytics-Group/events/256748516/) 4. Web application for exploring different visualisations of CCJs at Local Authority level available at: https://rekarrr.shinyapps.io/la_app/
Start Year 2017
 
Description Joint working with the Global Food and Environment Institute (GFEI) 
Organisation University of Leeds
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution A speculative approach by the Centre for AI & Climate has led to a more focused, co-ordinated joint effort between the CDRC at Leeds and the University of Leeds' Global Food and Environment Institute to more proactively align shared research objectives in relation to the food system, covering thematic interests in common spanning production, processing, distribution and consumption. An initial workshop has taken place, and an application has been made on behalf of senior academic interested parties to internal University of Leeds policy engagement funding with a view to supporting a public stakeholder-facing consultation event, for which plans were already in train (as at January 2023).
Collaborator Contribution Direct contributions from interested partners will be invited at an event scheduled to take place in May 2023.
Impact While outputs are still in development, the overarching objective is a planned phase of policy engagement resulting in a joint and aligned policy brief. The intention is that this will ultimately be in the service of a more cohesive food system offer on behalf of the University of Leeds which can be tailored to stakeholders locally, regionally and nationally.
Start Year 2022
 
Description LCC Footfall 
Organisation Leeds City Council
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution I, with the support of an intern, am analysing footfall data provided by the Council to better understand changes in patterns of footfall over the last 5+ years, and the factors that encourage or discourage attendance in the city centre.
Collaborator Contribution The Council (Brereton) are providing specific, expert knowledge about Leeds footfall as well as data.
Impact None yet - ongoing
Start Year 2016
 
Description LIDA & IGD collaboration 
Organisation Institute of Grocery Distribution
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The team will evaluate interventions run by a number of different retailers and manufacturers in line with the IGD healthy and Sustainable diets programme.
Collaborator Contribution Funding and oversight of the group of retailers and manufacturers.
Impact This project has just started and outputs are forthcoming.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Leeds City Council Data Science Development Project - Harnessing 2021 Census 
Organisation Leeds City Council
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution The CDRC worked directly with the Leeds City Council Policy Team to co-supervise a six-month Data Science Development Project. The project resulted in the development of an online dashboard to display Leeds 2021 census data (see data products), hosted on the Leeds Observatory.
Collaborator Contribution The Leeds City Council Policy team provided expertise, desk-space and a laptop for the Data Scientist for the duration of the project.
Impact Leeds 2021 Census Dashboard (hosted on Leeds Observatory - https://observatory.leeds.gov.uk/home/census-2021/); CDRC case study blog post; this project strengthened the ongoing collaborative partnership with LCC. "The Census is a vital tool in helping us to better understand our city and the people who live and work here. The depth of insight at the touch of a button this project has enabled us to access will change the game in supporting more people to access meaningful data in a user-friendly way. In addition, the results from the project will assist us through informing strategic conversations with councillors, helping to guide our work on equality diversity and inclusion, and generating further lines of enquiry more quickly than we've been able to previously." Mike Eakins - Head of Policy, Leeds City Council
Start Year 2023
 
Description Leeds City Council Intern Project (Natalie Nelissen): Data Science for Low-Carbon Cities (2019/20) 12 months 
Organisation Leeds City Council
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution CDRC Co-Is Nick Malleson and Alison Heppenstall co-supervised intern Natalie Nelissen on the project, Data Science for Low-Carbon Cities.
Collaborator Contribution Data sharing from Leeds City Council and sharing of expertise. Also fed into project briefing for project proposal.
Impact Model on retrofitting the Leeds social housing stock now in use by Leeds City Council. Case study by the intern on the LIDA website.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Leeds teaching Hospital NHS Trust (LTHT) 
Organisation Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution My research team has used the data set and other resources to answer the research questions regarding the the geodemographic analysis of the impact of Covid19 on urgent cancer referrals. We have produced a technical report detailing this finding. This technical report will also be translated in an academic journal for publication.
Collaborator Contribution The Leeds teaching Hospital NHS Trust (LTHT) provided the research team with patient level de-identified clinical dataset. The data set contains urgent cancer referrals to Leeds between January 2016 to December 2021. LTHT also gave access to the Trusted Research Environment on the Google Cloud Platform via the Yorkshire and Humber Care Record, where the research was carried out.
Impact Seminar presentation to an audience of more than 100 persons. Technical report. Academic paper (Potentially).
Start Year 2021
 
Description Livestock, Environment & People (LEAP) Partnership Intern Project (Patrycja Delong) 2019/20 
Organisation University of Oxford
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution CDRC Co-Is Michelle Morris and Stephen Clark are supervising intern Patrycja Delong in partnership with LEAP colleagues at the University of Oxford. Also providing the secure infrastructure for the data analysis.
Collaborator Contribution Funding for the project (6 months) as well as data from the retail partner and expertise on the data analysis.
Impact No outputs yet. Intern Delong took part in the LIDA insight workshop with the LEAP retail partner and feedback about the project was positive.
Start Year 2019
 
Description MIAC - data partner 
Organisation Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Country United States 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution MIAC data will be made available for researchers nationwide to access
Collaborator Contribution MIAC Monthly House Price Index and Monthly Rental Index
Impact Data made available via the CDRC data store
Start Year 2017
 
Description MIT Senseable Cities Lab 
Organisation Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department Senseable City Lab
Country United States 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution I visited the MIT Senesable Cities laboratory for two months over the summer in 2016 to collaborate on work focussed on simulating and understanding mobility. I am leading a paper that uses data owned by the lab to better understand urban dynamics.
Collaborator Contribution Senseable Cities hosted the visit, gave me the opportunity to collaborate with their researchers, and provided access to their data.
Impact Outputs still under development
Start Year 2016
 
Description Mapping Advertising Assets across the city of Leeds (MAAP) 
Organisation Leeds City Council
Department Public Health
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Funded by the Research England University of Leeds Policy Support Fund, Vicki Jenneson runs the MAAP project as PI, Co-Is are Dr Michelle Morris and Dr Charlotte Evans. The work is also supported by Dr Fran Pontin and Imani Wilson, Research Assistant. The project team have contributed to the design and implementation of the research proposal. In the coming months, they will undertake primary and secondary data collection and create a digital dashboard displaying outdoor advertising across the City of Leeds. This project is part of a wider collaboration with Leeds City Council in their themes of 'digital' and 'food'.
Collaborator Contribution The partners have helped to shape the initial funding application and attend monthly project group meetings where they provide input into the project plans, research protocol, and the types of data available through the council. They have also facilitated connections with other researchers and organisations.
Impact To date, this partnership has resulted in a successful award of £95,000 from the Research England Policy Support Fund, via an internal submission through the University of Leeds. This has led to the recruitment of a new Research Assistant, which contributes to the upskilling of the Nutrition workforce with data skills. It also promises a tangible output in the form of an interactive data dashboard which policymakers and researchers can use to explore the presence of outdoor food advertising across Leeds. This will be delivered by the end of July 2023.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Mapping Advertising Assets across the city of Leeds (MAAP) 
Organisation Sustain (food and farming alliance)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Funded by the Research England University of Leeds Policy Support Fund, Vicki Jenneson runs the MAAP project as PI, Co-Is are Dr Michelle Morris and Dr Charlotte Evans. The work is also supported by Dr Fran Pontin and Imani Wilson, Research Assistant. The project team have contributed to the design and implementation of the research proposal. In the coming months, they will undertake primary and secondary data collection and create a digital dashboard displaying outdoor advertising across the City of Leeds. This project is part of a wider collaboration with Leeds City Council in their themes of 'digital' and 'food'.
Collaborator Contribution The partners have helped to shape the initial funding application and attend monthly project group meetings where they provide input into the project plans, research protocol, and the types of data available through the council. They have also facilitated connections with other researchers and organisations.
Impact To date, this partnership has resulted in a successful award of £95,000 from the Research England Policy Support Fund, via an internal submission through the University of Leeds. This has led to the recruitment of a new Research Assistant, which contributes to the upskilling of the Nutrition workforce with data skills. It also promises a tangible output in the form of an interactive data dashboard which policymakers and researchers can use to explore the presence of outdoor food advertising across Leeds. This will be delivered by the end of July 2023.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Mastercard - new Data-Sharing Agreement 
Organisation Mastercard UK
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution In addition to the negotiations around the new data licence agreement itself, we are participating in monthly meetings with the partner in order to build the long-term relationship. On delivery of the data we also facilitated a training session for academic co-investigators who had expressed interest in carrying out analytical projects using it in the future.
Collaborator Contribution A new deposit in the CDRC data store (Safeguarded tier).
Impact The dataset provided and deposited is composed of anonymised and aggregated data sourced from card transactions. It provides insight into the relative growth of 14 different retail industries since January 2020. Six different measures of growth are provided: total spend, number of transactions, number of cards used, average spend per transaction, average transactions per card, and average spend per card.
Start Year 2023
 
Description Morrisons - Boshuo Guo and Aulona DSDP Project Partnership - Scarcity in Retail 
Organisation Morrison Supermarkets plc
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Summary from Boshuo to include Aulona's time. Funding from CDRC
Collaborator Contribution Morrisons agreement in principle to contribute consumer scarcity response data to the DSDP project.
Impact None yet.
Start Year 2023
 
Description Newcastle Urban Observatory 
Organisation Newcastle University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Team members have arranged a joint workshop with the Observatory. Technical feedback on the observatory sensors/sensor data has been provided to observatory staff.
Collaborator Contribution The observatory have assisted access to large scale pollutant monitoring data to support understanding of personal exposure patterns
Impact New modelling approach for diurnal patterns of atmospheric pollutants in the Newcastle City region. Joint workshop on modelling individual exposure to pollutants using sensor data with new and emerging data forms.
Start Year 2017
 
Description Open Data Science for Schools Outreach Project 2022-23 - Morrisons 
Organisation Morrison Supermarkets plc
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution CDRC-Leeds is leading the Open Data Science for Schools outreach project 2022-23, which is working with the Keighley Schools Together network in Bradford to widen participation from low income and protected characteristics years 8 & 9 students by inspiring them with data science careers, with the aim of encouraging them to stay in STEM education through GCSE into A Level. An outreach event is planned for May 2023, devised and delivered by CDRC data scientists, in partnership with Morrison's. CDRC is providing the structure, infrastructure, leadership, co-ordination and contacts as well as the data products for the outreach.
Collaborator Contribution Morrison's is partnering with us in this outreach by contributing time and expertise for the co-design of the outreach workshop on data and the food environment.
Impact Plans for future related activity.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Open Data Science for Schools Outreach Project Partner 2022-23 - CAER 
Organisation Centre for Applied Education Research
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Open Data Science for Schools, which is working with the Keighley Schools Together network in Bradford to widen participation from low income and protected characteristics years 8 & 9 students by inspiring them with data science careers, with the aim of encouraging them to stay in STEM education through GCSE into A Level. An outreach event is planned for May 2023, devised and delivered by CDRC data scientists, in partnership with Raspberry Pi's Code Club and local stakeholders such as Bradford City Council's Alliance for Life Chances.
Collaborator Contribution CAER's Digital Makers Programme is supporting with the embedding of the Open Data Science for Schools project as an annual initiative to engage, inspire and widen participation in Bradford schools. Expertise, time and co-design as well as networking.
Impact No outcomes yet.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Open Data Science for Schools with Bradford City Council 
Organisation Bradford Metropolitan District Council
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution CDRC's Kylie Norman is leading a digital skills outreach project with Schools in the local Keighley area to tackle the digital skills gap at earlier educational stages, to try to encourage students to consider STEM GCSE options and teach them about coding. Bradford City Council's Alliance for Life Chances has facilitated this work. Expertise from within CDRC research and professional services teams is helping the council to identify areas of greatest need and to better understand the intersectional challenge factors in and around Keighley, in particular food insecurity.
Collaborator Contribution Alliance for Life Chances has established a convening partnership of local Keighley community stakeholders, including schools, food banks, welfare and early help officers, dentists and other healthcare providers and local business and University researchers all invested in understanding the inequalities that beset Keighley and producing joined-up solutions to these.
Impact Further funding for Open Data Science for Schools (see further funding section). Partnership and outreach work reported in the 2023 Child of the North Parliamentary report. Two community engagement events (Nov 2023, Feb 2024) A call to action document detailing the partnership's approach to tackling the intersectional inequalities in Keighley.
Start Year 2023
 
Description Open Data Science for Schools with Raspberry Pi's Code Club 
Organisation Raspberry Pi Foundation
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution CDRC's Kylie Norman led a digital skills outreach activity with Schools (Open Data Science for Schools) in the local Keighley area to tackle the digital skills gap at earlier educational stages, to try to encourage students to consider STEM GCSE options and teach them about coding. Raspberry Pi's code club officers worked with the team of data scientists producing Scratch coding activities for one of these outreach events and offered human resource on the day of event delivery, May 2023.
Collaborator Contribution Facilitation, project management, partnership management with Keighley Schools Together, funding from University Research Culture award for initial Code Club resources at Carlton Keighley secondary school.
Impact x2 digital skills outreach events co-produced with Keighley Schools Together and Code Club colleagues, 2023. Registered Raspberry Pi code club established at Keighley Academy, Carlton Keighley, resourced by Open Data Science for Schools and led by IT staff at Carlton Keighley. Further funding (see further funding section). Partnership and outreach work reported in the 2023 Child of the North Parliamentary report. Plans for similar work 2024.
Start Year 2023
 
Description Otley Business Improvement District (BID) - data partner 
Organisation Otley BID Limited
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Otley BID data will be made available for researchers nationwide to access
Collaborator Contribution The data is an hour-by-hour account of footfall for four separate locations around Otley (West Yorkshire)
Impact Data made available via the CDRC data store
Start Year 2017
 
Description Partnership with Leeds Data Science Society 
Organisation Leeds Data Science Society
Sector Private 
PI Contribution The Leeds Data Science Society (LDSS) was founded by one of the Leeds CDRC PhD students, Ning Lu, in order to network, run training and host events of interest to the growing student body of data scientists. CDRC provides a venue for LDSS events and training workshops, as well as sharing expertise from affiliated lecturers such as Andy Evans in teaching coding languages such as Python and R. The LDSS also uses datasets provided by the CDRC as part of its Data Service
Collaborator Contribution The LDSS cross-promotes CDRC training short courses, as well as providing students able and skilled in demonstrating on those courses. As a result of Ning's skillful networking, the LDSS has been able to garner significant international sponsorship - this gives it the ability to pull in high calibre guest speakers and raises the profile of CDRC.
Impact Ning and his team from LDSS won the Hiscox university challenge in 2017.
Start Year 2015
 
Description PhD Studentship (CDT) - "Can food purchase data inform us about food intake, food security and food sustainability?" - Dietary Assessment Ltd. 
Organisation Dietary Assessment Ltd
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Developed a PhD project to undertake within the Centre for Doctoral Training for Data Analytics and Society.
Collaborator Contribution Provided data and staff time to support the PhD student through the project and internship.
Impact No impacts yet.
Start Year 2018
 
Description PhD Studentship (CDT) - Data assimilation for agent-based models - Improbable 
Organisation Improbable
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Developed a PhD project to undertake within the Centre for Doctoral Training for Data Analytics and Society.
Collaborator Contribution Provided data and staff time to support the PhD student through the project and internship.
Impact No impacts yet
Start Year 2018
 
Description PhD Studentship (CDT) - Spatial Energy Footprints - Arup 
Organisation Arup Group
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Developed a PhD project to undertake within the Centre for Doctoral Training for Data Analytics and Society.
Collaborator Contribution Provided data and staff time to support the PhD student through the project and internship.
Impact No impacts yet
Start Year 2018
 
Description PhD Studentship (CDT) - Towards data-driven policy development: the case of London's built cycling infrastructure - CycleStreets.net 
Organisation CycleStreets
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Developed a PhD project to undertake within the Centre for Doctoral Training for Data Analytics and Society.
Collaborator Contribution Provided data and staff time to support the PhD student through the project and internship.
Impact No impacts yet
Start Year 2018
 
Description PhD Studentship - Incorporating e-commerce (home deliver and 'click and collect') in grocery sector retail location modelling. 
Organisation Sainsbury's
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Developed a PhD project to undertake within the Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Analytics and Society,
Collaborator Contribution provided data and staff time to support the PhD student through the PhD project and internship project
Impact PhD studentship and internship project
Start Year 2017
 
Description PhD internship project - Bicycles and equity: a social-spatial analysis of access to safe cycling infrastructure in The South London Partnership 
Organisation Transport for London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution developed internship project with student and researcher
Collaborator Contribution provided data and staff time to support the PhD student through an internship project
Impact internship report and presentation
Start Year 2018
 
Description PhD studentship - Agent-Based Modelling and Dynamic Data Assimilation for Modelling Urban Dynamics 
Organisation Leeds City Council
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Developed PhD project in conjunction with partner, offered training opportunities to staff
Collaborator Contribution provided data, funding and staff support to the student, acting as a member of an advisory committee for the centre
Impact PhD studentship and internship project
Start Year 2017
 
Description PhD studentship - Predictive Data Analytics for Urban Dynamics 
Organisation Leeds City Council
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Developed PhD project in conjunction with partner, offered training opportunities to staff
Collaborator Contribution provided data, funding and staff support to the student, acting as a member of an advisory committee for the centre
Impact PhD studentship and internship project
Start Year 2017
 
Description PhD studentship - Predictive Geodemographics 
Organisation Transunion
Country United States 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Developed a PhD project to advertise as part of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Analytics and Society, offered training opportunities to staff
Collaborator Contribution provided data, funding and staff time to support the PhD student through the PhD project and internship project, acting as member of an advisory committee
Impact Student is undertaking an internship with the partner as well as a full PhD project
Start Year 2017
 
Description Rapid Assistance in Modelling the Pandemic (RAMP) - Mark Birkin 
Organisation Alan Turing Institute
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Leeds has contributed research leadership (including CDRC PIs Birkin and Lomax), software development and data analysis including use of microsimulation modelling algorithms and designs developed previously through CDRC. Birkin sits on the RAMP Steering Group which coordinates a scientific research programme for the pandemic working through the Royal Society, Isaac Newton Institute and other partners (further detail at 2 below if needed), and which has supported development of the REMUS simulator as a policy tool for building understanding of the diffusion of covid and its management through policy interventions. Birkin has also contributed as section for urban analytics to the RAMP Rapid Review Group which has provided rapid peer review for research papers prior to evaluation by SAGE, SPI-M and other policy-making groups.
Collaborator Contribution We have worked with four partner universities (Leeds, Exeter, Cambridge, UCL) to develop the REMUS simulator, working with a leadership group of ten investigators and multiple post-docs and interns working pro bono. The Royal Society has provided support to this endeavour through formation of an academic steering group including multiple FRS and other scientists, with a professional secretariat providing administration and comms support.
Impact RAMP github account provides all code, data and dashboards developed by the team as open source: https://github.com/Urban-Analytics/RAMP-UA. Documentation/ outputs: Shaddick G, Malleson N, Abrams J, Batty M, Birkin M, Dennett A, Greig R, Jin Y, Lomax N, Milton R, Morrissey K, Shenton C, Spooner F (2020) A Dynamic Microsimulation Model of Epidemics. https://www.microsimulation.org/conferences-and-workshops/microsimulation-modelling-of-policy-responses-to-covid-19/ Lomax N, Morrissey K, Nur J (2020) Enhanced Population Estimates for Dynamic Spatial Microsimulation of Disease Spread, International Microsimulation Association, December 2020: https://www.microsimulation.org/conferences-and-workshops/microsimulation-modelling-of-policy-responses-to-covid-19/ Urban Analytics and Modelling the Pandemic, Australian Urban and Regional Information Network (AURIN) and Melbourne Centre for Data Science, September 2020: https://science.unimelb.edu.au/mcds/events/mcds-seminar-series-sep2020; Infectious Dynamics of Pandemics: Mathematical and statistical challenges in understanding the dynamics of infectious disease pandemics, Isaac Newton Institute, 10/11/2020 - https://www.newton.ac.uk/seminar/20200710093009502; Robust Epidemic Models with Urban Simulation, International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh, October 2020, https://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/51612401/1_qaw8vh3c/1_x5u2bwen.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Rapid Assistance in Modelling the Pandemic (RAMP) - Mark Birkin 
Organisation The Royal Society
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Leeds has contributed research leadership (including CDRC PIs Birkin and Lomax), software development and data analysis including use of microsimulation modelling algorithms and designs developed previously through CDRC. Birkin sits on the RAMP Steering Group which coordinates a scientific research programme for the pandemic working through the Royal Society, Isaac Newton Institute and other partners (further detail at 2 below if needed), and which has supported development of the REMUS simulator as a policy tool for building understanding of the diffusion of covid and its management through policy interventions. Birkin has also contributed as section for urban analytics to the RAMP Rapid Review Group which has provided rapid peer review for research papers prior to evaluation by SAGE, SPI-M and other policy-making groups.
Collaborator Contribution We have worked with four partner universities (Leeds, Exeter, Cambridge, UCL) to develop the REMUS simulator, working with a leadership group of ten investigators and multiple post-docs and interns working pro bono. The Royal Society has provided support to this endeavour through formation of an academic steering group including multiple FRS and other scientists, with a professional secretariat providing administration and comms support.
Impact RAMP github account provides all code, data and dashboards developed by the team as open source: https://github.com/Urban-Analytics/RAMP-UA. Documentation/ outputs: Shaddick G, Malleson N, Abrams J, Batty M, Birkin M, Dennett A, Greig R, Jin Y, Lomax N, Milton R, Morrissey K, Shenton C, Spooner F (2020) A Dynamic Microsimulation Model of Epidemics. https://www.microsimulation.org/conferences-and-workshops/microsimulation-modelling-of-policy-responses-to-covid-19/ Lomax N, Morrissey K, Nur J (2020) Enhanced Population Estimates for Dynamic Spatial Microsimulation of Disease Spread, International Microsimulation Association, December 2020: https://www.microsimulation.org/conferences-and-workshops/microsimulation-modelling-of-policy-responses-to-covid-19/ Urban Analytics and Modelling the Pandemic, Australian Urban and Regional Information Network (AURIN) and Melbourne Centre for Data Science, September 2020: https://science.unimelb.edu.au/mcds/events/mcds-seminar-series-sep2020; Infectious Dynamics of Pandemics: Mathematical and statistical challenges in understanding the dynamics of infectious disease pandemics, Isaac Newton Institute, 10/11/2020 - https://www.newton.ac.uk/seminar/20200710093009502; Robust Epidemic Models with Urban Simulation, International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh, October 2020, https://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/51612401/1_qaw8vh3c/1_x5u2bwen.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Rapid Assistance in Modelling the Pandemic (RAMP) - Mark Birkin 
Organisation University College London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Leeds has contributed research leadership (including CDRC PIs Birkin and Lomax), software development and data analysis including use of microsimulation modelling algorithms and designs developed previously through CDRC. Birkin sits on the RAMP Steering Group which coordinates a scientific research programme for the pandemic working through the Royal Society, Isaac Newton Institute and other partners (further detail at 2 below if needed), and which has supported development of the REMUS simulator as a policy tool for building understanding of the diffusion of covid and its management through policy interventions. Birkin has also contributed as section for urban analytics to the RAMP Rapid Review Group which has provided rapid peer review for research papers prior to evaluation by SAGE, SPI-M and other policy-making groups.
Collaborator Contribution We have worked with four partner universities (Leeds, Exeter, Cambridge, UCL) to develop the REMUS simulator, working with a leadership group of ten investigators and multiple post-docs and interns working pro bono. The Royal Society has provided support to this endeavour through formation of an academic steering group including multiple FRS and other scientists, with a professional secretariat providing administration and comms support.
Impact RAMP github account provides all code, data and dashboards developed by the team as open source: https://github.com/Urban-Analytics/RAMP-UA. Documentation/ outputs: Shaddick G, Malleson N, Abrams J, Batty M, Birkin M, Dennett A, Greig R, Jin Y, Lomax N, Milton R, Morrissey K, Shenton C, Spooner F (2020) A Dynamic Microsimulation Model of Epidemics. https://www.microsimulation.org/conferences-and-workshops/microsimulation-modelling-of-policy-responses-to-covid-19/ Lomax N, Morrissey K, Nur J (2020) Enhanced Population Estimates for Dynamic Spatial Microsimulation of Disease Spread, International Microsimulation Association, December 2020: https://www.microsimulation.org/conferences-and-workshops/microsimulation-modelling-of-policy-responses-to-covid-19/ Urban Analytics and Modelling the Pandemic, Australian Urban and Regional Information Network (AURIN) and Melbourne Centre for Data Science, September 2020: https://science.unimelb.edu.au/mcds/events/mcds-seminar-series-sep2020; Infectious Dynamics of Pandemics: Mathematical and statistical challenges in understanding the dynamics of infectious disease pandemics, Isaac Newton Institute, 10/11/2020 - https://www.newton.ac.uk/seminar/20200710093009502; Robust Epidemic Models with Urban Simulation, International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh, October 2020, https://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/51612401/1_qaw8vh3c/1_x5u2bwen.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Rapid Assistance in Modelling the Pandemic (RAMP) - Mark Birkin 
Organisation University of Cambridge
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Leeds has contributed research leadership (including CDRC PIs Birkin and Lomax), software development and data analysis including use of microsimulation modelling algorithms and designs developed previously through CDRC. Birkin sits on the RAMP Steering Group which coordinates a scientific research programme for the pandemic working through the Royal Society, Isaac Newton Institute and other partners (further detail at 2 below if needed), and which has supported development of the REMUS simulator as a policy tool for building understanding of the diffusion of covid and its management through policy interventions. Birkin has also contributed as section for urban analytics to the RAMP Rapid Review Group which has provided rapid peer review for research papers prior to evaluation by SAGE, SPI-M and other policy-making groups.
Collaborator Contribution We have worked with four partner universities (Leeds, Exeter, Cambridge, UCL) to develop the REMUS simulator, working with a leadership group of ten investigators and multiple post-docs and interns working pro bono. The Royal Society has provided support to this endeavour through formation of an academic steering group including multiple FRS and other scientists, with a professional secretariat providing administration and comms support.
Impact RAMP github account provides all code, data and dashboards developed by the team as open source: https://github.com/Urban-Analytics/RAMP-UA. Documentation/ outputs: Shaddick G, Malleson N, Abrams J, Batty M, Birkin M, Dennett A, Greig R, Jin Y, Lomax N, Milton R, Morrissey K, Shenton C, Spooner F (2020) A Dynamic Microsimulation Model of Epidemics. https://www.microsimulation.org/conferences-and-workshops/microsimulation-modelling-of-policy-responses-to-covid-19/ Lomax N, Morrissey K, Nur J (2020) Enhanced Population Estimates for Dynamic Spatial Microsimulation of Disease Spread, International Microsimulation Association, December 2020: https://www.microsimulation.org/conferences-and-workshops/microsimulation-modelling-of-policy-responses-to-covid-19/ Urban Analytics and Modelling the Pandemic, Australian Urban and Regional Information Network (AURIN) and Melbourne Centre for Data Science, September 2020: https://science.unimelb.edu.au/mcds/events/mcds-seminar-series-sep2020; Infectious Dynamics of Pandemics: Mathematical and statistical challenges in understanding the dynamics of infectious disease pandemics, Isaac Newton Institute, 10/11/2020 - https://www.newton.ac.uk/seminar/20200710093009502; Robust Epidemic Models with Urban Simulation, International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh, October 2020, https://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/51612401/1_qaw8vh3c/1_x5u2bwen.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Rapid Assistance in Modelling the Pandemic (RAMP) - Mark Birkin 
Organisation University of Exeter
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Leeds has contributed research leadership (including CDRC PIs Birkin and Lomax), software development and data analysis including use of microsimulation modelling algorithms and designs developed previously through CDRC. Birkin sits on the RAMP Steering Group which coordinates a scientific research programme for the pandemic working through the Royal Society, Isaac Newton Institute and other partners (further detail at 2 below if needed), and which has supported development of the REMUS simulator as a policy tool for building understanding of the diffusion of covid and its management through policy interventions. Birkin has also contributed as section for urban analytics to the RAMP Rapid Review Group which has provided rapid peer review for research papers prior to evaluation by SAGE, SPI-M and other policy-making groups.
Collaborator Contribution We have worked with four partner universities (Leeds, Exeter, Cambridge, UCL) to develop the REMUS simulator, working with a leadership group of ten investigators and multiple post-docs and interns working pro bono. The Royal Society has provided support to this endeavour through formation of an academic steering group including multiple FRS and other scientists, with a professional secretariat providing administration and comms support.
Impact RAMP github account provides all code, data and dashboards developed by the team as open source: https://github.com/Urban-Analytics/RAMP-UA. Documentation/ outputs: Shaddick G, Malleson N, Abrams J, Batty M, Birkin M, Dennett A, Greig R, Jin Y, Lomax N, Milton R, Morrissey K, Shenton C, Spooner F (2020) A Dynamic Microsimulation Model of Epidemics. https://www.microsimulation.org/conferences-and-workshops/microsimulation-modelling-of-policy-responses-to-covid-19/ Lomax N, Morrissey K, Nur J (2020) Enhanced Population Estimates for Dynamic Spatial Microsimulation of Disease Spread, International Microsimulation Association, December 2020: https://www.microsimulation.org/conferences-and-workshops/microsimulation-modelling-of-policy-responses-to-covid-19/ Urban Analytics and Modelling the Pandemic, Australian Urban and Regional Information Network (AURIN) and Melbourne Centre for Data Science, September 2020: https://science.unimelb.edu.au/mcds/events/mcds-seminar-series-sep2020; Infectious Dynamics of Pandemics: Mathematical and statistical challenges in understanding the dynamics of infectious disease pandemics, Isaac Newton Institute, 10/11/2020 - https://www.newton.ac.uk/seminar/20200710093009502; Robust Epidemic Models with Urban Simulation, International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh, October 2020, https://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/51612401/1_qaw8vh3c/1_x5u2bwen.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Research into associations between adherence to the Mediterranean Diet & Eatwell Guide (EWG) and changes in weight / waist circumference in post-menopausal women 
Organisation Manchester Metropolitan University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution As part of its core data service, CDRC Leeds facilitated the academic review of a research proposal to use the UK Women's Cohort Survey Questionnaire. Following acceptance of the proposal, our research team provided project monitoring and overall support via the Centre's Research Management Process (RMP). This consisted of a project kick-off meeting, midpoint review, and a discussion at the project's conclusion on potential outputs and impacts. The research team additionally facilitated direct contact and dialogue between the project leads and data collection team members based elsewhere at the University of Leeds, particularly on occasions when technical queries arose in relation to the raw data being analysed. The research team received positive feedback from the project leads for the quality of support they received.
Collaborator Contribution The results of this project make a contribution to addressing the historic paucity of evidence in this thematic area, in their suggestion that adhering to dietary guidelines can help prevent abdominal adiposity in post-menopausal women. (Adherence to guidelines in the UK is currently very low. For higher adherence, women need to consume more fibre, fruit, vegetables and oily fish, less saturated fat, and fewer free sugars).
Impact In February 2023, the project leads were successful in having a journal submission accepted by the British Menopause Society.
Start Year 2021
 
Description SPENSER - A Synthetic Population Estimation and Scenario Projection Model (2) - University of Southern California - Luke Archer intern project (April-Sept 2019) 
Organisation University of Southern California
Country United States 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution CDRC Co-I Nik Lomax supervised intern Luke Archer on the SPENSER project. Project created a Future Elderly projection model using the model created at the University of Southern California.
Collaborator Contribution Project created a Future Elderly projection model using the model created at the University of Southern California. Luke Archer spent a week at SoCal University on secondment receiving instruction in the code of the model.
Impact Luke Archer has since successfully applied to join the Leeds Urban Analytics team led by CDRC Co-Is Nik Lomax, Alison Heppenstall and Nick Malleson.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Sainsbury's LIDA Strategic Partnership 
Organisation Sainsbury's
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution This collaboration uses retail transaction data to investigate dietary patterns that are associated with health and sustainability outcomes. My team have contributed both nutrition and data science expertise to this work.
Collaborator Contribution The partners have contributed data and understanding of these data, alongside working knowledge of the business.
Impact Our research has contributed to Sainsbury's approach to promoting healthy and sustainable diets as part of their carbon net zero 2040 targets. Conference publications have been delivered and academic results papers are forthcoming,
Start Year 2017
 
Description Shanghai Jiao Tong University - new joint centre 
Organisation Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Country China 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Participation in joint workshops to develop a new joint centre between the two Universities - exchanging knowledge and using shared expertise to address grand challenges. Team members are bringing expertise with new data forms and understanding on modelling of complex cross-sectoral interactions (transport-energy-health-environment)
Collaborator Contribution Mega datasets from large urban conurbations that challenge existing modelling methodologies.
Impact Both collaborators have hosted joint workshops. The center is still in development. Multi-disciplinary collaboration spanning transport-health- environmental pollutants-energy-data analytics
Start Year 2017
 
Description Statistics Norway - advice on dynamic microsimulation 
Organisation Statistics Norway
Country Norway 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution The team visited Statistics Norway in June 2022 to provide advice on their development of a dynamic microsimulation model fo regional population projection. Data for Norway is high quality (longitudinal register) and the methods developed as part of our SPENSER project to estimate transitions of individuals are of interest to Statistics Noway. Ntatistics Norway have now developed a model and the team are visiting again in August 2023 to provide further advice and continue the collaboration.
Collaborator Contribution Statistics Norway have high quality data and modelling expertise in developing dynamic microsimulation models. THe collaboration is two way as Statistics Norway are able to provide advice on the continued development of the SPENSER model.
Impact Outputs from the Norwegian microsimulation have been produced and are being quality assured.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Sustain -- MAAP - Mapping Advertising Assets across Leeds Project (Dr Victoria Jenneson) 
Organisation Sustain (food and farming alliance)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Development of a new dashboard tool (MAAP) for exploration of outdoor advertising exposures in visited areas in Leeds https://maap-dashboard.azurewebsites.net/ - developed by Francesca Pontin, Alex Hamberley, Imani Wilson and Vicki Jenneson.
Collaborator Contribution Input of expertise, networks, and domain-specific knowledge.
Impact MAAP dashboard Manuscript for Public Health Nutrition - in preparation - plans for submission before end of Q1 2024 Multidisciplinary - food science and nutrition, data science and analytics, public health
Start Year 2023
 
Description Tackling city waste: opportunities for changing consumer environmental behaviour and associated product supply chain actors 
Organisation Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Country China 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Organised a workshop on 'Develop a conceptual model of urban waste management by linking green supply chain management and consumers' environmental behaviour'.
Collaborator Contribution Participated in workshop held at Leeds and exchanged ideas and collaboration opportunities. Organising a workshop in China.
Impact Not outcomes yet
Start Year 2019
 
Description Telefonica 
Organisation Telefonica S.A
Department Telefónica UK Limited
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Data Scientist Internship projects to work with the data
Collaborator Contribution Data provided - origin destination anonymised and aggregated for Leeds region
Impact tbd
Start Year 2019
 
Description The Real Junk Food Project - data partner 
Organisation The Real Junk Food Project
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The Real Junk Food Project data will be made available for researchers nationwide to access
Collaborator Contribution The Real Junk Food Project will be making data on food intercepted through its network of cafes available via the CDRC data store
Impact Data made available via the CDRC data store
Start Year 2016
 
Description UK Women's Cohort Study 
Organisation University of Leeds
Department UK Women's Cohort Study
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution UK Women's Cohort Study data will be made available for researchers nationwide to access
Collaborator Contribution The UK Women's Cohort Study is one of the largest cohort studies investigating associations between diet and cancer in the UK. It was established in 1995 with the aim of investigating links between diet and health.
Impact Data made available via the CDRC data store
Start Year 2016
 
Description Urban Transport Modelling for Sustainable Well-Being in Hanoi 
Organisation Vietnam National University
Country Viet Nam 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Expertise is data wrangling, production of reproducible outputs, visualisation, modelling and spatial analysis.
Collaborator Contribution Access to data of Hanoi transport survey and feedback on the project.
Impact Discipline: Urban Analytics
Start Year 2019
 
Description Utilising big data from PTEG (WYCA) to develop new analytical methods for passenger demand forecasting 
Organisation Passenger Transport Executive Group (Pteg)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The Passenger Transport Executive Group (PTEG) in collaboration with ATOC. The goal of this research is to study individual level mobility and movement patterns in urban areas with special emphasis on the railways, to enable better forecasts of passenger demand. Mobility analysis during the affluent post war era only had to anticipate aggregate number of passenger trips in deciding policy on transport infrastructures to install. These days with operational effectiveness needs, saturated urban forms and complex mobility interactions, the travel behaviour and activity patterns of individuals have to be understood. Representative models of the environment have to be reconciled with individual-level urban mobility in deciding policy on infrastructure operational efficiency.
Collaborator Contribution This research explores opportunities of using consumer data available within the UK rail sector to develop new methods for understanding, simulating and predicting individual movement patterns within the railways.
Impact The PTEG (WYCA) have given CDRC some confidentially agreed data sets for analysis and to develop new analytical methods for understanding, predicting and simulating individual movement patterns of sector passengers.
Start Year 2014
 
Description Utilising big data to develop new analytical methods for ATOC 
Organisation Association of Train Operating Companies
Department Commercial Scheme
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution The goal of this research is to study individual level mobility and movement patterns in urban areas with special emphasis on the railways, to enable better forecasts of passenger demand. Mobility analysis during the affluent post war era only had to anticipate aggregate number of passenger trips in deciding policy on transport infrastructures to install. These days with operational effectiveness needs, saturated urban forms and complex mobility interactions, the travel behaviour and activity patterns of individuals have to be understood. Representative models of the environment have to be reconciled with individual-level urban mobility in deciding policy on infrastructure operational efficiency.
Collaborator Contribution This research explores opportunities of using consumer data available within the UK rail sector (ATOC) to develop new methods for understanding, simulating and predicting individual movement patterns within the railways.
Impact A presentation of initial project strategy and activity plan was presented to ATOC on the 22 May 2015 A presentation of project upgrade development plan was presented to ATOC on the 9th July 2015
Start Year 2014
 
Description WHO - LIDA Data Science Development Programme 2023-24 
Organisation World Health Organization (WHO)
Country Global 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution TBC
Collaborator Contribution TBC
Impact TBC
Start Year 2023
 
Description WHO Nutrient Profile and Promotion Model for baby foods 
Organisation World Health Organization (WHO)
Country Global 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Following a successful partnership with the School of Food Science and Nutrition, which holds status as a WHO European Office Collaborating Centre for Nutritional Epidemiology, the CDRC have become involved with the WHO through LIDA's Data Science Development Partnership. This collaboration has led to a submission for a 6-month Data Scientist project (starting April 2024) which will see the team using data inputted into the WHO's NPPM online tool to evaluate the global commercial baby food market. This will result in a dashboard of baby food market insights which will be used by advocates and policymakers to bring about legislative change, and help to inform the food industry about reformulation and best practice for ethical marketing. It will also lead to a reproducible report to be published jointly by the University and the WHO.
Collaborator Contribution The WHO have supported the University financially and through input, to create the NPPM for baby foods. More recently, the WHO have offered support and sign-off to shaping the DSDP project application. This has included a letter of support, and may also involve financial contribution in the future.
Impact Commitment from the WHO to support a 6-month Data Science Development Project. This brings together a multi-disciplinary team from Food Science and Nutrition and Data Scientists from the CDRC, as well as expertise with mapping from the School of Geography, in the form of the supervisory team.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Whenfresh - data partner 
Organisation Whenfresh Ltd
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Whenfresh data has been made available for researchers nationwide to access
Collaborator Contribution Whenfresh have provided data to the CDRC data store containing property/transaction and associated migration corroborated with land registry sales and Royal Mail re-directions (2014-2015)
Impact Data made available via the CDRC data store
Start Year 2015
 
Description WhytHawk - CDRC Internship 2020-21 (Seb Heslin Rees and Simon Leech) 
Organisation WhytHawk
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution This partnership is governed by CDRC Data Service user agreements under project LEEDS004 for WhytHawk data on the rented commercial housing stock in the UK. CDRC admin processed this application for this intern project, and CDRC Co-Director Nik Lomax is the project PI who has been leading the project team (and providing mentorship and supervision to) CDRC interns Simon Leech and Seb Heslin-Rees, with support provided by CDRC Research Software Engineer Dustin Foley.
Collaborator Contribution WhytHawk have provided the data for this collaboration.
Impact No outputs yet, but a project case study will be forthcoming from intern Seb Heslin-Rees in April 2021.
Start Year 2020
 
Description YouGov - data partner 
Organisation YouGov
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution YouGov data has been made available for researchers nationwide to access
Collaborator Contribution YouGov have provided data to the CDRC data store containing survey data collected and analysed by YouGov plc (2015 - 2016), topics include shopping habits, green energy, commuting time & spend, dietary habits cross tabulated with location, age, gender and social demographic.
Impact Data made available via the CDRC data store
Start Year 2016
 
Description collaboration on UK micromobility 
Organisation Voi Technology
Country Sweden 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Expertise in the use of new and emerging data forms, knowledge of links between micro-level data and health outcomes.
Collaborator Contribution Contributions related to VOI assets and research support.
Impact The collaboration has taken the form of a shared research activity, using new and emerging data forms to create understanding around the wider impacts of e-scooter use.
Start Year 2020
 
Title Cardiovascular Landscapes 
Description Despite international recommendations for the care of heart attacks (acute myocardial infarction), there remains wide variation in provision of care across areas in England and Wales. The Cardiovascular Landscapes project seeks to address this variation in care by bringing together data from over 900,000 patients hospitalised with acute myocardial infarction in to an interactive web based platform. 
Type Of Technology Webtool/Application 
Year Produced 2017 
Impact Prof Chris Gale, Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at York Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, is utilising the tool to engage the clinical community and key stakeholders with their patients' data. Highlighting that, whilst for some care opportunities provision to eligible patients is very high, optimal care provision (patients receiving all care for which they are eligible) remains low across England and Wales. 
 
Title Error identification for Energy Performance Certificates 
Description This software analyses Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) and identifies possible errors based on a number of criteria. In the first instance, EPCs which are duplicates of each other are identified. These duplicated are caused by errors in the EPC lodging process. Next, EPCs which contain non-physical parameters are identified. For example, EPCs which describe a house that moves from a cavity wall to a solid wall. These errors are likely the result of human error. Finally, a random forest is trained to identify errors based on comparisons with neighboring EPCs. For example, a if a house is labelled as detached and all its neighbors are terraced, the detached house is likely an error. This random forest is then applied to the data for final error identification. 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2018 
Impact Software was applied to the full EPC database of 15 million entries. The errors identified by the software will be released to the public, allowing for more accurate analysis of the EPC database. 
 
Title Leeds Observatory Census Dashboard 
Description A data dashboard providing access to Leeds 2021 census data for a range of end-users including policy makers, citizens and academics. 
Type Of Technology Webtool/Application 
Year Produced 2023 
Impact The Intelligence & Policy Team at Leeds City Council (LCC) receives a substantial number of census-related data requests from councillors, different departments, and members of the public. The process of downloading, manipulating, and analysing census data can be time-consuming and tedious. This dashboard minimised the time spent on this process, providing insights at the click of a button. "The Census is a vital tool in helping us to better understand our city and the people who live and work here. The depth of insight at the touch of a button this project has enabled us to access will change the game in supporting more people to access meaningful data in a user-friendly way. In addition, the results from the project will assist us through informing strategic conversations with councillors, helping to guide our work on equality diversity and inclusion, and generating further lines of enquiry more quickly than we've been able to previously." Mike Eakins - Head of Policy, Leeds City Council 
URL https://observatory.leeds.gov.uk/home/census-2021/
 
Title MOT Atlas (2017/18) 
Description Efforts to reduce the emissions from car travel have so far been hampered by a lack of specific information on car ownership and use. The motoring and vehicle ownership trends in the UK (MOT) project seeks to address this by bringing together new sources of data to give a spatially and disaggregated diagnosis of care ownership and use in Great Britain and the associated energy demand and emissions. This webtool visualises the data and allows users to interrogate the data by region. 
Type Of Technology Webtool/Application 
Year Produced 2018 
Impact Webtool currently under approval, once approved the tool will be openly available to researchers. 
 
Title Neighborhood Recycling Tool 
Description Upon entering a postcode, the software provides/displays the recycling rates in the neighborhood (domestic) and also the trends in the recycling rates in Leeds City Council region. 
Type Of Technology Webtool/Application 
Year Produced 2017 
Impact The software tool was developed as part of a research work "Evaluating factors behind low household recycling rates in Leeds". The tool has generated a lot of curiosity when demonstrated to general public at an event in the University of Leeds. The tool will be handed over to Leeds City Council to host it on council's public domain so that public can look into the recycling trends in their neighborhoods. This is expected to change the recycling behaviour of general public. 
 
Title Power BI Dashboard visualizing food insecurity and health outcomes data 
Description Power BI Desktop 
Type Of Technology Webtool/Application 
Year Produced 2023 
Impact Enabling public health policymakers to simultaneously visualize food insecurity and health data in Oxfordshire. This would allow them to answer questions about where high food insecurity risk could be contributing to poor health outcomes of a specific type. The tool uses different visuals which include HTML visuals, bar charts, and maps to create the interactive experience for the user whereby the data shown dynamically changes based on the selections made. 
 
Title Renewable Estimator Tool 
Description The Renewable Estimator tool is designed to help you understand the potential wind or solar energy that can be harnessed at a given location. 
Type Of Technology Webtool/Application 
Year Produced 2018 
Impact Webtool is currently being signed off, once approved it will be made openly available to help planners to identify the optimal position for wind and solar energy within each city. 
 
Title SPENSER version 1 software & code 
Description This software comprises the packages which make up version 1 of the SPENSER ecosystem. The software are open source and allow users to create bespoke population projections. 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2019 
Open Source License? Yes  
Impact Used to produce population estimates and projections for the EPSRC funded Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium https://www.itrc.org.uk/ Used in the OxCam Arc analysis which is engaging local authorities, planners and industry https://www.itrc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/arc-main-report.pdf 
URL https://www.itrc.org.uk/highlights/popnation-predicts-household-distribution-to-incredible-level-of-...
 
Title Synthetic population for England and Wales 
Description This product is an individual level synthetic population for England and Wales generated using spatial microsimulation. 
Type Of Technology New/Improved Technique/Technology 
Year Produced 2015 
Impact This data set is being used in other projects following application to use the data via the CDRC. 
URL https://data.cdrc.ac.uk/dataset/synthetic-population
 
Title The National Propensity to Cycle Tool on-line interactive map 
Description This application helps Transport Planners decide where to prioritise new cycling infrastructure. 
Type Of Technology Webtool/Application 
Year Produced 2015 
Impact During user testing events, many transport planners said this would be useful for their work. In Phase II of the project (2015 - 2017) this tool will be deployed nationwide. 
URL http://geo8.webarch.net/master/
 
Title stplanr: sustainable transport planning with R package - published on CRAN 
Description Functionality and data access tools for transport planning, including origin-destination analysis, route allocation and modelling travel patterns. 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2015 
Open Source License? Yes  
Impact 300+ downloads per month, some community interest/engagement. 
URL https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/stplanr/
 
Company Name Dietary Assessment 
Description Dietary Assessment develops products such as myfood24, an online tool that allows researchers to accurately estimate the dietary intake of their test subjects. 
Year Established 2017 
Impact This company is newly created and has potential to impact future epidemiology research and health care. In addition potential impact will be generated from dietary data collection and monitoring more widely and using data generated gain insight into prevention of non-communicable disease.
Website https://www.myfood24.org/
 
Description "Discovery Day" with the Connected Places Catapult 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact "Discovery Day" with the Connect Places Catapult - workshop to agree focus and priorities for strategic collaboration
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description 10th LIDA Seminar: Crime Analytics (Leeds) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I gave an overview of my PhD research, including theoretical background and planned methodologies. In addition to contributing to the general conversation around crime analytics, I received positive feedback in relation to the novelty of my chosen topic. Presentation Title - Data as Risk Predictor for Temporally-Concentrated Crime Series.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/crime-analytics/
 
Description 17th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology (Cardiff) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I provided a summary of my PhD research to date, including key findings and related methods. The presentation appeared to be well-received, with some attendees suggesting that I write up one section in particular as a research paper. Presentation Title: 'Developing a Dynamic Risk Model for the Prediction of Temporally Clustered Crime Series'.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.eurocrim2017.com/
 
Description 46th Annual Conference 2017 RSAI - British and Irish Section 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Social science research makes inference about systems based on analysing a representative dataset, however the prevalence of inadvertent missing data values could skew the dataset and compromise the validity of the thesis. By re-construing the distribution of the missing data to be at random, and if the data inobservance is a distinct design feature of the data measuring sensor, then the best course of action put forward by the statistics community (Rubin, 1976) enables valid inferences to be made about the parameters of the system by applying Bayesian theories to the incomplete dataset.
The above hypothesis is applied to big consumer datasets revealed from the UK railways, which have many inadvertent omissions. The data is rich, comprehensive and has national coverage hence the desire to exploit them fully, often beyond what they were originally intended. In the case of railways ticketing data the desire to use the data for passenger mobility studies beyond just facilitating revenue sharing amongst train operators, has meant that precise flows and number of journeys per ticket (journey factor) needs to be ascertained. At the moment, number of journeys made with season tickets are unknown, some train stations are grouped so that passenger flows to specific stations within the group are unknown, regional multi-modal transport operators (PTE's) sell tickets of specific coverage that are valid for use on buses and trains, with no accurate sense of number of journeys made with these PTE tickets. These wide range inobservance in ticketing data have to be objectively in-filled (imputed) to create a requisite dataset (Heckman, 1979) for mobility analysis.
Current industry practice has been to use proxy trip rates for period season tickets and ad hoc logical rules about where multi-modal tickets are likely to be used. In this research a principled infilling methodology is developed whereby a data model is constructed, enabling the omissions to be construed as missing at random MAR (Little and Rubin, 2014), facilitating the imputation of all unobserved values and measures of uncertainty associated with the imputation results. Regression modelling and subsequent analysis is validly conducted using the complete dataset, and a case study of rail heading (whereby passengers travel further to access a rail service when there are commensurate closer services) is investigated in West Yorkshire, identifying the governing exogenous socio-economic, demographic, urban morphology and network endogenous variables.
KEYWORDS: big consumer data, railways ticketing, inobservance, missing data, infilling, imputation, missing-at-random, journey factor, passenger flows, data values, data model.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.rsai-bis.org/
 
Description A briefing for parliament 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Nik Lomax was invited by the Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology to give a talk at a closed briefing for parliamenarians entitled Unpacking migration: regional diversity and impact on public services. There were questions from parliamentarians and government advisors and follow up requests for information. An edited video is being developed for the POST website.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://post.parliament.uk/unpacking-migration-regional-diversity-and-impact-on-public-services/
 
Description A little less conversation* and more [impact and citations] please 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Invited to present at the ARCC Network event for postgraduate students: "Showcasing research to deliver impact"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description A scoping study for an independent repository of gambling industry data, conducted for Gamble Aware 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact We were asked to undertake a scoping study for an independent repository of gambling industry data by Gamble Aware, a grant-making charity using best-practice in commissioning, including needs assessment, service planning, evaluation and outcome reporting to support effective, evidence-informed, quality assured prevention of gambling harms. The repository will house with operator data and allocate funds for research in to gambling related harms. Our report formed a key piece of evidence in the set up of the repository.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://about.gambleaware.org/media/2036/gambleaware-report-29-august-2019-final.pdf
 
Description A talk to school children via the Geography Education Online platfrom 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact A talk for school age children (GCSE and A Level) organised by GEO (Geography Education Online) who are the online educational arm of the Geographical Association. The talk was entitled "Demographic change and population projections". It was broadcast live and seen by a number of student son the day. It is also avaiulable for catchup via the website/youtube.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://geographyeducationonline.org/event/demographic-change-and-population-projections
 
Description ADRN conference - Belfast 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Type Of Presentation keynote/invited speaker
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Talk was well received and triggered many questions during the session. After the presentation I was approached with further questions and general interest in the CDRC. I have since received follow up emails too.

Contacts at the Welsh Government have followed up with me to invite me to give a talk to the CDRC to colleagues there. Director of a phase 1 ESRC centre has suggested formal annual meetings withthe phase 1 and 2 centres. I have followed this up by email to set the wheels in motion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description AI- Building a Future for the Urban Analytics Blueprint, Bristol - Mark Birkin - 16th Oct 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact CDRC PI Mark Birkin was a speaker at the event. 70 attendees.
Impact - delivered the Blueprint (i.e. strategy document) for development of the Urban Analytics Digital Twin, in combination with the Turing and UKRI-SPF. Further funding allocated to this strategy in March 2020.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description AMA Winter 2022 - Conference Presentation - Green, competitive and resilient in times of uncertainty 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Presentation of the paper entitled "Green, competitive and resilient in times of uncertainty". Post-presentation there was a discussion relating to the impact of this work and the translation of the results.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.ama.org/events/academic/2022-ama-winter-academic-conference/
 
Description AMA Winter 2022 - Conference presentation - How and when does big data analytics contribute to market performance? 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Presentation of the paper "How and when does big data analytics contribute to market performance?" A discussion among conference delegates followed soon after the presentation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.ama.org/events/academic/2022-ama-winter-academic-conference/
 
Description ATI Workshop stakeholder meeting and research meeting, Oxford - Mark Birkin - 16th-17th Jan 2020 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact 12 people. Outcome - successful proposal for £250K extension funding for AI, demographic change, land-use and sustainable development (partnership with Newcastle and Oxford).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Academy of International Business conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact The activity was to present a research paper, entitled "Why and When Chinese Firms Increase Their Stakes" (authored by Jie Wu, University of Macau and Matthew J. Robson, University of Leeds), at the Academy of International Business annual conference in New Orleans. The paper used big data approaches, e.g., R programming language, to map out the network of cross-holdings of Chinese firms and identify how these kinds of alliance evolve.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://documents.aib.msu.edu/events/2016/AIB2016_Program.pdf
 
Description Accelerating City as a Platform 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The talk was followed by group brainstorming activities in the form of a SWOT analysis for the Leeds Institute fcor Data Analytics and its place as a hub within the 'Leeds Data City'. The meeting also promoted engagement with BT who were well represented.

Likelihood that Leeds City Council representatives will co-locate with University colleaguies in the Institute for Data Analytics.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Act Locally Keighley Partnership Convening Event - 23rd Feb 2024 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Convening partnership meeting to establish Act Locally Keighley stakeholder goals around treating malnutrition, poor access to food, dental decay, school absence and lack of aspiration amongst local students. Partnership is taking a cross sector approach to tackle food insecurity, inequalities and higher education opportunities for local young people. One proposed outcome from the meeting was the development of a tech hub in Keighley at Dalton Mills.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Acute and chronic childhood conditions (LIDA Seminar 09.02.2017) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Centre hosted seminar, external keynote speaker: Trina Evans Cheung, NHS Digital.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/lida-seminar-acute-chronic-childhood-conditions/
 
Description Advanced Workshop of Urban Studies and Smart Cities, Hong Kong, 28th April 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Professor Birkin was invited to present at the workshop in Hong Kong. The workshop itself was supported by the Strategic Development Fund of the Faculty of Social Science of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 7 other international scholars were also invited to present to an audience of over 100 people including local Faculty members and research students.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Agent-Based Modelling, the Next 20 Years: Dynamic Data Assimilation (RGS 2016) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact I presented the ongoing surf work at the Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference (30 August - 2 September) as part of a session entitled "The Future of Geocomputation"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://surf.leeds.ac.uk/p/2016-08-rgs-geocomputation.html
 
Description Alison Heppenstall featured in CARTO's guide to the top 50 Twitter accounts for Spatial Data Science - 8th May 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact CDRC Co-I Alison Heppenstall was featured in CARTO's list of top 50 Spatial Data Science Twitter accounts to follow, leading to increased numbers of Twitter followers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://carto.com/blog/spatial-data-science-twitter-guide/?utm_content=91103882&utm_medium=social&ut...
 
Description Alpha Skills: what are they and how can we teach them? Talk by Kylie Norman - Nov 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Kylie Norman is part of the CDRC leadership team of its Data Scientist Development Programme, and has actively shaped the team's approach to mentoring early career data scientists for leadership and alpha skills. She's developed a reputation for this at the University of Leeds and was invited by the UoL Horizons Institute to speak to an audience of internal and external staff and partners about the value of alpha skills and mentoring, and how we can teach these skills for a stronger workforce. The talk was followed by lots of Q&A with the chair reporting changed views, and plans made for future related activity. Kylie has now been invited to consult on the Horizons Institute's own mentorship programme in 2023.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Analysing Food Hygiene Rating Scores in R: a guide (06.08.2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact A blog post outlining how to undertake basic analysis of the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme data in R. This tutorial raises awareness of the data and methods used for this project and includes a brief summary of the research being undertaken.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL http://lab.ukdataservice.ac.uk/2018/08/06/analysing-food-hygiene-rating-scores-in-r/
 
Description Applied Urban Modelling - Mark Birkin (Nov 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Professor Mark Birkin and Dr Nik Lomax joined colleagues from the Alan Turing Institute to present the work of the RAMP Urban Analytics and Modelling Group in a session on spatial modelling as rapid response to mitigate the pandemic.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Are we really green? Evidence using big data (LIDA Seminar 28.04.2017) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Centre hosted seminar, CDRC researchers presented projects with external partners including Asda.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Artificial Intelligence Task Force - International Association of Assessing Officers (IAAO) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The IAAO are the professional members Organization of government assessment officials- those who do mass appraisal of property markets for tax and other purposes
https://www.iaao.org/

This task force looking to assess the validity of using AI for these appraisals by the professional community. Findings will be translated in to practice for valuation offices around the world. Results will be presented at international conferences and in white papers published on the IAAO website.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.iaao.org/wcm/About/Committees/wcm/About_Us_Content/Committees.aspx
 
Description Asda: Consumer Data Research Centre 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation generated round table discussions

Strengthened existing relationship, introduced new contacts and generated discussions on further collaboration
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description BBC Filming - Mark Birkin 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Professor Mark Birkin was interviewed on the Consumer Data Research Centre and how we are using data to positively impact society. The programme will be aired on BBC Politics on Sunday around the GDPR release date.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description BBC Look North interview 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Nik was invited to give a BBC Look North TV interview about school spending cuts in March 2017. The question was heavily influenced by perceived pressures brought about by migration, as 'spending cuts' were on a per-pupil basis. I provided evidence to show that it was a cohort effect, not a migration effect, with an intake of a particularly large cohort of children from a group of mothers with unusually high fertility being the key contributing factor. This was contrary to the prevailing (non-evidence informed) view of why there was an issue.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description BBC Politics North Interview - MM 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Prof Michelle Morris took part in an interview on how minimum spend thresholds and delivery charges make access to online grocery deliveries difficult for people in many priority places across the region (and beyond). The interview highlighted our Priority Places for Food Index.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001lfl0
 
Description BSPS/ British Academy Policy Forum on New Data for Policy 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The talk provoked lively discussion of future directions and issues in big data research for social policy.

Some direct contacts were made and follow on activities have been suggested.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Bayer, Leverkusen, Germany 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact TITLE: Behavioral decision research approaches to developing effective communications

ABSTRACT: Decisions about health risks can be daunting. Health experts may be asked to develop communications with the goal of improving people's risk understanding and decision-making competence. However, their communication efforts may fail if they misunderstand the informational needs of their audiences. In this presentation, I will present the social science behind effective communication development. Examples will cover a variety of health and related risks.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Be Curious - Be a Data Detective 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact The Centre hosted an activity at the University of Leeds annual Public Engagement event. The event attracted over 1000 local families and engaged them in conversations about how research positively impacts society, particularly the local community. The CDRC activity (be a data detective) was run in collaboration with Leeds City Councils and showed Children how mapping data can help us to identify patterns in local populations and how the City Council can tailor service provision to suit individual communities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://www.leeds.ac.uk/info/4000/around_campus/460/be_curious_festival-about_leeds_and_yorkshire
 
Description Being A Data Science Intern: insights, challenges and benefits - Melinda Green (June 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Blog post by Rosalind Martin about her experiences on the Data Science Intern programme - useful for both postgraduates considering applying for the scheme or organisations thinking about offering an intern project on it.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/being-a-data-science-intern/
 
Description Beyond the traditional - Data Science for official statistics (LIDA Seminar - 22.02.18) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Dr Nik Lomax hosted this seminar in conjunction with ONS and and the Royal Statistical Society Leeds/Bradford Local Group. Audience was a mix of academic, industry and third sector organisations. External keynote speaker: Owen Abbott, Head of Big Data, ONS
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/beyond-traditional-big-data-official-statistics/
 
Description Big Data Analytics Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Mark Birkin chairing the event. Opportunity to hear from leaders within the consumer data world and to network.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Big Data Network Phase 2 Launch Event 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Supporters
Results and Impact Presentation generated questions and discussion

Raised awareness of CDRC aims and objectives amongst and academic and commercial constituency
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Big Data Week Belfast 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact At this event we were 'exhibitors' on a CDRC stand. The stand was overrun with people wanting to talk about the centre and the sorts of data it would hold and also the sorts of partnerships it would facilitate.

There have been follow up emails with companies for new partnerships to facilitate data sharing and also to support capacity building.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://www.bdwbelfast.com/2015-event/
 
Description Big Data Week Belfast (AN) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact As an event sponsor we networked extensively with delegates at the Big Data Week Conference in Belfast. The conference attracts industry participants with an interest in big data analytics from Northern Ireland, elsewhere in the UK and a some international (predominantly European and US). We were able to spread the word widely about CDRC, whilst also having in-depth discussions with around 20 delegates who had a more substantial interest in the centre. As a result, there are a number of very positive and high profile leads to follow up which could result in meaningful collaborations in the form of project partners, data providers or sponsors (e.g. studentships) linked to the CDRC.

A number of individuals and organisations are being followed up with a view to potential collaboration or involvement within the CDRC.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://bdwbelfast.com/
 
Description Big Data and Ethics (LIDA Seminar 26.01.2017) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Centre hosted seminar on Big Data and Ethics. External keynote speaker: Baroness Onora O'Neill, House of Lords.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/lida-seminar-big-data-ethics/
 
Description Big Data and the Obesity Epidemic (LIDA Seminar 17.03.2016) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Centre hosted seminar, external speaker: Prof Adam Drewnowski, University of Washington
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/big-data-obesity-epidemic/
 
Description Big Data application in birth cohorts 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Centre hosted seminar, external speaker: Andy Boyd, Data Linkage and Information Security Manager, Bristol University
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/big-data-application-in-birth-cohorts/
 
Description Big data applications for understanding climate solutions LIDA Seminar (27/09/2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Undergraduate students
Results and Impact 36 attendees listened to a talk from keynote speaker Jan Minx which outlined how data science applications offer a new path to a synthetic understanding of climate solutions and how they can prepare global environmental assessments for the 21st century. This talk involved looking at the methodological problems of all the necessary climate change lit analysis and how big data computational methodology can be applied to this.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/big-data-applications-understanding-climate-solutions/
 
Description Big data skills in social sciences 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Guest presenter and panelist at 'Big Data Skills in the social sciences' workshop. Presentation title 'Big data skills in transactional and consumer data'. 14th October 2016.

Presentation session to postgraduate students to encourage them to acquire relevant skills to work with these data.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.datascience.manchester.ac.uk/events-1/events/big-data-skills-in-social-sciences/
 
Description Big data to improve cardiovascular health: Hype or reality? (LIDA Seminar - 17.01.17) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact CDRC hosted seminar with speakers from Leeds Cardiovascular Epidemiology Research Group. Audience was a mix of clinical, academic and third sector. External keynote: Professor Kazem Rahimi, James Martin Senior Fellow in Essential Healthcare and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/big-data-improve-cardiovascular-health-hype-reality/
 
Description Blog Post 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Blog post discussing the new partnership with the Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD) and plan for analysis of the trials as part of the Healthy and Sustainable Diets Project. Blog posted on the CDRC website, then also posted on IGD's website and shared in their health newsletter (500+ subscribers).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.igd.com/articles/article-viewer/t/palatable-change-from-the-pandemic--a-new-food-environ...
 
Description Blog Post 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Blog post discussing the first findings of analysis on the programme of work with Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD). The blog discussed key findings from analysis of a repeat intervention run by Sainsbury's, discussing the results as shared in IGD's recent behavioural insights report. These are the first insights shared from analysis as part of the Healthy and Sustainable Diets (H&SD) project, gathering appetite and engagement within H&SD group of leading UK retailers and manufacturers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/fruit-and-veg-findings-igd-report-follow-up/
 
Description Blog about project-related public engagement 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact I published a blog reflecting on my experience with the dramatic enquiry workshops that were held among year-five students in Newcastle. The blog invited interest in the work of a Cap-a-Pie with other food and nutrition researchers expressing interest in collaborating with them for future engagement activities. It was published in FUSE Open Science Blog, an award winning blog. Fuse brings together the five North East Universities of Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Sunderland and Teesside in an innovative collaboration to transform health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities through the conduct of world-class public health research and its translation into value-for-money policy and practice.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL http://fuseopenscienceblog.blogspot.com/2018/11/why-dramatic-enquiry-as-form-of-public.html
 
Description Blog entry and video, UKDS Data Impact Blog 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact I wrote a blog entry and featured in a short video providing an overview of my food safety research. The video and blog entry featured on the UKDS website, increasing the impact of this work and stimulating interest.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/introducing-the-uk-data-service-data-impact-fellows-2016-2018/
 
Description Blog for the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Health 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog articulating why online health misinformation should be considered within the social determinants of health framework.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://rstmh.org/news-blog/blog/how-misinformation-affects-social-determinants-of-health
 
Description Blog post for Bowel Cancer Intelligence UK website 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Blog post for the Bowel Cancer Intelligence UK website about a trip to New Zealand to present preliminary findings from my PhD at the International Medical Geography Symposium in Queenstown and attend a workshop at the University of Christchurch, Canterbury. The blog post enabled me to share some of my PhD activities with a wider audience.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://bci.leeds.ac.uk/2019/07/29/attending-the-18th-international-imgs/
 
Description Blueprint event (Newcastle) - Mark Birkin - 11th-13th April 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Workshop of 90 people, including presentation from CDRC PI Mark Birkin.
Outcome & impact - follow-on event in Bristol (16th October). Charisma Choudhury introduced to Phil Blyth (Chief Scientific Advisor in Department for Transport) leading to Charisma's successful Future Leaders application (awarded March 2020) on Next Generation Travel Activity and Behaviour Models.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Book launch, UCL cloisters; Mark Birkin attended (19/02/2019) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact 50 people. Networking event with City Scientists, CDRC partners and members of other sites.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Boston/ Cambridge Visit: Big Data, Tech and Digital Innovation, Mark Birkin (25/07/2018-28/07/2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Mark Birkin represented theme of Big Data, Tech and Digital Innovation. 8 themes in total, represented by 22 city partners. Met with more than 200 people representing British Consulate, MassChallenge (business development and innovation accelerator), Harvard Medical School & Boston Children's Hospital, Pfizer, Cambridge Innovation Centre, Flagship Pioneering (data science investment and venture capital) and Fintech Sandbox (data sharing in financial services sector). Purpose: move to shape your respective propositions to promote, develop key messages, identify and articulate the opportunities in each of the themes above for Boston / Cambridge.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Bring a spoon to the Table: EDI Allyship and Positive Action Recruitment - Kylie Norman - Feb 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Kylie spoke to an internal and external audience of ca. 50 (webinar recorded and circulated with more) on the subject of the positive action recruitment work she and the team at CDRC-Leeds effected through its Data Scientist Development Programme in 2021-22. There was healthy discussion, both in the chat and through participant Q&A, including evidence of changed views and Kylie shared the team's positive action case study so that others could use as an exemplar.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description British Gas: Big Data and Consumer Research 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation generated round table discussion

Introduction to new contacts in the British Gas Data and Insight team and generated discussion about possible future collaborations
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description British Library at Tadcaster AQL event, Mark Birkin attended (05/11/2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact David Hogg, Mark Birkin, Adam Beaumont and British Library Divisional Heads (8 people) met to discuss areas of potential collaboration in AI, data analytics and robotics.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description British Library event with Emmanouil Tranos 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Event following on from Emmanouil Tranos's ESRC-CDRC funded Innovation Fund Project, Online behaviour in the UK: an individual and contextual analysis. Approx. 30 people attended. Discussion and feedback with members of the public regarding research opportunities, data trusts and constraints with Big Consumer Data. Further engagement with OS and ODI (London).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Budapest Visit: AI as a Bridge between Hungary and the UK, Mark Birkin (14/03/2019) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact 20 people including British Ambassador, Deputy Minister of State for Innovation (Head of Digital Economy Department). Data science policy development (how UK government & private organizations build, incentivize, promote, internationalize and measure data science/ AI as a tool in their products & services: key local insights, case studies. "Ecosystem Shepherding": Explore how Hungarian AI stakeholders could collaborate with UK partners and identify how they could improve their service offering. What can Hungary's 6 Digital Innovation Hubs offer to UK partners?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Building a Digital Twin: Testing the Effectiveness of Telecommunication Policies in a Virtual World LIDA Seminar (15/01/2019) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Attendees heard from Dr Edward Oughton from Uni of Oxford who proposed the development of a Digital Twin as a virtual test-bed for evaluating telecommunication policies. The concept of a Digital Twin has been common for several years in aerospace engineering, since first proposed by NASA in 2010. Led to interesting discussions afterwards.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/building-digital-twin-testing-effectiveness-telecommunication-policie...
 
Description Built Environment and Health in the Age of Big Data (LIDA Seminar 21.09.2017) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Centre hosted seminar, external speaker: Prof Anne Vernez Moudon, Professor of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design and Planning; Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology and Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/lida-seminar-built-environment-health-age-big-data/
 
Description CDAS Partner Engagement 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact I gave a short presentation about my PhD research "Cycling and socioeconomic disadvantage" for the rest of CDT students, supervisors, and Industry Partners.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://eugenividal.github.io/slides/all_cycling.html#1
 
Description CDRC 2022 Conference: Evaluating strategies for healthier and more sustainable dietary choices 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact This presentation was about my Institute of Grocery Distribution funded LIDA Data Scientist Development Programme project: "Evaluating strategies for healthier and more sustainable dietary choices". It fell under the CDRC themed Health & Wellbeing parallel session. During the session, questions were asked about the method of evaluating the effect of interventions designed to help shift food purchasing patterns towards the Eatwell Guide, the role of retailers in the push towards better diets, and the suitability of the Eatwell Guide as the food-based dietary guideline being worked towards. The event increased people's knowledge about a specific CDRC project contributing to a larger body of work and may lead to new connections and collaborations (with both academia and industry). Members of the IGD were present and also commented positively on the presentation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/cdrc-conference-2022-full-agenda/
 
Description CDRC Announcement Press Release 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Articles published by 6 media outlets

Raised awareness of the CDRC
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/3488/university_of_leeds_to_be_a_leader_in_data_analytics_and_re...
 
Description CDRC Conference 2022: Inside Consumer Data - Melinda Green (March 2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact The conference was an opportunity to showcase the work of the CDRC and set it in its broadest context. We started with two keynote speakers - Judith Batchelar OBE (Director of Food Matters International, formerly Director of Sainsbury's Brand) and Lauren Sager Weinstein (Chief Data Officer, Transport for London). We then had three parallel sessions, focusing on CDRC themes (Health & Wellbeing, Urban Analytics and Sustainability), with twelve researchers presenting research findings on eleven different projects. Our final session was an in-conversation with four early-career researchers about their experiences on the CDRC's training programmes and working on collaborative industry/academic projects. The event increased people's knowledge about the CDRC and will lead to new connections and collaborations (with both academia and industry).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/cdrc-conference-2022-full-agenda/
 
Description CDRC Conference 2022: session recordings - Melinda Green (March 2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact This playlist contains recordings from the five sessions at Conference, as well as Judith Batchelar's full Q&A. It provides an incredible legacy asset, so that the information, knowledge and insight shared on the day is available more widely longer-term. It shares the CDRC's work, enhances our reputation and will hopefully be a step on the path to building new connections and research collaborations.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhXBWpS6zbz0inFrfElJIYWhzOI6doOWF
 
Description CDRC Data Partner Forum 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact CDRC Leeds hosted the annual Data Partner Forum in 2023 - speakers included representatives from Morrisons, Leeds City Council, BT, Geolytix, Good Food Oxfordshire. Attendees included representatives from CDRC partners including West Yorkshire Combined Authority, Rethink Food, SDR UK, Which?, IGD, Miac Analytics, Sainsbury's, Morrisons, Leeds and Bradford City Councils.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description CDRC Data Partner Forum (25.05.17) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact CDRC Leeds hosted the annual Data Partner Forum event, with the objective to deepen levels of engagement with current industry partners and to engage with potential partners. Researchers from each of the CDRC partner institutes presented research projects in Business Analytics, Retail, Energy, Housing, Mobility, Transport and Health. Representatives from the following organisations were in attendance: ONS, Westminster City Council, Pitney Bowes, Shop Direct, Fraudscreen, Ethical Consumer Research Association, REaD Group, Callcredit, DLA Piper, Geolytix, Whenfresh, Cooperative Group, CACI, Datatalk, Transport for West Midlands, ICM Unlimited, Local Data Company, Fusionex International, Bloom, First Transport, MIAC, Bradgate Bakery, Sainsburys, Jet2, Virgin Media, Movement Strategies, SkyBet, Argos, Zoopla, Debighshire County Council
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description CDRC Data Partner Forum 2016 (Oxford) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact I gave an overview of my MSc dissertation research, including suggestions for how the findings might translate practically. The presentation prompted audience feedback/input in relation to data sets and modelling techniques. Presentation Title - Enumerating the Ambient Population in the Context of Crime: A Comparative Study of 'Contemporaneous' and 'Traditional' Data Sets.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/events/datapartnerforum/
 
Description CDRC Data Partner Forum 2018, Oxford, Said Business School (08/06/2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Ca. 100 people attended the annual event and Mark Birkin chaired the Leeds CDRC session, at which the Leeds researchers Andrew Smith, Tomas Crols, and Innovation Fund PIs Alasdair Rae, Emmanouil Tranos, and Adam Hardy presented.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description CDRC Data Partner Forum 21st May 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Annual Data Partner Forum event hosted at the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics by CDRC-Leeds on 21st May 2019 with an invite list of >150 partner representatives from industry and the public sector. Event comprised of presentations and lightning talks delivered by researchers at the cutting edge of consumer data research into urban analytics, consumer behaviour and decision making, and health and wellbeing. Mingling sessions for industry partners to engage with researchers. Event was followed by a buffet for collaborators and partners.
Impacts:
Attendees subscribed to the training course mailing list following the event resulting in more bookings
Notable industry attendees:
? Uber, Head of North
? Sainsbury's.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description CDRC Data partner forum - Open all hours talk 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The activity was held in the CDRC and was aimed at disseminating information with current data partners but also to attract potential new data partners
I presented some recently accepted work for publication within the context of retail
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description CDRC Innovation Fund Forum 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact A presentation if interim findings about small area income in England on 27/04/2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description CDRC Newsletter - February 2016 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact HTML newsletter promoting the CDRC data service, research and capacity building activities. Newsletter sent to 280 recipients, including business/industry partners, local government, third sector and academics. Newsletter led to an increase in user applications for the safeguarded/secure datasets.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description CDRC Newsletter - February 2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact HTML newsletter promoting the CDRC data service, research and capacity building activities. Newsletter sent to 3005 recipients, including business/industry partners, local government, third sector and academics. Newsletter led to an increase in user applications for the safeguarded/secure datasets.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description CDRC Newsletter - July 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact HTML newsletter promoting the CDRC data service, research and capacity building activities. Newsletter sent to 2223 recipients, including business/industry partners, local government, third sector and academics. Newsletter led to an increase in user applications for the safeguarded/secure datasets.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description CDRC Newsletter - June 2016 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact HTML newsletter promoting the CDRC data service, research and capacity building activities. Newsletter sent to 390 recipients, including business/industry partners, local government, third sector and academics. Newsletter led to an increase in user applications for the safeguarded/secure datasets.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description CDRC Newsletter - November 2016 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact HTML newsletter promoting the CDRC data service, research and capacity building activities. Newsletter sent to 927 recipients, including business/industry partners, local government, third sector and academics. Newsletter led to an increase in user applications for the safeguarded/secure datasets.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description CDRC Research Review 2020-21 - Melinda Green (October 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The Research Review provides an amazing overview of the CDRC's work in the last 1+years, increasing people's understanding of the Centre's work and enhancing its reputation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/research-review-2021/
 
Description CDRC Research Update 1 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact The purpose of this presentation was to outline the research objectives and present some of the preliminary results of the project: Urban Transport Modelling for Sustainable Well-Being in Hanoi: Implementing a new traffic model. I was able to receive valuable feedback, insights and suggestions which were vital in the subsequent methodologies.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description CDRC Research Update 2 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact This presentation showcased the models that were implemented i.e: Spatial Interaction Models which aim at addressing the effect of different policy scenarios, and Classification Models which aim at predicting individuals' attitudes towards a proposed motorbike ban and investigating the underlying factors/reasons. This sparked insightful conversations with fellow data scientists and collaboration on future objectives.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description CDRC Symposium 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Presentation and networking generated discussions for possible future collaborations

Raised the profile of the CDRC amongst an international academic audience, generated a number of collaborations.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description CaSMa Social Media workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact One day workshop hosted by University of Nottingham on behalf of the ESRC intended on bringing together ESRC-funded projects with research interest in social media, with an aim to identify key strategic challenges to address over the next 5 years.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://casma.wp.horizon.ac.uk/
 
Description Cabinet Office Meeting - Mark Birkin - 16th Jan 2020 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact 120 people. Networking event with senior colleagues in Cabinet Office and Geospatial Commission including Cabinet Office Minister Oliver Dowden.
Outcomes included invitation to follow-on event, Royal Society, March 2020.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Can activity self-tracking decrease health and social inequalities? - Using commercial big datasets critically (09.11.17) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact CDRC Innovation Fund Researcher, Christopher Till, discusses if activity self-tracking can decrease health and social inequalities. Blog article published on thisisnotasociology blog.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://thisisnotasociology.blog/2017/11/09/new-project-can-activity-self-tracking-decrease-health-a...
 
Description Case Study featuring CDRC research with Asda in Confederation of British Industry (CBI) - May 2019 - William Young 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact CDRC Co-I William Young's research partnership with food retailer Asda formed the basis of this case study in the Nexus CBI report on the 'Changing Nature of R&D'. The case study looks at the benefits of academic and industry research collaboration. Nexus also produced a video about the research collaboration to minimise food waste amongst Asda shoppers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.cbi.org.uk/media/2697/innovation-rd_.pdf
 
Description Centre for Data Analytics and Society partner engagement event 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Partner engagement event providing an opportunity for research students to disseminate work completed as part of an internship with external organisations
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Children's Food Summit (Dr Victoria Jenneson) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Children's Food Campaign's first ever summit on 16 May 2023 in Leeds. This in-person event brought together leading voices from the world of children's food and the opportunity to shape future plans with other change-makers.

The programme for the event included the following highlights:

A special performance from Food Foundation youth ambassadors across Yorkshire, shedding light on their firsthand experiences of healthy food access.
Hear from Henry Dimbleby, Thomasina Miers and Christina Adane who will be discussing how we can land our ideas with policy makers in the build up to the General Election.
Hear more about the Children's Food Campaigns latest work, including our 'Say Yes' to school food for all campaign and our local food advertising toolkit.
Be part of our very first 'yummy/yucky' awards ceremony where we will be recognizing innovative local initiatives, the unshakeable political campaigners, and business baddies in our movement.
Explore subjects in more detail through our workshops on school food, early years, fiscal measures, healthy food advertising and diversity and inclusion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.sustainweb.org/events/feb23-childrens-food-summit/
 
Description Christchurch NZ workshop with GeoHealth Lab - Mark Birkin, Michelle Morris and others - 28th-29th June 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact 12 people. Joint funding proposal to NZ Government (Catalyst scheme), not successful but seeking further opportunities for collaborative work. GeoHealth have particular expertise with Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI) with extreme relevance to ESRC Big Data Network.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Clarion Data Analytics Roundtable lunch - Mark Birkin was speaker - 5th Dec 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact 10-15 people. Managing Directors of leading tech companies with interest in healthcare sector, and UoL
Built awareness and promoted partner interest especially in CDRC intern programme and CDT-DAS.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Collaboration with Improbable 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact One week visit to Improbable to demonstrate the emerging agent-based model of urban movements and experiment with their SpatialOS platform.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://surf.leeds.ac.uk/announce/2015/12/10/ImprobableSim.html
 
Description Collaborations Reference Group, University of Leeds and Leeds City Council - Mark Birkin (Oct 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Meeting of members of University of Leeds and Leeds City Council as part of the Civic Collaboration between the institutions. Mark Birkin attended in order to solidify ties with CDRC and LIDA more widely. Discussions of planned collaborative activities between the two - two LCC internships in partnership with CDRC are now at the proposal stage as a result of this collaboration.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Commentary for Global Health Now 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A commentary about reflections from my podcast series on outbreak misinformation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.globalhealthnow.org/2020-07/lessons-tackling-online-misinformation-during-outbreaks
 
Description Computational Geography: Simulating Society with Big Data and HPC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Presentation generated conversation about future opportunities and generated networking opportunities.

Consolidated networks with academic and equipment providers. Has led to follow on events, a number of joint research proposals and planning for educational programmes (MSc Data Science) now at an advanced stage.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact A piece of research work is presented to around 20 researchers from various academic institutes. The research has sparked discussion afterwards and some researchers were keen to know the outcome of the research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Conference 2022: Inside Consumer Data- Partnerships, Impact and Training Panel discussion 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact I participated in the Partnerships, Impact and Training panel session at the conference, speaking in particular about the data services and training provision fo the CDRC. The session received lots of positive feedback and engagement both in person and on social media.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/events/cdrc-conference-2022-inside-consumer-data/
 
Description Conference presentation (European Transport Conference) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A paper entitled "A TRANSPORT AND HEALTH POLICY TOOL UTILISING NEW GENERATION DATA" was presented at the European Transport Conference in Dublin, Ireland in October 2018. This was in a session on 'Big Data' alongside two other related papers. The session was attended by approximately 40 people (standing room only in the room), who were fully engaged in the discussion session, with a number of attendees following up individually after the session. The wider ETC event attracts around 1000 attendees from across Europe (and beyond), from consultancy, academia, and government.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://aetransport.org/en-gb/past-etc-papers/conference-papers-2018?abstractId=5934&state=b
 
Description Conference presentation (POLIS) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A presentation to the POLIS conference in Manchester, UK in November 2018 entitled "The role of new track and trace data in supporting planning and decision making at the
interfaces of transport, health and the environment - The Newcastle city case study". Polis is a network of European cities and regions working together to develop innovative technologies and policies for local transport. The session included 8 related papers on "DATA-DRIVEN DECISION MAKING" and approximately 60 attendees who engaged in the question and answer sessions, as well as number of individuals who followed up personally following the session.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.polisnetwork.eu/publicdocuments/download/2461/document/the-role-of-new-track-and-trace-d...
 
Description Conference presentation - The Geography of Consumption: New Evidence and New Methods 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Type Of Presentation paper presentation
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Productive discussion relating to use of Big Data in research followed the presentation.

Discussion continued throughout the 3 day conference.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://www.regionalscience.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=1298:applied-geography-igu-confe...
 
Description Conference presentation: Can 'Big Data' on consumer purchases supplement national surveys? 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Type Of Presentation paper presentation
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact There was interesting discussion and debate following the presentation.

Increased awareness of an international audience around the work with baig data on food in the uk.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://www.regionalscience.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=1298:applied-geography-igu-confe...
 
Description Conference presentation: Can geodemographic classifications be used to better understand diet and obesity in children? 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Talk generated questions and discussion and led to suggestions for development of the research.

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL https://sites.google.com/site/ectqg2015/
 
Description Conference presentation: ECTQG 2017 - Welcome to Yorkshire 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Talk generated much discussion about the next ECTQG conference to be hosted by UoL/CDRC in Yorkshire in 2017

After the talk many of the conference delegates approached me to talk about the visit to Leeds and the work which our centre is doing.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://cdrc.ac.uk/2015/08/ectqg-2017-to-be-held-in-yorkshire/
 
Description Conference presentation: Exploring the role of consumer data for food in national survey reporting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Type Of Presentation paper presentation
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Interesting questions and discussion followed the talk.

The talk has stimulated further research questions from colleagues.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://leeds.gisruk.org/
 
Description Conference session: Computational human geography in the digital world: new data, methods, challenges and opportunities 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Type Of Presentation workshop facilitator
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Three parallel sessions on this theme were schedules for the conference. It proved to be a popular session. The series of talks spared much discussion and questions.

No connections were made and new ideas shared.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Conference session: Volunteered geographic information (VGI): From OpenStreetMap to participation 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Type Of Presentation workshop facilitator
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact The session generated much discussion and brought together geographically disparate groups.

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Connecting Data for Connected Public Services (An Alan Turing Institute AI UK Fringe Event) - Dr Georgia Tomova 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This event asked how Universities can help deliver data insights to local organisations planning, running and commissioning public services. It focused on two ways that connecting routinely collected, sensitive, personally identifiable data could help improve public service delivery:
1. Providing better understanding and rigorous evaluation of how health, education, care, economic and criminal justice risks affect different families, in different places, across commissioned programmes
2. Creating smarter, connected data tools, including Secure Data Environments (SDE), for those at the front line, able to deliver the insights from connected data to help practitioners understand the risks to an individual child or family, share information, and interact with other professionals

The event focused on the opportunities afforded by UoL's existing SDE (LASER) and the newly proposed Yorkshire and Humber NHSE SDE, and discussed how the University is working with our partners to improve population outcomes by:
- Linking personal data sets using LASER and other SDEs and sharing learning across the North of England and in other parts of the country
- Building data tools to deliver insights into patterns of risk and vulnerability and help those planning local services respond more accurately to the pattern of risk through smarter commissioning
- Implementing data visualisation to help communities influence system design and contribute their 'lived experience' to reflect local requirements and improve data accuracy

The event also provided case studies from existing University research showing:
- How current research projects in the region are improving public lives through data linkage and AI
- How LASER is currently being utilised to support regional and national research involving personally identifiable data and AI

By the end of the event, attendees had an understanding of the challenges/opportunities associated with processing personally identifiable data to improve population outcomes and how SDEs will play a role in connecting public service delivery.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
URL https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connecting-data-for-connected-public-services-tickets-840276618987?af...
 
Description Consumer Analytics community meet up - Key skills to thrive in data science and analytics roles 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I was a panel member at the first meet up event of the Hyper 'To affinity and beyond' consumer analytics group, contributing to discussion about 'Key skills to thrive in data science and analytics roles'.

This evoked fascinating discussion between panel members from academia and industry and the audience.

This discussion has been captured in blog: https://hyper-group.co.uk/key-skills-to-thrive-in-data-science-and-analytics-roles
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.linkedin.com/events/toaffinity-beyond6884177026543063041/about/
 
Description Consumer Good Forum, Sustainable Retail Sumit 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact I ran a session on Nutrition Analytics at this conference, bringing together 3 short talks and a 'fire side' chat about research using consumer data for nutrition and sustainability outcomes.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/events/sustainable-retail-summit/
 
Description Consumer data applications: Causal research in novel linked datasets - Dr Georgia Tomova and Prof Michelle Morris 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Novel data linkages, such as shopping data and cohort studies, offer great potential to answer important questions about behaviour and health. But do they lend themselves well to Causal Inference? At this workshop, the Turing Causal Inference Interest Group and the Novel Data Linkages for Health and Wellbeing Interest Group came together to talk methods - both linkage and causal inference - and discuss how the two should be best integrated to answer those important research questions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/events/consumer-data-applications-causal-research-in-novel-linked-datasets/
 
Description Consumer perceptions of energy use (Vedran Lesic 27.11.17) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact CDRC PhD Student, Vedran Lesic, discusses how consumer perceptions of energy use differ from reality. Video blog published by Leeds University Business School
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://business.leeds.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/blog/article/video-consumer-perceptions-of-ener...
 
Description Contribution of evidence to the National Infrastructure Assessment, undertaken by the National Infrastructure Commission 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The National Infrastructure Commission invited us to provide evidence on transport capacity for UK cities for the National Infrastructure Assessment (NIA), published in July 2018. The NIA makes recommendations for how the infrastructure needs and priorities of the country should be addressed. Government are required to formally respond to the recommendations made in the NIA. The evidence led to the assertion in the NIA that "transport networks are close to capacity in many UK cities" and the recommendation that "investing in urban transport can support productivity and quality of life". Impact from this work is a direct contribution to the shaping of future infrastructure priorities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.nic.org.uk/publications/national-infrastructure-assessment-2018/
 
Description Contributions in Chinese media 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact I have been frequently invited to write for the Chinese newspapers in China and in the UK. The intended purpose is about reflecting and observing the UK's prospective in every sectors, such as education, healthcare, environmental protection, business and politics.

For ModernWeekly (China), I used to write weekly (counting 40 articles) and the print circulation was closed to 1 million. For Phoenix Cities (China), I wrote two long article and one was about London DLR history. The print circulation was among urban professionals in China (50,000).

For UK-Chinese Times (UK's largest national Chinese newspaper), I write for their editorial commentary weekly (counting 150+ articles). While the print circulation is mainly for Chinese population in the UK, it is often picked up by the Chinese news outlets from China for UK's special news coverage. For UK Business Post (UK's business newspaper in Chinese) I have written 42 articles about British SME business. The print circulation was freely available in most Chinese business outlets.

My writing has often sparked online discussions about how Chinese business leaders or government leaders can learn from the UK's experience. While I don't have precise measure for direct impact on readership, it does reflect on my increasing "Chinese Twitter" weibo account - closed to 20,000 followers in China. I have been invited to write for China or Taiwan business leaders about how they could promote ethical consumption or ethical business enterprise.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017
URL http://www.ukchinese.com
 
Description Cost of Food Crisis Event - UK Parliament - MM, EE, PB, FP 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Researchers from the CDRC joined Which? and the Food Foundation at their 'Tackling the Cost of Food Crisis', which was set up to share new research, led by Which?, on the availability of budget range options in small and large supermarket stores, and to launch a new film by The Food Foundation highlighting the lived experiences of those living in the areas of highest food insecurity.

CDRC researchers shared our work on the Priority Places for Food Index, highlighting areas in the UK most at risk of Food Insecurity and participated in discussions with attendees on how the PPFI can be used to understand the places in the UK where people are most likely to need support in accessing affordable food and how best to tailor support.

Which? used insights from PPFI to create constituency-level evidence packs for the MPs in attendance.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/tackling-the-cost-of-food-crisis-event-summary/
 
Description Creative Medical Research - guest lecture 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Speaker (Matt Bowles) gave a presentation to our MSc CAMS students titled: Cataloguing what people do and think : lessons from a decade of customer insight research
Matt has over 10 years experience in some of the UK's leading marke research companies: National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), YouGov (a CDRC partner) and Havas. Matt will talk through some major customer insight projects he's previously worked on: how the projects were conceived, data collected, analysed and eventually reported to clients. Matt will also provide a unique position on some current challenges in modern data science: on the tension between profiling customers using 'found' data -- data that are typically repurposed for market research -- versus more traditional datasets carefully collected and curated specifically for customer insight and analysis.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Crime Analytics (LIDA Seminar 07.12.17) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Centre hosted Seminar, external speaker: Mark Bangs, ONS
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/crime-analytics-2/
 
Description DISRUPTIVE BUSINESS MODELS AND MARKET PERFORMANCE: THE ROLES OF TECHNOLOGICAL TURBULENCE AND ADAPTIVE MARKETING CAPABILITY - AMA WINTER CONFERENCE 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Eductors, Researchers, and Practitioners attended a presentation which sparked questions and discussion afterwards, and colleagues reported interest in further researching the area.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.ama.org/events/academic/2023-ama-winter-academic-conference/
 
Description DSDP Data Science Project- Breaking barriers to active travel: Modelling the Impact of Weather and Daylight to Reduce Inequality - Video Presentation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A mid-project talk on active travel in Bradford, presented in video format, with interest beyond the usual peer group. Currently seeking permission to publish the video on YouTube for more accessible research dissemination to a general audience in addition to engagement impact via views meta-data. The full impact of this dissemination is not yet known.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description DSDP Data Science Project- Perceptions of Covid Safety Measures in Guest Reviews from AirDNA Data - Presentation - 21st February, 2024 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A talk on the processes and outcomes achieved as part of the project. Intended realisation of impact not known yet.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description DSDP project online report: Exploring the efficacy of different methods for comparing pedestrian simulations against empirical data 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact To support DSDP project "Exploring the efficacy of different methods for comparing pedestrian simulations against empirical data", a report has been published online. It is still an on-going activity, however it's aim is to support anyone interested in methods for comparing simulated data against real empirical data. The notebook includes code as well as extensive comments to support learning. It is hoped that it will fill a need for demonstrating how such analysis could look done, especially in R. Data scientist's experience working on the project has demonstrated a lack of such resources.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://gretatimaite.github.io/gcs_jps/
 
Description DT Hub - Digital Twin Talks Series - Mark Birkin 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Prof Mark Birkin delivered a session on Demographic Twins for 'What if?' Scenario Planning for the Digital Twin Hub Talks series at the Centre for Digital Built Britain.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Dagstuhl Seminar- From observations to predication of movement- 9th-12th July 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This 3 day seminar looked to address several issues: What focus should be used to predict trajectory; what are the potential uses of accurate trajectory prediction and what degree of accuracy is required; what is the relationship between accurate predication and an understanding of the generating process- can you have one without the other; what extent do movement observations convey information on the underlying behaviour of moving phenomena; what is the relationship between movement and its environmental context? To what extent changes in movement patterns convey information on changes in the environment and visa versa; can a classification of trajectory generating mechanisms and associated trajectory properties be classified? The seminar involved researchers from Animal Behaviour, GIS, Computational Geometry, Data Science and other fields.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/semhp/?semnr=17282
 
Description Data Centre Collaboration event 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact The event was held jointly by LIDA (Leeds Institute for Data Analytics) and The Alan Turing Institute. The aim was to explore the benefits of greater collaboration between academics, sponsors, providers and other stakeholders with interests and responsponsibilities related to Data Centres and Digital Footprints. Presenters included representatives of JiSC, DfT, ESRC, CDRC, UBDC, Newcastle Observatory, BiB. Researchers and doctoral students had hands-on experience working with data in a parallel session to draw out some challenges and opportunities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Data Dive 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Opportunities to network after participating in data dive workshop

Secured contacts in the Leeds Data Community. Led to a meeting with a local organisation to begin (on going) discussions about possible collaboration.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Data Partner Forum 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation of interim findings about the variation in income at the local level at the CDRC Data Partner Forum on 08/06/2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Data Science Careers with Amazon - Leeds Data Science Society 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Former CDRC PhD students (Ning Lu and Amanda Otley) hosted a careers event for Leeds Data Science Society in collaboration with Amazon - audience undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Data Science Engagement event 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact This workshop was a Data Science Engagement event involving an international company, Callcredit (and CDRC data partner), with data scientists, researchers and academics at the University of Leeds. A tour of the facilities in the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics was followed by six short presentations (from individuals at the University of Leeds and Callcredit) and an extended round table discussion.

The event developed exiting relationships and sparked new ones. Many ideas for future collaborations to further enhance the partnership were initiated.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Data Science Perspectives (Turing conference) - Restricting price and location-based food promotions: an algorithmic approach to apply Nutrient Profiling across the retail product portfolio 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact This poster presentation was delivered to an interdisciplinary data science audience and demonstrated how data science han be applied to tackle real world challenges that impact multiple businesses and third sectors in addition to the public.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Data Science at LIDA Series- Realtime Wildfire Risk Mapping 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The talk aimed to open the discussion on the increasing wildfire risk in light of the climate crisis and demonstrate how a stratified data-drive approach to improve preparedness of local authorities to tackle wildfire risks. The presentation was concluded with a demonstration of the wildfire risk mapping tool developed in partnership with West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service (WYFRS)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Data Scientist Development Programme promotional film - Sept 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Short 7 min film to raise awareness of the Data Scientist Development Programme as a career springboard for those interested in either sponsoring early career data scientists, or those wishing to transition into a career in data science. Interviewed members of the DSDP, as well as the academic lead of the Programme.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEZU-07GEJg
 
Description Data Scientist Intern Presentations at The Alan Turing Institute (12/03/2019) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact The third cohort of data scientist interns travelled down to University of Leeds partners at The Alan Turing Institute in London in order to present on their first round of projects before an audience of data scientists and Turing industry partners. The topics of the presentations ranged from urban analytics, consumer store card data and its applications, and origin-destination data.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Data Scientist Intern Seminar - Urban Analytics & Consumer Data (21/02/2019) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Attendees heard from 5x data scientist interns working on predominantly urban analytics based projects using simulations, agent based modelling and sensor data. Attendees were from across faculties and some reported interest in putting forward a project for the 2019/20 round of intern projects.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/lida-data-scientist-intern-seminar/
 
Description Data Study Group: intensive and innovative collaboration addressing real-world problems - Melinda Green (July 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Launch article for the Turing-LIDA Data Study Group, detailing the project, its goals and reach. Demonstrating partnership working with external organisations and building new connections with participants.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/turing-lida-data-study-group/
 
Description Data science presentation at Hiscox 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact 10 postgraduate students were invited to attend a data science seminar at Hiscox's York office. There were 12 Hiscox employees from team managers, HR, underwriters, PR, and analytical team attended the seminar. I presented our ongoing data science projects and research methods. One of the projects with Hiscox is to model the health state of UK's startups. Hiscox was very impressed with what we had achieved so far, especially our machine learning approach. Hiscox agreed to share a few parameters from their current insurance claim making to help us improve our model. I also informed Hiscox that we might spin out a few MSc dissertations from our current data mining. We would present our finding to Hiscox's executives and their underwriter teams in London in June. Also we are invited to tour Lloyd's insurance trading floor and observe how insurance underwriters work.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Delivering an oral presentation at GISRUK 2024 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This activity has not happened yet but will soon in April. The intended purpose is to take this unique opportunity to speak about my research work in front of a diverse audience and attract interest to the project's outputs. The presentation could also unlock additional opportunities for replicating the work in other areas around the nation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
URL https://2024.gisruk.org/
 
Description Demographics User Group Annual Conference (AN) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Participation in this event provided an opportunity to network primarily with senior professionals within the retail sector - raising the profile of CDRC.

Further details on CDRC were passed to an interested journalist from the Financial TImes
Productive discussions with Co-Op location planning team which are likely to yield input to CDRC MSc programme in Consumer Analytics
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Demontration of NPCT to Leeds City Council 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The talk led to much interesting discussion about the NPCT and how to improve it using Big Data.

The talk led to the suggestion that we seek funding to deploy the tool for West Yorkshire Combined Authority.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Department for Transport Data Science Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presentation of research talks on digital twins for transport and development of data infrastructure and tools for active travel to a variety of colleagues if the Department for Transport and their collaborative networks.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
URL https://www.robinlovelace.net/talk/the-active-travel-infrastructure-platform-atip/atip-dft-data-scie...
 
Description Department for Transport Workshop - Mark Birkin - 10th April 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact 20 people. Workshop at Turing Institute with Department for Transport on mobility, land use modelling, planning and uncertainty. Including Mark Ledbury (Head of Transport Appraisal) and Amanda Rowlatt (Chief Analyst).
Outcomes - follow-on workshop on uncertainty. Collaborative discussion ongoing regarding research collaborations and possible data exchange (e.g. DfT Hackathon, Jan 2020).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Department for Work and Pensions Research Interest Workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Partnership event to see how University of Leeds inc Consumer Data Research Centre can engage with the Department for Work and Pensions
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Department fro Transport - Transport Modellers Forum 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I was invited to present the SPENSER open source model to 50 transport planning professionals (from government and industry). There was a unanimous positive vote by attendees that the UK needs a national syntrhetic population (such as that produced by SPENSER). There has been follow up for advice and collaboration from industry and government attendees who are undertaking transport modelling.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.transportmodellersforum.com/
 
Description Departmental Seminar - University of Liverpool Department of Geography and Planning (AN) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Undergraduate students
Results and Impact Invited departmental seminar used to raise awareness of applied retail modelling research being carried out within CDRC
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Designing the digital economy - accelerating digital business and cluster growth 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Digital Catapult Centre Yorkshire 6th July 2015 Re:centre, University of Bradford
Overarching purpose: To develop and test the proposition that the digital catapult Centre Yorkshire should lead the development of an international 'Patient-Experience' R&D Lab and work programme.
Objectives:
• To articulate a vision and objectives for an international patient experience R&D programme and Lab
• To create a 'road map' for achieving that vision over the next 10 years, incorporating a programme of projects and initiatives
• To identify and prioritise practical project interventions for the next 3 years
Attendees representing:
University of Bradford, University of Leeds, University of York, University of Huddersfield, London Digital Catapult, Bradford Digital Catapult, EPSRC, AHRC, mHealth Habitat, Leeds City Council, Bradford Metropolitan District Council and BT
Participants were asked to introduce themselves and speak briefly about what they were bringing to the project.
A presentation was given by Graham Hitchin from Directional Thinking, providing some background and an introduction to the 'Designing the Digital Economy' report along with a focus on how design thinking is central to the process of this project. Graham stressed the importance of putting the user at the centre of the process and outlined some of the design models that had been used in the build up to putting the report which highlighted the strengths of all 3 digital catapult centres.
Liam Sutton from Bradford University then spoke briefly about the background to this meeting and the digital Catapult in Bradford and the background to the patient experience Lab programme including some of the impacts the patient experience lab could have.
The room then split into small groups in order to:
Construct a shared vision to combine, to add to, and or to discard the impacts highlighted in Liam Sutton's presentation. Once each group had created a vision they were assigned a group of people and asked what the experience from the Lab would feel like for these groups.
1. Citizens with poor health outcomes & low usage, health professional bodies and corporate tech and pharma companies.
2. Citizens with poor health outcomes and high usage, NHS organisations and academics/ researchers
3. Citizens with good health outcomes and low usage, health professionals and local authorities
4. Citizens with good health outcomes & high usage, GPs, primary care trusts, supply chains and SMEs
Finally each group was then asked to create 3 project templates that the patient experience lab could consider that would be taken back to the digital catapult and Innovate UK to help shape future funding calls etc.
Projects ranged from creating a digital health passport that combine all health records in to one place (and or a project focusing on the barriers to such a project) to projects on how to increase the amount of innovation into the health sector to enhance the patient experience (for example cutting down waiting times etc.)

Continued engagement and projects with the Digital Catapult in Yorkshire.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL https://www.digitalcatapultcentre.org.uk/local-centre/yorkshire/
 
Description Detecting clinical deterioration in hospital using sensor data LIDA Seminar (14/06/2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This talk by keynote speaker Tim Bonnici -- an Intensive Care and Acute Medicine physician and digital health researcher working at the University of Oxford -- discussed the evidence around the feasibility of using wearable monitors to continuously monitor inpatients, practical barriers to implementation and promising avenues for future development with an audience primarily made up on those in Medicine, the NHS and General Practitioners. The talk led to stimulating discussion of the benefits of wearable monitors to improve patient outcomes and monitoring in a less restrictive way.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/detecting-clinical-deterioration-hospital-using-sensor-data/
 
Description Difficulties with reproducible data analytics: Pitfalls in predictive policing (LIDA Seminar 23.11.17) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Centre hosted seminar, external speaker: Dr Toby Davies, Department of Security and Crime at UCL
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/difficulties-reproducible-data-analytics-pitfalls-predictive-policing...
 
Description Digital Archives and Cities: our Online Past and the Digital Economy 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact I was invited to give a keynote talk 5th Planning and Regional Development Conference in Greece.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL http://conferenceprd5.prd.uth.gr/programm/
 
Description Digital Archives and Cities: our Online Past and the Digital Economy 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I was invited to present the CDRC-funded research at an internal seminar at the British Library. The presentation illustrated how digital archived can be used for urban research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Digital Catapult Meeting, Mark Birkin attended (12/02/2019) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Discussed potential collaborations around software, data, internships and business innovation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Digital Catapult Partnership Board 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Background information was provided about the digital health catapult (Yorkshire) and a mixed audience brainstormed priorities and strategic options. Applied work is on-going through digital health enterprise and connected cities agenda.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL https://www.digitalcatapultcentre.org.uk/local-centre/yorkshire/
 
Description Digital Conversations @BL: Data, Place and Digital Economies 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact A public event was co-organised together with the British Library entitled: "Digital Conversations @BL: Data, Place and Digital Economies". Drawing upon the CDRC funded research, the event was an opportunity to present the value of digital archives in understanding cities and the digital economy. The event took place at the British Library in London, it was sold out and was attended by more than 50 people.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2019/01/digital-conversations-data-place-and-digital-economi...
 
Description Digital Footprints Conference (Co-Led by Prof Michelle Morris) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact This one-day event showcased multidisciplinary research on digital footprints and brought together a multi sector audience - academics, policy-makers, government representatives, industry - to share insights and frameworks for working with digital footprints data. The speakers and panellists included Emma Gordon (Director for Administrative Data Research UK, ADR UK), Deborah Kroll (Head of Strategy and Partnership, Digital Footprints, ESRC), Claire Steves (Kings College London, Clinical Director of TwinsUK and co-designer of the ZOE App), Tom Smith (Director of the Spatial Data Unit & Chief Data Officer, Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities), Hannah Skeggs (Health and Sustainable Diets Manager at the Institute of Grocery Distribution) and others.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://digifootprints.co.uk/digital-footprints-2023/
 
Description Digital Platform for Dementia Screening (LIDA Seminar 13.07.2017) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Centre hosted seminar, external speaker: Prof Kevin Tsoi, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/digital-platform-dementia-screening/
 
Description Digital economy in the UK regions: the effect of the early adopters 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact A talk at the ERSA 2018 Congress in Cork, Ireland.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://ersa.org/events/58th-ersa-congress/
 
Description DignioNorwegian Connected Health Company, visit to Leeds 23rd October 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact The CEO and colleagues from Norwegian Digital Health company Dignio visited Leeds on the 23rd October with an express view to meet with key professionals in digital health and connected healthcare. Professor Birkin was involved in a morning panel discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Discovery Day with Connected Places Catapult - Mark Birkin speaker - 9th Jan 2020 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Scoping the priorities for collaboration. Event held at Nexus, Leeds. Mark Birkin was Speaker.
40 people.
Scoped 3 projects for further investment.
Follow-on meeting with Head of Data Science and senior colleagues in Sekforde Street on 19th February.
CDT data science intern with CPC in Bucks District Council. Seeking resource and funding for joint projects in sustainable consumption, intelligent mobility and land-use planning.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Discussed the project with Prof. Luisa Corrado (Prof. of Economics at Tor Vergata University in Rome and NIESR Fellow) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact In twi mneetings we discussed the project with Prof. Luisa Corrado (Prof. of Economics at Tor Vergata University in Rome and NIESR Fellow), who provided useful feedback on the porject and expressed interest in using the house returns data for her work focused on the regional economics.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Discussion during The Broken Housing Market Conference on 1st June 2018 (approx. 140 experts in the area of the housing economics and policy) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Taking advantage of The Broken Housing Market Conference co-organized by NIESR and taking place on the 1st June 2018, we had discussion with various experts and policymakers in the area of housing. The conference was attended by approx. 140 experts in the area of the housing economics and policy. We collected feedback and comments on the project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Dissemination of research output 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presented the research outputs to the data partner.

After the presentation a dialogue for further data sharing was initiated and the partner has positively responded to it. It is likely to lead to further data addition to the organisation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Dubrovnik International University 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact About 50 postgraduate students attended a presentation entitled "A behavioural decision research approach to developing effective communications" which sparked questions and discussion afterwards.
Abstract: In their lives, people face decisions about risks affecting their health, finances, and environmental footprint. Experts in different domains may be asked to develop communications with the goal of improving people's judgments and decisions about specific risks. Such communication efforts may fail if experts lack information about what wording people prefer to use to describe relevant concepts, what information people need or want to know to make more informed decisions, and what barriers people experience when trying to change their behavior. In this presentation, I will present the social science behind effective communication development, and end with key lessons learned.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.facebook.com/wandibruinedebruin/posts/172181656635508?pnref=story
 
Description Dynamic, data-driven, agent-based modelling for simulating cities: Understanding Crime and Pollution 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Invited presentation to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Big Data Campus, Titchfield. 1 December 2016.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://surf.leeds.ac.uk/p/2016-12-01-ONS_Data_Campus.html
 
Description E-Food Desert coverage - Basingstoke Gazette (Jan 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Regional coverage of the E-Food Desert Index - quotes Andy Newing, uses screenshot of CDRC Maps and links directly through to the EFDI Map.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL http://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/18998021.basingstoke-e-food-deserts-struggling-get-food-del...
 
Description E-Food Deserts - How online grocery shopping is making Britain's urban-rural inequality worse - AN 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Article on 'How online grocery shopping is making Britain's urban-rural inequality worse' published in The Conversation discussing lack of choice and why retailers are not expanding in to rural areas. Article led to enquiries and discussions are currently underway to use the E-Food Desert as part of an investigative piece for BBC Verify.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://theconversation.com/how-online-grocery-shopping-is-making-britains-urban-rural-inequality-wo...
 
Description EDIF Show and Tell Event - participation from Mark Birkin - Feb 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact CDRC Co-Director Mark Birkin attended the 8th February 2022, EDIF Show and Tell Event.
Creating case studies for the use of real-time data in transport planning. Possibility to curate data sets of real-time data and building new data partnerships with commercial organisations (e.g. Wejo) and public service (DfT, local councils, urban observatories). Audience for the Show-and-Tell included Gateshead, North Tyneside, Newcastle, Manchester, West Midlands; DfT, DCMS, DLUHC, Cabinet Office; OZEV, CCAV, ONS, Connected Places Catapult.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description EDIF Steering Group, Department for Transport, Urban Observatories, Alan Turing Institute - Mark Birkin - Jan 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact CDRC Co-Director Mark Birkin is a member of the EDIF steering group, attending meetings on the 11th January 2022 and 25th January 2022. EDIF Steering Group, Department for Transport, Urban Observatories, Alan Turing Institute.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description ESRC Retail Sector Initiative Knowledge Sharing Workshop - Nottingham (AN) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? Yes
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentations reflected ongoing and completed collaborations between the retail sector and academia, identifying some of the challenges and opportunities for collaboration between these sectors. This event was an opportunity to engage with other academics working in this field, and with key stakeholders from the retail sector.

Opportunity to re-engage with former contacts and make new contacts which may be beneficial to future research linked to this grant.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description ESRC Society Now Article 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Article published in Society Now magazine

Raised awareness of the CDRC and harmonisation with the Big Data Network
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Early careers workshop at ASO 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact The purpose of this workshop was to introduce early career researchers in the obesity field (interdisciplinary group including health care professionals) to the opportunities for using big data in their research. The workshop was very well received and positive feedback provided to the Association for the Study of Obesity. Participants reported that the workshop opened their minds to opportunities that they had not previously thought of as available to their research field.
Colleagues involved in the session also reported that their perspectives had been widened.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL https://www.aso.org.uk/events/ukco/ecrn-workshop/
 
Description Eco Fair. West & North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Title: Developing effective communications to inform employees' decisions about energy use
Seminar description: Companies are increasingly seeking to reduce employees' energy use. One of the potential challenges is that employees are not responsible for their companies' energy bills, and therefore may have no incentives to reduce their energy use. Moreover, communication efforts may fail when communication designers have incorrect intuitions about what drives consumers' energy use or willingness to save. This presentation will present the social science of effective communication development, highlight its main findings, and give specific recommendations about how to design communications to reduce employees' energy use.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.eco-fair.co.uk/energy-carbon-uol/
 
Description Ed Manley - Conversation Article 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact CDRC Co-Director Ed Manley co authored an article on 'England's contact-tracing system needs better data handling to beat COVID-19' - originally published on the Conversation, also republished on Yahoo News.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://theconversation.com/englands-contact-tracing-system-needs-better-data-handling-to-beat-covid...
 
Description Edge Analytics visit to LIDA, Mark Birkin hosted (23/10/2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Visit co-ordinated by Pete Boden/ Richard Culf. Six people in delegation, involving a discussion of potential collaborations around migration/ housing markets/ water companies and utilities. Has led to people from EA booking onto training courses.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Efficient programming for data analytics (LIDA Seminar 27.04.2017) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Centre hosted seminar, external keynote speaker: Dr Colin Gillespie, Newcastle University
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/lida-seminar-efficient-programming-data-analytics/
 
Description Employer Engagement Forum Presentation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact I attended the Employer Engagement Forum held by the student services at the University of Leeds.

The employer engagement team work with both employers and students, to assist the former in recruitment and the latter in finding after post graduation. d
I gave a presentation about the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics Data Scientist Development Programme. The LIDA DSDP are six month projects which bring data scientist students paid employment in collaboration with partner and employers for the duration of the programme, in which they use data science to answer complex societal challenges and questions for public good.
The presentation was delivered successfully with the intention of creating awareness for the employer engagement team who engage with employers and students and share information about the DSDP.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Engagement meeting related to CDRC MSc CAMS Programme (AN) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Meeting with key individuals in the data analytics teams at Shop Direct, a major UK online retailer. Raised profile of CDRC and sought to elicit Shop Direct engagement with CDRC MSc Consumer Analytics and Marketing Strategy programme (CAMS). Shop Direct are very excited by CAMS and have agreed to support this programme through guest lectures, student placements etc.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Engagement with Asda over webinar 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Engagement with Asda about being involved with webinar event
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015,2016
 
Description Engagement with CallCredit over webinar 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Engagement with CallCredit about being involved in webinar.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015,2016
 
Description Engagement with Samsung 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Discussion with Samsung about engagement with webinar
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Engaging patients in research - UseMyData and BCI UK (LIDA Seminar 20.07.2017) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Centre hosted seminar, external speakers included: Chris Carrigan, useMYdata expert advisor; Azmina Verjee, Bowel Cancer Patient; Andy Smith, useMYData; Andy Wilson, Yorkshire Cancer Research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/lida-seminar-usemydata/
 
Description European Colloquium in Quantitative and Theoretical Geography presentation - Exploring Administrative Data for use in City Specific Geodemographic Classifications in the UK 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact International quantitative geographers attended Amanda's talk to learn of new work carried out in collaboration with Leeds City Council and Transunion UK
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description European Colloquium on Quantitative and Theoretical Geography, Manchester - talk by Mark Birkin - Nov 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact 4th November 2021, European Colloquium on Quantitative and Theoretical Geography, Manchester. The future of high streets: investigating post-pandemic scenarios in the UK (with Anna Zanchetta), 120 delegates.
Dissemination to international academic audience.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description European Nutrition Society FENS - poster presentation: Variation in fruit and vegetable purchasing patterns in Leeds: using novel loyalty card transaction data 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Poster presentation of collaborative work with Sainsbury's. This was shared at an international conference that attracts nutrition delegates from all sectors.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/events/696/program-app/submission/139470
 
Description European Nutrition Society FENS Poster presentation: Compliance with the Eatwell guide: a case study using supermarket transaction records in Yorkshire and the Humber 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Poster presentation at an international conference that is attended by nutritionists from all sectors.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/events/696/program-app/submission/139482
 
Description European Nutrition Society FENS Presentation: Validation of an automated online 24-hour recall (myfood24) using nutrient biomarkers provides similar results to a traditional interviewer administered recall 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Conference presentation sharing research results from a project that is in collaboration with University spin out company, Dietary Assessment ltd.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Experts panel for WRAP policy on service sector food waste 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Expert panel reviewing WRAP national policy on service sector food waste. Panel consisted of 10 industry-wide members and was communicated to the national service sector trade bodies in hotels, restaurants, NHS, universities, schools and SMEs sectors.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Exploring the Impact of Ambient Population Measures on Crime Hotspots (AAG 2016) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Around 20 people attended a session at the Association of American Geographers International Conference that I helped to organise.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://surf.leeds.ac.uk/p/2016-03-ambient_population.pdf
 
Description Festival of Science (13.03.2017) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact A group of 16-18 year old students from regional schools visited the university as part of the Festival of Science. The session involved a talk on using how the CDRC use GIS and spatial analysis to undertake research in areas relating to crime, retail modelling and food safety. This was followed by a practical session using GIS.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Festival of Science event (16.03.16) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact A group of year 12 students from regional schools visited the university as part of the festival of social science. The session involved a talk on using how the CDRC use GIS and spatial analysis to undertake research in areas relating to crime, retail modelling and food safety. This was followed by a practical session using GIS.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Festival of Social Science, quantitative methods workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact A group of year 12 students from regional schools visited the university as part of the Festival of Social Science. The session involved a talk on using how GIS and spatial analysis are used in research relating to crime, retail modelling and food safety. This was followed by a practical session using GIS.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description First Findings From IGD Research Trials Announced - Melinda Green (December 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Blog post sharing IGD's press release about the first findings from our first research project with them - pushing out that information more widely to our own audience and contacts.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/first-findings-from-igd-research-trials-announced/
 
Description FixMyStreet Deprivation Maps 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Our CDRC Innovation Project was a collaboration between the PI and RA at the University of Sheffield, Peter Matthews from the University of Stirling and Alex Parsons at mySociety.

Together, we built a map-based website for our project, available at: https://research.mysociety.org/sites/fms_maps/

The purpose of the website was to take data on neighbourhood fault reporting and make it intelligible and useful for a wide audience, principally aimed at policymakers but also more widely.



**Some initial stats for the first week post-launch are provided below.**
Total of 1515 page views - 371 to report, 160 views of individual council pages.

304 view of the publication page on research.mysociety.org
64 downloads of pdf through that site - 18 switched to pdf after viewing report page.

Maps were clicked (expanded into full poster) 102 times - people explicitly 'downloaded poster' 12 times - these are the same thing just counted differently.

Tweet stats from https://twitter.com/undertheraedar/status/1069861285221842944
Impressions
times people saw this Tweet on Twitter
11,632
Total engagements 395
Media engagements
217
Likes
56
Profile clicks
45
Detail expands
37
Retweets
17
Link clicks
17
Replies
5
Follows
1
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://research.mysociety.org/sites/fms_maps/
 
Description Food Science Industry Day - Networking Event 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Poster presentation "The Role of Big Data in Food Informatics" which led to interesting discussion around the role that industry data can have in research.

Following the event email exchange has taken place between the CDRC and external partners about possibilities of collaboration.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://www.food.leeds.ac.uk/home/working-with-business/industry-networking-event.html
 
Description Food Standards Agency Seminar (24.07.2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Seminar delivered to approximately 60 attendees from the Food Standards Agency in Westminster. This seminar presented the findings of a systematic review. This work explored the use of consumer generated data for monitoring foodborne illness. As a result of the seminar, the FSA requested further information and guidance in relation to the establishment of a new project exploring food allergy reporting via Twitter.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Food Systems - Cross Sector Working Group - MM & EE 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact CDRC hosted a workshop, with participants from a variety of disciplines and functions at the University of Leeds, the charity sector, industry representatives and local government to discuss "Encouraging Healthy and Sustainable Diets through Cross-Sectoral Partnerships".

The aim of the workshop was to better understand what makes a good partnership for research across the food system with a key objective to create a shared resource to promote and share lessons on partnership working.

The discussion was live scribed and the group co-produced a series of inforgraphics on how to build and maintain effective partnership working in food systems research. The graphics were shared across member organisations social channels to generate wider conversation around effective partnership working in food systems research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/encouraging-healthy-and-sustainable-diets-through-cross-sectoral-partnerships...
 
Description Food and Drink Sector Council Nutrition Working Group 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact I have been invited to participate in the Food and Drink Sector Council Nutrition working group. At a meeting in February I presented possible options for data sharing across the food sector to contribute towards digitising the food system and informing the National food strategy.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Forecasting Short-Term Urban Dynamics: Data Assimilation for Agent-Based Modelling. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Presentation to the Social Simulation Conference - the 13th Annual Conference of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA). 25-29 September 2017, Dublin, Ireland. Slides available: http://surf.leeds.ac.uk/p/2017-09-26-essa-da.html
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://surf.leeds.ac.uk/p/2017-09-26-essa-da.html
 
Description Foreign & Commonwealth Office International Leaders Programme meeting at LIDA (19/07/2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Organised by Stephanie Bage. LIDA hosted 17 delegates from Cuba, Mexico, Philippines and Lebanon to name a few. Present from Leeds University were Sir. Alan Langlands, Sir Alex Markham and Prof. Mark Birkin spoke. The visit was part of a programme for a group of participants on a Foreign and Commonwealth Office International Leaders Programme. The group is looking at Leeds' ambition to be the UK's best city by 2030. A cornerstone of this ambition is for Leeds to be the best city for children and young people to study, live and play in. The Leeds City Region is home to the UK's fastest growing young population and Leeds itself is home to three universities, which act as key drivers to the areas growing knowledge economy. It also has some of the poorest neighbourhoods in the country on the outskirts of the wealthy city centre. How does the city make sure it makes the most of its young population to drive economic growth, whilst making sure people don't get left behind?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Formal Working Group: New models for spatial and social behaviour in a pandemic (Birkin, 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact New models for spatial and social behaviour in a pandemic, 26th & 27th May 2021, 2 day meeting at the Isaac Newton Institute, in partnership with the Royal Society, and which Birkin convened along with Mike Batty FRS (UCL). 80 participants from multiple university, government and commercial partners, with a keynote from Sir Ian Diamond (National Statistician).
Continuing programme of events through the RAMP Continuity Network (funded by EPSRC, EP/V053507/1, until July 2022). Closing symposium at the Royal Society currently being planned on 13/06/22.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Free School Meals through a local lens - Bradford (blog) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Second in a 2-part blog series which arose from work of CDRC Co-I Michelle Morris with LIDA interns Alex Dalton and Tom Albone on the marked demand and take-up of free school meals in the Yorkshire & Humber and in particular the Bradford area: an indicator of the deprivation in the Bradford area.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/free-school-meals-through-a-local-lens-bradford/
 
Description Free School Meals: a National Necessity (Blog) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact This blog received in the first 24 hours after release 3756 Twitter Impressions, 166 engagements (liked, retweeted, clicked for more info etc), and 112 read the article in full on the website. The blog arose from work of CDRC Co-I Michelle Morris with LIDA interns Alex Dalton and Tom Albone on the marked demand and take-up of free school meals in the Yorkshire & Humber and in particular the Bradford area: an indicator of the deprivation in the Bradford area.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/free-school-meals-a-national-necessity/
 
Description Future Cities Showcase 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Presentation generated questions and discussion

Raised awareness of the CDRC amongst a social science audience.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Future Cities and Digital Technologies 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Type Of Presentation keynote/invited speaker
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The events generated lots of discussion and debate.

The event was evaluated using Survey Monkey. Although only 32 responded (13% of those who attended), 20 indicated that they would be interested in attending a future summer school, and 22 indicated they would be interested in attending short courses.

One delegate noted that the exhibition had expanded her knowledge and that insights from the event would likely be incorporated in her dissertation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2007,2013,2015
 
Description Future Fashion Factory 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Presentation to academia and business including Consumer Data Research Centre
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description GEO Business Show 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Undergraduate students
Results and Impact CDRC PhD Student, Rachel Oldroyd, promoted the Centre's data service, research and capacity building activities to attendees at the GEO Business Show 2017. The show had over 2380 industry attendees from 50+ countries.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description GI-Science Conference Event 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact The GIScience conference series regularly brings together more than 300 international participants from academia, industry, and government to discuss and advance the state-of-the-art in geographic information science. 12 September 2023 was dedicated to Workshops and Tutorials.

My self and Professor Stephen Clark attended the event with an exhibition stand to represent the CDRC and share our achievements and findings in research and relevant data (when appropriate), alongside meet new academics and potential partners.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://giscience2023.github.io/index.html
 
Description GIS Mini Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact I presented results of my research investigating whether geodemographic classifications are useful to explain diet and obesity in children to a cohort of GIS MSc students. The presentation sparked interesting discussion. Students have since been in touch to find out more about projects in the area of GIS and health.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description GIS for Transport Applications (GIS4TA) workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? Yes
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact More than 30 people attended, including a professionals and academics from transport consultancies such as Integrated Transport Planning Ltd., TRP Consulting and the European Railway Association (ERA). It was about the use of R and QGIS tools for transport planning and the potential for their adoption in academic, public and private-sector transport planning.

The focus of the workshop was deliberately on open source software and sustainable transport because these are growth areas.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://robinlovelace.net/r/2015/04/20/r-vs-qgis-for-transport.html
 
Description GIS teacher training event - Wakefield Schools Collaborative Group (26.06.2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact GIS teacher training event introducing GIS, spatial analysis and related research carried out by the CDRC in retail, crime, health and food safety.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description GISRUK Conference "From data to decisions" (Newcastle) - Mark Birkin Chaired Panel on open geospatial data - 25th April 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact 150 people.CDRC PI Mark Birkin chaired panel session on geospatial data.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description GISRUK Keynote - Mark Birkin (July 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Prof Mark Birkin delivered a keynote presentation on Urban Analytics: Progress and Prospects at GISRUK 2020
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Gartner facilitated meeting between NHS Scotland and Leeds Health Economies 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Health professionals
Results and Impact Widespread discussion of progress and opportunities in health data analytics.

Likely follow on activities regarding deployment of big data research and poolicy-making activities in both Leeds and NHS Scotland/ Glasgow HA.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description GeoMed - Presentation: Variations in colorectal cancer survival by socio-economic status 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Interdisciplinary presentation at an international conference sharing research findings.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Global Marketing in a Disruptive and Complex Environment - Special Session Organization and Presentation - 2021 AMA Winter Academic Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Discussion on the role of the marketing discipline in dealing with uncertainty and disruption. Sparking developments in new academic research and opening new frontiers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.ama.org/events/conference/2021-ama-winter-academic-conference/
 
Description Globally scalable software for sustainable transport (LIDA Seminar 09.11.17) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Centre hosted seminar, external speaker: Dr Mark Padgham, Salzburg University
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/news/video-globally-scalable-software-sustainable-transport/
 
Description Gresham Lecture by the Lord Mayor of London: Connect to Prosper 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Professor Birkin presented remarks as a discussant and panel member following delivery of the annual Gresham Lecture by the incoming Lord Mayor of London. The event was attended by an audience of 200 members of local guilds, politicians, members of the college, and the general public with others online. Members of the panel debated questions from the floor following the lecture.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Guardian Interview - Supermarkets to be quizzed over rising food costs - MM 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Prof Michelle Morris provided comment on the delay to legislation on multi-buy deals on foods high in fat, salt or sugar in advance of the major supermarkets being questioned by MPs on the rising cost of groceries. Featured in the Guardian/Observer.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/25/supermarkets-to-be-quizzed-over-rising-food-costs
 
Description Guest Lecture 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Delivered a guest lecture to MBA students at Sir CRR College of Engineering, India.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Guest Lecture 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Undergraduate students
Results and Impact Students interaction after the lecture.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Guest Lecture 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Delivered a guest lecture to MBA students at Sir CRR College for Postgraduate studies, India.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Guest Lecture 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact A guest lecture to Postgraduate students in School of Earth and Environment
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Guest Lecture 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact A guest lecture to about 40 masters students in Leeds University Business School on Price Elasticities and Consumer Preferences from Market Data. The content of the lecture was based on the research carried out at Consumer Data research Center.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Guest Lecture 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Guest lecture to postgraduate students in Leeds University Business School
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Guest Lecture 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Guest Lecture delivered to MA students in the Leeds University Business School on consumer behaviour modelling.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Guest Lecture 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact The presentation sparked questions and discussions. Invited to deliver another lecture in 2018.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Guest Lecture - CallCredit 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Guest lecture provided for MSc Consumer Analytics and Marketing Strategy students by CallCredit - based on novel geodemographics and predictive analytics
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Guest talk 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact The audience were members of research and teaching staff. There were several issues that were discussed after the talk. It opened up new avenues for collaborations with members of staff at other schools/institutes in the University.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description HABITS final event 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The final event involved speakers from the UK and internationally and was used to demonstrate the HABITS tool, in addition to disseminating the main project findings. It generated a lot of questions and discussion afterwards, which continues.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016,2018
 
Description HE Academy Video - Mark Birkin 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Undergraduate students
Results and Impact Prof Mark Birkin recorded a presentation on Re-thinking delivery models for quality Higher Education for all which was broadcast on the Advance HE youtube channel
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNyVH_Oo8Oo&feature=youtu.be
 
Description Healthy Choices, Healthy Lives: The Local Food Environment - Holme Wood as a case study 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact The activity was a case study written to summarise the aims, methods and outcomes of the Healthy Choices, Healthy Lives internship project supervised by Michelle Morris and Andy Newing. So far the project has generated several outputs, one of which is currently being used as part of a scheme of interactive visualisation. The audience of the case study would be anybody who wanted a brief overview of the project goals and outcomes, with more detailed analysis available from the project team for anybody interested.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/research-projects/healthy-choices-healthy-lives/
 
Description High Potential Opportunities Presentation with West Yorkshire Combined Authority and Department of Business & Trade 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact I attended an event called 'High Potential Opportunities' hosted by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority in collaboration with the UK Government's Department of Business and Trade.

The event brings together businesses outside of Leeds to speak about, and demonstrate why Leeds is a thriving place for business and innovation.

My presentation addressed 50 or so businesses about who the CDRC are, how we work, how we create impact and various ways of collaborating with us on academic projects for public good.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.investwestyorkshire.com/key-sectors/high-potential-opportunities/
 
Description Horizons Challenge Network Collaborative Lab - UoL - 24th Jan 2023 - Kylie Norman 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Horizons Institute working group to feed back on challenge network research proposal submissions as part of its University-wide initiative for cross-cutting intersectional working. Those present represented research institutes, schools and external organisations and fed back on, developed and coached the PIs on the bids. My role was to assess the Global Interconnected Network bid by LM in Engineering and to help her develop the bid with colleagues. Event lasted 1 day, with the bid now going on to the next round for assessment and decision on funding.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Host for "A Day in the Life of the Smart City" - Mark Birkin - Feb 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact CDRC Co-Director Mark Birkin hosted the 21st February 2022 "A Day in the Life of the Smart City", 250 delegates at the Institute for Engineering Technology, Savoy Place, London. Evening seminar and networking event.
Annual event, possibility of follow-on with more policy and/ or consumer data focus.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description How To Fix Podcast - Michelle Morris 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Prof Michelle Morris joined colleagues from the Global Food and Environment Institute at the University of Leeds to discuss how given the rising cost of food, who are the communities hardest hit and how we can help. Michelle outlined findings and highlighted how policy makers can utilise the Priority Places for Food Index to better understand and target help to those communities most in need.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://listen.podmasters.uk/HTFCleanAir?at=1001l39LM&c=ukGZFpsjE8sBgSq4f4dAjw&h=9591fa7d9945a3dfd
 
Description IBM Big Data Analytics Colloquium 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Generated questions and discussion after the presentation

Secured new contacts at IBM and participated in discussions about possible future collaborations
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description ICDAM conference presentation - Identifying dietary patterns using novel supermarket transaction data. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Conference oral presentation to diet and activity methods academics
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.icdamportal.org/icdam2020.html
 
Description ICDAM conference presentation - poster: Nutrition analytics using supermarket transaction data: identification of changes in UK meat consumption patterns 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Conference poster presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.icdamportal.org/icdam2020.html
 
Description ICDAM poster presentation - myfood24, an online 24h recall is valid for diet measurement in healthy and clinical populations 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Poster pitch presentation at international conference
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.icdamportal.org/icdam2020.html
 
Description ICMS Workshop - Mathematical modelling and COVID-19 - Mark Birkin 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Mark Birkin participated in a workshop for the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences on Mathematical modelling and COVID-19: How can modelling inform a response to the current COVID-19 resurgence?

This workshop aimed to bring together people working on modelling the COVID-19 epidemic in the UK to discuss how modelling has and continues to inform policy decision making around this epidemic.

Prof Birkin provided information on Robust Epidemic Models with Urban Simulation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/51612401/1_qaw8vh3c/1_x5u2bwen
 
Description IDSAI Seminar - Mark Birkin (Dec 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Prof Mark Birkin delivered a keynote presentation on Urban Analytics: Progress and Prospects at the Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Institute.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description IGD Healthy and Sustainable diets working group update 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Update to the IGD Healthy and Sustainable diets working group regarding the intervention framework we have developed and our ways of working
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description IGD/LIDA In-Person Meeting: Project Progress Report 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Breaking away from the online bi-weekly meetings, two members of the Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD) travelled up to Leeds for an in-person meeting with the LIDA team (data scientists, undergraduate researcher, Research and Impact Manager, my project supervisors, and co-director of LIDA). The four University of Leeds/CDRC researchers were given the opportunity update the audience on the methods or results of our analysis regarding the effect of interventions run by food retailers. Some projects are aimed to determine whether interventions shifted a particular customer group's food purchasing patterns towards the Eatwell Guide. The projects received funding from the IGD who hope to publish the results of our analyses (whether the trial was successful or not) soon.

For a brief portion of the meeting, a retail partner joined us to discuss partnership, collaboration, their intervention, and other related matters.

Plenty of discussion was brought up regarding the nature, methods, and context of IGD trials.

The University of Leeds/LIDA/CDRC team consisted of myself, Madeleine Thomas (undergraduate researcher), Alexandra Dalton (data scientist), Dr Francesca Pontin (data scientist), Emily Ennis (Research and Impact Manager), Dr Michelle Morris (Associate Professor and my project supervisor), Prof William Young (Chair of Sustainability and Business and my project supervisor), and Prof Mark Birkin (CDRC PI and co-director of LIDA).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description ITRC Workshop on East-West Corridor, Nik Lomax and Andrew Smith spoke (08/11/2018-09/11/2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact 20-30 participants, scoping joint projects on infrastructure planning and forecasting, including population and consumer behaviour. Nik Lomax and Andrew Smith did the talk: "East-West Corridor: Impact on Population Redistribution".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Ideas in Practice Seminar Series (Leeds): Leeds University Business School Big Data Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This day-long conference involved keynote speakers, panel discussions, and breakout groups. My role at the conference was to Co-Chair, lead a break out group and report back, and Summarize the day. The conference involved a mix of senior practitioners and others interested in big data. Keynotes were performed by IBM among others. The event led to a contribution to the Leeds University Business School Research and Innovation Blog, entitled Turning Data into Value - this can be accessed via the URL below. The link to this was sent to all participants.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL https://business.leeds.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/blog/
 
Description Ideas in Practice Seminar Series (London): Leeds University Business School Big Data Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This day-long conference involved keynote speakers, panel discussions, and breakout groups. My role at the conference was to Co-Chair and Summarize the day. The conference involved a mix of senior practitioners and others interested in big data. Keynotes were performed by Marks and Spencer and Squire Patton Boggs, among others. The event led to a contribution to the Leeds University Business School Research and Innovation Blog, entitled Good Use of Big Data - this can be accessed through the URL below. This link was sent to the participants.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://business.leeds.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/blog/
 
Description Impact Event, Leeds 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Impact event at the University of Leeds, general discussion resulting in increased interest in the Institute






















Event was hosted by the University of Leeds attended by 350 external attendees. CDRC exhibited, and networking resulted in further meetings with several companies that attended.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Impact Magazine Article 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Article published in Impact Magazine (University of Leeds publication)

Raised awareness of the CDRC and the potential impact.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Improving and using data on income at the small area level 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact A short blog on the importance of income that accounts for variations in income within local areas. The blog achieved over 60 unique views.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL http://natcen.ac.uk/blog/improving-and-using-data-on-income-at-the-small-area-level
 
Description Improving lives through place-based urban analytics, Wolfson Centre, Bradford - Mark Birkin - 10th Jan 2020 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact 120 people including representatives from DfE, Bradford Council, local businesses and community.
Outcome - successful proposal for £200k funding via Turing Institute for place-based analytics of retail and service provision.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Improving lowest recycling rates in Leeds City region 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Working with Leeds City Council to assess the effectiveness of information campaigns using their recycling city wide recycling data.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016,2017
 
Description Indian Tech Exhibition Event with West Yorkshire Combined Authority 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Hosted by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, and held at Nexus, University of Leeds, I attended the Indian Tech Exhibition event.

This event brought 60 Indian technology companies of a minimum size of 100 staff, to showcase how Leeds is a thriving place for business and innovation, and a great place for overseas organisations doing great work to open their head offices in.

Networking with C level stakeholders including CEO's, directors and heads of departments, discussing achievements and projects delivered by the CDRC for public benefit, and how they can get involved too.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium, London 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Event to hear the outcomes of modelling and appraisal activities of the Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium.
Highlights of this to include:
an interactive demonstration of output from the collaboration with Infrastructure UK (HM Treasury) on assessment of UK National Infrastructure Pipeline
Interactive session with risk and vulnerability mapping experts
Presentation from partners on the use of ITRC tools in their organisations.

Session saw these results discussed, participation in demonstrations and hearing from government and industry.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://www.itrc.org.uk/
 
Description Innovation Network (Leeds Becket University) - Consumer of the Future (AN) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Attended Innovation Network event on 'The Consumer of the Future' and networked extensively with relevant industry professionals to raise awareness of the CDRC and consumer related research at the University of Leeds.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/eiahub/training-and-events/innovation-network/
 
Description Innovation workshop at Leeds with Highways England - Mark Birkin - 7th June 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Preparing the ground for highways of the future. Innovation workshop at Leeds. UoL and Highways England exploring opportunity to build strategic partnerships.
Around 15 people in industry attending. It was workshop format.
Sandpit-based activity to identify research priorities and funding proposals. No defined projects arising as yet.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Inside the Turing-LIDA Data Study Group - Melinda Green (August 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Follow-up article for the Turing-LIDA Data Study Group, giving a fascinating insight into its impact on and benefits for different participants - Challenge Owners (organisation), PIs and other team members.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/inside-the-turing-lida-data-study-group/
 
Description Inspiring the Next Generation Clinical Academic Training Event 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I attended this Clinical Academic Training Event to provide a talk and network with Clinicians to inspire them with regards to opportunities to work with big data in their research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Inspiring the next generation of geographers - Melinda Green (July 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Blog post about Dr Nik Lomax's recent webinar for secondary-school students on "Demographic Change and Population Projections" via Geography Education Online. The recording has been viewed almost 50 times.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/inspiring-the-next-generation-of-geographers/
 
Description Internal seminar at NIESR in April 2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Internal work in progress seminar at NIESR in April 2018 (approx. 10 attendees); provided valuable feedback for the report as well as had risen awarness of teh CDRC databases across NIESR researchers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description International Medical Geography Symposium (New Zealand) - Mark Birkin - 30th June-6th July 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact 150 people. Disseminating research and building awareness amongst international audience of health and lifestyle strand of CDRC. Presentations by CDRC Co-I Michelle Morris and PhD student Vikki Jenneson and Fran Pontin.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description International Medical Geography Symposium - Engaging with policy, business and academia: lessons from The Economic and Social Research Council Obesity Network 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact This talk was part of a session regarding cross sector collaboration. There was interesting panel discussion with each of the speakers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description International Medical Geography Symposium - Identifying neighbourhood determinants of non-compliant food establishments in England and Wales 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact This talk reached a wide audience of stakeholder, many from academia internationally an local Policy makers from new Zealand.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description International Medical Geography Symposium - Supermarket loyalty card transactions in population dietary surveillance 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact This talk presented new research with an industrial partner. It generated much discussion about the content and also how we accessed such novel data.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description International Medical Geography Symposium - Variations in colorectal cancer survival by socio-demographic characteristics and area type. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact This talk generated interest and discussion regarding sociodemographic differences in survival from colorectal cancer in a UK setting
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description International Medical geography Symposium - Physical inactivity; determining the demographic and geographic factors using smartphone data 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact This talk generated discussion regarding the sociodemographic determinants of physical activity in a UK setting using a novel data source.
Following on from this Fran Pontin has carried out a research visit to the University of canterbury in Christchurch New Zealand.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description International Society for Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity - Objectively measuring the effect of the built environment on physical activity: a systematic review and framework 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact This poster presentation reached an international audience specifically interested in physical activity interventions. It generated much discussion and has led to new research networks generated.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description International Society for Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity - Tackling obesity with big data: a new data reporting framework 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact This talk brought the concept of Big Data to a diet and activity research conference. It generated much discussion about what is now possible. New research connections have been made following this talk.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Interview for an international radio station 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Was interviewed by CapeTalk, one of South Africa's largest radio stations for an in-depth discussion (approximately 20 minutes) on the problems of pseudoscience and misinformation, and the challenges they pose to public health.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL http://www.capetalk.co.za/podcasts/294/upfront-with-refilwe-moloto/238825/is-pseudo-science-taking-o...
 
Description Interview on BBC Radio Leeds 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Generated public debate - Saturday 15th March and after.

The talk led to subsequent opportunities and communication with the public and policy makers around cycle safety research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL https://twitter.com/search?q=bbc%20leeds%20%40robinlovelace&src=typd
 
Description Interview on national radio (Times Radio) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Nik Lomax was invited as a demographic expert to comment on low fertility rates in Japan and the falling fertility rates in the UK in relation to the cost of living. This was on the Jane Garvey and Fi Glover Programme on Times Radio.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.thetimes.co.uk/radio/show/20230612-20795/2023-06-12
 
Description Introduction to Big Data and Public Health, Michelle Morris - LIDA seminar (13.03.2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Michelle Morris, PhD project supervisor, presented findings from a publication reviewing online methods for monitoring foodborne illness. This review was undertaken by CDRC PhD student Rachel Oldroyd. The seminar resulted in discussion around potential methods and their application in improving food safety.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Introduction to Spatial Analysis for Public Health 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This introductory course has sparked much discussion and interest in further training in and application of spatial methods in a public health context.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/training-session/spatial-methods-for-public-health-researchers/
 
Description Investigating obesity in the UK - what data can I use? Michelle Morris panellist on webinar - 27/03/2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Michelle was one of a panel of academics and professional practitioners who each spoke to time on what data can be used to investigate obesity in the UK. The audience of ca. 60 persons online was made up of other academics, local council and professional practitioners. Audience reported that the websinar introduced them to datasets of which they were previously unaware; and that content shared was of interest and would be instrumental in helping them to explore and move the fight against obesity forward in their own roles.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Investment in digital skills is crucial 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Prof Mark Birkin discusses the UK Digital Strategy and the need for investment in digital skills in the city to close the digital skills gap. Published in Yorkshire Post.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/education/investment-in-digital-skills-is-crucial-says-leeds-pr...
 
Description Invigted presentation at Urban Logistics Summer School (University of Antwerp) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Invited presentation/workshop session (90 mins) and subsequent discussion at the University of Antwerp Urban Logistis Summer School. The University of Antwerp are internationally recognised for their research and teaching excellence in urban logistics and I was asked to contribute in relation to my resarch and expertise in e-groceries logistics, including its links to retail location planning, the e-FDI and PPFI.

Audience of ~40 included international postgraduate students, academics and industry practitioners and sparked interesting discussion, especially with industry representatives. One of the industry representatives works for Morrisons and may offer new engagement activities with the logistics and e-commerce teams at that retailer.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/summer-winter-schools/urban-logistics/
 
Description Invitation to appear on UoL Research Culture podcast 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Professor Mark Birkin and Dr Emily Ennis were invited to participate in the UoL's Research Culture podcast in light of successful awards at Research Culture and Engaged for Impact awards in 2022.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Invited NSCR (Amsterdam) seminar: "Crime Analytics and the Role of Dynamic Simulation Models" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Invited presentation to the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSRC) - 21st November, 2017, Amsterdam.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://surf.leeds.ac.uk/p/2017-11-20-NSCR-Crime_Analytics_ABM.html
 
Description Invited Presentation - Data Analysts User Group (AN) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Invited presentation delivered to the Data Analyst User Group (comprising industry representatives from major UK retailers). Presentation title "Retail location-based decision making - incorporating the spatiotemporal dimensions". 1st December 2017. Manchester
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Invited Speaker at 2nd International Symposium on Food and Nutrition 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I was invited as a speaker to talk about probiotics perceptions about consumers in the ASEAN region. The presentation was part of a panel themed "Fermented foods, probiotics, and consumers perspectives on healthy foods". This speaker generated interested among attendees on potentially collaborating with me for future research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Invited panelist - ESRI Geobusiness Seminar [Europe] 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Participated as an invited member of an exert panel to discuss ' Trends in Geo Intelligence and Analytics'. This was an opportunity to raise awareness of the CDRC and our engagement with commercial sector consumer data among an international audience of senior property directors and spatial analytics consultants from the commercial sector. Audience approx 250 attendees, mainly from Europe.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.geobusiness-seminar.com/agenda
 
Description Invited talk (Leeds) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Delivered an invited talk on Disaggregate Choice Models for Modelling Consumer Behaviour to a group of executives, data scientists, data analysits
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Invited webinar hosted by CLOSER and the UK Data Service. Investigating obesity in the UK - what data can I use? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact 150 delegates from a range of organisations dialled in to join this webinar.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/investigating-obesity-uk-data/
 
Description Is TfL's new cycling plan revolutionary or a waste of time? (RobinLovelace 22.06.2017) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Propensity to Cycle tool featured as a way of determining demand for cycling infrastructure. Article published in the Guardian.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2017/jun/22/tfl-cycling-data-analysis-revolutionar...
 
Description Italian Mission on Artificial Intelligence, Alan Turing Institute, Mark Birkin (31/01/2019) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Event included senior academics and civil servants. Clear interest in open geospatial, behaviour and consumer data. Ongoing conversation over opportunities for collaboration.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Jo Pike Press Release 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Jo Pike, Labour's Parliamentary candidate for the Shipley constituency, used research by interns Tom Albone and Alex Dalton as the basis for a press release on the range of eligibility of free school meals in Bradford.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Joint working group with ONS, ADR-UK and UBDC - Sept 2021 - Mark Birkin 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact 9th September 2021, joint meeting with ONS, ADR-UK and UBDC.
Have produced a 'harmonisation statement' between CDRC and UBDC relating to data acquisitions. Expect stronger connections in future linked to emergence of DigitalFootprints but the shape of this to be determined.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Keighley Schools Together network working group - LODSS Outreach Project Pitch - 10th Feb 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact The Open Data Science for Schools (LODSS) is a 6-month project, running from Feb-July 2023, to utilise £3k funding provided by the University's Research Culture team to widen participation in the Data Scientist Development Programme (DSDP).
This project is working with the Keighley Schools Together Network (KSTN) through outreach visits to schools from our data scientists (April-May 2023) to introduce careers working with data as potential careers for all. We will then invite engagement visits from students into LIDA to inspire them about careers working with data (June-July 2023).
Keighley is an area of high diversity, deprivation and food insecurity, and its schools are located in low-aspiration, lack-of-positive-role-model neighbourhoods. We believe strongly in co-production for successful collaborations, so we will work with the Keighley Schools Together Network to co-produce our outreach visits around the theme of data and the food environment. We will target yrs 8 & 9 students, so that we can encourage underrepresented groups and those from low income households in particular to think about pursuing STEM subjects into and beyond GCSE and further education, with a view to obtaining careers working with data.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Key note address at NHS Sustainability Roadshow 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Q&A after event and networking with NHS sustainability directors.

NHS trust directors got in touch to continue discussions on collaboration on research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://www.nhssustainabilityday.co.uk/
 
Description Key note speech at ESRC Festival of Social Science event 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? Yes
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact There was discussion about the presentation and focus group work that used the presentation material.

Wrap and food waste smart phone app developers asked for meeting to explore how to use the data further.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://foodwastestudies.com/innovation-in-tackling-food-waste-event/
 
Description Keynote address. Mediating climate change conference, University of Leeds, School of English. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact This keynote address was entited 'Understanding and Informing People's Decisions About Climate Change'
Abstract: Consumers face many daunting decisions about climate change, mitigation and
adaptation. Communication efforts to inform these decisions may fail if communicators lack
information about what information people need or want to know to make more informed
decisions, and what barriers people experience when trying to change their behavior. In this
presentation, I will present examples of how behavioural decision research can help to
understand and inform people's decisions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://romanticcatastrophe.leeds.ac.uk/files/2017/06/MCCProgramme-4.pdf
 
Description Keynote speech at Hackney Cycling Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The result was that people from the audience came to speak to me asking questions about the research and inquiring about possibilities for contracts to extend the work.

A number of people changed their view of transport planning software and evaluation. Larger impacts will become clear in a few month's time.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL https://speakerdeck.com/robinlovelace/the-benefits-of-cycling-economic-social-environmental
 
Description LARIA Conference - Exhibition (23.05.17) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Centre exhibited at the Local Area Research and Intelligence Association, showcasing the Centre's data services and research projects to local authority attendees, a number of discussions with local authorities prompted requests for further information and engagement.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description LIDA (Leeds Institute for Data Analytics) Seminar Series 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact The purpose of this presentation was to showcase the use of statistical and spatial models of transport behaviors and attitudes in a research that is part of the British Academy project undertaking urban transport modeling in Hà N?i, Vietnam. Some of the models being presented were Spatial Interaction Models which aim at addressing the effect of different policy scenarios, and Classification Models which aim at predicting individuals' attitudes towards the ban and investigating the underlying factors/reasons. Some of the questions raised during the session have helped drive further exploratory data analysis and generate new policy scenarios and remedies.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/lida-seminar-series-24th-february-2022/
 
Description LIDA Annual Showcase - 13/09/18 (Leeds) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact I gave a 'lightning talk' entitled: 'A Case for Disaggregated Data in Crime Analysis', which included some key findings from my PhD research. The talk prompted questions from members of the audience.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description LIDA Annual Showcase lightening talk - (13.09.2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Presentation at the LIDA Annual Showcase entitled 'the use of consumer generated data for monitoring foodborne illness'. The talk prompted questions and follow up discussions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description LIDA Intern Seminar (18.05.2017) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Centre hosted seminar, CDRC interns presented projects with external partners including Leeds City Council, Lancashire Police, Biobank, House of Commons and useMYdata
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/lida-intern-seminar-4/
 
Description LIDA Networking Event 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Short presentation generated discussion and networking

Raised the profile of the CDRC to University of Leeds academics from a wide range of disciplines. Secured new contacts for possible future collaborations.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description LIDA Seminar 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I presented the current status of my internship project at the LIDA seminar series, which are available to watch by anybody virtually through the LIDA website. This was the first opportunity I had to present my work to a potentially much wider audience and have a permanent recording on the LIDA website.

There were several questions during the session and I did receive a follow up query afterwards.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/lida-seminar-series-25th-february-2021/
 
Description LIDA Seminar Series 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation of work to (LIDA) research community on Factors influencing Agri-environmental scheme participation by Farmers within England.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/lida-seminar-series-27th-january-2022-2/
 
Description LIDA Seminar Series 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The presentation aimed to update the (LIDA) research community on the OpenInfra project in which I am currently engaged.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/lida-seminar-series-24th-february-2022/
 
Description LIDA Seminar Series (27 Jan 2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation of the background, generalised methods, and aims of my LIDA Data Scientist Development Programme project "Evaluating strategies to promote healthier and more sustainable dietary choices" to a wider LIDA audience, University of Leeds colleagues & students, and members of the general public who were interested in the talk and registered online. Members of the audience asked questions regarding the content of my presentation, especially regarding my project's target audience, the quantification of a shift to better diets, and the methods of the intervention being analysed.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/lida-seminar-series-27th-january-2022-2/
 
Description LIDA Seminar Series 27th January 2022 - CoSMoNorth: Comprehensive Spatial Modelling of the North 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact The seminar introduced the CoSMoNorth project to the public and peers, and discusses the reasoning behind development of a comprehensive spatial model of the Northern Powerhouse (using agent based modelling) and the collaboration with external partner Arup. The presentation also details the approaches, tools (Arup based, MATSim, etc.) and methodology needed for the modelling and also shares the progress being made (with the support of the City Modelling Lab at Arup), the decided next steps and a general timeline of the project as well as the expected future plans (i.e. societal appraisal measures, policy implementations and impact studies) with this six month research output: a calibrated baseline agent based model of the North. The seminar resulted in questions raised that lead to own's improved clarity of the project and more learning weighed into related topics (i.e. OSM) and additionally exposure to another model visualisation tool.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/lida-seminar-series-27th-january-2022-2/
 
Description LIDA Seminar Series presentation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The purpose was to update LIDA and anyone attending the seminar on the progress of the Ambient Populations research project and outline the future of it for the next cohort of interns, The presentation was recorded and made available on the LIDA website. Somebody did contact me afterwards from within the university to point me in the direction of some related work which will be passed on to the project team for future reference.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/lida-seminar-series-5th-august-2021/
 
Description LIDA Seminar Series presentation on Open Infrastrucutre (OpenInfra) project 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact 10 Minute presentation in front of roughly 25 participants ranging from LIDA data scientists, supervisors, and other affiliated members to interested members of the general publi. This presentation discussed the OpenInfra project aims & objectives including some analysis results up to date. Furture project work was discussed within the presentation and a number of questions were asked after during another 10 minute Q&A dialogue.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://udsleeds.github.io/openinfra/
 
Description LIDA Seminar for Public Health Registrars 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 25 Public Health Registrars from the Yorkshire and Humber Region attended this seminar, as part of the CPD, to gain a better understanding of the use of Big Data in Public Health. The seminar was opened up to University colleagues and the general public, boosting the numbers to ~80. A panel discussion followed the talks which sparked many interesting discussions about the use of data and potential applications to both policy and public health practice.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/introduction-big-data-public-health-future-horizons-applications-ethi...
 
Description LIDA Seminar: Crime Analytics (Leeds) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I gave an overview of one of my core thesis chapters, focusing primarily on analytical techniques employed and associated software. Audience members were interested to learn more about the data sets used and also made some suggestions as to how I might develop the research. Presentation Title: 'Identifying Risk Factors for Car Key Burglary in West Yorkshire'.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/crime-analytics-2/
 
Description LIDA Seminar: Retail Analytics (AN) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Presentation at the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics seminar on 'Retail Analytics'. Presentation showcased published outputs resulting from an applied project (carried out with commercial partner Co-Op) as part of the CDRC Masters Dissertation Scheme - sought to raise awareness of this scheme and of the high quality publishable outputs it has generated.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description LIDA Showcase Sept 2019 - presentations by CDRC Co-Is 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact CDRC Co-I Alison Heppenstall gave a presentation on 'Simulating the City' as part of the Urban Analytics theme. CDRC Co-I Michelle Morris gave a presentation on 'Compliance with UK dietary recommendations: a case study' as part of the Health and Lifestyle theme. Interns Alex Coleman, Rizwana Uddin and Ivana Kocanova all presented on their intern projects in the lightning talks section of the Showcase. Industry attendees were interviewed during and after the event and some reported change in views; some reported on the value of working with CDRC researchers on their projects.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description LIDA/IGD & LIDA/Retailer - Interim Analysis Update 1 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact The first online interim research update regarding analysis investigating whether a particular major food retailer's intervention shifted a specific customer group's food purchasing patterns towards the Eatwell Guide. Results were presented to IGD (project funders) and to the major retailer separately due to clashing availabilities. Q&A and discussion occurred throughout the presentation with requests for particular avenues of research made. The discussions impacted the analysis done afterwards.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description LIDA/IGD/Retailer - Interim Analysis Update 2 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact The second online interim research update regarding analysis investigating whether a particular major food retailer's intervention shifted a specific customer group's food purchasing patterns towards the Eatwell Guide. Results were presented to IGD (project funders) and to the major retail simultaneously due to coordinated availabilities. Q&A and discussion occurred throughout the presentation with requests for particular avenues of research made. The discussions impacted the analysis done afterwards and have contributed tot he writing up of the research (for a case study, academic paper, and potentially blog post).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description LIDA: Lofty vision, but no ivory tower for data science (01.09.2017) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Professor Mark Birkin discusses the Consumer Data Research Centre and its impact in interview with David Reed. Published in Data IQ
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.dataiq.co.uk/article/lida-lofty-vision-no-ivory-tower-data-science
 
Description LIVING IN LEEDS - BIG DATA ANALYTICS IN HEALTH: PERSONAL DATA & PUBLIC TRUST (Leeds Digital Festival, 17th April) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This event was co-hosted by CDRC and LIDA and gave a platform for big data experts to discuss the benefits of data analytics and proposals for how we might engage citizens in enabling impact in our city. Phil Waywell introduced the capabilities and expertise within Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (LIDA). Frank Wood (Chief Analyst for Leeds CCG) provided an example of how linked data sets have been used in Leeds to compare population health outcomes. Dr Geoff Hall, Senior Lecturer of Medical Oncology at University of Leeds & Clinical Director at Leeds Institute of Data Analytics, and Kieran Zucker, Honorary Clinical Oncology Specialist Registrar at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, talked through groundbreaking work to improve outcomes for cancer patients through linking primary care and hospital records. And Chris Carrigan, Senior Research Fellow in the School of Medicine - University of Leeds, told about the Use My Data patient involvement group and led a discussion about possible models for informed consent in sharing data. The talks were followed by a dynamic discussion of the benefits of sharing data for public health. This discussion aimed to inform the city's approach to consent and we hope will be the start of an ongoing conversation with patients and citizens.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://leedsdigitalfestival.org/big-data-analytics-health/
 
Description LUBS Presentation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Generated questions, discussion and informal networking

Introduction to new contacts and networking. Raised awareness of consumer data research opportunities amongst colleagues from the Business School
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Launch of the WUN Digital Health Network blog post (18.02.2019) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Blog post for the UK Data Service Impact blog summarizing the first meeting of the WUN digital health network in Sydney, Australia.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL http://blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/digital-health-network-launch-in-sydney/
 
Description Launchpad Workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact University of Leeds put forward opportunities to link consumer data with medical outcomes, and received feedback and guidance from Department of Health and Cabinet Office officials.
A proposal was subsequently written for Cancer Research UK and plans are on-going linked to Connected Health Cities and Northern Health Services Alliance.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Leeds City Council talk on Data Governance - Sept 2021 - Mark Birkin 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact 16th September 2021, meet members of Leeds City Council data assurance team to advise regarding information governance and cloud computing.
Continue to monitor through the Leeds Office for Data Analytics.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Leeds City Council: Big Data Analytics for Cities and Regions 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation generated questions and discussions on possible collaborations

Introduced the CDRC to service leaders across the City Council. Consolidated a network of relationships to support future grant applications and joint projects using consumer data from within LCC and elsewhere.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Leeds Digital Board 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This was the first in a series of meetings that will take place to discuss ways to promote the digital sector. This first meeting had clear actions to take forward. Key actions confirmed as establishing short term working groups to agree activity around skills gaps and pressures (under-supply of candidates, pathways into the sector and improving HE curriculum content) and the marketing/promotion of the Leeds Digital Sector.
The group also encourages responses to the 2015 TechNation Survey from companies in the network to boost profile.
This board will continue to meet on a regular basis (approximately every 2-3 months).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015,2016
 
Description Leeds Digital Festival - 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact The North's largest digital festival runs from 22 - 29 April, with upwards of 100 events and with an anticipated 10,000 attendees. In 2016, over 6,000 people attended 56 events, in 28 venues featuring over 175 speakers. As part of the festival the centre hosted/co-hosted events including a seminar on efficient programming for data analytics and an event with Marks and Spencers on Digital Disruption and the Need to Evolve.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Leeds Digital Festival - Tackling the Digital Skills Gap Event (23rd April 2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact This event was hosted by the University of Leeds, Parkinson Building, in conjunction with Leeds Digital Festival and was attended by CDRC professional services staff in order to promote the training, PhD and MSC opportunities on offer with the Centre to the attendees (50-70 throughout the day). Designed as a drop in event complemented by various seminars throughout the day whose objective was the up-skilling of those in attendance. Conversations had with members of the general public led to increased awareness of the work and research projects of the CDRC and of the training provided. There was some surprise at the breadth of training on offer and <50 people took brochures away.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://leedsdigitalfestival.org/university-of-leeds-fair-tackling-the-digital-skills-gap/
 
Description Leeds Digital Festival 2018 (16th-26th April 2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact The North's largest digital festival runs in April, with upwards of 100 events and with an anticipated 10,000 attendees. In 2017, over 20,000 people attended 170 events, in 28 venues featuring over 600 speakers. As part of the festival the centre hosted/co-hosted events including a seminar on business management in a technological age and 4 training events.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://leedsdigitalfestival.org/
 
Description Leeds Digital Festival 2019 - Host for x3 events 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact CDRC ran three public-facing workshops in collaboration with Leeds Digital Festival, April 2019: Introduction to R, Geocomputation with R and Introduction to Python for Data Analytics. Each event had an attendance of between 15-45. Significant attendance from industry partners such as SkyBet and NHS Digital which led to attendance from these organisations at other CDRC training workshops.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Leeds Digital Festival Talk - Aulona Ulqinaku (Sept 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact CDRC Co-I Aulona Ulqinaku delivered the talk, Brand communications: the fresh air that psychologically and financially distressed consumers may be looking for, to participants of the 2021 Leeds Digital Festival online. Drawing on Dr Aulona Ulqinaku's research, this event will look at digital brand communications, particularly in relation to the impact of different approaches on consumers facing different levels of psychological and financial distress, such as the ones facing during the COVID-19 pandemic. The right communication approach at the right time can mitigate negative consequences for the millions of people forced to practice social distancing with subsequent feelings of being isolated, as well as people experiencing financial constraints in their lives that affect their wellbeing and behaviors. Whether you're a new business or have been around for centuries, Aulona will discuss ways in which digital brand communications can best address the psychological and financial consequences, typical during this crisis, leading to win-win communications and outcomes for both companies and consumers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Leeds Food Strategy Action Plan Workshop (Dr Victoria Jenneson) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Leeds City Council and FoodWise Leeds hosted the Leeds Food Strategy Action Plan Workshop to kick-start collaborative action, following the launch of their strategies. The workshop brought together food enthusiasts, business owners, and community leaders to collaborate on a comprehensive food strategy action plan for the city. Together, they explored innovative ideas and best practices to promote sustainable food systems, reduce food waste, and improve access to healthy and affordable food options.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.sustainablefoodplaces.org/events/leeds_event_1687766759/
 
Description Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (LIDA) Seminar Presentation. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Presented our work and findings so far at a public event to the wider LIDA community, direct project partners, and interested members of the public who signed up to the event. After the presentation there were a number of questions and discussions points posted within the chat which lead to increased project engagement.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Leeds Institute for Data Analytics - Research Forum 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Type Of Presentation keynote/invited speaker
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The talk was part of a full day of events to promote awareness of new facilities in the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics.

200 delegates now have much greater knowledge of data analytics, and many of these are now in discussion about follow on projects and collaborative activities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Leeds List Discussion Article - Mark Birkin - 13/11/2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Prof Mark Birkin was approached by online Leeds city guide, Leeds List, for quotable content in their article, "How Big Data is Driving Innovation in the Leeds City Region".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://leeds-list.com/discussion/how-big-data-is-driving-innovation-in-the-leeds-city-region/
 
Description Leeds Office for Data Analytics, first meeting of the Steering Board - Mark Birkin (Aug 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact 20th August 2021, Mark Birkin attended the Leeds Office for Data Analytics first meeting of the Steering Board with 15 colleagues from the City Council, health services, enterprise partnership (LEP) and city region.
Steering Board meets regularly, current focus is on development of cloud infrastructure and recruitment to key positions. Major issue for CDRC attention is potential to share data sets outside the public service partners. Two data science internships and a joint PhD currently being explored as a means to build capability.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Leeds Salon: Big Data: Big Hope or Big Hype? 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Presentation followed by debate style questions

Raised the profile of responsible data analytics and the role of the CDRC amongst a public audience.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Leeds Turing Community Meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The activity was a University of Leeds Turing meeting where all matters relating to the Alan Turing Institute were discussed in context of activities at the University and that impact it. I gave a presentation on the work done so far and proposed direction of my Turing funded Act Early project. Since this was very early on in my internship, the project was really only at a conceptual stage.

There were some questions about it during the meeting, however the impact was really just to update the Turing community at Leeds about the project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Lida seminar: retail 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This was a presentation to a mixed audience as part of a three part seminar on retail and modelling
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Life During and Beyond Geomatics 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Undergraduate students
Results and Impact Researchers from the CDRC spoke to undergraduate geomatics students at a career fair regarding research and opportunities after graduation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Local Data Spaces: ONS Research Excellence Project Award 2021 winners! - Melinda Green (October 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Blog post to share with as wide an audience as possible, the fantastic achievement of our Local Data Spaces project winning the ONS Research Excellence Project Award.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/lds-ons-research-excellence-project-award-2021-winners/
 
Description Local Government Association Annual Conference and Exhibition 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The talk (Big Data and Local Services: What's All the Fuss About?) was followed by a lively panel discussion, which continued after the session with a number of Councillors and at least one Chief Executive (Martin Reeves, Coventry).

(i) Members of Staffordshire County Council seriously interested about incorporating consumer data sources into planning and policy-making activity.
(ii) Follow-up meeting with fellow panel member (Alex Craven, Bloom Agency) to discuss mutual interests and possible sharing of social media data.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL https://lgaevents.local.gov.uk/lga/frontend/reg/thome.csp?pageID=3324&eventID=14&traceRedir=2&eventI...
 
Description MHCLG - Mark Birkin - 3rd Feb 2020 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Meet with Chief Scientific Adviser (Alan Penn) in Ministry for Housing etc; Chief Planner also at the meeting.
Outcome - possible advice to SPF bid on Places and working towards a research proposal in exploiting consumer data for monitoring/ analysis/ prioritisation in MHCLG Towns Fund (£3.6bn govt investment).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description MIAC guest lecture 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact MIAC (FinTech company) invited to give guest lecture to students, primarily from the MSc programme 'Consumer Analytics and Marketing Strategy'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description MOT Statistics Panel meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The panel met to introduce the project and dataset and to seek advice from members about approaches regarding two lines of analytical inquiry.
Discussions focussed on curation and future access to MOT data, priorities for sustaining research and long-term funding options.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) visit to LIDA 23rd October 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC)- the regulator for the communications and multimedia sector in Malaysia, similar to Ofcom in the UK, were advised by the British High Commission in Kuala Lumpur to visit Leeds- regarded as a centre for excellence in Digital and Tech after a previous Malaysian delegation visited the previous year. Topics discussed at the visit included a focus on Platforms, Skills and enterprise upgrading, Leeds local digital coalition, Digital Knowledge exchange (ODI & LIDA), and the Leeds Digital Strategy led by the council.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Managing your Career in its Early Stages - AMASIG 2021 Doctoral Consortium - Aulona Ulqinaku (October 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact CDRC Co-I Aulona Ulqinaku delivered a talk at the 2021 AMASIG on Managing Your Career in its Early Stages - guiding the junior PGRs into the early years of academic path, focusing on the research path (vs. teaching). During this talk, I have shared my personal experience, guiding them through my main struggles related to research as a PGR and then a young scholar, and sharing with them what best worked for me.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Mapping census data with ArcGIS Online (19.11.2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact A blog post outlining how to map census data in ArcGIS Online. This blog post includes a summary of the research undertaken as part of this project and also highlights the types of methods and data used.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL http://lab.ukdataservice.ac.uk/2018/11/19/mapping-census-data-with-arcgis-online/
 
Description Maps of time: Seeing population data as structures, not slices LIDA Seminar (12/07/2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact 38 attendees attended 2 talks about how to better visualise population data three dimensionally using Lexis Surfaces in order to better understand relationships between mortality and environment over time. Audience reported good levels of engagement with the topic, leading to one article on the seminar being produced for the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics website.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/maps-time-seeing-population-data-structures-not-slices/
 
Description Mark Birkin - Emergent Alliance Media Activity (April 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact CDRC PI Professor Mark Birkin's involvement in establishing the Emergent Alliance featured in a variety of publications including Radio 4 Today Programme, Computer Weekly, Yorkshire Post, Derby Telegraph, UK Authority, Business Live, Street Insider, The Business Desk, Venturebeat, Data Quest India, Analytics India, Hindu Business Line, Maddyness, ZDNet, Start Up Round, Sabah (Turkey), Gerente (Spain), Smart Cities, IT Brief (NZ), Smart Cities World, The Entrepreneur Fund, Datanami, Asian Aviation, Aviation News
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/rolls-royce-creates-new-alliance-help-kickstart-businesses-r...
 
Description Mark Birkin - Financial Management Article (Aug 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact CDRC PI Prof Mark Birkin interviewed and quoted providing advice to CFOs on how to improve scenario planning. Audience 35k+ CFOs, CEOs, board members, financial executives, management accountants and business strategists.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL http://www.fm-magazine.com/news/2020/aug/coronavirus-recovery-pushes-cfos-to-improve-scenario-planni...
 
Description Mark Birkin - JISC Article (June 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact CDRC PI Prof Mark Birkin guest wrote an article on 'Modelling the future: how the power of data will forge a post-COVID road to recovery' for jisc.ac.uk
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/modelling-the-future-12-jun-2020#
 
Description Mark Birkin - JISC Videos 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Prof Mark Birkin recorded a series of short videos on the importance of modelling in a pandemic for JISC to use.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Mark Birkin - NCUB Collaboration in Crisis Report (Aug 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact CDRC PI Prof Mark Birkin interviewed and featured in the National Centre for Universities and Business 'Collaboration in Crisis' Report.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL http://www.ncub.co.uk/reports/collaboration-in-crisis
 
Description Mark Birkin - Wall Street Journal (May 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact CDRC PI Prof Mark Birkin participated in media interview and was quoted in an article in the Wall Street Journal commenting on the value of researchers outside medicine in fight against Covid-19.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL http://www.wsj.com/articles/researchers-outside-medicine-have-a-new-focus-covid-19-11590584816
 
Description Mark Birkin/Nick Malleson - Improbable Blog 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact CDRC PI Prof Mark Birkin and Co-I Dr Nick Malleson quoted on their work on the Royal Society's RAMP pandemic modelling project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL http://www.improbable.io/blog/improbable-synthetic-environment-technology-accelerates-uk-pandemic-mo...
 
Description Mathematical, Statistical and Computational Challenges for Data Analytics 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Presentation generated conversation and informal networking

Secured new contacts and raised awareness of consumer data research opportunities amongst colleagues from a wide variety of academic departments.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Measuring Ambient Populations during COVID in Leeds City Centre 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact The ambient population project build on previous work at UoL to quantify footfall data for Leeds City Council. It involved bringing in COVID-19 related lockdown data and assessing the impacts. The case study summarised the aims, methods and outcomes of the project supervised by Nick Malleson, Vikki Houlden, Alison Heppenstall and Patricia Ternes. The impacts will hopefully be that it allows the project to continue in the future with a new intern, along with lots of other materials that provide a framework for analysis and modelling.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Measuring diet for population research: innovative methods in a big data era 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact ~12 people from across Yorkshire with an interest in Nutrition attended this My Food, My decision conference. The talk sparked interesting discussion and introduced the audience to new methods for dietary assessment.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Medical Bioinformatics: Live @ Leeds 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A summary of my PhD research, including theoretical background and planned methodologies, was displayed in poster format at the symposium, thus showcasing the type of work being undertaken by the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics. Poster Title - Data as Risk Predictor for Temporally-Concentrated Crime Series.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/medical-bioinformatics-live-leeds/
 
Description Meeting at the eResearch Centre, University of Auckland - Mark Birkin - 10th-12th July 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Share experience especially around visualisation and immersive tech.
Outcome - follow-on workshop around 'eAtlas' concept planned in Singapore (March 2020) - postponed due to coronavirus but will be rescheduled by videolink in the first instance.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Meeting with British Library Director and Minister - Mark Birkin - Jan 2020 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Meet with British Library Director (Roly Keating) and Minister of State (DCMS, Matt Warman).
General discussion of digital and urban agenda.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Meeting with Harriet Fearn (Department for Education) and colleagues, "Assessing Data Maturity" - Mark Birkin - Oct & Feb 2021/ 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact CDRC Co-Director Mark Birkin attended and spoke at the 4th October 2021, meeting with Harriet Fearn (Department for Education) and colleagues, "Assessing Data Maturity", Data Improvement Across Government.
23rd February 2022, meeting with Harriet Fearn (Department for Education) and colleagues, "Assessing Data Maturity", Data Improvement Across Government.
Meetings to continue every two months. Helping to create networks in DfE and other government departments and local councils including Bradford and Bristol who are specifically represented. Possibilities for data access and understanding training/ upskilling requirements across government. Also includes Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI), so a means to extend capability relating to citizen engagement and the general public.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Meeting with Head of Data Science and Principal Operational Researcher at Food Standards Agency (24.07.2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Meeting with the head of data science and the principal operational researcher at the Food Standards Agency. This meeting was held to gain feedback and discuss ongoing and future work for the project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Meeting with West Yorkshire Police (Wakefield) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I gave a brief verbal resume of my PhD research, including aims and objectives, and also demonstrated some of the methods used, which generated discussion afterwards around possible opportunities for future collaboration.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Meeting with colleagues from Health Data Research (HDR)-UK and Carnall Farrar - Sept 2021 - Mark Birkin 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact 2nd September 2021, Meeting with colleagues from Health Data Research (HDR)-UK and Carnall Farrar for strategic advice and discussion regarding the Data and Analytics Research Environments programme (DARE UK).
Gaining and disseminating intelligence around the community for UK data research infrastructure. Creating platform for further initiatives to develop or share infrastructure.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Meeting with section managers at Food Standards Australia New Zealand, Canberra (12.12.2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Meeting with various section managers at Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) to gain feedback, discuss ongoing and future work for this project. The meeting was attended by managers from the following sections of FSANZ: Behavioural and Regulatory Analysis; Communications and Stakeholder Engagement; Standards and Surveillance; Data, International, Composition and Exposure; and Microbiology and Biotechnology.
We discussed the potential for future work in both areas of social media and geodemographics for food safety.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Meeting with the Met Office (Birkin, 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Modelling human & societal responses to environmental hazards to inform decision making, 17th June 2021. Joint meeting of multi-disciplinary colleagues from across the University of Leeds with colleagues in the Met Office, around 15 participants from each side.
Long-term partnership opportunities for sharing data and technology, and joint projects.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Melbourne Centre for Data Science & AURIN - Mark Birkin (Sep 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Professor Mark Birkin joined colleagues from the Alan Turing Society and the Royal Society to discuss the work of the UK's Rapid Assistance in Modelling the Pandemic (RAMP)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://msd.unimelb.edu.au/events/melbourne-centre-for-data-science-seminar-series-special-event-joi...
 
Description Methodological Assurance Review panel - UK Census 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The purpose of the review panel is to:
Provide external, independent assurance and guidance on the statistical methodology underpinning 2021 census estimates and those based on administrative sources,
Identify significant gaps and risks in methods and make suggestions for mitigation, Review admin data methods and contribute to their continuous improvement. This work will feed directly in to the design and delivery of the 2021 Census. Data from the census are used by government and industry to inform policy and make decisions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018,2019,2020
URL https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/about-the-authority/committees/methodological-assurance-revie...
 
Description Mobile World Congress in LA - Mark Birkin speaker - 19th-25th Oct 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact CDRC PI Mark Birkin represented Turing as speaker at Applied AI forum and several other roundtable events. 8,000 people at the event.
Closed form workshop with 25 mobile phone partners (Vodafone, Telefonica, Telstra, Sprint).
Invited presentation to Strategy Directors (20 people).
Overview of data science and telcos, 150 people.
Panel session (60 people) on safe and ethical AI.
Impact - proposals for further work and data sharing with Telenor, STC, Turkcell, Telus.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description My Role Models & the Journey that brought me to LIDA (News Article/Blog) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact The online article was intended to shade light on why I transitioned to data science from a different background. It paid particular attention to the roles of mentorship and how different kinds of mentors contributed immensely in by growing data science career. The article was shared widely on the internet, and it received considerable attention and engagement with those it reached.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/news/my-role-models-the-journey-that-brought-me-to-lida/
 
Description N8 Urban Living, Durham 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Attendees from Universities of Leeds, York, Liverpool, Durham, Newcastle, Sheffield, Lancaster, Durham and people from N8 present for a workshop to identify strengths and develop thematic areas for collaborative activities. Questions around what agents will drive forward Urban Transformation, how this will be funded and timescales to work towards, as well as identifying the key challenges to be met.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description NIESR Brown Bag seminar (September 20th, 2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact NIESR Brown Bag seminar (September 20th, 2018), approx. 15 attendees. Provided valuable feedback for the project. This event ahd brought together researchers from different areas, which have learns about CRRC data sources and will potentially use them in their future research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China- visit to LIDA 23rd January 2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Delegates from the National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China requested a visit to LIDA as part of a wider tour. They wanted to hear more about LIDA and gain a better understanding of the development and value of big data industries in the UK, and how to better use big data and data analytics to measure the modern economy.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description National Digital twin Day, Westminster Event - Mark Birkin - 9th Sept 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact CDRC PI Mark Birkin attended the National Digital twin Day, Westminster Event to celebrate achievements of CDBB's Digital Framework Task Group, engage with industry on delivering the Roadmap and sharing benefits of digital twins. 120 people. Met with key individuals in the Centre for Digital Built Britain, National Infrastructure Commission and Digital Framework Task Group. Follow on event scheduled for 31/03/20.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://ice.org.uk/eventarchive/national-digital-twin-day/programme
 
Description National University of Singapore's Lloyd's Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk's "The Risk Quotient 2018" Conference, Tokyo, Japan. 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Workshop on improving communication about climate projections
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL http://cee.nus.edu.sg/people/ceepkk/The_Risk_Quotient.pdf
 
Description National University of Singapore's Lloyd's Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk, Public Lecture, Singapore. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Improving communications about complex scientific data to non-expert audiences
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description National scale AI for Government 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact This was a full day workshop at Admiralty House which brought together policy-makers from several government departments together with senior academics and business leaders to debate progress and prospects in the deployment of AI for government. Our contribution emphasised the importance of data-driven modelling, simulation and scenario-planning in prmoting robust and resilient policy futures.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Networking and Partnership Building: an Intern's Perspective 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A blog post in which I outline my experiences on networking and partnership building as an intern. This blog post has been published on LIDA and CDRC websites.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/networking-and-partnership-building-an-interns-perspective/
 
Description New and emerging forms of data for policy making (Leeds Digital Festival) event 24th April 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact This event was co-ordinated and supported by two key CDRC research projects, HABITS and EMPOWER and was run in collaboration with Leeds Digital Festival. This one day mini-conference explored the way in which new and emerging forms of data (aka 'big' data - such as mobile phone data, social network data, geotagged data, image data) are contributing to innovation in:
Individual Mobility and Exposures
Understanding individual mobility patterns
Estimating the health burdens of different kinds of exposure related to mobility
Quantification of personal pollution exposure
Determining exercise-related benefits of active transport (walking and cycling)
Policy Assessment and Implementation
Models and tools for public policies
Incentivisation for adopting more sustainable forms of transport
Development of air quality management plans
Spatio-temporal modelling
Ethical guidelines for data management
Identifying and addressing social inequalities related to transport
New and emerging forms of data for
policy making
Transport, health and air quality management
The free event consisted of expert presentations which described forms and application of new and emerging data, networking opportunities and there was also a panel discussion on opportunities and implications of these new data forms.
SPEAKERS INCLUDED:
• Professor Vonu Thakuriah (Urban Big Data Centre, University of Glasgow)
• Dr Maria Kamargianni (University College London)
• Dr James Woodcock (Centre for Diet and Activity Research, University of Cambridge)
• Yoo Min Park (University of Illinois)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://nefd-transport-health-aqm.eventbrite.co.uk
 
Description New data products for local authorities 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact I presented (with Dr Robin Lovelace) at Cycling+Walking Innovations 2021 where I talked about the ongoing OpenInfra project and the potential of open access data for active travel planning. This has resulted in a few policy makers expressing their interest in the project. Also, engagement with the policy-makers has shaped the direction of the project itself.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.cyclingandwalking.uk/programme
 
Description New partnership pilots trials to help change eating habits (IGD announcement press release) - Melinda Green (May 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Blog post based on a press release by IGD announcing their new and significant research partnership with us.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/new-partnership-pilots-trials-to-help-change-eating-habits/
 
Description New technologies for congested cities (SGM 24.05.17) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Prof Susan Grant Muller discusses the use of new technologies to address the issue of congested cities. Article published in the Guardian.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/may/24/cow-signs-cyclists-drivers-traffic-tech...
 
Description Newspaper interview 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Newspaper interviews after a Keynote talk in Greece
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://e-thessalia.gr/tag/tranos/
 
Description Nexus Careers Event - with presentations from CDRC affiliates - 25th Feb 2020 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact CDRC PhD student Amanda Otley organised a careers event for industry representatives from Nexus and Leeds University and Leeds Data Science Society students to come together to discuss future careers for data analysts and scientists. The event was attended by ca. 70 people and interns Caitlin Chalk, Tom Richards and Vijay Kumar gave presentations on their first intern projects 2019/20.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nexus-and-leeds-data-science-society-event-tickets-85481552625
 
Description Nik Lomax - Article in UK Construction Online - New tools bring unique insights for policymakers and planners - April 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact CDRC Co-Director Nik Lomax's research into how his demographic modelling on the ITRC project is helping policymakers and planners make better decisions was featured in the UK Construction Online news website.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.ukconstructionmedia.co.uk/features/unique-insight-infrastructure-planning/
 
Description Nik Lomax - DAFNI project blog article - 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact CDRC Co-Director Nik Lomax and colleague Andrew Smith's work on the DAFNI project (linked with Nik's SPENSER project) features in this blog: looking at ways in which local authorities, businesses and industry can focus funding to cope with the infrastructure demands arising from projected opulation growth in UK cities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.dafni.ac.uk/projects/dafni-hosts-population-forecast-model/
 
Description Nik Lomax Conversation Article: What's Happened to UK Migration since the EU referendum? 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Article solicited by The Conversation by CDRC Co-Director Nik Lomax, an online news publication directed at academia and business, pressing academic articles. The article stems from his work on population migration since the EU referendum. As at 21/02/20, the article has been shared 54 times on Twitter and 193 times on Facebook.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://theconversation.com/whats-happened-to-uk-migration-since-the-eu-referendum-in-four-graphs-12...
 
Description Northern Data Forum event 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Paul Evans delivered a short presentation to data leaders from businesses across Leeds City Region. The event was hosted in Leeds Institute for Data Analytics.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/news/northern-data-forum/
 
Description Northern Powerhouse Partnership N8 (Platform, Leeds Station), Mark Birkin (20/09/2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact In September, the Northern Powerhouse Partnership launched its digital agenda looking at digital connectivity and needs to drive the North as a leader of the next industrial revolution. As part of this launch, they worked with EY to deliver an innovation sprint across the North covering four cities in just one day. This innovation sprint took place on Thursday, 20 September, examining how we will innovate together to put the North of England at the forefront of the next industrial revolution? This was an opportunity for business leaders and entrepreneurs to share different perspectives about the opportunity digital presents for business transformation and to hear more about NPP's report. The Government's recent Artificial Intelligence sector deal feels like a great catalyst for us to start to have a debate around how we leverage this and other opportunities effectively to lead the next industrial revolution. We produced tangible outputs that we can share with Government to assert our shared commitment to seizing the opportunity, with a clear breakdown of how we can make that happen. There is a lot of talk about digital but we're not sure that businesses are all aware of what it actually means for them and the future - we want to help unlock that. This was a chance to hear from other businesses and experts in the room about how they're navigating challenges to drive transformation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description ODI Airhack - CDRC Sponsor 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact The Centre sponsored and co-hosted the Leeds ODI Airhack which was a collaboration with Defra to engage with researchers and businesses on how they could use the data they published. Conversations on the day included what data is already available, and what is already being used? What does it power - services, products, change, stories? What data would people like to see released? Who else needs to be involved? How do we need to collaborate?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://odileeds.org/events/airhack/
 
Description ONS Big Data Campus visit and presentation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Met with members of the Big Data and Crime teams of the ONS to discuss the implications for this research. Will hopefully lead to further collaborations around modelling/quantifying ambient populations.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://surf.leeds.ac.uk/p/2016-12-01-ONS_Data_Campus.html
 
Description OSM for sustainable transport planning: getting started 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact The workshop was run at the State of the Map conference in Florence. The workshop was aimed at everyone interested in using OpenStreetMap (OSM) to support sustainable transport planning, in professional or advocacy contexts. It was practical and aimed to familiarize participants with the "tools of the trade".

Two sessions were run: one online and one in-person to increase the reach. About 30 participants attended the workshop and a few reported that they learnt a lot and are motivated to develop their programming skills further and apply newly acquired skills at work (e.g. NHS).

Moreover, a tutorial was designed and developed, which is openly and freely available to everyone to use as a learning material at any time. URL: https://udsleeds.github.io/openinfra/articles/SOTM_workshop.html#preparation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://2022.stateofthemap.org/sessions/JEXYHK/
 
Description Obesity Network Seminar 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact The first seminars in the ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity Series attracted 114 registered delegates from a range of audiences. The reach extended through social media and website hits. Four speakers gave their perspectives on how big data is essential to understanding and tackling obesity. A thought provoking panel discussion and networking lunch and walk followed.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/research/obesity/network-meetings/
 
Description Obesity Network Workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact This ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity engaged 38 network members in a sandpit type event in which ideas for how best to use big data to understand and tackle obesity were formed.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description On Your Marks Networking Event on "Shrink to fit: Using less, generating our own and buying smart - renewable energy and the challenges we face." Event sponsored by Marks and Spencer, University of Leeds, UK. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Shrink to fit: Using less, generating our own and buying smart - renewable energy and the challenges we face

UK electricity demand is increasing while the generating capacity of our aging power infrastructure declines. With dwindling global fossil fuel reserves, instability in many fossil fuel-producing regions and the need to decarbonise power generation in the face of the threat of climate change, the need to think about how we use our energy and where we source it is urgent.

The UK has made legally-binding commitments to deliver 15% of its energy from renewable sources by 2020. Currently, just 5% of our power is renewably sourced. But what challenges do businesses of different sizes face when considering their energy use? Can we do more to use less? How aware are we of domestic energy alternatives, such as biogas or ambitious wind and tidal industry projects? and are we, as businesses and consumers, ready to pay for it?

M&S has partnered with Future Biogas in purchasing 35,000 Mega-Watt hours of biomethane certificates, a move which will reduce its carbon footprint by over 6,400 tonnes and source the equivalent amount of energy to heat 15 M&S Simply Food stores all year round.

Join us as guest speakers from the renewable sector and M&S' Head of Energy Supply and Risk, Gio Patellaro, explore how we can embrace renewable energy and how to overcome some of the challenges associated with change - with expert insights from Professor Wändi Bruine de Bruin, from Leeds University Business School, on understanding and informing consumer behaviour around energy and climate change.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://business.leeds.ac.uk/about-us/article/on-your-marks-networking-series-6/
 
Description OnYourMarks - Big Data 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Generated discussion and informal networking after the presentation. Video of presentation generated 479 online views.

Raised the profile of the CDRC internally and externally, generated 479 online views.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LtcVY63vjQ
 
Description Online behaviour in the UK: an individual and contextual analysis (20.12.17 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact CDRC Innovation Fund researcher, Emmanouil Tranos, discusses his Innovation Fund project which explores online behaviour in the UK. Blog article published on the University of Birmingham - City REDI Blog.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://blog.bham.ac.uk/cityredi/online-behaviour-in-the-uk-an-individual-and-contextual-analysis/
 
Description Open Data Science for Schools Digital Skills Event - 16th May 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact CDRC's Kylie Norman led a digital skills outreach event on 16th May 2023, with data-based and coding activities designed by our own data scientists, with secondary school Carlton Keighley to tackle the digital skills gap at earlier educational stages, to try to encourage students to consider STEM GCSE options and teach them about coding. The three activities were delivered to 90 year 8 and 9 students, were evaluated, and resulted in the school registering for a Code Club with event partner Raspberry Pi, which was funded by the Open Data Science for Schools Project. This project has been re-funded for 2024 and continues to work across the Keighley Schools Together partnership.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/open-data-science-for-schools/
 
Description Open Data Science for Schools Website (2023) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Public-facing website for Open Data Science for Schools project in order to raise awareness of the work being done by research, technical and professional services staff to reduce the digital skills gap and inequalities locally. The website draws together information on the two engagement events run for >120 secondary school children as part of the project in 2023, and gives information about the continuation, outputs and impact of the project so that other schools, practitioners and policy makers can get in touch.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/open-data-science-for-schools/
 
Description Open data and tools for accessibility analysis at Modelling World 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact The presentation presented the idea of accessibility as key for increase active travel uptake.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.modelling-world.com/
 
Description OpenInfra Open Source Data and Software at Modelling World 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Presented on the OpenInfra project and discussed open software and data and the benefits of operating within an open environment among a panel of 6/7 topical experts. After presentations the panel were engage in a 30 minute Q&A session with the audience.

A number of questions were asked about the OpenInfra project and the challenges we face working with crow-sources data which seemed to result in a change perception of the topic and engaged interest among the audience.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://udsleeds.github.io/openinfra/
 
Description Organised AAG 2015 Session: "Geosimulation and Big Data: A Marriage made in Heaven or Hell?" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Type Of Presentation workshop facilitator
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact We organised three sessions at the conference which were all well attended. The last session lead to a discussion that lasted an hour or so.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description P&G: Consumer Data Research Centre 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation generated round table discussions

Generated discussions on how the existing strategic partnership can be leveraged to introduce CDRC/P&G collaborations
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description PGR Career Development: Research - Aulona Ulqinaku - Leeds University Business School (December 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact CDRC Co-I Aulona Ulqinaku delivered the talk 'PGR Career Development: Research', guiding the junior LUBS PGRs into the early years of academic path, focusing on the research path (vs. teaching). During this talk, I have shared my personal experience, guiding them through my main struggles related to research as a PGR and then a young scholar, and sharing with them what best worked for me.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description PPFI - Food Foundation Video 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Insights from the Priority Places for Food Index were utilised in a film by The Food Foundation highlighting the lived experiences of those living in the areas of highest food insecurity.

The film was launched at the 'Tackling the Cost of Food Crisis', hosted by Which? and the Food Foundation event at the House of Commons.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Panel participation - The Role of International Marketing in Encouraging Responsible Production and Consumption - Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Invited Panel participation to discuss an emerging consumer theme in International Business Research. This is the premier international business Journal in the world.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.aib.world/events/2020/
 
Description Parliament Reception (London) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Outcome of research work carried out in partnership with a business has been presented to over 50 participants from industry, businesses and universities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Participation at Energy in Transport Workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? Yes
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact People asked if they could collaborate with the CDRC on new funding bids.

After my input, people wanted to know about my work at the CDRC.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://www.energy.leeds.ac.uk/
 
Description Participation in CycleHack Manchester 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact We developed a prototype for an application to match cyclists to each other.

Collaboration opportunities have arisen from this activity.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://www.cyclehack.com/catalogue/match-my-route/
 
Description Paul Evans spoke at Leeds Uni Festival of Interdisciplinary Research (03/05/2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Paul's presentation at the Festival was designed to showcase the work, research and data opportunities of the CDRC to a predominantly academic audience at the University, as well as other external members of the public and private sector.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.leeds.ac.uk/forstaff/news/article/6009/festival_of_interdisciplinary_research
 
Description Physical activity behaviour over time - who, how much and when 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Blog post disseminating the findings of a recent research paper looking at seasonal patterns in activity behaviour as captured by smartphones app data.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/physical-activity-behaviour-over-time-who-how-much-and-when/
 
Description Podcast on Improving Representation on the DSDP - Dec 2022 - Kylie Norman and Michelle Morris 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Publicly-hosted Leeds University webpage as part of its Further Together campaign, spotlighting advances in research culture. Michelle and Kylie were interviewed by the media organisation Storycatchers about the positive action recruitment and values-led research culture on the Data Scientist Development Programme. The podcast was presented as part of an article disseminating the positive action recruitment case as best practise. Since the podcast aired, there have been requests to speak, calls for meetings and further information, as well as other Universities (York and Sheffield) using the positive action case study to do similar at their own Universities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://spotlight.leeds.ac.uk/values-based-recruitment/index.html
 
Description Post presentation and Q&A at CDRC opening day 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Participants in your research and patient groups
Results and Impact The result of my poster was that information and ideas were shared throughout the CDRC sparking discussion with other researchers from of University institutions as well as interest from the University press office regarding the PhD work and potential future publications due to the commercial nature of the work and model.

The university press office asked that if any publications were made in the future that they were informed also
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Poster Presentation - CDRC Data Partner Forum 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Presentation of poster entitled 'Identifying cases of foodborne illness through online syndromic surveillance'. This initiated further discussion around proposed methodologies with the industry professionals.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/news-archive/dpf2017_presentations/
 
Description Poster presentation Cycling and Society Annual Symposium 2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact I presented a poster in the 15th Annual Cycling and Society Symposium. Its title was "CYCLING RATES, CYCLE-FRIENDLY INFRASTRUCTURE AND
DEPRIVATION IN THE SOUTH LONDON PARTNERSHIP AREA", and was presented orally to 5 groups of approximately 10 people.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL http://www.cyclingandsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/P_Vidal.pdf
 
Description Poster presentation at GEOMED conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Poster presentation of preliminary PhD findings at the GEOMED conference in Glasgow in August 2019 attended by academics and public health professionals.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Poster presentation at GISRUK 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The intended purpose of this presentation is to showcase a novel approach of extending the existing Spatial Interaction Model to simulate the number of journeys made from an origin to a destination using a given mode of transport. This analysis lays the foundation of how SIMs can be used to derive new insights and answer policy questions such as how flows by transport mode would shift if a ban were introduced, and the effects on the destination areas. We are looking to gather feedback and perspective on the methodology from the wider research community.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL http://liverpool.gisruk.org/conference-programme/
 
Description Poster presentation at GISRUK 2022 conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Poster presentation at GISRUK conference and engagement with academics to inform about the research and to gather perspectives for further analysis.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL http://liverpool.gisruk.org/conference-programme/
 
Description Poster presentation, CDRC Data Partner Forum 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I presented a poster entitled 'Identifying cases of foodborne illness through online syndromic surveillance' at the CDRC Data Partner Forum Event. This initiated further discussion around proposed methodologies with the Head of Admin Data User Service at the Office for National Statistics.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/events/datapartnerforum/
 
Description Powering business with postgraduate research - Leeds Data Science Society 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact PhD Students (Ning Lu and Amanda Otley) hosted a one day conference with Nexus (University of Leeds) aimed at highlighting the potential of postgraduates to industry partners.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Predictive data analytics for urban footfall - presentation to Leeds City Council 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact I presented the outcomes of a 4-month project, conduced in collaboration with Leeds City Council, to better understand footfall in Leeds city centre using data sourced from the Council's footfall cameras. The work was conducted by a Leeds Institute for Data Analytics intern, Molly Asher. It was very well received by the Council and I hope that once the work is complete it will lead to policy impacts. In particular, it might change the ways that the Council assess the success of events that they organise (in terms of footfall attracted).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Presentation at ATOC London 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A PhD research project was scheduled for sponsorship by the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC). A presentation of project aims, objectives, hypothesis and methodology was presented to an industry panel of professional in the railways sector. This enabled a re-definition of the project to achieve high impact, as well as fulfill the requirements for a successful PhD, while satisfying the immediate objectives of ATOC.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://www.raildeliverygroup.com/media-centre/press-releases/2016/469771023-2016-10-21.html
 
Description Presentation at Big Data and transport surveys event 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? Yes
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Talk sparked interest and conversation.

Led to closer collaboration with the Institute of Transport Studies (ITS)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL https://speakerdeck.com/robinlovelace/big-data-for-sustainable-transport-planning
 
Description Presentation at CEDAR 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? Yes
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Sparked interest in our work and potential for further collaboration.

I was asked if the methodology could be applicable to research being done at the University of Cambridge.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL https://speakerdeck.com/robinlovelace/modelling-cycling-potential-cycling-and-potential-benefits
 
Description Presentation at GISRUK Conference 2015 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? Yes
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact I presented a paper on "A Framework for Big Data in studies of Urban Mobility and Movement". This paper develops a framework for the use of big data in studies and analysis of urban mobility and movement patterns. The framework development stages consist of applying human behaviour theories to conceptual models of urban mobility, to develop analytical methodologies. Empirical studies then enable a validation of the model, and application to forecasting and policy analysis. This urban mobility analysis framework is applied to the analysis of individual movement patterns, with an application in Yorkshire, UK, and to the forecasting of passenger demand due to changes in accessibility, a new railway station and a new residential housing scheme in Yorkshire, UK.

After my talk Michael Batty, Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London and Chair of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) asked questions relating to possibility of getting results from the analysis as UCL had been doing similar results for many decades without conclusive outcomes.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://leeds.gisruk.org/programme.html
 
Description Presentation at Queen Mary University - 3rd April 2019 - Mark Birkin 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact 20 people; presentation and discussion. Potential collaborations with Queen Mary, including Raphtory project now funded by Turing on mobility and network science (CDRC Co-I is Susan Grant-Muller is researcher on this project).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Presentation at SeaNet Workshop (AN) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Group of academics and policy makers with an interest in Seaside/Coastal towns and communities - especially from the perspective of economic and social development/policy/indicators. Session designed to stimulate the creation of SeaNet - a network of researchers and policy makers within interests in this field. I gave a presentation outlining my personal research interests and links to CDRC/LIDA and my Future Leaders Funding Bid. There appears to be some potential for further collaboration or engagement activities within this arena related to insight driven by consumer data.

I have agreed to organise a 'special session' at Regional Science Association International - British and Irish Section Annual Conference, Aug 2016, to bring together researchers with related interests and to identify mutual areas of interest - especially where consumer data could be a major driver of insight.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Presentation at international conference (IAPREP) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact This talk pulled together preliminary work in support of a grant application related to this award. The grant application relates to interventions for help those in problem debt, and this work provides psychological input to the intervention development.

This talk provided feedback on the work and its potential in practical interventions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Presentation at patient-public group meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Patients, carers and/or patient groups
Results and Impact Presentation of preliminary findings from my PhD research to the Bowel Cancer Intelligence UK Patient-Public Group. This enabled me to share my findings with a wider audience, answer questions and gain feedback from members of the group which could influence the direction of my future research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Presentation at the British Society for Population Studies annual conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presentation of preliminary PhD findings at the British Society for Population Studies annual conference which included attendees from academia, local government and charities. The talk sparked questions and discussion regarding future directions for the research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Presentation at the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Many more people are now aware of our work in transport.

We are planning follow-up work.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL https://speakerdeck.com/robinlovelace/the-oil-vulnerabilityof-commuter-patterns
 
Description Presentation at the International Medical Geography Symposium 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presentation of preliminary PhD findings at the International Medical Geography Symposium 2019 in Queenstown, New Zealand. The talk sparked questions and discussion about future directions for the research. Members of the audience also expressed interest in potential future research visits and collaborations.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Presentation for the Social and Political Sciences Research Group from the Institute for Transport Studies 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact I gave a 30 minutes presentation (20+10 Q&A) about my second paper "Do disadvantaged people really cycle less? Explaining socioeconomic inequalities in cycling based on the English National Travel Survey" for the Social and Political Sciences Research Group from the Institute for Transport Studies.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://eugenividal.github.io/slides/Presentation_paper2.html#1
 
Description Presentation of findings to MOSL Smart Metering committee 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Presented findings from first LIDA project on an investigation on data granularity for the Non-HouseHold (NHH) water market to the Market Operator Services Limited (MOSL) Smart Metering (SM) committee comprised of roughly 20-35 MOSL related stakeholders resulting in some follow questions on the research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Presentation of the work at the University of Leeds (CDRC seminar) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Appprox. 10 oither researchers attanded the seminar which provided lots of feedback for the project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Presentation of work on green product behaviour to sustainability team at Asda 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Asda sustainability team wanted additional analysis and provided additional data.

This informed decision making on green products in Asda.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Presentation to 'Living Labs Project' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact This presentation sparked questions from the Facility Directorate team about how they could gain greater insight to their data and what research questions could be addressed with their data which would be of benefit to the general population.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Presentation to CEAC Food & Biodiversity Working Group 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Around 35 council members attended the Climate Emergency Action Committee Food & Biodiversity Working Group, where I presented the Carbon Footprint Calculator project as a case study for the ways in which co-designed research projects can benefit the city, initiating discussion around the way in which such research and be integrated into Leeds' climate strategy, specifically their net zero journey. A Q&A session followed the presentation and resulted in increased interest in the project from a wide range of council members.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Presentation to Data Partner 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Gave a presentation to a team of data scientists from a partner organisation on the data linking and modelling.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Presentation to Healthier Food Advertising Policy Sub-Group (Dr Victoria Jenneson) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact To present on MAAP - Mapping Advertising Assets across Leeds Project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Presentation to IGD Environmental Labelling Consult Group Workshop (Susan Lee) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Presentation about ongoing research relating to healthy and sustainable diets and previous experience on this topic. Increased knowledge about environmental sustainability and useful discussions about environmental labelling for retailers and the related issues to this.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Presentation to Leeds City Council's Food Workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Around 90 policy makers involved in the development of Leeds's upcoming food strategy attended Leeds City Council's 'Food Workshop' - a session to discuss the requirements of the upcoming Food Strategy. As a guest speaker, I presented a brief outline of the Carbon Footprint Calculator project as a 3 minute pitch to outline the project and present our asks for the food strategy.
Our contribution had been used to inform and influence the upcoming food strategy.
Our presentation sparked numerous attendees to contact us for further information and enquire about potential collaboration, extending the reach of the project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Presentation to Policy Makers 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presentation to 6 Leeds City Council members each representing a different area of catering and council food suppliers, including a demonstration of the prototype Carbon Footprint Calculator. The prototype is currently focused around school dinners, however the demonstration sparked conversation around further application of the tool across the wide variety of council run food venues in Leeds. Councillors discussed how they saw the tool could benefit their respective area of catering and what challenges may need to be overcome in order to incorporate it. Feedback from this session was used to refine the tool and extend the reach of the project, such that the final version will be used across the wide variety of council run catering businesses as well as potentially by their suppliers.
Councillors also debated how best to use insights from the tool to influence their decision making processes, to the aim of reducing their carbon emissions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Presentation to Project Partner 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Presentation to project Partner on evidence of factors influencing farmer participation in Agri-environmental schemes.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Presentation to data partner 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presented ongoing research has raised interest in the research activities

Partner agreed to support research by providing data
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Presentation to partner organisations 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact More than 50 people attended the workshop. The presentation sparked questions and discussions. Lead to further engagements with new/potential partners.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Presentation to the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting 2015 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Type Of Presentation paper presentation
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Presentation to the Royal Statistical Society - Alison Heppenstall and Nik Lomax - 5th June 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Presentation to the Royal Statistical Society - Alison Heppenstall and Nik Lomax - 5th June 2019
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Presentation using Zoopla dataset, CDRC Data Partner Forum 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A talk for CDRC data partners and other professional practitioners on the use of big data to assess homeowner mobility. Approximately 50 delegates. Question and answer session after presentation and further discussion over lunch. Discussion with ONS administrative data team about potential use of data and methods for ongoing work.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2006
 
Description Presentation using Zoopla dataset, iMigMob annual conference (Loughborough) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact A talk to the annual iMigMob conference. Approximately 50 delegates. Discussion around using big data throughout the conference resulted in follow up queries about the dataset and other held by CDRC.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/news/2016/-migration-conference-.html
 
Description Presentation/Webinar to Defra 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Presentation of work to Defra Environmental Land Management Data Science Team, summarising findings and outline next steps of research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Presentation: LCC/LIDA workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Much discussion and sharing of ideas followed.

The presentation generated interest to form a working group to take ideas forward.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Presented to Policy Makers 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presented at Leeds City Council's 'Low-Carbon Lunch' about the CDRC carbon-footprint calculator project (co-designed with Leeds City Council. The Low-Carbon Lunch was an event organised by the council to bring together policy makers and social impact organisations across Leeds to tackle the issue of our food system as a contributor to climate change. As a result, further interest was generated in the Carbon Footprint Calculator project and connections were made with local charitable organisations (including Rethink Leeds) which has in turn lead to and supported the school engagement events being set up.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Probabilistic approaches for optimal sequential feature acquisition LIDA Seminar (29/11/2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact 53 attended a seminar given by Christopher Yau on a novel and generic Bayesian optimisation approach that he has developed to integrate sequential feature acquisition processes into predictive models. He demonstrated the optimality properties of this algorithm and its use on critical care data from the publicly available MIMIC-III database and finally discussed how the framework can be used to construct personal machine learning-based diagnostic tools.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/probabilistic-approaches-optimal-sequential-feature-acquisition/
 
Description Process Analytics in Healthcare ( LIDA Seminar 10.11.2016) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Centre hosted seminar, external speaker: Prof John Fox, University of Oxford
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Professional Development Workshop at British Academy of Management Conference 2015 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact The British Academy of Management run Professional Development Workshops (PDWs) with the purpose of enhancing the professional skills of management scholars. Alongside Professor George Baltas (Athens University of Economics and Business) and Dr Charalampos Saridakis (University of Leeds), I led a Workshop on Frontiers in Data-Driven Retail Management, targeted at non-specialists who are interested in knowing how we can use consumer data to aid managerial decision-making, discover behavioural patterns, and extract meaning from an ever-growing universe of information.

The main impact from this event was to raise awareness among management academics as to how to incorporate data and data analytics into their research in the area of retailing, but also generally. Professor Robson's part of the workshop focused on some of the research work and approaches of the CDRC. Management scholars sometimes follow established patterns of research in terms of the methodological approaches they use and the sorts of questions they seek to answer. This workshop showed the audience how to incorporate data to produce high quality research outputs that have pragmatic relevance. The subsequent Q&A session addressed any uncertainties the audience had about such approaches that might impede the change to using data analytics.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL https://www.bam.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=2886
 
Description Progression beyond regression; using heterogeneous data in disease trajectories - LIDA Seminar 10/05/2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Allan Tucker from Brunel University gave a keynote talk about the key issues and challenges in modelling disease progression using many different sources of data, this was followed by Q&A and networking with CDRC, LIDA, and other academic delegates, as well as some delegates from mHabitat and NHS. There were plans made to engage in similar activity over future months.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/progression-beyond-regression-using-heterogeneous-data-disease-trajec...
 
Description Project Gut Feel Website, Santosh Vijaykumar (Innovation Fund) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Project GUT FEEL is a CDRC-funded project led by a team of researchers at Northumbria University, Newcastle that seeks to answer the question: What drives consumer confidence in probiotics products when the evidence, and labelling policies have been hotly debated?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.projectgutfeel.com/
 
Description Project discussion and feedback from Barry Naisbitt (Associate Research Director at NIESR), a specialist in the economics of housing 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact We discussed the project and collected feedback from Barry Naisbitt (Associate Research Director at NIESR), a specialist in the economics of housing.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Propensity to Cycle Interview (Robin Lovelace 01.05.2017) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Dr Robin Lovelace was interviewed on the Propensity to Cycle Tool. Interview was played on hourly news bulletin on Radio Aire and Magic Leeds.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Public Dialogue 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Presentation generated questions from audience

Improved understanding of public perceptions of data
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Public feedback on 'living lab' travel data collected during pandemic period 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact A public facing report summarising how patterns of travel changed during the pandemic was produced based on smartphone app data. This included summaries over time and by demographic subgroups. The report was publicised via a dedicated webpage and proactively sent via email to study participants.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Quantifying Personal Pollution Impacts to Inform Transport Scheme Innovation through New Generation Mobility Data 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Presentation to the European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography (ECTQG) 7-11 September, 2017, York, UK.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://surf.leeds.ac.uk/p/2017-09-08-ectqg-surf.pdf
 
Description Quantifying the Ambient Population using Big Data and Agent-Based Modelling 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Presentation to the European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography (ECTQG) 7-11 September, 2017, York, UK
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://surf.leeds.ac.uk/p/2017-09-11-ectqg-surf.pdf
 
Description Quantitative Methods Events - Lunch-time Rountable 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact I was invited to a roundtable discussion at my alma matter - the University of Warwick - to give an informal talk about my experiences of (and what led me to) being a Data Scientist Intern at LIDA. This has resulted in several postgraduate students reaching out to me to advice on their career trajectories, one of them being interested in applying for the LIDA internship.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description R for Transport training with audience including transport industry partners, 26th-27th April 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact This 2 day training was delivered by Robin Lovelace with the aim of investigating ways in which the programming language R can assist in creating spatial models for transport planning and infrastructure. The audience included business partners from Volterra and Phil Jones Associates. The training will run again in 2018 due to interest generated.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description RGS-IBG (Imputation of Missing Data Values in Railways Consumer Datasets) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Submission for RGS-IBG Conference 2016 accepted for presentation.
Social science research makes inference about systems based on analysing a representative dataset, however the prevalence of inadvertent missing data values could skew the dataset and compromise the validity of the thesis. By re-construing the distribution of the missing data to be at random, and if the data inobservance is a distinct design feature of the data measuring sensor, then the best course of action put forward by the statistics community (Rubin, 1976) enables valid inferences to be made about the parameters of the system by applying Bayesian theories to the incomplete dataset.
The above hypothesis is applied to big consumer datasets revealed from the UK railways, which have many inadvertent omissions. The data is rich, comprehensive and has national coverage hence the desire to exploit them fully, often beyond what they were originally intended. In the case of railways ticketing data the desire to use the data for passenger mobility studies beyond just facilitating revenue sharing amongst train operators, has meant that precise flows and number of journeys per ticket (journey factor) needs to be ascertained. At the moment, number of journeys made with season tickets are unknown, some train stations are grouped so that passenger flows to specific stations within the group are unknown, regional multi-modal transport operators (PTE's) sell tickets of specific coverage that are valid for use on buses and trains, with no accurate sense of number of journeys made with these PTE tickets. These wide range inobservance in ticketing data have to be objectively in-filled (imputed) to create a requisite dataset (Heckman, 1979) for mobility analysis.
Current industry practice has been to use proxy trip rates for period season tickets and ad hoc logical rules about where multi-modal tickets are likely to be used. In this research a principled infilling methodology is developed whereby a data model is constructed, enabling the omissions to be construed as missing at random MAR (Little and Rubin, 2014), facilitating the imputation of all unobserved values and measures of uncertainty associated with the imputation results. Regression modelling and subsequent analysis is validly conducted using the complete dataset, and a case study of rail heading (whereby passengers travel further to access a rail service when there are commensurate closer services) is investigated in West Yorkshire, identifying the governing exogenous socio-economic, demographic, urban morphology and network endogenous variables.
KEYWORDS: big consumer data, railways ticketing, inobservance, missing data, infilling, imputation, missing-at-random, journey factor, passenger flows, data values, data model.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Annual+International+Conference/Annual+Internation...
 
Description RLUK Spring Meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation generated questions and discussion

Raised awareness and generated interest on the potential significance of Big Data amongst Information Scientists and Librarians
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description RSAI-BIS Special Session Presentation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact We will be presenting at the Regional Science Association International - British Irish Section (RSAI-BIS) Special Session in July 2022. Our abstract was accepted 08/03/2022.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, "UmweltSchmerz: An Exercise in Humility and Melancholia" event, Munich, Germany. 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Improving communications about climate projections
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/download/events/programs/181017-umweltschmerz_program.pdf
 
Description Radio interview - Trialling supermarket strategies to promote healthy and sustainable diets 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact I took part in an interview on Radio Leeds with Gayle Lofthouse, to discuss our new research partnership with the IGD and its aim to promote healthier and more sustainable diets.

I start at 2h15 in for about 8 minutes.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p09h5d68
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p09h5d68
 
Description Regional science association presentation: Place-Specific geodemographic classifications: Justification and exploration 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact This talk shared new research findings and led to new discussion and debate
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Research Culture Uncovered Podcast - Embodying Impact: A Conversation with Early Career Impact Prize Winners 120 listeners 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact As early career researchers in the Nutrition and Lifestyle Analytics team that won the ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize, Vicki Jenneson and Fran Pontin were invited to participate in the Research Culture Uncovered Podcast. Vicki and Fran discussed the significance of collaborative work across professional and academic teams and the advantages of building networks in conducting impactful research.

They also addressed the importance of communicating complex data science methods and results in a clear, convincing manner to non-data scientists.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://research-culture.captivate.fm/episode/bonus-embodying-impact-a-conversation-with-early-caree...
 
Description Research Culture Uncovered Podcast - MB & EE 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Following the success of CDRC at the University of Leeds' Research Culture awards Prof Mark Birkin and Dr Emily Ennis were invited to discuss the research culture at the Consumer Data Reseach Centre and how it leads to impactful projects with our partners.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://research-culture.captivate.fm/episode/s5e6-leadership-for-research-impact-culture
 
Description Research meeting at Dr Foster 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Visit to Dr Foster/Telstra to discuss interest in various areas of potential collaborative research. Potential project of interest identified regarding simulation and predictive analysis with a focus on Leeds/Yorkshire. Information regarding projects of interest provided and open door to collaborate further.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.drfoster.com/
 
Description Research presentation - Identifying trends in meat purchasing from loyalty card data - To academic colleagues, industry & policy makers 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The purpose of this presentation was to share finding of our research with academic colleagues at the University of Oxford, Including Prof Susan Jebb (chair of the Food Standards Agency) and Becky Shute from Sainsbury's. It sparked discussion on what we could learn about targeting shoppers to support a transition away from a meat based diet.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Researchers in the Spotlight (05.06.2017) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact CDRC PhD Researcher Rachel Oldroyd, participated in the 'Researchers in the spotlight event' at the University of Leeds. Year 9 students from 6 secondary schools from across the region visited the University. Each school group interviewed a researcher and delivered a presentation about the researchers topic area. The schools reported an improved knowledge of research in general and also the research that occurs at the University.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Responsible Gambling Trust Research Update 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Several organisations conducted presentations describing the research project being undertaken, and RGT's governance arrangements were discussed and reiterate that RGT is working with RGSB to formulate a research protocol that can be published which would provide greater confidence to the commissioning of research by RGT. Discussions around best-practice in academic and research institutions took place as did the challenges and possible solutions for both researchers and the industry in providing access to data and customers in order to improve understanding of effective harm-minimisation in gambling.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Retail Analytics (LIDA Seminar 09.06.16) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Centre hosted seminar, external presenter: Prof Alex Singleton, University of Liverpool
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Robin Lovelace - Article on Cycling to School in the Independent - 22nd April 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact CDRC Co-I (first grant) Robin Lovelace's research into the health benefits of cycling to school was picked uo by the Independent: Clogged up roads are stopping pupils improving their health and the environment, written with academic co-researchers Rachel Aldred, Anna Goodman, and James Woodcock. Audiences reported change in views and the impact of the research also led to an article in online news channel The Conversation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/transport-planning-cycling-school-bicycle-a8831561.html
 
Description Robin Lovelace - Conversation Article 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact CDRC researcher Robin Lovelace had an article on 'Cities must act to secure the future of urban cycling: our research shows how' originally published in the Conversation, republished on the news section of Yahoo.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://theconversation.com/cities-must-act-to-secure-the-future-of-urban-cycling-our-research-shows...
 
Description Robin Lovelace's paper on 'Walking and cycling to work linked to fewer heart attacks' received coverage on ITV, daily mail and various local media publications - Dec 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact CDRC Co-I (first grant) Robin Lovelace's research into walking and cycling to work decreasing the risks of heart attack was featured by ITV on 19th Dec 2019 and its imact led to it being picked up by other news and media channels as well including Daily Mail.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.itv.com/news/2019-12-19/walking-and-cycling-to-work-linked-to-fewer-heart-attacks/
 
Description Robust methods for causal inference with observational data (LIDA Seminar 16.03.2017) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Centre hosted seminar with speakers from the Statistical Epidemiology Research Group from University of Leeds
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/robust-methods-causal-inference-observational-data/
 
Description Roundtable - Strengthening linkages between Leeds and London, Resolution Foundation (18/06/2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact 20 people. Exploring possibilities for closer collaboration between civic authorities in Leeds and London around local economic development and inward investment.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Roundtable discussion on Geospatial data in a world of generative AI 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact A roundtable discussion on Geospatial data in a world of generative AI. Jointly hosted by the Open Data Institute, and Google. Invited experts from academia and industry discussed the challenges and opportunities of generative AI for geospatial data.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Royal Geographical Society 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Type Of Presentation paper presentation
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Generated questions, discussion and feedback

Exposed latest research for feedback from an expert audience. Raised awareness of a key CDRC research theme.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Royal Statistical Society/Bean Review roundtable on data science 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Discussions took place around the current use of alternative data sources in the Office for National Statistics, and also about the focus on gaining access to public sector administrative data and seeking to connect with private sector in an increase capacity.
Discussions surrounding measurements, the challenges of webscraped information and the importance of accuracy of official statistics.
In terms of collaboration, the aim is to engage with utility companies and secure access private sector data, first overcoming the public concerns over data sharing.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description SFI Science Summit - Mark Birkin (Nov 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Prof Mark Birkin delivered a keynote presentation on Epidemiological Modelling - New Dimensions and Opportunities for Ireland.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description SIP Data Science Workshop 16th November 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact This workshop was held to discuss the concern that companies across the science sector have regarding the potential lack of data scientists in their respective industries. The meeting was to understand this particular skills deficit and discuss ways to address the issues.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description SPIN Press Release - Susan Grant Muller 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact CDRC Co-I Susan Grant Muller features in media coverage of the Ford £100,000 Micromobility Research Fund in the UK. Featured in Automotive World and Clean Technica.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.automotiveworld.com/news-releases/spin-launches-uks-first-micromobility-research-fund/
 
Description STEM outreach session (14.09.2017) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact A group of 16-18 year old students from regional schools visited the university as part of a STEM awareness day. The session involved a talk on using how the CDRC use GIS and spatial analysis to undertake research in areas relating to crime, retail modelling and food safety. This was followed by a practical session using GIS.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Sainsbury's Sustainability conference: launching carbon net zero targets 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact I was invited to attend this conference hosted by Sainsbury's as some of our work was used to inform their carbon net zero 2030 strategy. I had some engaging discussions on the nutrition team stand during the networking elements of the conference.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, US 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact TITLE: Behavioral decision research approaches to developing effective communications

ABSTRACT: Consumers face decisions about health, environmental and financial risks. Domain experts are often tasked with developing communications to improve people's risk understanding and decision-making competence. However, their communication efforts may fail if experts misunderstand the informational needs of their audiences. In this presentation, I will present the social science behind effective communication development, using examples from a wide range of contexts.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL https://www.santafe.edu/events/behavioral-decision-research-approaches-to-de
 
Description School Outreach Event (09.03.16) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact A group of year 12 students from regional schools visited the university as part of a GIS outreach event. The session involved a talk on using how the CDRC use GIS and spatial analysis to undertake research in areas relating to crime, retail modelling and food safety. This was followed by a practical session using GIS.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description School Outreach Event (17.01.2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact A group of year 10 students from regional schools visited the university. The session involved a talk on using how the CDRC use GIS and spatial analysis to undertake research in areas relating to crime, retail modelling and food safety. This was followed by a practical session using GIS.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description School Outreach event (18.01.17) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact A group of year 9 students from regional schools visited the university as part of a 'discovering geography' event. The session involved a talk on using how the CDRC use GIS and spatial analysis to undertake research in areas relating to crime, retail modelling and food safety. This was followed by a practical session using GIS.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description School outreach event 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact A group of year 12 students from regional schools visited the university as part of an outreach event. The session involved a talk on using how the CDRC use GIS and spatial analysis to undertake research in areas relating to crime, retail modelling and food safety. This was followed by a practical session using GIS.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description School outreach event (08.06.2017) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact A group of 16-18 year old students from regional schools visited the university. The session involved a talk on using how the CDRC use GIS and spatial analysis to undertake research in areas relating to crime, retail modelling and food safety. This was followed by a practical session using GIS.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description School outreach event (15.12.16) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact A group of year 9 students from regional schools visited the university as part of a 'discovering geography' event. The session involved a talk on using how the CDRC use GIS and spatial analysis to undertake research in areas relating to crime, retail modelling and food safety. This was followed by a practical session using GIS.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description School outreach event (17.10.2017) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact A group of 16-18 year old students from regional schools visited the university. The session involved a talk on using how the CDRC use GIS and spatial analysis to undertake research in areas relating to crime, retail modelling and food safety. This was followed by a practical session using GIS.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description School outreach event (23.09.2016) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact A group of year 12 students from York college visited the university as part of an outreach event. The session involved a talk on using how the CDRC use GIS and spatial analysis to undertake research in areas relating to crime, retail modelling and food safety. This was followed by a practical session using GIS.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description School outreach event, Pontefract (08.05.2017) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact CDRC PhD researcher Rachel Oldroyd visited a local secondary school in Pontefract. The session involved a talk on using how the CDRC use GIS and spatial analysis to undertake research in areas relating to crime, retail modelling and food safety. This was followed by a practical session using GIS. The session was delivered 5 times throughout the day.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description School outreach session - Dixons Academy (23.01.2019) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact A group of year 9 students from Dixons academy in Bradford took part of a 'discovering geography' event. The session involved a talk on using how the CDRC use GIS and spatial analysis to undertake research in areas relating to crime, retail modelling and food safety. This was followed by a practical session using GIS.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description School outreach session - Giggleswick school (13.03.2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact A group of year 12 students from Giggleswick school visited the university as part of a 'discovering geography' event. The session involved a talk on using how the CDRC use GIS and spatial analysis to undertake research in areas relating to crime, retail modelling and food safety. This was followed by a practical session using GIS.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description School outreach session - York College (02.07.2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact A group of year 12 students from York College visited the university as part of a 'discovering geography' event. The session involved a talk on using how the CDRC use GIS and spatial analysis to undertake research in areas relating to crime, retail modelling and food safety. This was followed by a practical session using GIS.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Schools Engagement Activities - Using GIS for Neighbourhood Geodemographic Profiling (AN) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact This schools workshop activity, utilizing publicly available resources available on the CDRC website, engaged around 45 local sixth form students and their teachers. Participants were introduced to the CDRC and became familiar with some of the core public resources available via the project website, sparking a range of discussions about the uses of geodemographics to support commercial decision making and public policy.

Teachers expressed genuine interest in disseminating details of these resources to their colleagues for wider use with their students.
Raised students awareness of geodemographics and uses of this form of data to support policy and decision making.
For many students it was their first visit to a university campus - raising aspirations.
Raised awareness of ESRC funded investment.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Schools outreach session: Using big data to understand society (AN) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Two hour schools workshop which made use of CDRC Research and the CDRC Public Website. Raised profile of CDRC and LIDA. Session content was directly linked to forthcoming changes in A Level Syllabus
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Science and Industrial Advisory Board (SIAB) of the UK Exascale Project 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Nik Lomax has been invited to join the Science and Industrial Advisory Board (SIAB) of the UK Exascale Project. The SIAB is providing advice on the £900m business case for the UK's investment in AI, and Lomax is providing input that represents the computational social science community.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023,2024
 
Description Seminar 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Around 15 members of research community including professors and Ph.D students attended the seminar at Choice Modelling Center at University of Leeds. This has sparked questions and lead to a collaborative research work.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Seminar 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Delivered a seminar to a group of Ph.D students and Faculty members at Center for Decision Research in the Leeds University Business School. The presentation triggered questions and interest in the subject. There are further discussion about collaboration.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Seminar Presentation at Leeds Institute for Data Analytics 2022 Seminar Series. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact 75 people attended the LIDA seminar series in 27 January 2022 on zoom. My presentation on the "Geodemographic analysis of the impact of COVID_19 on urgent cancer referrals in the UK" engaged well with the audience who asked series of questions. Some participants from city councils reached out to me asking for further information and access to the presentation findings.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Seminar at Food Standards Australia New Zealand (12.12.2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Seminar delivered at Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) in Canberra, Australia to approximately 60 attendees. The talk was entitled 'The use of consumer generated research for monitoring foodborne illness' and was followed by discussion and questions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Seminar at the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS): Estimating Distance Decay for the National Propensity to Cycle Tool 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Talk sparked much debate about the NPCT and provided useful guidance for future work.

Ian Kellar suggested this could be used in his PhD student's work. James Tate suggested a model for London. Peter Atkinson suggested implementing educational and shopping travel in there.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL https://speakerdeck.com/robinlovelace/estimating-distance-decay-for-the-national-propensity-to-cycle...
 
Description Serendipity in a career in understanding foodborne illness with spatial data (Rachel Oldroyd 06.09.17) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact CDRC PhD Student Rachel Oldroyd discusses her project with the Food Standards Agency. Blog article published on UKDS Impact Blog.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/data-journeys-in-a-research-career-6-rachel-oldroyd-serendipity-in-a...
 
Description Shop Direct - guest lecture 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Shop Direct - a partner of CDRC invited to speak to MSc students mainly from the 'Consumer Analytics and Marketing Strategy' course
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Shop Direct - guest lecture 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Aidan Blong and Andrew Tranter, Shop Direct (a major CDRC partner) gave a guest lecture to our MSc CAMS Students, discussing data analytics at Shop Direct in the context of obtaining customer data and using it to provide customers with an improved shopping experience.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Simulating Urban Flows to Estimate the Disease Burden of Air Pollution (RGS 2016) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact I presented at the Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference in London (30 August - 2 September) as part of a session that I organised entitled "Urban Analytics".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://surf.leeds.ac.uk/p/2016-08-rgs-urban_analytics.html
 
Description Simulation as the Catalyst for Geographical Data Science and Urban Policy Making. Presentation to the Association of American Geographers (AAG), 4th - 8th April, Boston, as part of the Special Sessions on Geographic Data Science 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation at an academic conference:

Simulation as the Catalyst for Geographical Data Science and Urban Policy Making. Presentation to the Association of American Geographers (AAG), 4th - 8th April, Boston, as part of the Special Sessions on Geographic Data Science
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://surf.leeds.ac.uk/p/2017-04-06-aag-sim_as_catalyst.html
 
Description Smart Agri Systems Launch Event, Weetwood Hall (04/06/2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Approx. 50 people gathered for launch of Smart Agri Systems, the purpose of which is to promote the use of consumer data e.g. changing diet and product expenditure in the AgriTech sector.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Smart Cities Expo World Congress 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Presentation including Consumer Data Research Centre at Leeds City Region stand
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Smart City Expo - Barcelona (14-16.11.17) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Centre exhibited and showcase data service and research on smart cities. Deepened engagement with Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership and regional organisations. Multiple conversation with industry representatives. Led to increase in requests to further information, one of which has developed in to discussions around a data license agreement and potential internship with Mastercard.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Smart Meter Advisory Group (SMAG) Introduction Presentation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact An introductory presentation introducing myself to SMAG and describing the analysis I would be undertaking. Many attendees declared interest in the project and helped widen the acquisition of smart meter data among other retailers within the industry.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Smartphone apps and activity - tracking trends in who, how and when we move 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Blog post disseminating the findings of a recent research paper looking at smartphones as a tool to capture physical activity behaviour.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/smartphone-apps-and-activity/
 
Description Smithsonian Museum of Natural Science, Department of Mineral Sciences, Washington DC, US. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Title: A behavioural decision research approach to developing effective communications

Abstract: In their lives, people face decisions about risks affecting their health, finances, and environmental footprint. Experts in different domains may be asked to develop communications with the goal of improving people's judgments and decisions about specific risks. Such communication efforts may fail if experts lack information about what wording people prefer to use to describe relevant concepts, what information people need or want to know to make more informed decisions, and what barriers people experience when trying to change their behavior. In this presentation, I will present the social science behind effective communication development.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Social Media, Place and Policy, London 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Interactive presentation on Social Media, Service provision and Consumer Research
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/
 
Description Solving Urban Challenges with Data - Birmingham 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Informal networking during breaks

Raised the profile of the CDRC in the Midlands
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Solving Urban Challenges with Data - Cardiff 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Informal networking during breaks

Raised the profile of the CDRC in Wales
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Solving Urban Challenges with Data: Glasgow 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Informal networking during breaks

Raised the profile of the CDRC in Scotland
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Spatial Disadvantage (LIDA Seminar 6.10.2016) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Centre hosted seminar, external speaker: Prof Robert Tanton, University of Canberra
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Speaker and award winner at Royal Geographical Society event - Mark Birkin - 3rd June 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact CDRC PI Mark Birkin spoke at the event of ~250 attendees and received the Murchison Award for Pioneering Contributions to Urban Analytics (see awards section).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Speaker at Cambridge Symposium for AI for Social Good - Mark Birkin - 24th May 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact 100 people including visiting delegation from Singapore. CDRC PI Mark Birkin presented.
Follow-on meeting with colleagues from National University of Singapore (Victor Li, Jacqueline Lam).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.energy.cam.ac.uk/news-and-events/Events/symposium-on-ai-for-social-good
 
Description Speaker at Marks and Spencer Senior Executive Away Day, on the Future of Retailing 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I delivered two talks to senior executives of M&S on The Future of Retailing and big data. These talks were based at the M&S Archive Building, on the University of Leeds campus. The firm use this location for some of their away days. Around 20 people attended one of the two presentations. The presentation sparked discussions around the firm's need to modify its approach to its resources (e.g., human versus physical resources) in order to keep pace with technology in the sector.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Special Session Talk: Text Mining Applications in eWOM, Social Listening, and Literature Review 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact I organised and co chaired a Special Session, titled: Text Mining Applications in eWOM, Social Listening, and Literature Review, at European Marketing Academy Annual Conference (EMAC) 2023. About 50+ audiences, including both academic researchers and marketing practitioners, attended this Special Session. This Special Session presented three papers about application of text mining approaches in marketing research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Statistics User Forum discussion with ONS, London. - Mark Birkin - 27th Jan 2020 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Office for National Statistics on behalf of Statistics User Forum (SUF) roundtable on researchers' access to microdata. 20 people.
Outcome - ONS intending to formalise a research users group bringing together admin data and other New and Emerging Forms of Data.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Storylines for the UK Climate Projections 2018 (UKCP18) Workshop, Met Office Hadley Centre and Copernicus Climate Change Service, Reading, UK. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Improving communications about climate projections
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Strategy Board Member, Data Analytic Facility for National Infrastructure 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Nik Lomax is an invited member of the Data Analytic Facility for National Infrastructure Strategy Board. The rlle of the board is to advise on DAFNI requirements as well as developing a community of researchers on the platform. The platform is used by many users accross the UK.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023,2024
URL https://www.dafni.ac.uk/about-2/strategy-board/
 
Description Strength in Diversity Case Study - Kylie Norman - Aug 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact • CDRC-Leeds has trained 72 early career data scientists through its Data Scientist Development Programme (DSDP) 2016-2023. Only 12% of the data scientists 2016-2021 identified as being from the Global Majority, so the Programme worked with HDR UK in 2021 to instate positive action recruitment to address this underrepresentation.
The team at CDRC-Leeds responded to the University's call-to-action in its newly-launched 2022 EDI Strategy by disseminating its approach to positive action recruitment in the Case Study, "Strength in Diversity". This has resulted in policy impact through positive action recruitment becoming one of 6 new work streams in the University's EDI strategy. This case study lays out the value of positive action recruitment in signalling the intent to create more equitable recruitment through expanding reach and relatability of roles traditionally majority-filled by white men. It has since been used to enact a positive action recruitment case at Universities of York and Sheffield (2022 and 2023).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://sway.office.com/UP7jecU6sBuoIgCA
 
Description Subjective Probability, Utility, and Decision Making (SPUDM) Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presentation and discussion afterwards
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Sustainable, Liveable and Resilient Cities Theme Meeting, University of Birmingham: Assessing the impacts of external shocks on environmental sustainability (Susan Lee) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Presenting Susan Lee's findings from recent research work: Assessing the impacts of external shocks on environmental sustainability. Useful feedback and discussions about food prices, cost of living and food supply chains.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Sustainable, Liveable and Resilient Cities Theme Meeting, University of Birmingham: Dietary change towards healthy and sustainable diets: implications for urban living (Susan Lee) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Presenting Susan Lee's findings from a recent publication: Communicating future diets for Brazil, China, Sweden and UK from an Integrated Assessment Model 1.5 deg C Scenario. Providing details about the work of the CDRC. Useful feedback and discussions
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Sustrans Webinar 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Approached by Sustrans Director following POLIS presentation to give Webinar to Sustrans employees on incentivisation schemes and use of new and emerging data forms. Employees logged in at sites across the UK, with many follow up questions both on and off line.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Sustrans Workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Supported the organisation of a Sustrans internal team event (Research and Monitoring) at the Institute for Transport Studies. Arranged presentations from colleagues that would be of interest to Sustrans and Frances Hodgson gave presentation on Habits related work.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Synthetic data, microsimulation and socio-demographic forecasting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Generated questions and discussion

Shared expertise of modelling and social data analytics with an important government agency. Also promoted networking with academic partners including members of the ADRN
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Talk at Transport and Poverty event hosted at ITS Leeds 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? Yes
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards

After my talk, participants asked if we could continue the work, with more of a focus on non-work travel.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL https://speakerdeck.com/robinlovelace/the-oil-vulnerabilityof-commuter-patterns
 
Description Talk delivered at the Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact The CDRC is working with and supporting the Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership (LEP) in their activities to build a digital hub in the region. This talk by Professor Robson involved a presentation of CDRC research to an U.S. investor (the firm You42) looking to locate 400 jobs in the UK. You42 were also interested in how the CDRC is building human capital through its MSc programmes in big data approaches, given their need to recruit staff.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Talk delivered to Taiwanese government officials 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact This event was a visit by a delegation of senior officials from the Taiwanese government. The Leeds City Enterprise Region (LEP) was involved in the setting up of this event, which was a workshop on big data and Fintech. The workshop took place at LIDA's facilities. As well as involving CDRC research findings, the workshop involved presentations by Leeds City Council, Finexus, and Vodafone.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Talk for the Ministry of Justice 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Talk title: Micromodels for estimation and forecasting
Presentation to the Ministry of Justice the Modelling Hub, with Q&A afterwards. 30 people in attendance and recording/slides shared more widely in the organisation. Feedback that it was great to see examples of the modelling approaches from outside of government and also the collective use of the various open data sources, and the innovative use of this data for modelling.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Talk to data provider at CDRC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The talk was to inform my PhD data provider of my project and the intended use of the data that they provided

The were happy with my aims and the intended outcomes of my work. They also agreed to continue to provide more data if and when needed.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Talk to postgraduate students (11.03.2019) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact A talk to postgraduate students studying geodemographics and neighbourhood analysis. The talk was entitled 'building a composite indicator of food safety'. The talk generated some interesting discussions and questions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Talk to the University of Leeds Michael Beverley Innovation Fellowship group 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact I shared lessons learned working with industry to these fellows embarking on their own industry collaborations.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL http://www.leeds.ac.uk/info/102020/professional_development/873/michael_beverley_innovation_fellowsh...
 
Description Teacher training event - Royal Geographical Society (12.07.16) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact GIS teacher training event introducing GIS, spatial analysis and research in this domain including research carried out by the CDRC in retail, crime, health and food safety.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description TedX Superior Science 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Undergraduate students
Results and Impact Presentation generated questions and discussion

Raised the profile of Data Analytics as a postgraduate option, leading to an increase in MSc enquiries
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Telefonica Presentation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Generated discussions on potential collaborations

Introduction to new people in Telefonica; has led to specific proposals for data analytic projects and exchange of data including Telefonica 'campus party' asset
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description The Alan Turing Institute, UCL & QMUL: AI and Sustainable Cities workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact The workshop was a cross-institution event supported by The Alan Turing Institute bringing together research and third-party contributors to the sustainable cities AI community. I gave the opening keynote on location and proximity detection technologies.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description The Continental Divide? Economic Exposure to Brexit in Regions and Countries on both Sides of the Channel LIDA Seminar (13/12/2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact 27 attended this seminar in which Raquel Ortega-Argiles spoke about the degree to which EU regions are respectively exposed to negative trade related consequences of Brexit -- demonstrating that the UK would be the most negatively impacted.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/continental-divide-economic-exposure-brexit-regions-countries-sides-c...
 
Description The Future of Innovation - YOUR data 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Panel discussion covering all aspects of use of 'your data'.

The series brings together representatives from academia, business, government and society to explore and challenge 'big picture' topical issues. Each session will provide a platform for debate and meaningful discourse, as a range of expertise and opinions are brought together to discuss sectoral challenges and opportunities; leading to predictions for the future of innovation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://app.livestorm.co/nexus-6/the-future-of-innovation-your-data
 
Description The annual Partner Event for the Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Analytics and Society - Sept 2021 - Mark Birkin (chair) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact 24th September 2021, chairing the annual Partner Event for the Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Analytics and Society with 100 delegates comprising PhD students, supervisors and external project partners.
Advancing data sharing opportunities with research partners, also part of an explicit CDRC strategy to share data, case studies, methods advancement and other common interests with the CDT projects and students (through the CDRC Research Management Process).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description The answer to life, the universe and everything? Scrambling through international data to analyse the resource requirements of well-being LIDA Seminar (22/03/2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Dr Steinberger's presentation focused on her recent Nature Sustainability paper 'A good life for all within planetary boundaries'. This paper was produced by Dr Daniel O'Neill, Dr Andrew Fanning, Dr William Lamb and Dr Julie Steinberger. We also had talks from Jefim Vogel and Marta Baltruszewicz, PhD students at the University of Leeds. There was a lively discussion after the seminar of what it means to live within 'planetary boundaries' and which countries might be closest to achieving this. There was a significant mix in the audience of academics from lots of different faculties.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/answer-life-universe-everything/
 
Description The geography of bicycle crashes in West Yorkshire 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact People asked questions about the work and provided feedback.

People suggested next steps forward for the research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL https://speakerdeck.com/robinlovelace/the-geography-of-bicycle-crashes-in-west-yorkshire
 
Description The power of novel data to understand political sentiment (Stephen Clark 10.08.2017) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact CDRC researcher wrote blog article for PringerOpen blog discussing the power of novel data to understand political sentiment.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://blogs.springeropen.com/springeropen/2017/08/10/power-novel-data-understand-political-sentimen...
 
Description The roadmap for AI - the future of AI and geospatial, GeoBusiness 2021 - Mark Birkin - Nov 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Talk by Mark Birkin - 25th November 2021, The roadmap for AI - the future of AI and geospatial, GeoBusiness 2021, O2, London. 300 delegates.
Possible new partnership contacts e.g. in space and navigation. Disseminate awareness of data, data science and AI.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description The role of local level data in an applied approach to whole systems obesity: A multisector co-production featuring the ESRC Strategic Network for Obesity and PHE Whole Systems Approach to Obesity Programme 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This symposium presented multi sector perspective to use of data in obesity research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://4dy4nw40c4dd3grekq38yooy-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/UKCO-2016-Full-Pr...
 
Description The role of mathematics and statistics in data analytics (LIDA Seminar 21.02.2017) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Centre hosted seminar, external keynote speaker: Professor David Leslie, University of Lancaster
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/role-mathematics-statistics-data-analytics/
 
Description The role of new and emerging data in obesity research 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact This presentation was at an NCRM Agenda setting workshop on streaming analytics
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Theatre Workshops in Schools 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Nearly 90 year-five students were engaged in dramatic enquiry workshops conducted by Cap-a-Pie, a Newcastle-based theatre group. Through role play and other activities, these workshops sparked conversations and reflections around how decisions about food and nutrition are made in the family, how conflicting information about nutrition is dealt with, and issues of trust in the news media, scientists and the food industry among children. These workshops provided us formative insights that will inform the development of an upcoming grant application on strategies to deal with conflicting nutrition information.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Tour and Intro for Minister Counsellor Sunan (Head of Science & Technology Section of Chinese Embassy, UK) 14/05/2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Tour of LIDA, for Chinese Embassy group, specialising in Science & Technology, with the purpose of using their knowledge and influence to help develop relationships with new and existing partners in China.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Towards a probabilistic programming language for modelling complex systems LIDA Seminar (15/11/2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact 56 people from industry and across the University of Leeds attended to listen to Daniel Tang from CDRC data partner Improbable discuss the potential of moving towards a probabilistic programming language for modelling complex systems like footfall in a busy town centre or traffic flow around a road network. This workshop has partly arisen out of existing points of contact between CDRC and the data partner Improbable, including an internship which commenced in Oct 2018 with intern Luke Archer under the supervision of one of the other speakers at this event, Jonathan Ward.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/towards-probabilistic-programming-language-modelling-complex-systems/
 
Description Towards nature positive, smart net zero cities 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Aim: To re-imagine the cities of the future in leading the global fight against climate change and biodiversity loss.
Partners: Natural History Museum (NHM), Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG) Kew, & Science Museum Group (SMG)
Audience: 50 Leaders in government, NGO's, business, influencers & scientists.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Training in programming language R delivered to a large number of industry/ public sector partners, 3rd April 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact 41 attendees engaged with CDRC datasets and research in this one day training course delivered by Dr Richard Hodgett; delegates reported an interest in a more advanced follow on course in R in survey feedback afterwards.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Transport Systems Catapult Academic Network for Intelligent Mobility 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact This network will create an environment for exchange of ideas, knowledge, learning and the opportunity to promote collaboration. This network is currently the Transport Systems Catapultsprimary method of communicating with our academic stakeholders and researchers to tell them about our latest news events and opportunities
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Transport for the North Filming 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Researchers from the Propensity to Cycle Tool research team participated in filming for a Transport for the North video, to be used to promote transport projects in the North of England.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Turing Fellows After-Showcase dinner, hosted by Mark Birkin (13/09/2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Approx 20 Turing Fellows from seven University faculties celebrated their Turing Fellowships and networked with a view to future engagement across the Turing Network in fields of improving health outcomes, urban analytics, AI and machine learning, science for data science.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Turing Institute Trustees Meeting - Mark Birkin - 3rd March 2020 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact 20 people. To promote 'Social and Cultural World' to the Trustees of the Turing Institute.
Impact - goal to ensure long-term embedding of social, cultural and humanities as central elements in the national institute for data science and AI.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Turing Town Hall Meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Hosted a town hall meeting from Sir Alan Wilson, CEO of the Alan Turing Institute. Sir Alan discussed opportunities for collaboration between LIDA, CDRC and The Turing Institute.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Twenty times more English children could cycle to school with better transport planning - March 18th 2019 - Robin Lovelace 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact CDRC former Co-I (grant one) Robin Lovelace submitted this article to the online media channel The Conversation and it was shared 1.1k times over Facebook and 59 times over Twitter.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://theconversation.com/twenty-times-more-english-children-could-cycle-to-school-with-better-tra...
 
Description UK Biobank International Scientific Advisory Board meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Mark Birkin was invited to observe this annual Advisory Board meeting.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/international-scientific-advisory-board/
 
Description UK Biobank and Data Analytics (LIDA Seminar 22.09.16) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Centre hosted seminar, external presenter: Dr Tim Peakman, Biobank UK
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/uk-biobank-data-analytics/
 
Description UK Prevention Research Partnership (UKPRP) ActEarly Workshop, Bradford - Mark Birkin - 26th Sept 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact UK Prevention Research Partnership (UKPRP) ActEarly Workshop, Bradford.
Opportunity for academic, practice, policy and community partners to share ideas and plan projects, and also provide a creative space to support learning and evaluation of City Collaboratories. CDRC PI Mark Birkin attended. Follow-on event on 10th January at the Wolfson in Bradford.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description UK-China Knowledge Exploitation Consortium- Workshop on nexus of smart energy, intelligent manufacturing and transportation systems 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Smart Energy Workshop - understanding data problems in the energy sector and how academic can collaborate with business.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL http://ukchinaconsortium.com/leeds-workshop
 
Description UKDS Impact Blog Post - What effect does my research have? (23.04.2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Blog post for the UK Data Service Impact Blog entitled, 'What effect does my research have on the world?'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL http://blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/what-effect-does-my-research-have-on-the-world/
 
Description UKRI FLF Core Panel meeting - Mark Birkin - 29th-30th Jan 2020 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact CDRC PI Mark Birkin was invited to become a member of the Future Leaders Fellowship Core Panel College by Sir Mark Walport of UKRI.
The FLF scheme aims to develop, retain, attract and sustain research and innovation talent in the UK.
Appointed for 2 years initially, with opportunity to extend.
70 people.
Ensured awareness of consumer data agenda in £900M Future Leaders programme and funding allocation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description UKRI Panel discussion - Mark Birkin - 10th June 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact UKRI Panel discussion, Leeds. Sir Mark Walport visited the University. Presentations by CDRC PI Mark Birkin and LIDA researchers in the afternoon, followed by a Panel discussion in the evening. Raised awareness of consumer data research to Chief Exec of UKRI.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description US National Academy of Sciences Expert Consensus Panel on "Communicating Science Effectively: A Research Agenda." 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact An expert panel organised by the US National Academy of Sciences prepared a consensus report on The Science of Science Communication, which was made publicly available online and released in a public event that was web-casted all over the world.
Report: https://www.nap.edu/read/23674/chapter/2
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL https://www8.nationalacademies.org/cp/CommitteeView.aspx?key=49754
 
Description US National Academy of Sciences, Science of Science Communication Colloquium III 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Presentation and debate about how to work in interdisciplinary teams involving psychologists and engineers
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHi44_VTDWI&index=17&list=PLGJm1x3XQeK2xwsj2vkRgovtvIWSNstex&t=0s
 
Description Uber for coaches: can these start-ups revolutionise intercity travel? (SGM 16.08.17) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Prof Susan Grant Muller discusses tech driven personal transport services. Article published in the Guardian.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/aug/16/uber-for-coaches-can-these-startups-rev...
 
Description Understanding House Prices at the local level 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact A blog post about the relationship between small area income and house prices, used in conjunction with the report publication to boost reach. The blog received over 80 unique views in the first two weeks since publication.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL http://natcen.ac.uk/blog/understanding-house-prices-at-a-local-level
 
Description Understanding Input Data Requirements and Quantifying Uncertainty for Successfully Modelling 'Smart' Cities. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Presentation to the 3rd International Workshop on Agent-Based Modelling of Urban Systems (ABMUS), part of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2018). 10-15 July, Stockholm
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://urban-analytics.github.io/dust/p/2018-07-15-abmus-da.html
 
Description University of Leeds Be Curious Public Engagement Event 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Activities stand discussing the use of data to make the world a better place. Activities aimed at children and their parents which sparked discussion around the ethics for data access and security. In general members of the pubic were supportive of beneficial data uses but wanted transparency and consent.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018,2019
 
Description University of Leeds Career Fair 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Undergraduate students
Results and Impact CDRC showcased our Training and Capacity Building activities to Undergraduate and potential Postgraduate students, which led to an increase in training attendance, as well as applications to the MSc Consumer Analytics and Marketing Strategy course and the CDT Data Analytics and Society.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description University of Sydney Open Research Day (10.12.2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation delivered at a research open day at the University of Sydney, Australia. The talk was entitled 'The use of consumer generated data for monitoring foodborne illness' and sparked questions and interesting discussions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description University of Trieste, Department of Life Sciences 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Title: A behavioral decision research approach to developing effective environmental and health communications
Abstract: Members of the general public and stakeholders from industry and government face difficult decisions about environmental and health risks. Experts in environmental and health domains face the challenge of communicating about those risks to various audiences without a background in health or environmental science. Such communication efforts may fail if experts lack an understanding of their audience, what language they prefer, and what information they need or want to make more informed decisions. In this presentation, I will present a behavioral decision research approach towards developing effective communications. Examples focus on sustainability, climate change, and HIV prevention, but recommendations can be applied across multiple domains.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Urban Analytics: Example projects from LIDA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Invited presentation to the Office for National Statistics, 27th July, Titchfield.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://surf.leeds.ac.uk/p/2017-07-27-ONS-LIDA-UrbanAnlalytics.html
 
Description Use of Sensitive Data for Research and Privacy Concerns (LIDA Seminar 30.06.2016) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Centre hosted seminar, external presenter: Prof Mark Elliott, University of Manchester
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/event/lida-seminar-use-sensitive-data-research-privacy-concerns/
 
Description UseMyData patient group workshop: Other options for linkable lifestyle data - what about your supermarket loyalty card 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Patients, carers and/or patient groups
Results and Impact I presented as part of a wider panel and extensive questions and discussion followed. Follow up activities with attendees are taking place.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://www.usemydata.org/resources/use%20MY%20data_data%20workshop%20260117_agenda%20-%20updated%202...
 
Description Using Data Science to Improve Public Outcomes 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This was a webinar presented to a cohort of professionals involved in various related projects in and around the Blackpool area.

It was an update on the ActEarly: Holme Wood project, with presentations by all the interns involved in the "Holme Wood Process".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Variant population projections are more important than ever (Nik Lomax 05.11.17) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Dr Nik Lomax discusses variant population projections in a bid to raise the profile of population geography. Blog published in popgeog blog.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://popgeog.org/2017/11/30/variant-population-projections-are-more-important-than-ever/
 
Description Video interview for Alumniportal, Germany 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The Alumniportal Deutschland is a social network designed to promote networking and sharing of information among Germany-Alumni, companies, universities and organisations. It offers its users the opportunity to get in touch with Germany-Alumni from around the world as well as companies in order to discuss specialist issues, develop their skills and benefit from the expertise of others. The video interview was on sustainable consumption and is part of the sustainable future focus topic.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.alumniportal-deutschland.org/en/focus-topics/sustainable-future
 
Description Vikki Jenneson: Poster Presentation at FENS 2019 conference in Dublin Oct 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Poster presentation using PhD partner, Sainsbury's, transaction data to look at fruit and veg consumption and compliance with Eatwell guide recommendations.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL http://www.fens2019.org/
 
Description Visit for data aquisition 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Talk resulted in an agreement for data aquisition

Data has been acquired for research
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Visit of Baroness Nicky Morgan, Secretary of State for Dept of Culture, Media and Sport - 24th Jan 2020 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact 20 people. Discussion of advances in AI for Health Care and Medicine including opportunity to promote the importance of consumer data as an element of 'multi-modal' data for medical diagnosis and care.
Outcome: ongoing collaborations, possible opportunity for resources e.g. relating to NHS-X investment strategy.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Visit to the China National Centre for Food Safety Risk Assessment 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presentation followed by a meeting with software demonstration. Approximately 20 delegates from the China National Centre for Food Safety Risk Assessment attended my talk: The role of big data in health research: case studies of obesity and foodborne illness.
Questions and discussion on aspects of dietary assessment, syndromic surveillance and population modelling followed. In a meeting with the nutrition team, following the talk, I provided a demonstration of the myfood24 online dietary assessment tool and further discussion on techniques for population modelling, including spatial microsimulation. Detailed discussion on data sources in China took place.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Visit to the Chinese University of Hong Kong - Seminar: The role of big data in health research: obesity as a case study 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Approx 50 delegates form the School of Public Health and Primary Care, Hospital staff and WUN workshop members attended a talk. A collaboration session followed where we developed ideas for future collaborations.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre Launch event - 12th Oct 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact ESRC VPRC launch event with heavily external audience of 100-200 guests invited to the School of Law. The Data Scientist Development Programme was presented and discussed as a key mechanism for bringing data solutions to social, criminal and economic challenges affecting Bradford communities and council members and emergency services. CDRC Co-ordinator and DSDP Co-ordinator Kylie Norman was in attendance and spoke about the DSDP at the invitation of VPRC PI Dan Birks.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description WUN Research Open Day: Digital Health & Multidisciplinary Collaboration, Sydney 2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 120 delegates from a range of audiences attended this open day that provided a range of short talks from different disciplines in the broad remit of digital health. Questions and discussion followed each talk, one of which was about my work at LIDA and the CDRC. I additionally contributed to a panel discussion at the end
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/research-open-day-digital-health-multidisciplinary-collaboration-tic...
 
Description Web Archives: A Tool for Geographical Research? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact A blog entry about the CDRC-funded research project
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://blogs.bl.uk/webarchive/2018/09/web-archives-a-tool-for-geographical-research.html
 
Description Webinar - Digital Health Initiatives in the COVID-19 Crisis and Their Sustainability 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact This webinar which I co-chaired reached digital health researchers and professionals from around the world.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.isdh2020.org/programme
 
Description Webinar - Future of Digital Health in the Post-COVID-19 Era 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This webinar which I opened with an overview of an earlier webinar reached digital health professionals internationally.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.isdh2020.org/programme
 
Description Webinar - Managing Sustainability in Exporting 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Webinar on "Managing Sustainability in Exporting" to members of La Fabrique de l'Exportation (French Exporting thinktank), France November 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL http://www.fabrique-exportation.fr/events/strategic-sustainability-management-and-exporting-2/
 
Description Webinar for Business community in Leeds, Manchester 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Nik Lomax was invited as a panel member to talk about AI for the business community based in Leeds and Manchester. There was extensive conversation about the role of AI and digital twins, follow up emails and connections through professional networks (e.g. Twitter, Linkedin).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.panintelligence.com/predictive-analytics-myths-separating-bi-tool-facts-from-fiction/
 
Description Webinar on Capabilities in Consumer Analytics for Leeds Digital Festival 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact This webinar was run as part of the annual Leeds Digital Festival. All of the pre-registered 163 attendees were either participants of the Festival (presenters and attendees; who could be experienced business practitioners, the general public, or current students), or ALUMNI of the University of Leeds (i.e., business practitioners). Accordingly, most of the audience were business people with stated interests in marketing, digital, and big data analytics. The one-hour session comprised a formal presentation with a digitally assisted Q&A at the end. An audio recording of the session was made and this is being made available through the University of Leeds' Virtual Learning Environment. The webinar led to subsequent conversations with practitioners about their potential involvement with the CDRC.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://leedsdigitalfestival.org/online-webinar-capabilities-consumer-analytics/mat_robson-1600x900/
 
Description Webinar: Using Data Science for Public Good in Holme Wood and Bradford 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Updates on the ActEarly: Holme Wood projects and other Bradford-based data science projects applying the "Holme Wood process."

- An overview of the data science process being used and its importance in the policy-making context. Topics such as community engagement, data challenges, and use of open source data
- Presentations by 7 Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (LIDA) data scientists who are working on the current Holme Wood projects (Healthy Choices, Mental Health, and Life Choices/Aspirations) and 4 additional Bradford-based projects.

The outcomes were that a number of requests for a recording of the video were made so that updates could be shared with people who were invited but not able to attend. Furthermore a data repository for Bradford was announced and demonstrated in the session.

I had a number of questions to answer during the webinar and afterwards.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Website for OpenInfra project 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact OpenInfra project (CDRC Internship 2021-2022, supervisors: R. Lovelace, V. Houlden, E. Manley) aims to develop a package to ease the use of OpenStreetMap data in transport research. As part of that, a website has been launched and a couple of articles have been published so far. One of them received substantial interest on Twitter. It has amassed 124 likes and 41 re-tweets as of 10 March 2022. Link: https://twitter.com/robinlovelace/status/1498952906015264769
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://udsleeds.github.io/openinfra/articles/openinfra.html
 
Description Westminster workshop: Big data research, policy and public engagement 22nd Sept 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact This workshop was to review the big data research landscape and the challenges faced in developing policy and public engagement in this area. This involved senior policy makers from across government and representative from local agencies, and leading researchers in the field. The purpose of the workshop was to identify a set of actions that needed to be invested in.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description What does supermarket loyalty card data reveal about food purchase behaviours? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact This blog article summarises the work presented at the FENS conference. It is an accessible format for the general public and industrial partners to access and understand our research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016,2019
URL https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/news-archive/what-does-supermarket-loyalty-card-data-reveal-about-food-purcha...
 
Description What is research impact and why is it important? (Rachel Oldroyd 03.05.17) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact CDRC PhD Student wrote a blog article on her project with the Food Standards Agency, explaining what research impact is and why it is important. Published on UKDS website, republished on CDRC website.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/what-is-research-impact-and-why-is-it-so-important/
 
Description What the UK population will look like by 2061 under hard, soft or no Brexit scenarios - 30th May 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Conversation media Channel got in touch with CDRC Co-Director Nik Lomax to ask for an article on Brexit. Shared 228 times over Facebook and 32 over Twitter.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://theconversation.com/what-the-uk-population-will-look-like-by-2061-under-hard-soft-or-no-brex...
 
Description Whole Systems Obesity National Conference: Data and Information workshop (x2) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact As chair of two 'Data and Information' workshops involving presentations, panel discussion and a practical activity for policy makers involved in the Whole Systems Obesity project co-ordinated by Leeds Beckett University I facilitated discussion and observed learning from the audience and changes tot heir perspective for what they could do in this data and information space with respect to obesity (and other health and lifestyle behaviours)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/wholesystemsobesity/
 
Description William Young's research was the focus of a video produced by Nexus in collaboration with Asda - 14th May 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact https://twitter.com/nexusunileeds/status/1128240539705454592. CDRC Co-I William Young's research was the main feature in a video released by Leeds University, Nexus, in collaboration with his research collaborator Asda. The subject was his research on helping Asda to gain insight into customers' behaviours in an effort to tackle food waste. The tweet releasing the video on 14th May 2019 was shared widely and made a number of impressions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://twitter.com/nexusunileeds/status/1128240539705454592
 
Description Working Meeting with Dr Phiippe Bracke, Bank of England expert on housing 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Discussed the project with Philippe Bracke (Economist specializing in housing in Bank of England) who provided helpful insights to the work and have himself learnt about our initiative. He promised to make aware hios collegues at the Bank of England of this research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Working with Asda on predicting sales of green labelled products using Asda's sales data 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Have developed a model to predict sales of green labelled products using Asda's sales data.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015,2016,2017
 
Description Workshop - AGILE PhD School 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact The AGILE PhD school brings together PhD students from different countries. The purpose of the school is for PhD students to exchange ideas. This will allow them to:
• Gain insight about the nature of GI science is, to be exposed to the diversity of fields and common features of our domain
• Exchange about the PhD process itself
• Develop their own networks
The school offers a platform for PhD students to present their research to date, their future activities and critically to discuss the GI-related methods and the context for their research.
I ran an Expert Session entitled "Hands on practical on Agent Based Modelling in LIDA"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://surf.leeds.ac.uk/p/2017-10-ABM_AGILE_Summer_School.html
 
Description Workshop demonstrating the National Propensity to Cycle Tool to 30+ transport planners, consultants and researchers 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Many people tested the NPCT and provided very useful feedback on its performance.

West Yorkshire Combined Authority and Transport for Greater Manchester would like to commission work on using their tool for regional planning.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL https://twitter.com/robinlovelace/status/613994659736649728
 
Description Workshop for academics delivered in collaboration with Tableau, 22nd Feb 2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Tableau Workshop devised by Prof Roy Ruddle with two Tableau experts Archana and Thierry in order to promote CDRC research and datasets and Tableau software with attendees. 40 people attended a full day of training from a range of universities including UCL, Sheffield, Manchester and Leeds, promoting research community networking.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Workshop for clinical & health services researchers and related disciplines 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact The talk was part of a broader event sharing information between colleagues within a Medical Research Council Centre for Medical Bioinformatics.

Began discussion with a number of medical colleagues regarding potential for interdisciplinary projects linking consumer data to health sciences.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Workshop on Digital Transport Markets, Royal Society - Mark Birkin - Feb 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact CDRC Co-Director Mark Birkin attended and spoke at a workshop on 24th February 2022, Workshop on Digital Transport Markets, Royal Society, London.
Meeting included a number of scientific advisers to government and business. Opportunity to promote a joined up approach to data sharing and continue to emphasise to government the importance of better mechanisms for ownership, access and regulation of digital data in transport (and beyond).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Workshop onnecting LIDA and Retailer expertise - 5th Feb 2020 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Outcome: CDRC Co-I Michelle Morris now sits as an advisor on the British Food Nutrition Panel by invitation of the Director of Nutrition at the retailer (Judith Batchelor). Disucssions over formalising a training partnership with the retailer (contracts currently under negotiation).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Workshop with DEFRA regarding digitising the food system 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact This meeting/workshop involved members of the Food and Drink teams at DEFRA and collaborators from Sainsbury's. Animated discussions took place about how more novel sources of data could be made available for research and policy makers to better understand the food system. Follow on projects are planned.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Workshop with DSTL, Evaluation of actions in a complex environment - Mark Birkin - Jan 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact CDRC Co-Director Mark Birkin attended and spoke at a workshop on 20th January 2022 - Workshop with DSTL, Evaluation of actions in a complex environment.
Monitor opportunities for sharing technology and methods between engineering and social/consumer science applications. Possible follow on events or joint project opportunities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Workshop with Improbable on simulation modelling for decision-making and intelligence analysis - Mark Birkin (July 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact 8th July 2021: CDRC Co-Director Mark Birkin attended a workshop on simulation modelling for decision-making and intelligence analysis, organised by CDRC's partner in the VR and gaming sector, Improbable Worlds. 40 colleagues from Improbable, government, University of Leeds and the Alan Turing Institute attended, and the event was a platform for sharing technology and research opportunities (including PhD sponsorship) with Improbable, who have also written in support of linked funding opportunities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Workshop: Connecting LIDA and Retailer expertise 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact This workshop showcased collaborative research between the University of Leeds and Sainsbury's. Engaging discussions took place and plans for future work made.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Wrote an article for The Conversation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact This article garnered over 62,000 reads and triggered a lively exchange among readers. Also, it was picked up by prestigious media including The Independent and Scroll.in. The article led to me being interviewed by Cape Talk, a South African radio channel with a listenership of more than a million, and invitation to write an op-ed commentary for The Deccan Chronicle, one of the leading English-language newspapers in India.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://theconversation.com/pseudoscience-is-taking-over-social-media-and-putting-us-all-at-risk-121...
 
Description Yorkshire Post article: Snacking habits of first year students at University of Leeds revealed in study - 13/04/2020 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact CDRC Co-I Michelle Morris and researcher Stephen Clark's research (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-nutrition/article/assessing-diet-in-a-university-student-population-a-longitudinal-food-card-transaction-data-approach/916E78B5B7F4F261F9FC3DA2CA39594C) in partnership with Edge & Refresh into the snacking habits of first year Leeds University students was picked up by the Yorkshire Post in this article after the paper was released online.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/education/snacking-habits-first-year-students-university-leeds-revea...
 
Description Yorkshire Water: Ideas Inspiring Innovation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact The presentation generated questions, discussion and informal networking afterwards. The video of the presentation generated 123 online views.

Introductions to new contacts in Yorkshire Water and discussions about possible future collaborations
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Your parents lifestyle can determine your health - even as an adult (Sandy Tubeuf 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Obesity Network member, Sandy Tubeuf, discusses how parents lifestyle can determine their child's health throughout their life. Originally published in The Conversation, republished in the Huffington Post and the Daily Mail.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://theconversation.com/your-parents-lifestyles-can-determine-your-health-even-as-an-adult-86879
 
Description conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact around 20 academicians and practitioners attended the talk and the talk sparked questions and discussions afterwards.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description workshop on New and Emerging Data Forms 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact workshop on the role of new and emerging data in the transport sector.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description • United States Association for Energy Economics (USAEE)/ International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) North American Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presentation and discussion afterwards
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015