Urban Big Data Centre
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Glasgow
Department Name: School of Social & Political Sciences
Abstract
The Urban Big Data Centre aims to promote innovative research methods and the use of big data to improve social, economic and environmental well-being in cities. Traditionally, quantitative urban analysis relied on data designed for research purposes: Census and social surveys, in particular. Their qualities are well understood and the skills needed for extracting knowledge from them widely shared by social researchers. With the arrival of the digital age, we produce an ever increasing volume of data as we go about our daily lives from physical sensors, business and public administrative systems, or social media platforms, for example. These data have the potential to provide valuable insights into urban life but there are many more challenges in extracting useful knowledge from them. Some are technical, arising from the volume and variety of data, and its less structured nature. Some are legal and ethical, concerning data ownership rights and individual privacy rights.
Above all, there are important social science issues in the use of big data. We need to shape the questions we ask of these data with an informed perspective on urban problems and contexts, and not have data drive the research. There is a need to ask questions about the data themselves and how they affect the resulting representations of urban life. And there is a need to examine the ways in which these data are taken up by policy makers and used in decision making.
UBDC is a research centre which brings together an outstanding multi-disciplinary team to address these complex and varied challenges. We are a unique combination of four capacities: social scientists with expertise from a range of disciplinary backgrounds relevant to urban studies; data scientists with expertise in programming, data management, information retrieval and spatial information systems, as well as in legal issues around big data use; a data infrastructure comprising a substantial data collection and secure data management and analysis systems; and an academic group with strong connections to policy, industry and civil society organisations developed over the course of phase one and wider work.
In the second phase, our objectives are to maximise the social and economic benefits of activities from phase one. We will do this in particular through partnerships with industrial and government stakeholders, working together to produce analyses which meet their needs as well as having wider application. We will continue to publish world-leading scientific papers across a range of disciplines. We will work to enhance data collections and develop new methods of analysis. We will conduct research to understand the quality of these new data, how well they represent or misrepresent particular aspects of life, and how they are and could be used by policy makers in practice. Lastly, we will build capacity for researchers and others to work with this kind of data in future.
Our work programme comprises four thematic work packages. One focuses on understanding the sustainability, equity and efficiency of urban transport systems and on evaluating the impacts on these of infrastructure investments. There is a particular focus on public transport accessibility as well as active travel and hence health outcomes. The second examines the changing residential structure of cities or patterns of spatial segregation, and their consequences for social equity, with a particular focus on the re-growth of private renting. The third studies how urban systems shape skills development and productivity and, in particular, how the combination of home and school environments combine to shape secondary educational attainment. The fourth explores how big data are being taken up by policy makers. It asks what the barriers are to more effective use of these data but also whether they distort the picture of needs which a public body may form.
Above all, there are important social science issues in the use of big data. We need to shape the questions we ask of these data with an informed perspective on urban problems and contexts, and not have data drive the research. There is a need to ask questions about the data themselves and how they affect the resulting representations of urban life. And there is a need to examine the ways in which these data are taken up by policy makers and used in decision making.
UBDC is a research centre which brings together an outstanding multi-disciplinary team to address these complex and varied challenges. We are a unique combination of four capacities: social scientists with expertise from a range of disciplinary backgrounds relevant to urban studies; data scientists with expertise in programming, data management, information retrieval and spatial information systems, as well as in legal issues around big data use; a data infrastructure comprising a substantial data collection and secure data management and analysis systems; and an academic group with strong connections to policy, industry and civil society organisations developed over the course of phase one and wider work.
In the second phase, our objectives are to maximise the social and economic benefits of activities from phase one. We will do this in particular through partnerships with industrial and government stakeholders, working together to produce analyses which meet their needs as well as having wider application. We will continue to publish world-leading scientific papers across a range of disciplines. We will work to enhance data collections and develop new methods of analysis. We will conduct research to understand the quality of these new data, how well they represent or misrepresent particular aspects of life, and how they are and could be used by policy makers in practice. Lastly, we will build capacity for researchers and others to work with this kind of data in future.
Our work programme comprises four thematic work packages. One focuses on understanding the sustainability, equity and efficiency of urban transport systems and on evaluating the impacts on these of infrastructure investments. There is a particular focus on public transport accessibility as well as active travel and hence health outcomes. The second examines the changing residential structure of cities or patterns of spatial segregation, and their consequences for social equity, with a particular focus on the re-growth of private renting. The third studies how urban systems shape skills development and productivity and, in particular, how the combination of home and school environments combine to shape secondary educational attainment. The fourth explores how big data are being taken up by policy makers. It asks what the barriers are to more effective use of these data but also whether they distort the picture of needs which a public body may form.
Planned Impact
In line with our overall aim, we will work to maximise impacts from our research, new datasets we produce and the development of novel methods or new applications of existing ones. In doing so, we will demonstrate the value of big data and urban analytics. The intended beneficiaries continue to be extremely diverse (businesses, small and large; government/public bodies; and civil society), both national and international. For phase two, we concentrate our efforts on industrial and public sectors, as outlined below.
Industrial impact
In phase one, UBDC supported or collaborated with 33 private companies working in information management, mobility and transport, housing and geospatial data infrastructure, among others. Our next phase involves a number of new and continuing collaborations as noted in the Work Packages (WP), with potential benefits for those firms but also for the wider markets in which they operate.
In WP1, for example, our analysis of rail data will be of direct benefit to our industrial partner as new knowledge aims to support their activities to increase ridership. The knowledge and methods we develop will be relevant across the industry as well as being of value to public bodies such as rail regulators and transport planners more generally. Our efforts to understand cycling behaviour in response to infrastructure investment will benefit the growing bike sharing industry, as well as public bodies responsible for infrastructure investment and agencies with a remit for promotion of active travel.
In WP2, we are working with two property listings firms to better understand the qualities of their data and enrich them through integration with other sources. These engagements offer direct benefits to them in terms of the value of their data assets. Our results will benefit the wider private renting industry (landlords and agents) through a better understanding of this emerging, dynamic sector. Research in partnership with the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) will shed light on the impacts of recent regulatory changes, enabling market actors to take a more informed position in relation to these.
Impact for government and public bodies
In phase one, UBDC worked with 17 government and public bodies at UK, devolved, regional and local tiers. We sought to produce positive impacts in specific policy domains (housing and planning, transport, health and social care, education) and we engaged at a more strategic level to support efforts by city governments in the UK and internationally to develop urban analytics initiatives. We will extend this strategy in phase two.
In discussing industrial impact, we have already identified a number of areas where we will seek parallel impacts on public policy. In WP3, we will produce new knowledge on the gaps in educational attainment from school and neighbourhood, with widespread application within educational policy at national and local levels. We will cast new light on the relatively neglected area of educational careers within FE and the extent to which these contribute to filling regional skills gaps in key sectors such as engineering and construction.
In WP4, we will provide new understanding of how online reporting tools represent (or misrepresent) citizens' needs to public bodies. This knowledge has very widespread application in enabling local authorities and other public bodies to use such tools in ways which support fairer and more efficient distribution of resources, rather than undermining them. Other work in this stream will support efforts to make urban big data more useable and useful by enhancing data standards, continuing work from phase one.
At the strategic level, we will work with Glasgow and Edinburgh City Deals to help them identify how big data and urban analytics can inform the monitoring and evaluation of their major investment programmes, with potential wider value for other City Deals and urban authorities more generally.
Industrial impact
In phase one, UBDC supported or collaborated with 33 private companies working in information management, mobility and transport, housing and geospatial data infrastructure, among others. Our next phase involves a number of new and continuing collaborations as noted in the Work Packages (WP), with potential benefits for those firms but also for the wider markets in which they operate.
In WP1, for example, our analysis of rail data will be of direct benefit to our industrial partner as new knowledge aims to support their activities to increase ridership. The knowledge and methods we develop will be relevant across the industry as well as being of value to public bodies such as rail regulators and transport planners more generally. Our efforts to understand cycling behaviour in response to infrastructure investment will benefit the growing bike sharing industry, as well as public bodies responsible for infrastructure investment and agencies with a remit for promotion of active travel.
In WP2, we are working with two property listings firms to better understand the qualities of their data and enrich them through integration with other sources. These engagements offer direct benefits to them in terms of the value of their data assets. Our results will benefit the wider private renting industry (landlords and agents) through a better understanding of this emerging, dynamic sector. Research in partnership with the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) will shed light on the impacts of recent regulatory changes, enabling market actors to take a more informed position in relation to these.
Impact for government and public bodies
In phase one, UBDC worked with 17 government and public bodies at UK, devolved, regional and local tiers. We sought to produce positive impacts in specific policy domains (housing and planning, transport, health and social care, education) and we engaged at a more strategic level to support efforts by city governments in the UK and internationally to develop urban analytics initiatives. We will extend this strategy in phase two.
In discussing industrial impact, we have already identified a number of areas where we will seek parallel impacts on public policy. In WP3, we will produce new knowledge on the gaps in educational attainment from school and neighbourhood, with widespread application within educational policy at national and local levels. We will cast new light on the relatively neglected area of educational careers within FE and the extent to which these contribute to filling regional skills gaps in key sectors such as engineering and construction.
In WP4, we will provide new understanding of how online reporting tools represent (or misrepresent) citizens' needs to public bodies. This knowledge has very widespread application in enabling local authorities and other public bodies to use such tools in ways which support fairer and more efficient distribution of resources, rather than undermining them. Other work in this stream will support efforts to make urban big data more useable and useful by enhancing data standards, continuing work from phase one.
At the strategic level, we will work with Glasgow and Edinburgh City Deals to help them identify how big data and urban analytics can inform the monitoring and evaluation of their major investment programmes, with potential wider value for other City Deals and urban authorities more generally.
Organisations
- University of Glasgow (Lead Research Organisation)
- Medical Research Council (MRC) (Collaboration)
- OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON (Collaboration)
- Institute of Transport Economics (Norway) (Collaboration)
- North Lanarkshire Council (Collaboration)
- Digital Office for Scottish Local Government (Collaboration)
- NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) (Collaboration)
- GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- Ordnance Survey (Collaboration)
- British Standards Institute (BSI Group) (Collaboration)
- Government of Scotland (Collaboration)
- British Red Cross (Collaboration)
- GLASGOW CITY COUNCIL (Collaboration)
- British Council (Collaboration)
- Cycling Scotland (Collaboration)
- Transport Scotland (Collaboration)
- STRATHCLYDE PARTNERSHIP FOR TRANSPORT (Collaboration)
- Code the City (Collaboration)
- Salvation Army (Collaboration)
- Adzuna (Collaboration)
- Registers of Scotland (Collaboration)
- Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Collaboration)
- Scottish Power Ltd (Collaboration)
- Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) (Collaboration)
- HUQ INDUSTRIES LIMITED (Collaboration)
- Uber Technologies Inc. (Collaboration)
- Scottish Parliament (Collaboration)
- Locomizer (Collaboration)
- Bike Citizens (Collaboration)
- University of Portsmouth (Collaboration)
- Strava, Inc (Collaboration)
- The Data Lab - Innovation Centre (Collaboration)
- TAMOCO LIMITED (Collaboration)
- Sustrans (Collaboration)
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- Norwegian School of Economics (Collaboration)
- Glasgow Centre for Population Health (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Cabinet Office (Collaboration)
- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) (Collaboration)
- Lumiere Property (Collaboration)
- Improvement Service (Collaboration)
- CREATe (RCUK Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy) (Collaboration)
- University of Seoul (Collaboration)
- University of East London (Project Partner)
- Hometrack Data Systems Ltd (Project Partner)
- Peter Brett Associates (Project Partner)
- STRAVA METRO (Project Partner)
- George Hazel Consultancy (Project Partner)
- Austin-Smith & Lord (Project Partner)
- Abellio Group (Project Partner)
- Urban Tide (Project Partner)
- Sustrans (Project Partner)
- The Scottish Parliament (Project Partner)
- SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT (Project Partner)
- CITYLETS (Project Partner)
Publications
Ampountolas K
(2020)
Motorway Tidal Flow Lane Control
in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
An L
(2023)
Modeling agent decision and behavior in the light of data science and artificial intelligence
in Environmental Modelling & Software
Andres L
(2022)
Routledge Handbook of the Sociology of Higher Education
Anejionu O
(2019)
Spatial urban data system: A cloud-enabled big data infrastructure for social and economic urban analytics
in Future Generation Computer Systems
Anejionu OCD
(2019)
Great Britain transport, housing, and employment access datasets for small-area urban area analytics.
in Data in brief
Antosz P
(2023)
What do you want theory for? - A pragmatic analysis of the roles of "theory" in agent-based modelling
in Environmental Modelling & Software
Bailey N
(2023)
Housing and welfare reform, and the suburbanization of poverty in UK cities 2011-20
in Housing Studies
Bailey N
(2019)
The welfare consequences of the suburbanisation of poverty in UK cities: air pollution and school quality
in Urban Development Issues
Bailey N
(2020)
Poverty and the re-growth of private renting in the UK, 1994-2018
in PLOS ONE
| Description | The overall aim of UBDC is to explore the use of smart data (aka 'digital footprints data' or 'new forms of data') and innovative research methods to improve social, economic and environmental well-being in cities. As a research centre, we have produced new knowledge about cities and urban systems as well as new knowledge on the value of smart data for urban research. Our work has developed innovative methods for urban analytics and we have contributed substantially to enhancing research capabilities through advanced educational and training programmes. UBDC also provides a national data service for smart data for urban analysis. Contributions stemming from that work are reported under the relevant award although there is some cross-over with research centre activity. Knowledge of the urban system UBDC has made significant contributions to domain-based knowledge of the urban system and the role of public policy in shaping socio-economic and environmental outcomes. Our work pays close attention to urban inequalities and the challenges arising from climate change and sustainability. In relation to active and sustainable travel, for example, we have used user-generated app data to show the importance of segregated cycle infrastructure for encouraging growth in cycling and widening participation (Hong, McArthur, and Livingston, 2020; Hong, McArthur, and Raturi, 2020; Hong, McArthur, and Stewart, 2020). Fung, McArthur, and Hong (2021) use the same data to identify a hysteresis effect from a temporary subway closure as some of the growth in cycling persisted when the subway reopened, supporting the idea that other kinds of temporary intervention might raise cycling rates in the long-term. In housing, for example, work on long-term rentals (private renting) used licensed data from a major property listings firm, combined with survey and administrative data, to show how the sector has come to play an increasing role in housing those in poverty as a result of direct policy efforts. (Bailey 2020). We also show some of the unintended impacts of housing and welfare policies which have contributed to the suburbanisation of poverty in UK cities (Bailey et al 2023). We contribute to the international literature on the impacts of regulation on rents using a natural experiment arising from changes implemented in Scotland but not elsewhere in the UK (Bailey et al, 2023). Hastings et al (2021) use local authority call centre records to show the unequal and gendered impacts of austerity on local public service users. Our work is often intended to feed directly into current policy debates. Work on short-term rentals using web-scraped data has shown how higher-frequency collection of data provides a richer understanding of activity levels and financial returns in this market, and hence helps identify the neighbourhoods most at risk of losing long-term housing supply (Wang et al, 2023, 2024). Other work examines more general urban systems or challenges. A series of publications have focused on alleviating the growing issues of extreme heat in urban environments, by analysing how these are shaped by urban form and green space planning using high-resolution thermal satellite/airborne imagery and urban microclimate simulation (Hao et al., 2023; Park et al., 2023; Wang et al., 2021; Yang et al., 2021). We have shown how street view images can be used to improve predictions of building energy efficiency (Sun et al., 2022) and traced social and spatial variations in domestic energy efficiency to show the limited progress being made to date (Buyuklieva et al 2024). The Integrated Multimedia City Database (iMCD) (Lido et al., 2020; Thakuriah et al., 2020; Thakuriah et al., 2023) supported the development of Learning City metrics (Lido et al. 2018), and analysis of the links from financial literacy and numeracy to travel behaviour (Hong et al, 2019) as well as adult learning engagement (Lido et al. 2016). Knowledge of smart data and its qualities A core concern in UBDC's work is around questions of representativeness or bias within smart data and, in particular, whether marginalised groups such as those on low incomes are under-represented. This is particularly problematic with user-generated data due to problems of selection bias but can arise in many other ways, for example through the reliance on data from business systems where incomes may limit or prevent consumption or from public services where other forms of exclusion may operate. A key contribution of UBDC has been the enhancement of methods for assessing representativeness in several major smart data collections, related to cycling (McArthur et al 2019), housing (Livingston et al, 2021) and mobility (Sinclair et al, 2023), as well as of the open data platform OpenStreetMap (Herfort et al., 2023). Methodological developments We have made multiple contributions to methods for assessing the quality of smart data and enhancing their value. With mobile phone app data, for example, we have developed improved methods for estimating home locations for users, demonstrating significant improvements over earlier algorithms (Sinclair et al 2023). Home locations provide the basis for almost all subsequent uses of these data through estimates of population representativeness, and the development of weights to reduce bias and indicators of socio-economic status of users. We have also developed and assessed methods for identifying stay points (visits) and hence identifying trips within the data, using these to produce a variety of derived data products including origin-destination flows, again validating these against external sources (Maadi et al 2022). Work is on-going on mode detection. We have used this work to provide validations of work by others including the travel time estimates derived from a popular open-source routing engine, R5 (Verduzco Torres & McArthur, 2024). We have conducted research on the quality of address-based data and methods for matching based on addresses (Chi et al 2022a, 2022b). We have developed methods for creating valuable measures from open data. One example is our indicators of accessibility by public transport to jobs and amenities which take account of service frequencies and hence uncertainties in journey times, built from open timetable data (Verduzdo-Torres and McArthur 2024). This work has multiple applications in understanding mobility and social inequalities within cities as well as providing a code base on which others can build. We have designed an innovative framework to combine GPS locations, Electronically Activated Recorders, and map-based ethnographic interviews to explore Gaelic language usage in Glasgow (O'Rourke et al., 2024). We have conducted pioneering research on some of the hidden world of smart data which arises from its production within private firms where development decisions are very largely obscured. Sinclair et al (2023), for example, is almost unique in comparing mobile phone data from two different commercial providers. Raturi et al (2023) used access to a major fitness app dataset before and after new algorithms for privacy protection were implemented to examine the impacts of data processing decisions on data quality, and proposed alternatives which preserve more of the information while still protecting privacy. A major area of work has been around the role of participatory approaches to urban analytics, their potential not just to fill data gaps but also to empower marginalised groups or communities, and enhance their voice in urban governance processes. UBDC is championing a pioneering approach to participatory urban analytics that bridges participatory and geo-computational methods to address inequalities in data and society. It draws on Paulo Freire's dialogic pedagogy to include a plurality of voices in urban data science and analytics, thus incorporating data and social justice into transformations to urban sustainability and climate resilience. This approach has been used to support citizen science in flood-prone marginalised neighbourhoods in Brazil as part of the award-winning Waterproofing Data project (Porto de Albuquerque et al. 2023); to co-design data visualisations of the food-water-energy nexus in Slupsk (Poland), Tulcea (Romenia) and Willmington (USA) (Cámara-Menoyo et al. 2024); and for participatory data generation with self-built urban communities in Brazil and Colombia for improving resilience and reducing disaster risks (URBE Latam project funded by UKRI-GCRF) (Ulbrich et al. 2023). Currently, it is being used for the co-creation of Earth-Observation AI data ecosystems to map and improve urban deprived areas in Kenya and Nigeria (IDEAMAPS Data Ecosystem funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation). UBDC has been at the forefront of developments in computational social sciences and simulation including: the production of synthetic populations to support fine-grained spatial analyses related to socio-economic, health and environmental processes (Wu, Heppenstall et al 2022); developments in agent-based models (ABM) (McCulloch et al 2022; Ternes et al 2022); and the development of prototype digital twins using these and microsimulation (Wijermans et al 2023; Antosz et al 2023; An et al 2023). We have led work on the development of novel location modelling approaches, motivated by the particular requirements of emergency services but with much wide applications across public services more generally. In a widely cited study, Yao et al (2019a) developed a novel spatial optimization model which integrates both accessibility and coverage of emergency services. Luo et al (2022) extend this work, developing an indicator for assessing inequalities in service coverage. Yao et al (2019b) provides a novel multi-objective spatial optimisation model for sustainable land-use planning along with an algorithm to apply this to land-use data in vector rather than raster formats, reflecting the way such data tend to be stored and managed. Important new research resources identified In the course of our research, we are engaged in a wide range of conversations with diverse owners of smart data. We have entered into several partnerships and licencing agreements to make these available for research purposes through our data service so these contributions are reported under that award (ES/L011921/1). The work reported above has also produced a number of new data collections which we have made freely available: urban activity measures from CCTV; public transport accessibility measures; 3D city model for Glasgow; origin-destination flow matrices from mobile phone data; and more. Capacity building We report on short courses, training events and webinars under the UBDC data service award (ES/L011921/1). More directly related to the research centre, we enhance research capacity through advanced methods training on our MSc programmes in Urban Transport and in Urban Analytics, both with 20+ full-time students annually. Graduates have gone into a wide range of careers in public and private sectors and, in some cases, to PhD study. Between them, staff supervise 20+ PhD students linked to UBDC. We further add to research capacity through the training and development of our PDRAs and data scientists, many of whom have moved on to further academic positions in the UK and overseas, as well as roles in industry and the public sector. |
| Exploitation Route | Our research will be built on in numerous ways, reflecting the diverse contributions noted above. UBDC researchers are actively pursuing many of these areas but no doubt our publications and the continued availability of our data collections will inspire others to do likewise. At the broadest level, our work provides a platform for studying the emergent post-pandemic sustainable city. While the long-term impacts of the pandemic continue to unfold, there are durable shifts in patterns of organisational working practices, with immediate consequences for housing preferences and commuting, and wider consequences for city centres, urban retail and leisure services more generally, as well as social inequalities and segregation. At the same time, cities have a central role in the transition to net zero, as well as the challenges of climate resilience or adaptation, and the ecological crisis. The spatial and temporal detail of smart data, and their low latency ('near-real-time') make them the ideal basis for research on these emergent urban forms, and we expect these twin agendas to be key features of future work in this area. There are many more specific ways in which our work can be taken forwards and we give a few illustrative examples here. With urban mobility, for example, future plans include: analysis of the usage of greenspace during and since the pandemic; the development of methods for inferring travel mode, combining the mobile app data with the survey-sensor mobility data; and comparisons between mobile app and Census data in the measurement of travel to work. With housing, we have on-going work examining the impact of Scottish regulatory reforms of the private rental sector and work to examine the interaction between short-term and long-term rental sectors, during and post pandemic. Methodological contributions will support a wide range of further work, not least because of our commitment to open publication, open source code and dissemination and promotion through capacity building training courses. These will support future work on active travel (pedestrian and cycling counts from CCTV images) or urban mobility (various methods for processing mobile phone app data). Web scraping tools and associated guidance on the legal framework will enable these approaches to be used in diverse areas. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Education Energy Healthcare Leisure Activities including Sports Recreation and Tourism Government Democracy and Justice Transport Other |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Research centre activities commenced in 2019. We are achieving instrumental and conceptual impact through our substantive research on aspects of the urban system and on the value of smart data for this work. We also achieve impact through our capacity building activities. Impact through substantive research outputs We have worked closely with a range of stakeholders in UK, devolved and local governments to understand their analytical and policy interests in urban mobility. Our data service activities have provided them with access to derived datasets which are being used in the planning of public transport reforms (see ResearchFish entry for our data service). Our research is providing insights into the impacts of mobility on COVID-19 risks for households in work being conducted at Scottish Government's request. We expect outputs to influence future interventions if further outbreaks should occur. We are working closely with a range of authorities with responsibility for the development and management of greenspaces to disseminate research on changes in levels and patterns of activity, derived from the mobile data. We worked closely with North Lanarkshire Council, helping the authority understand the impacts of digitalisation of service requests on the distribution of environmental services and resources. We have a particular focus on the social/spatial and gender distribution of services which results from this kind of service change (Hastings et al 2021). There is great potential to work with a much larger number of authorities in due course but we already have clear evidence of how our analysis informs the work of this authority. In housing, our work is creating impacts in national and devolved debates around policy for private renting. Deregulation of the sector in the 1980s was a key driver of the subsequent re-growth of long-term private renting. Our work has highlighted some of the critical consequences of that, including the growing role the sector plays in relation to low-income households and the way this has contributed to the suburbanisation of such households. We have also measured the impact of re-regulation in Scotland. In addition to producing widely-read and discussed papers (including features in national media), we have presented on this work to UK (DLUHC) and Scottish Governments, as well as a range of policy/practice events. In 2018, we collaborated with the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) on a joint report on data needed to support the evaluation of earlier reforms (Livingston et al 2018). Our recommendations on better stewardship of data from regulatory activities found strong political support although it has not yet been realised in legislation. We used cycling app data from Strava to evaluate the impacts of infrastructure investment, providing feedback to local authorities, health boards and others on the scale of changes in cycling levels and how these vary with the nature of the infrastructure. Our research on how the pandemic has shaped the use of data by local authorities and other public bodies is being used by the Digital Office for Scottish Local Government to shape future practices. We have been invited to support that work, and will be following the impacts in the coming year. Training and capacity building We have established two MSc programmes under the Centre (in Urban Analytics and in Urban Transport). Both are growing rapidly, and producing a stream of graduates with technical and analytical skills but also substantive expertise in their fields. The Urban Analytics programme receives sponsorship from DataLab, the Scottish Government's agency for the promotion of data science. Funded places reflect their judgement of the need to increase the supply of skilled labour in this field and of the quality of our provision. We have a strong programme of staff development and training. Several former staff work in industry and the public sector. We have a regular programme of research seminars and webinars with a capacity-building focus. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2019 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Energy,Environment,Healthcare,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice,Retail,Transport,Other |
| Impact Types | Societal Economic Policy & public services |
| Description | Impact on council services |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | Nicole Paterson, Head of Environmental Assets at North Lanarkshire Council, provided the following quotation attesting to the impact of the research findings: "It has recently assisted in reporting to the Council's Audit & Scrutiny Panel the changing face of the service over time, work which given the changing nature of service delivery, Officers within the service often don't get the opportunity to step back from day to day tasks to do. It has highlighted to Members the service constraints and opportunities. "The early work has highlighted the substantial decrease in funding to the service over the last ten years and with the help of UBDC analysing trends and resultant differences in the service delivered to customers day to day. "Reflection on the historical analysis presented has enabled the service to more objectively consider the proper targeting of resources going forward, and integrate the learning into opportunities to roll out new technologies and practices within North Lanarkshire's communities. "We look forward to the further work in relation to street cleansing and deprivation, gaining an understanding of what that will mean to service delivery opportunities within North Lanarkshire, ensuring resources are targeted to make North Lanarkshire the place to live, learn, work, invest and visit." |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/february/using-council-data-to-understand-the-impact-of-auste... |
| Description | Nature Index: Inclusion in the time of COVID: 14 ways to seize the moment for change |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | As a Nature Index piece it reaches an international scientific community, more importantly this piece offers 14 policy and practice recommendations to tackle the problem based on our mixed-methods, multi-project findings. |
| URL | https://www.natureindex.com/news-blog/inclusion-time-covid-pandemic-how-to-seize-the-moment-for-chan... |
| Description | Provided oral evidence to the Transport Committee's Future of transport data inquiry. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/636813b4-df44-445c-a1c3-9806f9c1dd9a |
| Description | Sensor enhanced housing survey for urban heat investigation |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | Impact Case Study 1: Knowledge Exchange is demonstrably leading to impact on heat inequality (The Bureau of Investigative Journalism): In 2023, along with colleagues in the Urban Sensing research group, I was funded by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) to investigate indoor living environments in a sample of respondents from Southwark, London during extreme heat weather conditions. We deployed sensors in 40 London households, as well as a follow-up detailed survey/interview to understand people's living conditions and behavioural changes after the target intervention. This project helped further test and develop the methodology for sensor-enhanced housing surveys and focused on indoor environment monitoring in response to urban heat in London in the summer of 2023. Examples of the initial impact of the TBIJ project: 1.1 Southwark Council has used the analysis results to inform its resilience and adaptation strategy: https://www.southwark.gov.uk/news/2024/feb/1-million-of-funding-to-combat-flooding-and-overheating-in-southwark 1.2 The analysis results have been used by Impact on Urban Health to inform their heat adaptation work with architectural and engineering companies. 1.3 The analysis findings are being used by academics at Cardiff University and the University of Cambridge to inform their work around heat in different neighbourhoods in London and heat exposure. 1.4 The analysis results have been used in the London Resilience Review, which is looking at heat preparedness in the city for the Mayor's Office 1.5 Some of the participants also said they would use their personal datasets to ask for housing improvements from the council/ their landlord. Media: The TBIJ work has resulted in multiple national media reports as follows and the research group have published an open-access dataset for the benefit of the general public, including: in The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (30/06/2023, 11/09/2023, and 05/12/2023), The Mirror (04/12/2023) and the University of Glasgow (06/12/2023). The data is also available as an open dataset via UBDC. |
| URL | https://www.southwark.gov.uk/news/2024/feb/1-million-of-funding-to-combat-flooding-and-overheating-i... |
| Description | Submitted evidence to the Transport Committee's Future of transport data inquiry. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/123357/html/ |
| Description | Written Evidence Submitted to Scottish Parliament on Gendered Inequalities in Academic STEM |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | The EPSRC-funded VisNET and eBase projects are part of Inclusion Matters funding, but VisNET funding was contingent upon ESRC in-kind support and shared data scientists and co-PIs applying e-intervention and technologies to address gendered inequalities in academic STEM. Both projects have been involved in government reviews of worsening gendered inequalites in STEM funding (through review of open data on applications submitted and funded), as well as other large scale online surveys and smaller scale qualitative work on the issue. Thus far evidence has contributed to shaping of future funding calls and arguably institutional practices to offset impacts of Covid on academic funding and outputs. |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/5044/pdf/ |
| Description | 3D City Modeling |
| Amount | £34,122 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Glasgow City Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2022 |
| End | 01/2023 |
| Description | AI for Collective intelligence (AI4CI) |
| Amount | £11,900,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/Y028392/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2024 |
| End | 01/2029 |
| Description | Approaching the Cliff Edge? The Intentions of Private Rented Sector Landlords on Cessation of the Eviction Ban in Scotland |
| Amount | £35,317 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2021 |
| End | 07/2022 |
| Description | Capturing Engagement Numbers |
| Amount | £735,575 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2023 |
| End | 03/2025 |
| Description | Children's Health in Care in Scotland: effects of maternal health, health behaviours and early childhood health on entering care. |
| Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Scottish Graduate School for Social Sciences |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2023 |
| Description | Closed-Loop Data Science for Complex, Computationally- and Data-Intensive Analytics |
| Amount | £3,055,465 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/R018634/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2018 |
| End | 04/2023 |
| Description | Data Lab - MSc student scholarship: This is an existing course which has received TDL funding in the past. 2022-2024 |
| Amount | £18,090 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2022 |
| End | 09/2024 |
| Description | Data Lab - MSc student scholarship: This is an existing course which has received TDL funding in the past. 2022-2024 |
| Amount | £12,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2023 |
| End | 02/2025 |
| Description | Designing an interactive Greenspace dashboard for stakeholders using mobile phone app data |
| Amount | £20,030 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 323381 |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Department | University of Glasgow Impact Acceleration Award |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2023 |
| End | 03/2025 |
| Description | Developing and Exploring Methods to Understand Human-Nature Interactions in Urban Areas Using New Forms of Big Data' |
| Amount | £296,900 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/W012979/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2022 |
| End | 03/2024 |
| Description | Development of spopt location modelling package to include the capacitated p-median problem |
| Amount | € 4,000 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Start | 12/2022 |
| End | 07/2023 |
| Description | ESRC Funded PhD Studentship (Supervisor-led Steers Competition) |
| Amount | £75,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Scottish Graduate School for Social Sciences |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2024 |
| End | 09/2027 |
| Description | ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (University of Glasgow) Strava Privacy Study |
| Amount | £11,160 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2019 |
| End | 07/2020 |
| Description | Education grant: Data lab scholarship |
| Amount | £18,090 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 09/2024 |
| Description | Gendered Journeys: the trajectories of STEM students and graduates through higher education and into employment, in multiple global south contexts |
| Amount | £998,184 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/T005068/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2020 |
| End | 01/2023 |
| Description | Glasgow City Council Mobile Data (Phase 1) |
| Amount | £40,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 314369 |
| Organisation | Glasgow City Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | Glasgow City Council Mobile Data (Phase 2) |
| Amount | £48,750 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Glasgow City Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | Glasgow as a Living Lab Accelerating Novel Transformation |
| Amount | £800,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 01/2027 |
| Description | IDEAMAPS Ecosystem: Co-creating an inclusive urban data ecosystem for equitable digital exchanges towards neighbourhood regeneration |
| Amount | $1,660,000 (USD) |
| Organisation | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 12/2022 |
| End | 12/2024 |
| Description | IDEAMAPS: A participatory data-modeling ecosystem for deprived area map production in LMIC cities |
| Amount | $1,690,337 (USD) |
| Funding ID | INV-045252 |
| Organisation | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 09/2025 |
| Description | IEC\NSFC\223042 - International Exchanges 2022 Cost Share (NSFC) |
| Amount | £12,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | The Royal Society |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2023 |
| End | 03/2025 |
| Description | International Exchanges 2022 Cost Share (NSFC) |
| Amount | £11,970 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | IEC\NSFC\223287 |
| Organisation | The Royal Society |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2023 |
| End | 03/2025 |
| Description | OS National Enhanced Residential Property Data, Data Linkage Runway Project |
| Amount | £34,308 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Ordnance Survey |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | Ordanance Survey |
| Amount | £32,171 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Ordnance Survey |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | PRISTINE: Privacy-preserving and Secure Data Sharing and Trading Ecosystem for Distributed Wireless IoT Networks |
| Amount | £179,408 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 313372 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2021 |
| End | 02/2023 |
| Description | RSE-NSFC joint project |
| Amount | £9,800 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2021 |
| End | 05/2023 |
| Description | Scottish Graduate School of Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership |
| Amount | £10,164,769 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/P000681/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2017 |
| End | 09/2027 |
| Description | Smart Data Research UK Phase 1 - Additional Funding Stream Application |
| Amount | £419,918 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/L011921/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2023 |
| End | 04/2024 |
| Description | Social and Economic Implications of Transport Sharing and Automation |
| Amount | £302,344 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/S001875/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2018 |
| End | 01/2021 |
| Description | Teaching for Digital Citizenship: Digital ethics in the classroom and beyond it |
| Amount | £742,252 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2023 |
| End | 12/2024 |
| Description | The Data Lab - MSc student scholarship: This is an existing course which has received TDL funding in the past. |
| Amount | £18,090 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2020 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Description | The Data Lab - MSc student scholarship: This is an existing course which has received TDL funding in the past." |
| Amount | £36,600 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2021 |
| End | 09/2023 |
| Description | The HealthMod Cluster: Enhancing Policy Modelling Capabilities to Tackle the Economic Determinants of Health and Health Inequality. |
| Amount | £8,900,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MR/Y030656/1 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2024 |
| End | 03/2029 |
| Description | The Highlands and Islands Transport Partnership (HiTrans), Darwin Innovation Group Ltd, Highland Country Buses Ltd, Richmond Design and Marketing Ltd |
| Amount | £12,192 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2024 |
| End | 10/2024 |
| Description | The Lab Data - MSc Student Scholarship |
| Amount | £12,060 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2019 |
| End | 09/2021 |
| Description | VisNET: Virtual in situ networking to reinvent the rules of international collaborations and reduce gender differences in academic careers |
| Amount | £395,302 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/S012079/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2018 |
| End | 05/2021 |
| Title | Automated API/Scraping based approach to AirBnB Data Collection |
| Description | This is bespoke infrastructure that utilises publicly accessible APIs and, based on the Text and Data Mining Exception from UK and EU copyright law, collects online AirBnB listings data for the purposes of academic research. The platform itself (still in development) provides the means to specify a location of interest, managing call and traffic constraints associated with AirBnB's platform and providing a persistent datastore that can then be the basis for bespoke extracts and specific research enquiries. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The platform remains in development but already is providing a basis for data collection that will inform research into housing, neighbourhoods and the impact of the new sharing economy. Ultimately, although copyright law does not appear to permit us to share the collected data, we will release the code to facilitate others' data collection efforts in due course. |
| Title | CCTV API |
| Description | The Glasgow CCTV Automated Object Detection counts dataset provides counts of pedestrians and vehicles from CCTV cameras located within the Glasgow City Council area. The council has agreed to make this data available as open data under the Open Government Licence. To facilitate access to the data, and to encourage its use in widespread analyses, apps and dashboards, UBDC colleagues developed a RESTful API. The API provides quarterly or half an hour counts of pedestrians and vehicles in JSON format, updated once daily since the project started with four cameras on 30th November 2019. The API can be used to obtain: - All counts for all dates and all cameras; - All counts for a specific location/camera; - All counts for a specific time period; - All counts for a location and time period (inclusive); It is also possible to download all data in CSV format. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This platform enables research and a wider audience to openly access the data through dynamic files or an API, explore the project's technical documentation and other materials. A dashboard was developed as part of this platform, which allows users to visualise the data on a dynamic time series chart and conduct some simple analytics by sampling and segmenting the data. |
| URL | https://glasgow-cctv.ubdc.ac.uk/ |
| Title | Datopian data catalogue implementation |
| Description | The UBDC has been established in order to support a wide range of users conducting research on urban data and urban issues. The UBDC Data Portal is part of our larger data service offering, which allows researchers to work on big data (large volumes, mixed origins) |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Impacts will be achieved after imminent launch of data catalogue |
| Title | IT platform additions to facilitate machine learning (including computer vision) and data management redundancy |
| Description | UBDC has added remotely accessible high power compute / GPU capacity, available to all data scientists and researchers within UBDC and potentially accessible to data service users. These services are increasingly important within UBDC as the Centre's focus intensifies on data services built on technologies such as computer vision, text and data mining, spatial interpolation and pattern detection and other novel information extraction methods. A remotely accessible service optimises our investment, offering resources to the Centre's data science and researcher communities where additional compute power is required, complementing lower spec hardware accessible on each staff member's desktop. Furthermore, additional fast storage to support additional data creation requirements. The current iteration of our data service delivery model relies on de-normalised and frequently redundant datasets in order to offer data retrieval, extraction and delivery services at scale in an efficient manner. The addition of these resources will facilitate this approach. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | To follow |
| Title | Structured interviews to identify sustainability data challenges at the local level in the UK |
| Description | In order to collect data on the Voluntary Local Review practices in the UK for SDG reporting, researchers at UBDC are in the process of conducting interviews with local government authorities. The interviews provide a systematic approach to generate data toward identifying the conceptual and technical challenges that local governances face in reporting on SDG outcomes for local sustainability and resilience indicator frameworks. The questions in the interviews range from those about conceptual governance to those more specific, about what data local authorities are missing/would need to report more effectively. One of the primary aims of the interviews is to identify local data gaps and understand what data they need to generate/access to get a clearer picture on how they are meeting SDGs. Six interviews have been completed so far, and 3 more are scheduled (as of Sept. 29, 2023). Additionally, 12 informal conversations/stakeholder engagements have been conducted with local authorities and global organisations. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The original pilot analysis of four UK VLRs showed that within a single country (the UK in this case), cities have taken very different methodological approaches in reporting their progress to a global sustainability framework. This suggests that the 2030 Agenda's objective of maximising buy-in into the global framework by allowing for local-level adaptation and policy relevance may be achieved in these cases. However, the potential of localisation has not been achieved equally. Through our research, we hope to identify the challenges related to this and make connections with local authorities to help improve their access to data and help address the challenges toward achieving localisation more equally. |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/research/research-projects/urban-sustainability-participation/the-ubdc-local-... |
| Title | Adzuna Online Jobs Listings Data |
| Description | Adzuna is a search engine for job advertisements and provides data about the job market. Adzuna searches thousands of websites and brings together millions of advertisements on their website. The dataset consists of full point-in-time snapshots with details of all advertisements which were on adzuna.co.uk. Access to historical data from Spring 2017 is provided in addition to ongoing data to Spring 2022. Non-commercial academic use, up to a total of twelve projects, can be supported by the dataset. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | To follow |
| Title | Adzuna dataset (renewal) |
| Description | Adzuna is a search engine for job advertisements and provides data about the job market. Adzuna searches thousands of websites and brings together millions of advertisements on their website. The dataset consists of full point-in-time snapshots with details of all advertisements which were on adzuna.co.uk. Access to historical data from Spring 2017 is provided in addition to ongoing data to Spring 2024. |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The UBDC Adzuna projects page provides information about how people have used the data in their research. It is at https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/data-services/current-projects/adzuna-data-projects/ A UBDC Employment Data User Group has been set up and data owners and researchers were able to share their knowledge in webinars. Webinar slides at https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/data-services/data-catalogue/employment-data/adzuna-data/ |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/data-services/data-catalogue/employment-data/adzuna-data/ |
| Title | AirBnB Online Scraped Data Collection |
| Description | This dataset comprises scraped data from the AirBnB online short-term letting service. It includes details of calendar status captured daily with coverage including most of Scotland and several locations in England as well as property characteristics and user feedback (review) information. The dataset is not available to a wider audience at this time. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | To follow |
| Title | Airbnb Database |
| Description | The Airbnb Database holds the location of about 400k Airbnb listings location across the UK. It contains an ever growing steam of observations (calendar information user, listing details) for about 120k Airbnb listing on selected UK locations |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The Airbnb scraped data provides researchers with information which can be useful for researchers interested in housing, property and hospitality. |
| URL | https://www.airbnb.co.uk/ |
| Title | Analysis of Voluntary Local Review Data Practices |
| Description | Developed a novel methodological approach to analyse the types of data that were used to report local progress on SDG goals. |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The code developed will automate the analysis of data, leading to a more efficient process and helping to reveal data gaps in local SDG reporting. |
| Title | Automation of VLR Analysis |
| Description | Developed R code to automate the analysis of data collected from Voluntary Local Review research from the first step. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The code will be made available via Github. |
| Title | CCTV Automated Object Detection Data Output |
| Description | An output of the ongoing collaboration with Glasgow City Council to utilise Glasgow's existing CCTV system as a ready made sensor network, this dataset comprises counts over time of particular object types (car, person, bicycle, motorcycle, bus and truck) at each of the pilot sites within the CCTV study. As of 2021 there are in the region of 50 cameras providing imagery for processing / counting at generally 30 minute intervals. The dataset is now available from a dedicated online API (see Software & Technical Products) as of 2020. A further dataset records the outcomes of manual counts produced to provide ground truth data, used as the basis for evaluating the effectiveness of the automated counts. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The database already informs and will continue to inform the development of new work evaluating the impact of major capital investment currently ongoing within the City of Glasgow. The project is particularly in response to sparse pedestrian count data which is available for cities such as Glasgow. Those datasets that are available tend to be confined to specific locations (see Springboard data also acquired by UBDC) or prohibitively expensive (e.g. mobile phone / telcom data). This dataset, and underlying approach are intended to reveal insights across the whole city and not require investment in procuring, deploying and maintaining costly new sensor technologies. The dataset has seen several applications during Covid19 and has been expanded to include additional camera locations throughout Glasgow to reflect specific policy and operational needs. The dataset has been used as part of a UK wide effort to collate similar data undertaken by ONS. Discussions with Glasgow City Council are ongoing to enable the release of the dataset as open data. These are mature and there is considerable optimism that this will be achieved in the near future. |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/data-services/data-catalogue/transport-and-mobility-data/glasgow-cctv-data/ |
| Title | CGSTL Night Light Data (Glasgow and Edinburgh) |
| Description | High resolution night light remotely sensed imagery (JL1-3) from CGSTL in Glasgow and Edinburgh areas. This data is pixel based remotely sensed imagery. The spatial resolution is around 0.7m/pixel. High-resolution night light images provide an alternative way to measure urban infrastructure and human activities from the space. We anticipate supporting research that uses the high-resolution night light images to understand, among other things, transport behaviours, crime patterns, and housing development. It has the potential to support high quality research with scientific and public benefit impact. The data is from commercial company, and is not held in any of the existing UK data collections/archives. The company providing the data are content to permit us to share night light imagery to non-commercial academic users under end-user license agreements with the appropriate attribution given. This is a critical priority for data service investments to ensure widespread value can be achieved. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | To follow |
| Title | CTS/Cordon dataset |
| Description | Since 2007, Glasgow City Council has conducted annual cordon counts to assess the number of pedestrians and cyclists entering and exiting the city, as part of its routine monitoring of active travel patterns. The cordon, consisting of 35 sites around the city center, is manually surveyed over two consecutive days each September, from 6:00am to 8:00pm. UBDC data scientists have implemented a method which uses trained models to automate the counting process, which will enable real-time data generation and does not require human intervention. The data science staff curated the CTS/Cordon dataset using FiftyOne tool. In total, more than 10,000 images were labelled to develop a new model for the CCTV project. To ensure accuracy, the dataset was thoroughly reviewed for errors such as mislabelled objects or missing bounding boxes. The FiftyOne open-source tool was utilized to efficiently analyse the large number of images in a relatively short period of time. |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | More than 10,000 images were labelled to develop a new model for the CCTV project. To ensure accuracy, the dataset was thoroughly reviewed for errors such as mislabelled objects or missing bounding boxes. |
| URL | https://glasgow-cctv.ubdc.ac.uk/ |
| Title | Data underlying the article: Past, present, future: engagement with sustainable urban development through 35 city labels in the scientific literature 1990-2019 |
| Description | This package of supplementary research data and appendices are made available in connection with the following research article published in the Journal of Cleaner Production:Schraven, D., Joss, S., de Jong, M. (2021). Past, present, future: engagement with sustainable urban development through 35 city labels in the scientific literature 1990-2019, Journal of Cleaner Production, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.125924It contains 3 parts of supplementary research data:A: Selection of City Labels: this document sets out the selection procedures for 35 city labels from an original list of 148 labels.B: Article Repository: this documents shows the 11,337 articles that are retrieved and analysed in the main publication.C: Author Keyword Repository: this document contains the list of 22,820 author keywords belonging to the articles in Supplementary Research Data B and their connection to each of the 35 city labels.It contains 2 parts of appendices:A: Enlarged Figure 4 A - F: this document contains the enlarged version of Figure 4 A - F in the main publication.B: Enlarged Figure 5 A - C: this document contains the enlarged version of Figure 5 A - C in the main publication. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://data.4tu.nl/articles/_/13580273/2 |
| Title | Data underlying the article: Past, present, future: engagement with sustainable urban development through 35 city labels in the scientific literature 1990-2019 |
| Description | This package of supplementary research data and appendices are made available in connection with the following research article published in the Journal of Cleaner Production:Schraven, D., Joss, S., de Jong, M. (2021). Past, present, future: engagement with sustainable urban development through 35 city labels in the scientific literature 1990-2019, Journal of Cleaner Production, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.125924It contains 3 parts of supplementary research data:A: Selection of City Labels: this document sets out the selection procedures for 35 city labels from an original list of 148 labels.B: Article Repository: this documents shows the 11,337 articles that are retrieved and analysed in the main publication.C: Author Keyword Repository: this document contains the list of 22,820 author keywords belonging to the articles in Supplementary Research Data B and their connection to each of the 35 city labels.It contains 2 parts of appendices:A: Enlarged Figure 4 A - F: this document contains the enlarged version of Figure 4 A - F in the main publication.B: Enlarged Figure 5 A - C: this document contains the enlarged version of Figure 5 A - C in the main publication. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | N/A |
| URL | https://data.4tu.nl/articles/_/13580273 |
| Title | Data underlying the article: Past, present, future: engagement with sustainable urban development through 35 city labels in the scientific literature 1990-2019; Supplementary research data and appendices, Delft University of Technology. |
| Description | This package of supplementary research data and appendices are made available in connection with the following research article published in the Journal of Cleaner Production:Schraven, D., Joss, S., de Jong, M. (2021). Past, present, future: engagement with sustainable urban development through 35 city labels in the scientific literature 1990-2019, Journal of Cleaner Production, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.125924It contains 3 parts of supplementary research data:A: Selection of City Labels: this document sets out the selection procedures for 35 city labels from an original list of 148 labels.B: Article Repository: this documents shows the 11,337 articles that are retrieved and analysed in the main publication.C: Author Keyword Repository: this document contains the list of 22,820 author keywords belonging to the articles in Supplementary Research Data B and their connection to each of the 35 city labels.It contains 2 parts of appendices:A: Enlarged Figure 4 A - F: this document contains the enlarged version of Figure 4 A - F in the main publication.B: Enlarged Figure 5 A - C: this document contains the enlarged version of Figure 5 A - C in the main publication. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | N/A |
| URL | https://data.4tu.nl/articles/_/13580273/1 |
| Title | Experian Goad Plan Retail Address Data |
| Description | Experian's GOAD RETAIL ADDRESS DATABASE, comprising postal address, trading and holding company details if known, use class, and category for all retail and commercial outlets included in UK Goad plans for 2019. This complements and extends access to data previously purchased covering selected years during the period 1998 to 2017. The agreement permits UBDC / University of Glasgow to make these data available to users of UBDC's national data service for the purpose of bona-fide academic research. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | To follow |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/data-services/data-catalogue/commercial-and-retail-data/goad-plan-experian-da... |
| Title | Glasgow public transport accessibility indicators |
| Description | A set of public transport accessibility were produced for use by Glasgow City Council. These were derived from OpenStreetMap data, and public transport timetables from Traveline and the Rail Delivery Group. The indicators show travel time by public transport to different locations in the city of Glasgow. There are also indicators showing the number of jobs accessible within a thirty-minute journey by public transport. These indicators were merged with data form the Scottish index of Multiple Deprivation. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The indicators and analysis have been used by Glasgow City Council to identify (and provide evidence for) transport problems in Glasgow. These have been published in the Draft Case fore Change. This document serves as the basis for public consultation exercise which is intended to inform the development of the city's new transport strategy. The indicators proved to be so useful that we are currently intending to develop and expand this approach to generate similar indicators for the whole of the UK. This new database will be made as widely available as possible. |
| URL | https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/transportstrategy |
| Title | Great Britain Accessibility Indicators 2023 (AI23) |
| Description | Accessibility indicators measure the ease of reaching valuable destinations (Levinson and Wu 2020). The current dataset, Great Britain Accessibility Indicators 2023 (AI23), provides small-area indicators to key services such as health, education, employment, and urban centres. The AI23 dataset is an updated and expanded version of the the Public Transport Accessibility Indicators for Great Britain 2022 (PTAI22) dataset, described at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02890-w (J. Rafael Verduzco Torres and McArthur 2024 |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The AI23 dataset is an updated and expanded version of the the Public Transport Accessibility Indicators for Great Britain 2022 (PTAI22) dataset. The AI23 is already being used in research studying accessibility poverty in major British cities in: Verduzco-Torres, J. R. , Bailey, N. and Mcarthur, D. (2023) Towards Just Neighbourhoods: Leveraging Geospatial Data Science to Understand Night-Time Public Transport Variability in British Cities. Open Tools for Equitable and Sustainable Accessibility and Mobility Analysis (OTESAMA '23) Workshop, Leeds, UK, 12 September 2023. Additionally, the media (The Economist) is in contact with Researchers to write a news article given their public relevance in the impacts of the Elizabeth Line on Lonond's economy. |
| URL | https://data.ubdc.ac.uk/dataset/ece24a7d-83ac-4c39-a53a-9420bcd2d981 |
| Title | Huq dataset (renewal) |
| Description | Huq provides mobile phone data. Huq's event-level geo-data offers a rich and descriptive record of how consumers move and interact with the places around them. Huq's footfall data can be combined with other data sources to build predictions relating to how public entities are likely to report, specifically, where it concerns footfall correlated with revenue. The data can be used to observe how consumers interact with traded or private physical assets in order to observe changes in consumer trends and consider how those may affect their investment positions. Huq data is currently used internally in UBDC. UBDC is hoping to make derived datasets which are less sensitive, available to researchers in the future. |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Derived datasets have been produced Origin Destination matrix. Data has been made available to Glasgow City Council to facilitate partnership working with UBDC |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/data-services/data-catalogue/transport-and-mobility-data/huq-data/ |
| Title | Huq.io Mobility Dataset |
| Description | Huq's event-level geo-data offers a rich and descriptive record of how consumers move and interact with the places around them. Huq's footfall data can be combined with other data sources to build predictions relating to how public entities are likely to report, specifically, where it concerns footfall correlated with revenue. The data can be used to observe how consumers interact with traded or private physical assets in order to observe changes in consumer trends and consider how those may affect their investment positions. UBDC has licensed data covering (spatially) Glasgow, North Lanarkshire, Inverclyde, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, West Dunbartonshire, East Dunbartonshire and (temporally) the 3 year period from 2019 to 2021. Academic researchers or postgraduate students based in UK higher education institutions and employees of public sector/government organisations may access and use the data for purposes of non-commercial research including academic research and to support policy and operational work EDIT - in 2021 UBDC reached agreement with Huq Industries to licence a further year of data to end of 2022, and in addition to broaden its collection of data (historical and ongoing) to include full UK coverage. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | To follow |
| Title | Machine learning approach to automatically identify and count objects from CCTV image data |
| Description | This approach uses CNN techniques, building on the open COCO Tensor Flow automated object detection libraries to automate the identification of several types of objects from CCTV imagery acquired in collaboration with Glasgow City Council. Privacy assurances are maintained by ensuring that processing takes place only within the secure infrastructure operated and managed by the local authority, with only benign object count data leaving the secure physical and logical environment. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The approach is yielding data which as well as set to inform UBDC research agenda is also expected to be released as an open dataset, informing research from broader academic and other communities. Furthermore, we are hopeful that having demonstrated the potential of this approach (which uses downtime or redundancy within the existing CCTV system) we will be well positioned to deploy similar software within networks in other city settings. Key non-functional requirements are to minimise operational disruption, ensure privacy is maintained and to offer scalability and easy deployment. Each of these aspects been broadly successful to date, with further optimisation planned. |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2019/september/piloting-cctv-analysis-that-protects-individuals-pr... |
| Title | Mobility metrics for Glasgow City Region 2019-2021 |
| Description | The mobility metrics dataset was created using mobile phone application data from [Huq](https://data.ubdc.ac.uk/dataset/huq-data/ "Title") and [Tamoco](https://data.ubdc.ac.uk/dataset/tamoco/ "Title") data. The aim of the dataset is to produce small-area aggregate measures of mobility over time. The data covers Glasgow city-region with results broken down by Intermediate Zone (417 in the city-region) from 1st July 2019 - 31st December 2021 (2.5 years) with results aggregated quarterly (10 periods). The Mobility is measured following [Cuebiq Mobility Index approach](https://help.cuebiq.com/hc/en-us/articles/360041285051-Mobility-Insights-Mobility-Index-CMI-/ "Title"). Mobility analysis is limited to mobile phone users determined to live within the Glasgow city-region (see technical report 'Calculating home location for mobile phone data' for details. This report is sent with the dataset). ##Access and Restrictions## Data are available for non-commercial, academic research by UK-based academics under an End User Licence. Note: both Huq and Tamoco end user licences must be signed to access this dataset. ##Access to the data## To request access to Mobility metrics for Glasgow City Region Data, please get in touch with UBDC using the form on our website at: https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/data-services/data-services/access-our-services/ |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This is a research dataset which supports induvidual mobility analysis at a resolution usually not possible through traditional data. |
| URL | https://data.ubdc.ac.uk/dataset/30431033-82ef-44cb-b1b8-9a1d240463d2 |
| Title | North Lanarkshire Council Customer Relationship Management system |
| Description | Database of requests for North Lanarkshire Council's Environmental Services and the council's response to these requests. 10 years of data. includes some sensitive data (names, addresses and telephone numbers of residents in North Lanarkshire). Shared by NLC under the terms of a data sharing agreement signed by both parties in October 2019. Securely stored on UBDC's secure server and only accessible by the named project team. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | intial output presented to NLC Audit and Scrutiny Panel |
| Title | Open Source Facility Location Modeling Python Package (Spopt) |
| Description | We have developed 4 open-source facility location modeling models including location set covering problem (LSCP), maximum location covering problem (MCLP), P-Median, and P-Centre models through GSOC 2021. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This is the first single 'one-stop' open-source ecosystem to comprehensively address facility location modeling problems for the potential users. |
| URL | https://github.com/pysal/spopt |
| Title | Origin-Destination Matrix for Glasgow City Region Using HUQ Mobile Phone Data |
| Description | A cluster based approached was used to detected stop nodes and trips from the GPS Mobile Phone Data. The final product contains the information about the number of yearly trips between different councils of Glasgow City Region. |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The generated OD Matrix can be very useful for Mobility Analysis. It can give insights into people's mobility behaviour between different regions of the city, ultimately helping local governments to make informed decisions related to mobility and traffic management. |
| Title | Public Transport Accessibility Indicators 2022 dataset |
| Description | This is the first in a planned series of releases of this data product to reflect changes in transit schedules and location of services. Please note that this dataset is not a new version of the original PTAI data. It is a completely new data product based on new methodology and source datasets. The Public Transport Accessibility Indicators 2022 dataset offers a series of accessibility indicators at the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) level covering the whole of Great Britain (GB) in the United Kingdom (UK). Indicators by public transport include a range of key amenities and services such as: employment; general practice (GP) surgery; hospital; grocery store; supermarket; primary school; secondary school; and urban centre. |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Many requests for this dataset have been received by UBDC data service, who have shared the data for research purposes. |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/data-services/data-catalogue/transport-and-mobility-data/public-transport-acc... |
| Title | Registers of Scotland Open Data Product |
| Description | UBDC's licensing agreement with Registers of Scotland permits us to produce produce statistical reports and publications using the data including, but not limited to, summaries of market activity (e.g. number of sales, average price) for a given period at Datazone level (subject to a minimum of five transactions per datazone level). This dataset is an excerpt that conforms to this specification, and can be made widely available without charge. It covers the period 2003 to January 2019. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | We have shared this with dataservice users and hope to continue to do so, complementing a fuller RoS data set that we also make available. We will continue to monitor usage of the data and associated impact. |
| URL | http://ubdc.gla.ac.uk/dataset/registers-of-scotland-data |
| Title | Scottish Local Government during COVID-19: Data Needs, Capabilities, and Uses |
| Description | No information avaiable |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The dataset is part of an ESRC funded project led by Dr Justine Gangneux and Prof Simon Joss at the Urban Big Data Centre (Grant no. ES/S007105/1). The project examined the Scottish local government's data engagement during COVID-19 (Full report available ISBN: 978-0-85261-975-9). |
| URL | https://researchdata.gla.ac.uk/1201/ |
| Title | Scottish Local Government: Data Practices during COVID-19 |
| Description | The dataset is part of an ESRC funded project led by Dr Justine Gangneux and Prof Simon Joss at the Urban Big Data Centre (Grant no. ES/S007105/1). The project examined Scottish local government's data engagement during COVID-19 (Full report available ISBN: 978-0-85261-975-9). As part of the project, the researchers conducted an online survey of the 32 Scottish local authorities to collect quantitative systematic information about their data practices in response to the pandemic, identify arising data needs and gaps in data capabilities, as well as explore practices of data sharing and collaborations. The survey was conducted via the JISC Online Survey between 21 October and 14 December 2020. It achieved a completion rate of 70.3%, with 31 out of 32 local authorities (96.8%) participating. The full results of the survey are made available here. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not yet |
| URL | http://researchdata.gla.ac.uk/1147/ |
| Title | Sensor-enhanced housing survey data for urban heat investigation |
| Description | During the summer months from July 2023 to September 2023 (including a mini heatwave in early September 2023), 40 [Smart Citizen sensors](https://smartcitizen.me "Title") have recorded data in homes in Southwark, London, with recording duration from 24 days to 53 days. This dataset comprises sensor data collected from Smart Citizen Kits (SCK) sensors, along with survey data conducted by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ). The unique ID is utilized as a linking mechanism between the SCK sensor data and the TBIJ survey data. The SCK (Smart Citizen Kits) sensors captured a range of environmental parameters in homes, including air temperature, relative humidity, air quality, noise condition and light condition. SCK was calibrated in the lab-based environment by the sensor manufacturer first and further corrected based on its operational mode. Further validation procedures were implemented to ensure the accuracy and quality of the air temperature data and relative humidity data by comparing records between survey sensors and commercial sensors (HOBO MX1101 Wireless Temperature and Humidity Data Logger - Optional Remote Monitoring). Regarding the TBIJ survey data, only housing tenure, housing types, and self-reported housing conditions from the survey data are included in this dataset. Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) quintiles and existing Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) data are also included in this dataset, based on the participants' home addresses and Unique ID, providing deprivation level of neighbourhoods and energy conditions of homes. [IMD data](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-indices-of-deprivation-2019 "Title") was obtained from UK government and the IMD quintile was calculated based on the IMD decile. The EPC data was collected from [Energy Performance of Buildings Search Results](https://epc.opendatacommunities.org/login "Title") |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This is the dataset from our sensor-enhanced housing survey project in 2023 to explore indoor heat explosure in the Southwark area in London. The dataset will help researchers and policy makers to further understand the indoor health conditions for deprived area residents and offer insights for future housing retrofitting policy. |
| URL | https://data.ubdc.ac.uk/dataset/7bfde870-e1a1-43e8-831d-7959952c5e81 |
| Title | Springboard Footfall Data |
| Description | Springboard's footfall data provided in terms average weekly footfall volume in each month over a five year period for 16 UK cities/towns. Average weekly footfall volume data to be provided for each counting location in each town. Complementary access to Springboard's insights reports library is provided, comprising reports that are published weekly/monthly/quarterly/annually and for key trading periods such as Easter, Black Friday and Christmas. UBDC has the opportunity to use and make accessible Springboard data from the period 2013 to 2022 inclusive until 2023. Complementary data offers weekday/weekend breakdown as well as part day average footfalls. . |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | To follow |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/data-services/data-catalogue/commercial-and-retail-data/springboards-footfall... |
| Title | Tamoco Mobility Data |
| Description | Tamoco provides organisations with access to real-time mobile phone location data. Tamoco's geospatial data is derived directly from mobile devices using a combination of GPS and WiFi, in order to generate industry-leading location signals. The dataset consists of Tamoco's Standalone Location Data which provides: raw location events stemming directly from the device Operating System; 7-digit Latitude and Longitude data with accuracy scores, providing a complete picture of how a device moves over time. It is keyed on the Mobile Advertising ID and Device IP. UBDC has licensed data covering (spatially) Glasgow, North Lanarkshire, Inverclyde, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, West Dunbartonshire, East Dunbartonshire and (temporally) the 3 year period from 2019 to 2021. Academic researchers or postgraduate students based in UK higher education institutions and employees of public sector/government organisations may access and use the data for purposes of non-commercial research including academic research and to support policy and operational work EDIT - in 2021 UBDC reached agreement with Tamoco to licence a further year of data to end of 2022, and in addition to broaden its collection of data (historical and ongoing) to include full UK coverage. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | To follow |
| Title | Travel Mode Detection Model |
| Description | This study focuses on the development of various Machine Learning and Rule-based models for travel mode detection utilizing TravelAi data. The outcomes of this work include the development of a Python script for preprocessing TravelAi data, enabling efficient data preparation for further analysis. And the creation of a Python script that encompasses the implementation of Machine Learning and rule-based models, facilitating the detection of travel modes. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Potential future outcomes of this work: 1. Conducting a webinar to share insights and knowledge about Travel Mode Detection using mobile phone data, providing an opportunity for interested individuals to learn about the methodology and its applications. 2. Preparation and submission of a conference paper, which would involve a comparative analysis of different Machine Learning and rule-based models. The paper would explore the utilization of various data features and highlight their impact on the effectiveness of the models employed in travel mode detection. By pursuing these potential future outcomes, the study aims to disseminate valuable information, promote knowledge exchange, and contribute to the advancement of the field of travel mode detection. |
| Title | UBDC Data Catalogue |
| Description | This is an in-development database intended to facilitate the management and curation of UBDC's licensed and primary datasets, ensuring a maintained relationship between data collection or acquisition projects and any derived data, analyses or indicators. Ultimately this will replace the existing UBDC data catalogue and provide a means to discover and sub-license available dataset, complementing existing UBDC data service systems as well as enhancing the curatorial efforts within the Centre. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | In progress |
| Title | UBDC Ecoquartier Curated Data |
| Description | This is a French dataset comprising 28 socio-economic variables drawn from census and 28 geographical variables drawn from a diverse range of sources and mainly providing information on infrastructures such as schools, shops among others. The data is from 2012 and is spatially related to the 50153 Iris polygons which are the statistical units of the French territory. The data relating the 28 geographical variables were improved by calculating an index of accessibility to infrastructures to the whole of the Iris units. Furthermore the Iris data was calculated and transferred to Ecoquartier and Quartier Prioritarire de la Ville which are other territorial units of the French territory. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | To follow |
| Title | UBDC Glasgow Features Dataset |
| Description | This dataset was produced to inform selection of CCTV cameras to provide an optimal picture of relevant urban activities within Glasgow. To facilitate this discussion, it would be valuable for the team, working in different organizations and each one confined at home, to rapidly have access to a shared map of Glasgow with those features of interest. To achieve this goal we made use of open data available in Open Street Map (OSM) and several open-source tools. The following tasks were performed: 1. Extracted the features of interest from open street map (OSM)(https://www.openstreetmap.org) with OSM and GDAL tools (https://gdal.org/); 2. In the free and open source Geographic Information System, QGIS (https://www.qgis.org), we manipulated the extracted features for the area of interest of Glasgow City Council. 3. In the open-source Plotly/Dash (https://plotly.com/dash/) we created a map with these features 4. Finally we deployed the map we have just created into Heroku webserver (https://avenues-map.herokuapp.com/). Although Heroku is not open-source nor free, it allows one to easily deploy a simple app on the web for free with restrictions. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Informed selection of CCTV cameras to produce open count data with numerous downstream impact benefits (see relevant entries within this return). |
| URL | https://avenues-map.herokuapp.com/ |
| Title | UBDC Origin-Destination Matrix |
| Description | UBDC Origin-Destination Matrix is a derived dataset from Tamoco 2019 data for Glasgow City Region |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Dataset was shared with Glasgow City Council (GCC) to assist with the analysis of location services data to inform transport strategy/plan/policy/project development at Glasgow City Council (GCC). The origin and destination matrices output is primarily to inform the Glasgow Transport Strategy, as well as the related GCC Active Travel Plan, Liveable Neighbourhoods Plan, City Centre Transformation Plan and related GCC projects such as Glasgow Metro, Low Emission Zone etc. |
| Title | UBDC Pavement Width Dataset |
| Description | To measure pavement width at scale, we turned our attention to our local city, Glasgow. UBDC is working with Glasgow City Council on issues relating to mobility and neighbourhoods so it seemed an obvious setting to develop an initial proof of concept. Our first step was to identify the paved ways, sidewalks and paths themselves. We used the Ordnance Survey MasterMap Topography Layer, accessed via Edina's Digimap service as our starting point. We filtered four 10km tiles covering most of Glasgow to produce a dataset comprising man-made roadside features, although different filters could be used to exclude or include other features. Having isolated these polygons we needed to be able to identify the central line of each polygon, establish a means to calculate the distance between two points and establish a value for pavement width - essentially the sum of the lengths of the shortest lines between the centre line and the left/right boundaries of the parent polygon. We use a built-in transformer within FME called CenterLineReplacer to calculate the centre line. FME is a commercial tool that supports manipulation of (especially spatial) data. The software is quite accessible, available for non-commercial work under a free personal license. Graphic showing centre lines and width vectors as explained in text below Figure 2 - Centre lines and width vectors The transformer does a pretty good job of identifying approximate centre lines, our basis for calculating width. Subsequently, each centre line is densified to individual points along that line, attaining sub-metre resolution. For each one, we measure the shortest distance between that point and the approximate diametrically opposed points on the polygon - i.e, from the centre to the edges of the pavement. To ensure the width is represented correctly, we enforce a rule that the angle formed between the lines connecting the centre point with each edge can be no less than 140 degrees. Finally, for each join between adjacent centre points we reconstruct a line segment and apply to it a width value - the average distance between the two connected points. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Glasgow City Council has already acquired and used the dataset to inform its policy and operational decision making around safe social distancing infrastructure improvement. |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/june/personal-space-exploration-pavement-widths-and-walking-s... |
| Title | UBDC/CCTV Counts Dataset (updated daily) |
| Description | The Glasgow CCTV Object Detection platform provides counts of street traffic and pedestrians recorded at 44 different locations across Glasgow. Our model, developed by the team at UBDC, uses object detection technology to record the number of people and vehicles passing by CCTV cameras. Logging new data at regular intervals each day, this project aims to improve public understanding of mobility and traffic patterns across Glasgow. This platform provides access to the project's latest data through an API and .csv file download so that individuals and researchers can use it to promote better understanding of our city. The dataset comprises over 10,000 images, depicting 9 distinct object classes, namely: Bus, Car, Cyclist, Crowd, Lorry, Motorcycle, Pedestrian, Taxi, and Van. |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Logging new data at regular intervals each day, this project aims to improve public understanding of mobility and traffic patterns across Glasgow. This platform provides access to the project's latest data through an API and .csv file download so that individuals and researchers can use it to promote better understanding of our city. |
| URL | https://glasgow-cctv.ubdc.ac.uk/ |
| Title | Zoopla extracts |
| Description | Zoopla extracts prepared as follows: - Zoopla daily rental listings (uk-wide) (2022) - Zoopla daily selling listing (uk-wide) (2022) - Zoopla aggregated rental listings for 2021 - Zoopla aggregated sales listings for 2021 - Zoopla aggregated sales listings for 2017 - Zoopla aggregated sales listings for 2017 |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The new Zoopla extracts have the potential to make, a significant difference to research in housing, property and neighbourhoods. |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/data-services/data-catalogue/housing-data/zoopla-property-data/ |
| Description | Adzuna Data License |
| Organisation | Adzuna |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has agreed terms with Adzuna for the supply of online jobs listings data covering the period 2017-2022, enabling its usage for academic research and government non-commercial usage. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Adzuna aggregates online jobs listings from a variety of sources, providing a unique and powerful dataset capable of summarising the job market as a whole, making explicit current skills demands and providing location information that reveals a geographical spread of the volumes of jobs and job types. Data coverage is whole of UK. |
| Impact | Data availability to commence in March 2021. We anticipate widespread interest in the data, although this will be capped in the first licensing period to up to 12 academic research projects of 2 years' duration. These are managed in form of research project credits, which may be combined to facilitate longer projects. Furthermore, the data will inform UBDC's own research agenda around transport and mobility as well as economic activity. UBDC staff, students and associates based at the University of Glasgow enjoy access to the data without requiring credits to be exhausted. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | British Council Impact Study |
| Organisation | British Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | This collaboration used UBDC schools achievement data, as well as open data and qualitative primary data, to explore the impact of British Council programmes in Scottish schools, particularly their contribution to closing the attainment gap for students from different socioeconomic backgrounds. British Council Scotland works with approximately a third of all schools in Scotland through programmes, including Erasmus+, Connecting Classrooms, e-Twinning, and Modern Language Assistants, that enrich curriculum, pedagogy and professional development. Details can be found in the published project report, and our work with BC in educational disadvantage and place continues. |
| Collaborator Contribution | UBDC, and education researchers on the Educational Disadvantage and Place team, contributed in terms of data access, analysis, and interpretation, particularly to the quantitative arguments around British Council programme impact, available here: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/180725/ |
| Impact | Livingston, K., Doherty, C., Lido, C., Cassar, R., Dunkley, R., Gale, T., & Parker, S. (2018). British Council school programmes in Scotland: An impact study. Final Report. Edinburgh: British Council. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | CREATe Collaboration Agreement |
| Organisation | CREATe (RCUK Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has agreed to commission from CREATe a publication aimed at Social Scientists to offer reassurances regarding the legal legitimacy of their online data collection activities. This follows several interactions between UBDC and CREATe staff regarding the Copyright Exception for Text and Data Mining which essentially permits academic researchers to harvest and collect publicly accessible online data for academic research purposes irrespective of contractual terms which appear to purport to prohibit such behaviour. |
| Collaborator Contribution | CREATe colleagues have appointed a post-doctoral researcher to undertake the work and produce an accessible output articulating the legal situation with regards to web scraping, harvesting of online data and the acceptable parameters within which this can be undertaken for academic research purposes. |
| Impact | This has the potential to be a highly impactful piece of work as it could be a means to overcome paralysis often associated with little formal understanding of legal risk associated with data. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Collaboration with Environmental Assets, North Lanarkshire Council |
| Organisation | North Lanarkshire Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Provision of working papers for policy/practice development |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provision of access to data via a data sharing agreement Advice on research questions relating to data and policy/practice Feedback on findings and analysis Bridge into relevant council committees to discuss findings Participation of staff in UBDC event Providing a presentation for UBDC event |
| Impact | Two working papers, one of which was provided to Counciil's Audit and Scrutiny Committe Two presentations to Data fest event March 11th 2020 One blog on UBDC website |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Cycling Scotland Data Agreement |
| Organisation | Cycling Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has an agreement with Cycling Scotland to provide open access to their National Monitoring Framework dataset (2017 - 18) |
| Collaborator Contribution | "Cycling Scotland is the nation's cycling organisation. Cycling Scotland helps create and deliver opportunities and an environment so anyone anywhere in Scotland can cycle easily and safely. This dataset comprises data about cycling counts in various streets within Scotland and includes manual traffic surveys with counts of various modes of transport." |
| Impact | The data has been requested by a range of academic and policy audiences. To date 14 requests for these data have been received |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Data Processing Agreement - CCTV Video Data |
| Organisation | Glasgow City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Council is working in collaboration with the Processor to develop and test a framework for installing video analytical software to monitor activity on streets using spare CCTV capacity. The project builds on existing collaborations between the Council and the Processor which processes static images captured within the CCTV suite to generate counts of pedestrians and vehicles on streets. The project will explore the delivery of analytics in three distinct areas: • Enhanced detection of pedestrians, counting moving and non-moving objects, identifying direction • Enhanced detection of vehicles, counting moving and non-moving objects, identifying direction • Development of street activity metrics, including tracing objects (pedestrians and vehicles) through space. Initial processing will concentrate on the detection and counting of the number of people present at regular intervals during the day using streets which are part of, or near to, streets which are included in the Council's Avenues Project. However, there is an option for the work to progress to detect other objects or image features, including for example potholes or broken traffic lights, cyclists or wheelchair users. The Processor aims to implement its object detection software in order to capture data through the CCTV system. In doing this, its goal is to use the data produced to conduct and publish research on the use of public space in Glasgow and how this is affected by investments such as the Avenues Project. It also aims to refine or develop its object detection software so that it might be more effective in capturing a wider range of objects, and also so it might be more widely deployed. The project will develop methods and software for implementation within the CCTV suite, to operate on stand-alone machine(s). Aggregate counts and analytical outputs will be completely anonymised, removing any raw video or image data once processing has been completed. The exception to this will be a validation of the implemented system, which will use manual counts and verification of analysis to quantify variation in accuracy across camera, time of day, day of the week and lighting conditions. The project will also assess the impact of the system on the Community Safety operation to identify and resolve any issues that are detected. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Council will provide secure access to up to 24 hours of video footage captured via its CCTV network infrastructure from two bespoke cameras. The Council aims to use the investment in the CCTV system to produce aggregated non-identifiable data data which can be of value to the operations and policies of the Council. It also aims to provide aggregated non-identifiable data to the Processor, in order that the Processor can conduct research, which will inform the Council's Avenues Project. |
| Impact | To follow |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Employment data user group |
| Organisation | Adzuna |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The UBDC Employment data user group was set up in 2022 to facilitate discussion by the academic research community and data owners about sources, attributes and usage of employment data and associated research outputs. The group consists of current users of UBDC Employment data from various UK universities. The first webinar in a planned series of events took place on 24 May 2022 and provided insights into research usage of Adzuna employment data. Presentations at the group webinar were made by researchers at the University of Wolverhampton and the University of Portsmouth, the data owner Adzuna, as well as UBDC staff. A Jiscmail mailing list was also set up to encourage discussion among Employment data users and posts have been |
| Collaborator Contribution | The contributions/presentations by the data owners at the webinars provided information about Adzuna data and forthcoming new enhancements. As a result, UBDC have included these extra features in their newly renewed Adzuna data contract. The JISCmail mailing list was used by UBDC staff as a means of promoting the new Invitation to Tender for Employment Data. The new Adzuna contract was finalised after the tender. Contributions from Adzuna research users provided context about how the Adzuna data was used for their project to encourage new ideas for future projects and new ways to use the data. Contributions from UBDC's Lecturer in Urban Analytics about his Adzuna data project demonstrated that the research was not only provided by UBDC's data service but also used in UBDC's own research projects. |
| Impact | Outputs include sign up of participants to the Employment Data webinar after it was publicised on the JISCMAIL mailing list. Presentations at the Employment Data webinar were also outputs. Input was also given by research feedback on features of the employment data and the output was UBDC's renewed contract for employment data. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Employment data user group |
| Organisation | University of Portsmouth |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The UBDC Employment data user group was set up in 2022 to facilitate discussion by the academic research community and data owners about sources, attributes and usage of employment data and associated research outputs. The group consists of current users of UBDC Employment data from various UK universities. The first webinar in a planned series of events took place on 24 May 2022 and provided insights into research usage of Adzuna employment data. Presentations at the group webinar were made by researchers at the University of Wolverhampton and the University of Portsmouth, the data owner Adzuna, as well as UBDC staff. A Jiscmail mailing list was also set up to encourage discussion among Employment data users and posts have been |
| Collaborator Contribution | The contributions/presentations by the data owners at the webinars provided information about Adzuna data and forthcoming new enhancements. As a result, UBDC have included these extra features in their newly renewed Adzuna data contract. The JISCmail mailing list was used by UBDC staff as a means of promoting the new Invitation to Tender for Employment Data. The new Adzuna contract was finalised after the tender. Contributions from Adzuna research users provided context about how the Adzuna data was used for their project to encourage new ideas for future projects and new ways to use the data. Contributions from UBDC's Lecturer in Urban Analytics about his Adzuna data project demonstrated that the research was not only provided by UBDC's data service but also used in UBDC's own research projects. |
| Impact | Outputs include sign up of participants to the Employment Data webinar after it was publicised on the JISCMAIL mailing list. Presentations at the Employment Data webinar were also outputs. Input was also given by research feedback on features of the employment data and the output was UBDC's renewed contract for employment data. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Employment data user group |
| Organisation | University of Wolverhampton |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The UBDC Employment data user group was set up in 2022 to facilitate discussion by the academic research community and data owners about sources, attributes and usage of employment data and associated research outputs. The group consists of current users of UBDC Employment data from various UK universities. The first webinar in a planned series of events took place on 24 May 2022 and provided insights into research usage of Adzuna employment data. Presentations at the group webinar were made by researchers at the University of Wolverhampton and the University of Portsmouth, the data owner Adzuna, as well as UBDC staff. A Jiscmail mailing list was also set up to encourage discussion among Employment data users and posts have been |
| Collaborator Contribution | The contributions/presentations by the data owners at the webinars provided information about Adzuna data and forthcoming new enhancements. As a result, UBDC have included these extra features in their newly renewed Adzuna data contract. The JISCmail mailing list was used by UBDC staff as a means of promoting the new Invitation to Tender for Employment Data. The new Adzuna contract was finalised after the tender. Contributions from Adzuna research users provided context about how the Adzuna data was used for their project to encourage new ideas for future projects and new ways to use the data. Contributions from UBDC's Lecturer in Urban Analytics about his Adzuna data project demonstrated that the research was not only provided by UBDC's data service but also used in UBDC's own research projects. |
| Impact | Outputs include sign up of participants to the Employment Data webinar after it was publicised on the JISCMAIL mailing list. Presentations at the Employment Data webinar were also outputs. Input was also given by research feedback on features of the employment data and the output was UBDC's renewed contract for employment data. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Future mobility |
| Organisation | Institute of Transport Economics (Norway) |
| Country | Norway |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | I have given a talk at an event arranged by the institute. I have also participated in a funding application. |
| Collaborator Contribution | They have included UBDC in a funding application. |
| Impact | I gave a talk at a workshop in Oslo organised by the institute. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Glasgow City Council - 3D City Modelling |
| Organisation | Glasgow City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has been commissioned to process detailed (25ppm) LiDAR data to produce a detailed open source 3D model. The new model will be hosted by UBDC, replacing an existing model previously supplied to UBDC by Glasgow City Council. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provision 3D Light Detection and Range (LiDAR) Point Cloud Data obtained by Glasgow City Council as part of an agreement with the Scottish Government (SG). The Point Cloud Data was procured at two different dates: one in Autumn 2020 and one in Spring 2021. This data can be converted into a more detailed/accurate 3D model of the city which will support multiple different projects and initiatives as well as operational service delivery in areas such as planning. |
| Impact | To follow |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Glasgow City Council - Data Visualisation |
| Organisation | Glasgow City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has been working with the council to capture, analyse and visualise mobility data about Glasgow. Our current work consists of visualising some of this data in a dashboard to demonstrate its value and potentials to inform decision-making at local level. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Glasgow colleagues are providing input on needs, specifically in terms of the indicators we are looking at, as well as on how they fit within the relevant strategies and policy targets. This input helps us better understand the needs in this area within the council as well as identify where to put our efforts to have a working proof of concept. |
| Impact | - prototype dashboards / interfaces - summary of data needs aligned with indicators and appropriate visualisations - road map and resourcing requirements for future deployment of information presentation services |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Glasgow City Council - Mobility Data Agenda |
| Organisation | Glasgow City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | On mobility we have partnered with Glasgow City Council to evaluate data and analytical needs associated primarily with transport policy development, city centre management and neighborhood regeneration. New mobility datasets being collected and produced by UBDC will be made accessible to local authority partners and related consultants and UBDC will produce analyses and accessible data interfaces to reflect demand. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Glasgow City Council have invested financially in this work (see above) and are contributing time and resources to facilitate the specification of third party available datasets and support our efforts to collect primary mobility data via council platforms, sensors and extracted from existing data sources. |
| Impact | - Dataset specifications - Understanding / articulation of needs and priorities - Acquired mobility datasets (Huq.io and Tamoco) - Proof-of-concept dashboard demonstrators |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Glasgow City Council - Pavement Width |
| Organisation | Glasgow City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | In order to measure pavement width at scale we turned our attention to our local city, Glasgow. UBDC is working with Glasgow City Council on issues relating to mobility and neighbourhoods so it seemed an obvious setting to develop an initial proof of concept. Our first step was to identify the paved ways, sidewalks and paths themselves. We used the Ordnance Survey MasterMap Topography Layer, accessed via Edina's Digimap service as our starting point. We filtered four 10km tiles covering most of Glasgow to produce a dataset comprising man made roadside features, although different filters could be used to exclude or include other features. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Glasgow City Council's Neighborhoods and Sustainability and GIS teams have obtained access to UBDC's Pavement Width dataset and configured it for use in several applications. |
| Impact | Details forthcoming |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Glasgow City Council/ Glasgow Centre for Population Health Joint data sharing project |
| Organisation | Glasgow Centre for Population Health |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We are working closely with Glasgow City council (GCC) on the development of a web portal for sharing data with ourselves and Glasgow Centre for Population Health We are providing expertise about data sets and the safe sharing of data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | GCC are putting considerable resources into developing a safe open data portal. We are working with them to help with this development. As trusted partners with GCPH we will test the robustness and security of the site. In return we get access to many data sets which are key to the research we are involved in. This may also include co-created data that come from other collaborative projects we are involved in. |
| Impact | There are no formal outcomes from this project yet. Though an early Beta version of the web portal has been created. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Glasgow City Council/ Glasgow Centre for Population Health Joint data sharing project |
| Organisation | Glasgow City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We are working closely with Glasgow City council (GCC) on the development of a web portal for sharing data with ourselves and Glasgow Centre for Population Health We are providing expertise about data sets and the safe sharing of data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | GCC are putting considerable resources into developing a safe open data portal. We are working with them to help with this development. As trusted partners with GCPH we will test the robustness and security of the site. In return we get access to many data sets which are key to the research we are involved in. This may also include co-created data that come from other collaborative projects we are involved in. |
| Impact | There are no formal outcomes from this project yet. Though an early Beta version of the web portal has been created. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Huq.io Data License |
| Organisation | Huq Industries Limited |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has agreed a contract with Huq.io for the supply of mobility data covering the period 2019 - 2021, enabling its usage for academic research and government non-commercial usage. EDIT - UBDC has renewed and extended its agreement with Huq Industries, offering full UK data coverage for period 2019 - 2022. This includes access for academic research use with government non-commercial usage limited to original spatial region (Glasgow City Region authorities) |
| Collaborator Contribution | Through its relationships with a wide selection of mobile app publishers Huq captures location information of app users and relates these to a network of points of interest. Our data coverage includes Glasgow and the seven neighbouring local authorities. |
| Impact | Data availability to commence in February 2021. We anticipate widespread interest in the data, including from local government within the Glasgow City Region and wider Scottish policy communities, as well as elsewhere within the UK. In addition, we have been collaborating in conversations with the Open Data Institute and Cabinet Office / Geospatial Commission re: agenda for acquiring new mobility information. Furthermore, the data will inform UBDC's own research agenda around transport and mobility as well as economic activity. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Increasing linkage quality: Evaluation of Ordinance Survey linkage methodology |
| Organisation | Ordnance Survey |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We are checking the quality of the OS' existing linkage with linkage done using a different and more robust methodology. To examine where improvements can be made. This is helpful for us and is a key stepping stone in working towards creating an integrated housing database, with energy performance certificates and land registry as the back bone of this data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | OS have contibuted over £34,000 pounds to this, with agreement for another years funding close to being signed off. |
| Impact | None as yet as we have just begun the work |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Measuring activity on city streets, Joint project with Glasgow City Council and Glasgow Centre for Public Health |
| Organisation | Glasgow Centre for Population Health |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We are working with Glasgow City Council and Glasgow City Council to develop a methodology for measuring pedestrian and Vehicular activity using images from CCTV cameras. We are providing software and software support to process the images. We are also carrying out a pilot of the process to test the accuracy of the software but also to assess the effectiveness of the process. |
| Collaborator Contribution | GCC are providing access to the CCTV images and programming to cameras and image collection initially on 4 cameras in the city centre. Glasgow Centre for population are providing expertise with Active travel and methodology. |
| Impact | We have a working system which is providing automatic counts of pedestrians and vehicles from four cameras |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Measuring activity on city streets, Joint project with Glasgow City Council and Glasgow Centre for Public Health |
| Organisation | Glasgow City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We are working with Glasgow City Council and Glasgow City Council to develop a methodology for measuring pedestrian and Vehicular activity using images from CCTV cameras. We are providing software and software support to process the images. We are also carrying out a pilot of the process to test the accuracy of the software but also to assess the effectiveness of the process. |
| Collaborator Contribution | GCC are providing access to the CCTV images and programming to cameras and image collection initially on 4 cameras in the city centre. Glasgow Centre for population are providing expertise with Active travel and methodology. |
| Impact | We have a working system which is providing automatic counts of pedestrians and vehicles from four cameras |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Mobility Data Working Group |
| Organisation | Cabinet Office |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Contribution to ongoing conversation and scoping work re: availability, utility and accessibility of new forms of mobility data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners have recounted their experiences, data needs and shared details of available data, data assessments/appraisals and methodologies. |
| Impact | The group has contributed to the evidence base that supports UBDC's acquisition of two mobility data sets (from Huq and Tamoco) as well as providing compelling expertise and experience around data valuation and market factors for data acquisition. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Mobility Data Working Group |
| Organisation | Glasgow City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Contribution to ongoing conversation and scoping work re: availability, utility and accessibility of new forms of mobility data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners have recounted their experiences, data needs and shared details of available data, data assessments/appraisals and methodologies. |
| Impact | The group has contributed to the evidence base that supports UBDC's acquisition of two mobility data sets (from Huq and Tamoco) as well as providing compelling expertise and experience around data valuation and market factors for data acquisition. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Mobility Data Working Group |
| Organisation | Government of Scotland |
| Department | Scottish Government Welfare Discussion Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Contribution to ongoing conversation and scoping work re: availability, utility and accessibility of new forms of mobility data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners have recounted their experiences, data needs and shared details of available data, data assessments/appraisals and methodologies. |
| Impact | The group has contributed to the evidence base that supports UBDC's acquisition of two mobility data sets (from Huq and Tamoco) as well as providing compelling expertise and experience around data valuation and market factors for data acquisition. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Mobility Data Working Group |
| Organisation | Transport Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Contribution to ongoing conversation and scoping work re: availability, utility and accessibility of new forms of mobility data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners have recounted their experiences, data needs and shared details of available data, data assessments/appraisals and methodologies. |
| Impact | The group has contributed to the evidence base that supports UBDC's acquisition of two mobility data sets (from Huq and Tamoco) as well as providing compelling expertise and experience around data valuation and market factors for data acquisition. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | NextBike Data Agreement (Glasgow City Council) |
| Organisation | Glasgow City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has an agreement with Glasgow City Council to use their NextBike bikeshare scheme data for non-commercial purposes |
| Collaborator Contribution | The data, and access to the live API, provide details of the bikesharing infrastructure and status of each of its stations in real time |
| Impact | The data can not currently be shared more widely but is being used in the course of ongoing transportation research within UBDC |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | North Lanarkshire Council Data Sharing Agreement |
| Organisation | North Lanarkshire Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has facilitated the creation of a data sharing agreement between North Lanarkshire Council and the University of Glasgow to provide access to data collected from the Local Authority's online issue reporting platform. This will inform work within the Centre's research agenda relating to changing access to local services in a digital environment |
| Collaborator Contribution | North Lanarkshire has provided data including details of issue reports, submitters and local authority responses under a data sharing agreement |
| Impact | This is a critical data sharing relationship for this work stream and provides a basis to critically assess the benefits and impacts of digital channels to facilitate communication between citizens and government |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Norwegian Administrative Data Research Project |
| Organisation | Norwegian School of Economics |
| Country | Norway |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I have committed time to data analysis, writing papers, and writing funding applications. |
| Collaborator Contribution | They have committed time to data analysis, writing papers and writing funding applications. They have also provided access to the register data used in the research. |
| Impact | We have had an unsuccessful funding application. We currently have one paper submitted to a journal and one draft of a paper. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Norwegian Administrative Data Research Project |
| Organisation | Western Norway University of Applied Sciences |
| Country | Norway |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I have committed time to data analysis, writing papers, and writing funding applications. |
| Collaborator Contribution | They have committed time to data analysis, writing papers and writing funding applications. They have also provided access to the register data used in the research. |
| Impact | We have had an unsuccessful funding application. We currently have one paper submitted to a journal and one draft of a paper. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | ONS CCTV Information Sharing |
| Organisation | Office for National Statistics |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | UBDC researchers and data scientists provided information re: video analytics and object detection / automated counting methods and technologies to inform a study being undertaken at ONS. In addition, we provided data via our API to a UK wide effort to collect such data for purposes of studying some of the effects and behavioural impacts of Covid 19. |
| Collaborator Contribution | ONS contributed their own information and expertise. |
| Impact | Shared knowledge base in technology growth area. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Registers of Scotland (Land Registry) Open Data Agenda Development |
| Organisation | Registers of Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Participation in several meetings intended to highlight the potential benefits and opportunities of opening up access to Registers of Scotland's sales for consideration (Land Registry) dataset. Currently this data is available only under a commercial licensing agreement, irrespective of purpose/use. UBDC has licensed the RoS dataset before on behalf of its user communities, but the model was costly, prohibitively restrictve and not scalable. An offer was made to undertake a comparative research piece highlighting the differing opportunities and value offered in England and Wales, where the equivalent data is available under and open license. This was warmly received but like the work in general was immediately de-prioritised with the pandemic response dominating agenda. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Outlining the considerations faced by RoS. During conversations an offer was articulated to produce a more open data excerpt that could be accessible by academic audiences. Although a tentative initial step this would have provided some basis for demonstrating demand and value. Unfortunately wtih the pandemic this has not yet been progressed. |
| Impact | - series of conversations - meetings re: open licensing agenda - tentative proposals to undertake comparative analysis and to release summary dataset under less restrictive licensing terms |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research collaboration with Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (South Korea) |
| Organisation | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) |
| Country | Korea, Republic of |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I was invited to give a guest lecture and introduced UBDC. UBDC became a partner of KAIST for the funded project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | KAIST is planning to have conferences and meetings related to the funded project and inviting our staff. In June 2020, one of our staff will present his project in the conference. |
| Impact | Not yet. However future collaboration plans (e.g., invited talks in the seminars and conferences) are under discussion. In addition, KAIST and UoG are working on MOU. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research collaboration with University of Seoul (South Korea) |
| Organisation | University of Seoul |
| Country | Korea, Republic of |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I visited there and gave a guest lecture about UBDC and recent cycling research. I am currently working on a proposal with them. |
| Collaborator Contribution | They gave me an opportunity to introduce our work in UBDC. They seek for a funding opportunity with us in South Korea. |
| Impact | We have had several conference calls and are preparing research proposal. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Scottish Local Government: Data Practices during COVID-19 |
| Organisation | Digital Office for Scottish Local Government |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Development of research strategy and methodology; execution of empirical research; preparation and publication of output, including policy and practice recommendations; hosting of stakeholder dissemination event |
| Collaborator Contribution | Facilitating introductions to Local Authorities, support with recruitment of research participants; and review of draft output; contribution to dissemination event |
| Impact | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/research/research-projects/urban-governance/scottish-local-government-during-covid-19/ |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Scottish Open Data Unconference Partnership |
| Organisation | Code the City |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | UBDC is supporting the Scottish Open Data Unconference (Aberdeen 14th and 15th March 2020), administered by Code The City, with participation and modest funding |
| Collaborator Contribution | The event will bring together data scientists and those with relevant core skills and provide a means to showcase UBDC's own work |
| Impact | Participation with a modest sponsorship will provide us with the means to connect with relevant technologist and domain practitioners in the North East region of Scotland |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Scottish Parliament Information Centre housing Collaborative PhD |
| Organisation | Scottish Parliament |
| Department | Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We were successful in applying for a Scottish Graduate School of Social Science Collaborative Studentships Competition in 2019. This is a 1+3 and will run from October 2019 through to 2023. I will jointly supervise the PhD a long with Ken Gibb from CaCHE and Kate Berry from SPICe |
| Collaborator Contribution | SPICe will co-fund this PhD and Kate Berry will co-supervise the student. |
| Impact | Funding for a PhD from the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Scottish Power Energy Networks (SPEN) Collaboration |
| Organisation | Scottish Power Ltd |
| Department | Scottish Power Energy Networks |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Co-developing research and impact/engagement activities with SPEN around zero-carbon agenda and SPEN's transition to Distribution System Operator. Includes research and impacts intended to align with forthcoming COP26 meeting in Glasgow, 2021. Participation in a series of meetings intended to highlight opportunities for SPEN re: - the use of new and emerging forms of data in maintaining adequate infrastructure for new demands on the energy network as a result of zero carbon agenda - appropriate data management policies and approaches - sourcing of new data sources to inform policy development |
| Collaborator Contribution | SPEN are providing use cases and impact pathways for UBDC research and methods and ultimately are expected to contribute resources to facilitate the completion of related research and impact activities. |
| Impact | - planned research / impact collaborations - outcomes of intensive SPEN / UBDC workshop - SPEN data management policy |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Smart city standards partnership with BSI |
| Organisation | British Standards Institute (BSI Group) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Collaborative project (UBDC lead: Simon Joss) on the local implementation of BSI smart city standards in the UK. Includes one SGSS-ESRC funded Collaborative PhD Studentship (2019-2023) |
| Collaborator Contribution | Co-supervision of doctoral researcher. Joint engagement in research (dissemination) through BSI Smart and Sustainable Cities and Communities Committee SDS/2. |
| Impact | Pending |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Strathclyde Partnership for Transport |
| Organisation | Strathclyde Partnership for Transport |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We had meetings and collected subway data for research. Our team is currently working on public transport research with the data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | They provided us their data so we can do research about public transport system in Glasgow. |
| Impact | We are working on a paper about public transport systems in Glasgow. We will use it to make further collaboration with them. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Strava Impact Accelerator Account Partnership |
| Organisation | Strava, Inc |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Driven by GDPR and the broader evolving data privacy context, Strava announced in 2018 several changes to the data specification for its Metro product. Among the changes were additional aggregation and rounding of data counts as well as limitations on origin/destination information available from within the dataset. Given the sensitive context, Strava is understandably resistant to implementing a more relaxed data specification. We have had productive conversations with Strava regarding best practice for balancing analytical value with privacy protection, and shared several resources that outline methods for disclosure control that optimise the value of data. There are several methodologies available for achieving similar outcomes, enabling the production of privacy-protected data specifications that offer higher levels of utility than those currently available. Strava colleagues indicated that our feedback regarding the new Metro specification is consistent with that received from elsewhere. We aimedto be able to support Strava's response by initially offering recommendations to support greater flexibility, providing end users with expressive datasets while retaining appropriate safeguards and assurances of methodological robustness. We have therefore undertaken a full substantive review of the new Strava Metro format and sought to evaluate its continued utility and value, including its expressiveness to be used to reproduce existing work undertaken with older specification data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time Strava has agreed to provide a range of resources in support of this research activity, primarily in terms of staff availability, including engineering, spatial specialists and strategic / management, but also including limited data availability: 3 x staff members - 1 product manager, 1 engineer, 1 geospatial analyst 8-10 hours each Non-staff costs Sample data for additional areas of study, custom data builds to support research |
| Impact | The study has revealed several opportunities to optimise Strava's new approach, whether in terms of adjustments to the specification itself, or refinement of governance and sharing arrangements to mitigate risks associated with less aggregated data in a less destructive way. We are currently in the final stages of publishing the report and engaging with Strava senior management. We remain hopeful that our role of critical friend will continue to be valued by Strava; the experience has also provided useful opportunities to reflect on some of the challenges and implicit tensions in academic collaborations with commercial organisations, as well as to develop appropriate mitigation measures to effectively offset these. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Tamoco Data License |
| Organisation | Tamoco Limited |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has agreed a contract with Tamoco for the supply of mobility data covering the period 2019 - 2021, enabling its usage for academic research and government non-commercial usage. EDIT - UBDC has renewed and extended its agreement with Tamoco, offering full UK data coverage for period 2019 - 2022. This includes access for academic research use with government non-commercial usage limited to original spatial region (Glasgow City Region authorities) |
| Collaborator Contribution | Through its relationships with a wide selection of mobile app publishers Tamoco captures location information of app users and relates these to a network of points of interest. Our data coverage includes Glasgow and the seven neighbouring local authorities. |
| Impact | Data availability to commence in February 2021. We anticipate widespread interest in the data, including from local government within the Glasgow City Region and wider Scottish policy communities, as well as elsewhere within the UK. In addition, we have been collaborating in conversations with the Open Data Institute and Cabinet Office / Geospatial Commission re: agenda for acquiring new mobility information. Furthermore, the data will inform UBDC's own research agenda around transport and mobility as well as economic activity. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | The Data Lab Data Fest Fringe |
| Organisation | The Data Lab - Innovation Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has agreed to run a workshop on effective models for engagement between academia and government as part of Datalab's annual Datafest Fringe |
| Collaborator Contribution | Datalab will support our event with promotion and market the event and its outcomes to a wide audience of highly relevant stakeholders |
| Impact | Datafest is a premier data-related fixture within the Scottish event calendar and our association with it as part of the fringe will serve to promote our work and extend our reach and influence with key public sector, industry, third sector and academic stakeholders |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | The Improvement Service - Data Agreement |
| Organisation | Improvement Service |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has been in negotiation for some time with the Improvement Service to help facilitate broader access to data, specifically for academic use. This is expected to be ultimately a responsibility that EDINA will administer through its Digimap platform but for the time being we have been given confirmation that we may act as data distributors provided that terms of use are adhered to |
| Collaborator Contribution | Improvement Service has published c. 36 datasets for academic use that UBDC is positioned to promote and assist in making available |
| Impact | Data such as nationwide school catchment areas have been long sought after by UBDC and associated researchers so this development has the opportunity to inform well established and refined work |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | The building of an integrated Uk housing data set |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Department | Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are working with UCL's CASA and Ordinance Survey(OS) to create a national housing data set. UBDC are carrying out linkage to examine the success of previous linkage by OS and to look for improvements. Once established we want to roll out the methodology to a number of housing data, like the land registry and Energy Performance Certificates |
| Collaborator Contribution | Adam Dennett in CASA has expertise in this area and has worked with Bin Chi a postdoctoral researcher working on this project. He brings insight and connections to the Department for Leveling UP, Housing and Communities and Ordinance Survey. |
| Impact | We have been successful in attracting funding from Ordinance Survey and |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Transport for Healthy Air Quality (TransportHAQ) Project |
| Organisation | Glasgow Centre for Population Health |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | David McArthur and myself worked with others in the partnership to write and submit a proposal to the National Institute for Health Research to evaluate Glasgow City Council's new emission zone and Avenues project. The bid resulted in an application which passed the first stage of the proposal and was submitted to the second stage. David and I contributed expertise in measuring and modelling transport data in general and active travel in particular. We contributed to the specific methods and general methodologies in the proposal. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Miranda Loh led the project and had specific expertise in air quality and emissions. Peter Craig contributed to sections on Active travel and led on the Systems approach which was to be used to pull the project together. Bruce Whyte contributed expertise in Active travel and administrative and health data. |
| Impact | Successful outline proposal to NIHR Public Health Research programme call: 18/147 Air Pollution: Outdoor air quality and health Full proposal to NIHR Public Health Research programme call: 18/147 Air Pollution: Outdoor air quality and health |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Transport for Healthy Air Quality (TransportHAQ) Project |
| Organisation | Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | David McArthur and myself worked with others in the partnership to write and submit a proposal to the National Institute for Health Research to evaluate Glasgow City Council's new emission zone and Avenues project. The bid resulted in an application which passed the first stage of the proposal and was submitted to the second stage. David and I contributed expertise in measuring and modelling transport data in general and active travel in particular. We contributed to the specific methods and general methodologies in the proposal. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Miranda Loh led the project and had specific expertise in air quality and emissions. Peter Craig contributed to sections on Active travel and led on the Systems approach which was to be used to pull the project together. Bruce Whyte contributed expertise in Active travel and administrative and health data. |
| Impact | Successful outline proposal to NIHR Public Health Research programme call: 18/147 Air Pollution: Outdoor air quality and health Full proposal to NIHR Public Health Research programme call: 18/147 Air Pollution: Outdoor air quality and health |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Transport for Healthy Air Quality (TransportHAQ) Project |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Department | MRC Social & Public Health Sciences Unit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | David McArthur and myself worked with others in the partnership to write and submit a proposal to the National Institute for Health Research to evaluate Glasgow City Council's new emission zone and Avenues project. The bid resulted in an application which passed the first stage of the proposal and was submitted to the second stage. David and I contributed expertise in measuring and modelling transport data in general and active travel in particular. We contributed to the specific methods and general methodologies in the proposal. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Miranda Loh led the project and had specific expertise in air quality and emissions. Peter Craig contributed to sections on Active travel and led on the Systems approach which was to be used to pull the project together. Bruce Whyte contributed expertise in Active travel and administrative and health data. |
| Impact | Successful outline proposal to NIHR Public Health Research programme call: 18/147 Air Pollution: Outdoor air quality and health Full proposal to NIHR Public Health Research programme call: 18/147 Air Pollution: Outdoor air quality and health |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | UBDC - BikeCitizen Collaboration |
| Organisation | Bike Citizens |
| Country | Austria |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | A collaborative MSc dissertation has been established with Bike Citizen in the year 2021-22. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Mihai from the Bike Citizen provides data, guidance, support for our MSc students. |
| Impact | An MSc dissertation will be finished and the results will be delivered to Bike Citizen. Also the student will develop the survey component of their app and the component can be reused in the app in the future. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | UBDC - Cycling Scotland Collaboration |
| Organisation | Cycling Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | A collaborative MSc dissertation has been established with Cycling Scotland in the year 2020-21 and 2021-22. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Nick from the Cycling Scotland provides data, guidance, support for our MSc students. |
| Impact | A MSc dissertation has been finished and the results have been delivered to Cycling Scotland. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | UBDC - Lumiere Property Collaboration |
| Organisation | Lumiere Property |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Four MSc Urban Analytics students work on the urban analytics group project to look at Using Urban Data Science to Predict Property Development Planning Successes: Recommendations to Lumiere Property in 2020. In 2021, 4 MSc Urban Analytics students work on the group project again to look at how to classifying protected trees by using deep learning models. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Geoff Smith from the Lumiere Property provides data, guidance, and support for the student group project. |
| Impact | A student group project report has been produced and delivered to the Lumiere Property. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | UBDC - Sustrans Collaboration |
| Organisation | Sustrans |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | A collaborative MSc dissertation has been established with the Sustrans through the Data Lab Scholarship Placement program. A collaborative MSc group project has been established in the year of 2021-22. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Cecilia from the Sustrans provides data, guidance, support, and internship salaries for our MSc students. |
| Impact | A MSc dissertation in progress. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | UBDC - the Salvation Army Collaboration |
| Organisation | Salvation Army |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | A collaborative dissertation proposal has been established with the Salvation Army and is submitted to SGSSS collaborative PhD fellowship and College of Social Science PhD fellowship. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Adrian from the Salvation Army provides data, guidance, and support for the 4 years PhD projects. |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | UBDC-Glasgow City Council 3D City Collaboration |
| Organisation | Glasgow City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We collaborate with GCC on the 3D city modelling project. GCC and the Scottish Government share their updated LIDAR data with UBDC, and UBDC helps host/share the raw LIDAR data. UBDC also hires PDRA to process the raw LIDAR to other derived products such as 3D building and tree models. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Glasgow City Council collaborators provide data, guidance, and support for the LIDAR data and PDRA hiring cost. |
| Impact | MOU between UBDC and GCC has been established and UBDC will host LIDAR data and the derived data for better data sharing services and research purposes. GCC will also benefit from the building and tree models for their service, such as planning application. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | UBDC-Locomizer Collaboration |
| Organisation | Locomizer |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | One MSc Urban Analytics student works on the collaboration dissertation to look at Quantitative approach to identifying factors of urban revitalisation driven by public space development. Locomizer also collaborated with Dr. Qunshan Zhao on an Innovate UK funding bid. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Alexei from the Locomizer provides data, guidance, and support for the student dissertation. |
| Impact | A student dissertation has been produced along with a report delivered to the Locomizer. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | UBDC-The British Red Cross Collaboration |
| Organisation | British Red Cross |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | One MSc Urban Analytics student works on the collaboration dissertation to look at data analysis and visualisation of philanthropic activities for small foundations and statutory donors in the UK. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Lindsay from the British Red Cross provides data, guidance, and support for the student dissertation. |
| Impact | A student dissertation has been produced along with a report delivered to the British Red Cross. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | UNESCO-UIL Learning Cities |
| Organisation | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
| Department | UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The UBDC Educational Disadvantage and Place team, were successful in tendering two of 5 background papers for UNESCO-UIL Learning Cities Network, launched at their annual conference, the briefing paper by Dr. Lido and team was on digital inclusion in learning cities and offered UBDC as part of the UK case study on on ameliorating vulnerabilities related to digital knowledge, literacies and practice. UBDC is acknowledged as case study contributors (through Rhiannon Law as PR outreach) and their open data sharing policies highlighted as global best practice for UNESCO UIL Learning Cities Network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The UBDC Educational Disadvantage and Place team, were successful in tendering two of 5 background papers for UNESCO-UIL Learning Cities Network, launched at their annual conference, however, in addition UNESCO-UIL have a longer history of collaborating with UBDC researchers through our operationalisation of their learning city metrics, namely through the iMCD project, and through invitation of Dr. Lido to sit on their expert panel in Lifelong Learning measurement. |
| Impact | The Briefing papers are not yet published by UNESCO, but the UBDC researchers comprised the overall background paper here: https://uil.unesco.org/system/files/iclc2019_backgroundpaper_final_en.pdf |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Uber Movement Data Agreement |
| Organisation | Uber Technologies Inc. |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Uber has agreed with UBDC to provide early access to its Movement data set to identify research opportunities |
| Collaborator Contribution | "Movement shares historical, aggregated, and anonymized data to help provide insights into the towns and cities where Uber operates. There are two types of data we share through Movement: Zone to Zone Travel Times to help cities build towards better traffic and safety outcomes by understanding how average travel times have changed over time across the entire road network. Street Segment Speeds Data to gives historical actuals of speeds at an hourly basis. Historically expensive and difficult to collect for cities,this data is a powerful way to measure the impact of infrastructure investments. Only the first is currently available to UBDC" |
| Impact | The data is of limited use although we continue to assess the opportunities that it offers |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Understanding residential energy consumption and home environments, using Home sensors and smart meter readings. |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are working with Smart Energy Research Lab to submit a number of proposals to collect housing sensor data that could be linked to smart meter data. Over the last year we at Glasgow have been working on a methodology to allow housing sensor data to be collected from a representative sample. We have developed cost effective devices for collecting these data as well as a methodology for sending these to large numbers of people. We are working toward an application to Understanding Society's innovation panel |
| Collaborator Contribution | SERL bring expertise in collecting and using smart meter data. It is the combination of precise energy performance and home environment that will provide valuable insight into energy usage and and peoples living environment. Combined with the richness of data provided by a large social survey this has the potential to bring new insights to energy usage and the quality of the environment. |
| Impact | Nothing yet as we have just started collaborating |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | eDRIS Safe Haven Agreement (extended to 2021) |
| Organisation | NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UBDC has an extended agreement with eDRIS to provide hosting and statistical disclosure control and other services in support of UBDC projects using privacy-sensitive or commercially sensitive datasets |
| Collaborator Contribution | The agreement provides access to the safe haven for approved projects, including those supported as part of UBDC's now discontinued Controlled Data Service, or those accessing specific higher risk datasets such as iMCD GPS and Experian commercial data |
| Impact | This arrangement ensures the safe access to UBDC and brokered datasets and provides us with a basis to achieve impactful work |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iGH20 UK Research and Innovation Strength in Places Project |
| Organisation | Glasgow Caledonian University |
| Department | School of Health and Life Sciences |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We contributed to this UKRI application to the Strength in Places call. Our contribution was to provide Big Data expertise to the proposal . |
| Collaborator Contribution | The project was led by Colleagues at Glasgow Caledonian University but also included a number of other Universities, private companies and third sector organisations |
| Impact | A proposal was submitted in October to the call and we await the outcome |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Title | Address Lookup for Glasgow Health Boards |
| Description | This app helps finding health protection teams in Scotland given a Scottish postcode. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Although this is a simple app, we have received positive feedback. E.g. from one Covid 19 contact tracer: "Thank you so much for this invaluable link for finding the Health protection teams by entering the index case post codes . This cuts down the time associated with these cases enormously and is a valuable asset for the contact tracing team". |
| URL | https://github.com/laoserra/postcodes/blob/master/installation.md |
| Title | AirBnB Data Collection Platform |
| Description | Platform to facilitate the harvest, storage of data taken from AirBnB platform, from user-defined areas of interest. The harvested data are primarily focused around listings and relative information (e.g users who interacted with a listing, reviews, listing details, availability, prices and more) are stored in a structured way such as to retain their relationship and allow their systematic retrieval and quantification using geospatial and temporal filters (i.e. how many comments, between day A and day B, from a set listings defined by a boundary, where made and by whom, by an interval X). Finally, the platform will host an API for users/clients to connect and request data on demand to work independently |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The project functionality is complete but full rollout of the software is taking place during 2020. Primary impacts are downstream based on use of the resultant data, but the approach can be adapted to other data collection activities. |
| Title | Airbnb python client |
| Description | Airbnb python client |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | Work in progress - impacts still to be achieved |
| Title | Amazon AWS S3 Delivery Point |
| Description | AWS S3 platform to facilitate receipt / delivery of data sets, primarily from information owners / depositors. |
| Type Of Technology | e-Business Platform |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Provide means to achieve near real-time data delivery / receipt / publication |
| Title | Annotation project |
| Description | The objectives of the annotation project required staff to annotate persons, cyclists, and vehicles on at least 10,000 CCTV-like images which were collected from the city centres of Glasgow, Newcastle, Manchester, and Sheffield. The annotation process employed a team of five annotators and two reviewers who utilized specialized software to perform the task. A large set of images and videos collected for this project in four UK cities. 10,000 of these images were labelled to train machine learning models. The annotation process employed a team of five annotators and two reviewers who utilized specialized software to perform the task. All this data is in the process of being made available for research through a secure environment. UBDC is working with a company to configure and setup a virtual machine in the cloud which will provide a safe environment for researchers to use these sensitive data. |
| Type Of Technology | Detection Devices |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | The greatest outcome from this project, by the end of last year, was the labelling of more than 10,000 images and a set of images and videos from four UK city centres. All this data is to be shared with researchers through a safe environment. Collecting and annotating a diverse range of images that represent most city environments in the UK, while minimising the likelihood of mislabelled data. In addition to using the annotated images within its own CCTV automation projects, UBDC will make them available to other academic developers wanting to develop or validate their own models. We hope the labelled dataset produced constitutes an invaluable resource to develop better models for CCTV-like cameras. |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2022/june/building-a-high-quality-annotated-image-library-to-impro... |
| Title | CCTV Object Detection Platform |
| Description | A digital web platform for the centre's CCTV Object Detection project. This platform enables research and a wider audience to openly access the data through dynamic files or an API, explore the project's technical documentation and other materials. A dashboard has been developed as part of this platform, which allows users to visualise the data on a dynamic time series chart and conduct some simple analytics by sampling and segmenting the data. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | The Glasgow CCTV Object Detection platform provides counts of street traffic and pedestrians recorded at 44 different locations across Glasgow. Our model, developed by the team at UBDC, uses object detection technology to record the number of people and vehicles passing by CCTV cameras. Logging new data at regular intervals each day, this project aims to improve public understanding of mobility and traffic patterns across Glasgow. This platform provides access to the project's latest data through an API and .csv file download so that individuals and researchers can use it to promote better understanding of our city. |
| URL | https://glasgow-cctv.ubdc.ac.uk/ |
| Title | CCTV Object Detection Software |
| Description | Tool that processes snapshots taken from four CCTV cameras in every 15 minutes. The processing is done in two parts: first the objects of interest are identified by running a pretrained deep learning model developed by Google and second the objects are counted and a resulting report is written into a csv file using python scripting. The pretrained model runs on top of TensorFlow and the output feeds a python script. The object detection and counting API runs on a dedicated Ubuntu server machine with bash and cron configuration files. The objects of interest that are being captured at the moment are persons and different types of vehicles. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This software has a great potential for the Glasgow City Council to make data-driven decisions about the type of investments to make on the roads : roads mainly for cars usage or to build dedicated cycle paths or even roads and squares to pedestrianize. Furthermore this project can be scaled to all the 600 cctv cameras running by the Glasgow City Council. |
| Title | CCTV Object Detection System V2 |
| Description | Building on a pre-existing UBDC CCTV client/server for image processing model developed in 2021 (and recorded in ResearchFish under a separate entry) this updated system is formed by an improved version of the existing model alongside the release of an in-house developed model with the ability to detect some forms of active travel (e.g. pedestrians and cyclists) and to distinguish different types of vehicles (e.g. cars, taxis, vans, lorries and buses). |
| Type Of Technology | e-Business Platform |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | The ability to differentiate different types of vehicles, will add an important tool for researchers to study air and noise pollution and the Council to monitor the implementation of Low Emission Zones (LEZ). Furthermore, the Council and researchers will also be able to monitor and study the activity of pedestrians and cyclists in the context of active travelling. Finally, this new version of the system is more robust and collects more data in near real-time, thus permitting better consistency of the data and opening the scope of the studies that can be performed with it. |
| Title | CCTV Urban Object Detection Library |
| Description | A library of labelled video footage covering a range of appropriate contexts (urban roads with a reasonable number of cyclists in particular, but also pedestrians and vehicles) and make this data available to researchers. More than 10,000 images were labelled to develop a new model for CCTV data. |
| Type Of Technology | Detection Devices |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | Increasingly, video/CCTV cameras are being used to provide automated counts of pedestrian, vehicle and cyclist activity using Artificial Intelligence (AI) models. These models are built and calibrated using large numbers of labelled still or video images. However, there are few libraries of labelled images available to researchers, particularly for cyclists. This set of images alongside its labels, are used to train an object detection model. |
| Title | CCTV object detection project : alpha version |
| Description | The new CCTV version has the following updates compared to the current CCTV: Running an updated version of the current object detection model with better accuracy. Running an object detection model developed in-house with the labelled images collected from the previous annotation project. This model detects 9 objects, most importantly, cyclists and different types of cars (e.g., taxis and vans), which are not detected by the previous mentioned off-the-shelf model. Writing all collected data into a database. The current cctv project is writing into a simple csv file. Collecting detections, that is, the location of the objects on the image. The present cctv project only collects counts. A more robust and faster method to process images. The project will be shared with data science colleagues behind the cctv api to connect to the database and make the new data widely available. |
| Type Of Technology | Detection Devices |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | Impacts include better accuracy, detection of different types of car, collecting detections, robust and faster methods. The project will be shared with data science colleagues behind the CCTV API to connect to the database and make the new data widely available. |
| Title | Data Blocks Component Library |
| Description | A component library deployed on the npm registry for use in data driven front end applications. Data blocks is intended to shortcut common component development by providing a central repository to access and share data driven components across interface applications. The component library is written in Typescript, is open source and is accessible from node based applications through the command line. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | The component library provides a central repository to access and share data driven components across interface applications. |
| Title | GALLANT Data Hub |
| Description | As part of the GALLANT project, the data scientist produced a data hub platform that enables researchers to access data collected by the project and request data where there is a need. Ultimately, the data hub will also provide features that enable data exploration and visual presentations of the data for consumption by use by internal GALLANT researchers and the wider GALLANT community. The data hub's initial release, February 2023, represents an opportunity to onboard GALLANT researchers as well as capture their data requirements and expose the existing dataset resources held by the project. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | The GALLANT data hub has increased visibility of resources available to GALLANT researchers. Researchers are now able to submit data requests and provided feedback/comments using the GALLANT data hub. The GALLANT data hub admin team have been able to add and amend datasets and data requests, action support emails and source requested data. |
| Title | Glasgow traffic data (SCOOT) API Data Collection |
| Description | The SCOOT urban traffic control system has been designed to improve traffic control by calculating and implementing optimum signal timings to give minimum overall network delay. a key feature of SCOOT is its traffic model which predicts the main elements of traffic performance-such as flow, delay stops and congestion-from information received every second from detectors on each link in the network. In addition to its use for network control, this up-to-the-minute information is available for any other purpose and can be obtained via standard SCOOT messages at a variety of levels of detail. The data of traffic location, parking availability for city of Glasgow are being collected and stored in the data base. The python code to perform this collection is publicly available via GitHub platform. The application allows to collect and store the data which is important for the transport research , developing policies and strategies. https://github.com/urbanbigdatacentre/glasgowtrafficdata |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Potential for downstream impact based on planned transportation research which will use the SCOOT data. Furthermore, this code for data collection can be repurposed and deployed to facilitate other online data collection activities. |
| URL | https://github.com/urbanbigdatacentre/glasgowtrafficdata |
| Title | IDEAMAPS Data Ecosystem |
| Description | The Integrated Deprived Area Mapping System (IDEAMAPS) is a data Ecosystem Project which aims at engaging with local communities in Nairobi (Kenya), Lagos and Kano (Nigeria) to jointly create digital products that work towards better maps of deprived communities. Within the current stage of the project, we are preparing for the technical development of this platform, helping to design and implement cloud infrastructure as well as configuring the environment for mobile application that will be developed later this year. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | TBC |
| Title | Integrated Multimedia City Data (iMCD) Anonymisation Software |
| Description | To protect user privacy participated in iMCD survey python based tool was developed to anonymise user identity using SHA-1 cryptographic hash function. This encryption allows data to be shared with wider public ensuring that privacy protecting measures are met. All code is available in a private repository on GitHub. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The code facilitates sharing of iMCD data while mitigating associated privacy risks. The potential for impact is primarily associated with future uses of the iMCD data. However, the approach can be replicated and applied to other individual level datasets or where masking of identifiers is required. |
| Title | Met Office Observations Public API |
| Description | Public data API for programmatic access to the observations. Daily generation of csvs file (containing a complete set of observations) for easier analysis. UBDC collects hourly weather observations - for the last 24 hours - for approximately 140 locations across the UK. This data is collected daily by UBDC via the Met Office API. Our collection covers 30 November 2011 until 6 February 2017 and then 23 January 2018 to date. Hourly observation reports are recorded in real-time by the Met Office UK Monitoring System. Observation report parameters are controlled by the Met Office and are based on the instrumentation installed at each site (where a parameter is not available, no data is returned). |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | Met Office Observations data has been shared with applicants including staff/students at universities, as well as the private sector. |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/data-services/data-catalogue/observations-and-forecasts-data/met-office-hourl... |
| Title | Modified SuiteCRM Platform |
| Description | SuiteCRM is the open source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software used for the administration of UBDC users' data requests, the management of data acquisitions and reporting for these activities . Modifications and technical developments to the CRM were completed to enhance the recording of user data requests and a wide range of data can be recorded including customer correspondence, customer project details and information about datasets requested and sent by UBDC. The data acquisitions module tracks the acquisitions process from the initial data suggestion to the dataset becoming available to request from UBDC. Details of terms and licensing, data transfer, management, processing and metadata are recorded there. The reporting functionality enables statistics for number of users, number of requests per dataset to be generated, as well as information about users plan to use/used the data. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | More information about data requests and acquistions is recorded in a central place online, which reduces reliance on several external systems and makes the data service administration process more streamlined. The data acquisitions module is now being utilised to record and track information related to the ongoing data acquisitions process. The reporting functionality is frequently utilised to facilitate easy generation of statistics, which are used for impact monitoring and external reports. |
| URL | https://crm.ubdc.gla.ac.uk |
| Title | Nextbike API Data Collection |
| Description | Nextbike is a company who operated public bike -sharing system around the world. It provides data about available and rented bikes, stations in Glasgow via API. The python code to extract data from API has been developed and made publicly available via GitHub platform. This data could facilitate transport related research, promote sustainable transport and evaluate influence of bike usage and available infrastructure on a wider public. https://github.com/urbanbigdatacentre/nextbike |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Potential for downstream impact based on planned transportation research which will use the Nextbike data. Furthermore, this code for data collection can be repurposed and deployed to facilitate other online data collection activities. |
| URL | https://github.com/urbanbigdatacentre/nextbike |
| Title | Parking occupancy project |
| Description | This project aims to use cctv data to understand parking occupancy volumes in Byres Road and Alison Road, considering different variables: time of the day, weather conditions, annual seasons and strikes (train, buses, etc). It is being developed as a project course by Urban Analytics Msc Students. Data is being collected to assist students with the project. |
| Type Of Technology | Detection Devices |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Data is being collected to assist Urban Analytics Msc Students with the Parking occupancy project. |
| Title | Registers of Scotland Price Paid Aggregation / Extraction |
| Description | Registers of Scotland is the official register of land and property in Scotland , it provides data of all sale and long lease transactions . The data comes in a spreadsheet with all the data stored as a text. This brings challenges to extract property price information as the price field contains various legal information along with price data itself. This software output is a Jupyter Notebook, an open-source web application that allows users to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and narrative text. Uses include: data cleaning and transformation, numerical simulation, statistical modelling, data visualization, machine learning, and much more. All code is available in a private repository on GitHub. The data clean up tool using Jupiter notebooks has been created to allow quick and easy price data extraction. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Potential for downstream impacts as end users have access to an aggregated Registers of Scotland (RoS) dataset - the terms and conditions of our main RoS license limit sharing of the full dataset but permit us to share aggregated summary statistics of e.g. average house price or number of sales by datazone (subject to minimum cell sizes). |
| Title | Strava extract / Ogr2OGr tools using GDAL library for data loading and extraction |
| Description | The Geospatial Data Abstraction Library is a computer software library for reading and writing raster and vector geospatial data formats, and is released under the permissive X/MIT style free software license by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Bespoke code for loading Strava dataset to database and the code to extract it has been developed and made publicly available via GitHub platform. https://github.com/urbanbigdatacentre/strava |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The code to extract Strava data is primarily in support of our data service function - the impact that shared data has and will have is widespread and documented. The core libraries that we are adapting can be deployed in other types of data extraction, again offering benefits and potential for downstream impact. |
| URL | https://github.com/urbanbigdatacentre/strava |
| Title | UBDC CCTV API |
| Description | This online platform standardised according to community conventions for CCTV object counts provides machine readable access to near real time counts data collected as part of UBDC's partnership project with Glasgow City Council to extract counts of pedestrians and other objects from CCTV imagery. The cctv api is an application which provides quarterly/half an hour counts of pedestrians and vehicles in json format, updated once daily. The source of the data is an object detection model which presently analyses snapshots taken from 36 cctv cameras in Glasgow City although the project started with four cameras in 30.11.2019. The entry page of the API, available at: https://portal.ubdc.ac.uk/cctv/, lists all endpoints and availability of data and locations for each camera. The cctv API comprises four endpoints: 1. Get all counts for all dates and all cameras This endpoint provides all the data available in the API at https://portal.ubdc.ac.uk/cctv/counts/. The remaining endpoints filter this data according to a location and/or time period. 2. Get all counts for a location This endpoint provides all the data available for a chosen location. In the example below, the data for the location Duke Street at Bellgrove is presented. Ex.: https://portal.ubdc.ac.uk/cctv/counts/Duke_St_@_Bellgrove 3. Get all counts for a time period (inclusive) This endpoint provides all the data available for a specific time period. Ex.: https://portal.ubdc.ac.uk/cctv/counts/2020-05-19/2020-07-06 In the example above, all the data between 2020-05-19 and 2020-07-06 is presented. 4. Get counts for a location and time period (inclusive) This endpoint filters the data according to a specific location and time period. Ex.: https://portal.ubdc.ac.uk/cctv/counts/Duke_St_@_Bellgrove/2020-06-19/2020-06-21 |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The data has been acquired via the platform in support of national efforts to identify valuable new data sources within the Covid pandemic (led principally by ONS) and provides a means for data to be consumed by local authority partners, and within information dashboards being produced for policy audiences by UBDC. |
| URL | https://api.ubdc.ac.uk/cctv/ |
| Title | UBDC CCTV Client / Server Model |
| Description | This is a state-of-the-art system to deploy machine learning models in a production environment. The server side of the system is based on Tensorflow Serving which is a flexible, high-performance serving system for machine learning models especially designed for production. There are many advantages is using this system and one that is key to allow low latency communications and smaller payloads is the possibility to make use of gRPC endpoints. This system will substitute the outdated cctv syste |
| Type Of Technology | e-Business Platform |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | To follow |
| Title | UBDC CCTV Object Count and Tracking Codebase |
| Description | This software, relying on trained and untrained models, takes CCTV imagery (still or video content) and performs per-frame analysis, identifying objects of interest including people, cars, and other vehicles, for the purposes of producing count information and other statistics. For moving image materials the software is also capable of reidentifying detected objects and tracking movement trajectories across multiple contigous frames, providing the means for more robust counting methodologies (where objects are counted only after traversing an arbitrary line within the image frame), to more effectively differentiate between stationary and moving vehicles and bicycles and to track movement trajectories, routes and other mobility habits from detected individuals. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The dataset produced from this code is documented elsewhere within Research Fish and has received widespread interest from a range of communities and practical deployment in the operational and policy decision making within Glasgow City Council. |
| Title | UBDC Data Catalogue Manager |
| Description | This software facilitates interrogation and management of UBDC's data catalogue platform, underpinned by an associated RESTful API. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | The platform is in a pre-release status at present (Feb 2021) but is expected to be established at the forefront of UBDC Data Service communication later this year. |
| Title | UBDC Ecoquartier Processing Code |
| Description | In UBDC's Ecoquartier Project it was necessary to run an Exploratory Factorial Analysis to identify latent variables which could not be identified directly. For this analysis to run smoothly and to not extract 'artefactual factors' or factors that load heavily on a single variable, it is recommended to keep absolute skewness below 2.0 and kurtosis below 2.0 (Bandalos and Finney 2010). However, our data is highly skewed and even applying the traditional range of transformations (square root transformation, cubic root transformation and log transformation), we here unable to transform skewed data to a normal distribution or to bring all values ofskewness and kurtosis within or very close to the desired limits. This interpolating approach recalculates the value of the variables for all polygons based on the values of the neighbouring polygons. There are many (deterministic) interpolation methods and the one that would suit better this proposal was theinverse distance weighted interpolation (idw). This method is a weighted average, in which the weights are the inverse distance between polygons (or the centroid of the polygons, to be more precise). The whole idea is that the nearby polygons will be more weighted than the polygons further away. The value of ncan be adjusted to reflect the degree of influence of close polygons. A large nresults in nearby polygons wielding a much greater influence on the unsampled polygon compared to a polygon furtheraway. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | To follow |
| Title | UBDC Github Implementation |
| Description | An organisational account allowing UBDC developers and data scientists to store code, models and developed tools was created on the GitHub platform. As well as facilitating management and sustainability of the Centre's codebase and technical outputs it allows sharing code with public, part of our overall transparency agenda. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This provides a basis for managing and sharing all of UBDC's technical outputs. Its potential for impact is therefore not direct, but is an essential facilitator to the achievement of impact with third party use of these resources. |
| URL | https://github.com/urbanbigdatacentre |
| Title | UBDC Glasgow City Region Intelligence Hub Prototype Dashboard |
| Description | This is a fully featured prototype implementation of an online economics dashboard prepared to a specification as provided by Glasgow City Region's Intelligence Hub. The platform facilitates comparison of some 13 mainly economic indicators across the regions' local authorities and with other comparable UK regions. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | To follow |
| Title | UBDC and Microsoft Core Azure team project using virtual machines |
| Description | UBDC together with Microsoft Core Azure team are working on a project which will provide a secure access to the annotated library of still images for the researchers. The Microsoft Core Azure team set up a virtual machine for us to test it. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | Still in testing phase, impacts yet to be realised. |
| Title | UBDC infrastructure |
| Description | Evolving ubdc infrastructure to run data-ops for continuous data collections/data-operations. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | Potential impact to make data scientists' work more efficient. |
| Title | Urban Big Data Centre AirBnB Content Scraper |
| Description | This containerised (Docker) application automates the extraction of data via AirBnB's API. It handles content harvesting, scheduling, logging and load balancing and manages the negotiation of API limits. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | The tool has been utilised to facilitate extraction of AirBnB data for UBDC research and is available and fully documented to facilitate others reproduction of these data collection steps. |
| URL | https://github.com/urbanbigdatacentre/ubdc-airbnb |
| Title | Video analytics project |
| Description | The video analytics project builds on our existing CCTV work, which uses open-sourced object detection models to identify pedestrian and vehicle activity in images sampled from designated home positions. Working with the Urban Observatory at Newcastle University and Glasgow City Council's (GCC) CCTV team, we will use the same approach to develop a framework to provide more accurate measures of activity and use of city streets by pedestrians, vehicles, and cyclists. Video analytics uses object detection models, which are like those used in our CCTV project. When analysing pedestrian movements, these models identify people in a frame and then where they are in subsequent frames. This way, people's movement through the image frame can be tracked, allowing for counts of individuals in different directions and traces of movement in the space to be measured. Data Science staff were involved in training and testing CCTV object detection models. The dataset of CCTV images was utilized to train various object detection models (TensorFlow2, YOLOv4). These models are used to generate data for both the CCTV and Video Analytics projects. |
| Type Of Technology | Detection Devices |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | Models were used to generate data for 2 projects. Video analytics can provide enhanced metrics on the level of activity of pedestrians and vehicles on our city streets. |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/research/research-projects/urban-sensing-analytics/video-analytics-to-monitor... |
| Title | iMCD GPS / Greenspace Data Extraction Software |
| Description | To better process GPS data collected during iMCD project and to evaluate user interactions with greenspace the python code has been produced using Jupyter Notebooks. All code is available in a private repository on GitHub. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The code facilitates spatial linking of iMCD GPS data. The potential for impact is primarily associated with future uses of the iMCD data. However, the approach can be replicated and applied to other individual level datasets. |
| Description | "Slum" Modelling Community of Practice Information Sessions |
| 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 | Two of our Research Associates in Participatory Urban Analytics and EO Data Science held a series of information sessions to gather professionals in the field to build a Modelling Community of Practice. The info sessions aimed to give more information about the aims and intentions of the Community of Practice. The CoP will be a regular zoom meeting coordinated by the IDEAMAPS Data Ecosystem Project within the broader IDEAMAPS Network to convene individuals that model slums, informal settlements, and other deprived urban areas in the Global South using machine-learning/AI techniques and open data sources. The aim is to share ideas that might help to develop more accurate, scalable, relevant modelling results. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | 'Now is the time to be bold on educational inequality' We need a new normal for education to better serve the disadvantaged - and that has to start now, says Barry Black |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | This is a Teacher Education Scotland (TES) piece by our PGR Barry Black, stemming from his UBDC mixed-methods research, on tackling widening educational inequalities post-Covid, it led to some TV media coverage as well.This has had wide discussion amongst government policy-makers as well. It begins: "Reminders of the vast inequality that exists in Scotland's education system are never in short supply. Just recently, research revealed that the poorest young people in Scotland are as likely to leave school with one Higher as their most affluent peers are to have five. Across every area - from results to subject choice, literacy and numeracy - we see a stubborn poverty-related attainment gap that could be mistaken for a chasm. Of course, the driver of inequality in education is not the four walls of the classroom, but wider socio-economic inequality. As in many other sectors, the Covid-19 crisis threatens to further entrench these inequalities." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.tes.com/news/coronavirus-now-time-be-bold-educational-inequality |
| Description | (Y)our City Centre : Glasgow - District Regeneration Frameworks : Urban Infrastructure Workshop |
| 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 was invited to participate in a workshop organised by Austin-Smith:Lord. The workshop aimed to gather views from a variety of stakeholders about the formulation of the city centre regeneration strategies. I spoke about data gathering efforts made by UBDC. They requested further information about our work (which I forwarded after the workshop) and also expressed interest in using some of the data we have collected. We will also look into collecting new data which they can make use of. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.austinsmithlord.com/preparation-of-frameworks-for-the-future-of-your-city-centre-glasgow... |
| Description | 15 minutes on health inequalities 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 | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We recorded a podcast to explain why we need to study the health of care experienced children, what implications it has for health inequalities and what are our future plans. The aim was to introduce and advertise our research and reach potential audiences who would be interested in the results. the podcast was advertised via twitter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://soundcloud.com/user-776545020 |
| Description | 2/2019 Invited Workshop: Cultural Literacy and Policy Development for NCUK Spring Conference, Ostersund, Sweden |
| 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 | 2/2019 Dr Catherine Lido was invited to deliver a workshop at the NCUK Spring Conference, hosted at the Jamtli museum in Ostersund, Sweden. The topic was the role of novel data in the development of 'Cultural Literacy and Policy', and connected UBDC with the work of European Museums Academy & PASCAL International Observatory. This talk led to a number of H2020 applications, one reserved listed but none yet successful (one currently in submission). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://10times.com/nks |
| Description | 9th International Symposium on Travel Demand Management (TDM 19-21 Jun 2019, HILTON EDINBURGH GROSVENOR, Edinburgh, UK) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Saeed Maadi presented his work in the conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | A Multicriteria Optimization Framework for Urban Social Media Analytics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Professor João Porto de Albuquerque, Deputy Director of UBDC, gave a presentation at the International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS) webinar on the 29th of November 2021. Professor João Porto de Albuquerque and Professor Sidgley Camargo de Andrade, Federal University of Technology - Paraná, discussed their paper, which takes multicriteria optimization to spatial analysis of social media data and determines the spatial area unit that maximizes spatial autocorrelation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2021/a-multicriteria-optimizat... |
| Description | A scientific talk to primary school: Smart Cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Present smart cities content to Kongping Primary School, Ya'an, Sichuan, China (online, in Chinese). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | ADR Scotland: Education Data in Scotland - Developing Data Linkage Research for Policy and Public Good (25 January 2023) |
| 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 | The event focused on administrative data around education and children's outcomes and explored research and data linkages that can inform policy and practice. It outlined the available education datasets for research and data linkage in Scotland; included an ADR Scotland presentation on how data and supporting information have been enhanced and future plans; showcased examples and explored ideas for research; considered policy priorities and areas of research interest; and highlighted new data opportunities. There were about 40 attendees. The event offered the opportunity to discuss our experience as UBDC Education Researchers working with one of the education datasets showcased, and to identify possibilities for linkage of school attainment data to those of the Child Health & Wellbeing Census in collaboration with Scottish Government. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | AI and big trip data for understanding willingness to rideshare |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Abstract Carpool-style ridesharing, compared to traditional solo ride-hailing, can reduce traffic congestion, cut per-passenger carbon emissions, reduce parking infrastructure, and provide a more cost-effective way to travel. Despite these benefits, ridesharing only occupies a small percentage of the total ride-hailing trips in cities. This study integrates big trip data with machine learning and explainable AI (XAI) to understand the factors that influence willingness to take shared rides. We used the City of Chicago as a case study, and results show that users tend to adopt ridesharing for longer distance trips, and the cost of a trip remains the most important factor. We identified a strong diurnal pattern that people prefer to request shared trips during the morning and afternoon peak hours. We also found socio-economic disparities: users who requested trips from neighbourhoods with a high percentage of non-white, a low median household income, a low percentage of bachelor's degrees, and high vehicle ownership are more likely to share a ride. The findings and the XAI-based analytical framework presented in this study can help transportation network companies and local governments suggest new strategies and policies to promote the adoption of ridesharing for more sustainable and efficient city transportation. Biography Ziqi is a Lecturer in GIScience in the School of Geographical and Earth Sciences at the University of Glasgow. He is generally interested in methodological developments and practical applications of spatial statistics and machine learning and has over 20 peer-reviewed publications in these areas. His current interest is in the integration of big data and explainable AI to better understand geospatial phenomena and processes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2022/ai-and-big-trip-data... |
| Description | ARCADIA Festival Workshop: Eco-mapping & Strategic Networking to level the playing field of intersectional inequalities in STEM |
| 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 programme of events for the ARCadia Festival of Ideas was a two-week long festival celebrating the opening of the Mazumdar Shaw ARC launch. It was international, heavily media profiled by local news and international social media and live streams. Colleagues, students and members of the public were invited to more than 65 events over two weeks, mostly of workshops featuring University of Glasgow cutting edge research, but also featuring brass bands, a retro video game arcade, comedy and drag shows, an outdoor ceilidh, art exhibits, a virtual reality celebration of Robert Burns, and much more. • 6,850 attendees at 75 free events, held over 13 days • 60 activities and 8 exhibitions • 583 school children at 13 events • 326 UofG staff, 147 UofG students, 239 partner staff • All four UofG colleges represented • 30 volunteers • 54 partner organisations • 4 student interns • 12 media trainees • 50,303 website hits • 100 tweets using #UofGARCadia generating 1,412 likes and 1,714 interactions • 32.6% surveyed attendees (n=533) had not visited the University of Glasgow before, 69.2% had not visited the ARC before and 99.7% would attend future events • 4 sponsors |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/news/newsarchive/2022/29august2022/headline_873107_en.html |
| Description | Academic Poster at Chinese Professional in Geographic Information Systems (CPGIS) |
| 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 | The poster investigates the interplay between spatial inequality and spatial heterogeneity and gives an estimation of hyperlocal CO2 emissions in Glasgow. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://gla-my.sharepoint.com/:i:/g/personal/grace_gielink_glasgow_ac_uk/EWT6QHydsjZJipLE9-FykCUBOb1... |
| Description | Active Travel: New Data, New Insights 09/03/22 |
| 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 | David McArthur gave a talk on 'measuring active travel with digital footprints' at the joint online seminar between Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research and Urban Big Data Centre, titled Active Travel: New Data, New Insights, held on 9 March 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2022/active-travel-new-data-n... |
| Description | Administrative Data for Social Policy Research, Potentials and Pitfalls |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey gave a presentation on the administrative data for social policy research, potentials and pitfalls on the I-SPHERE Institute for Social Policy, Housing, Equalities Research Webinar on the 14th October 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.i-sphere.hw.ac.uk/seminars/ |
| Description | Advising Glasgow City Council on the evaluation of the implementation of 20 MPH zones |
| 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 | Mark Livingston sits on a working group advising on evaluating the implementation on 20 MPH zones across Glasgow City |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Advising the Digital Tools for Housing Justice working group on housing data |
| 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 | Mark Livingston sits on a Digital Tools for Housing Justice working group, which is working towards providing an online tool which provides data for Housing activists |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://digitalcommons.coop/digital-tools-for-housing-justice/ |
| Description | Adzuna Dataset webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This webinar introduced delegates to the Adzuna dataset. The Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC) has renewed the licence for Adzuna data and access to recent data is now available. Adzuna searches thousands of websites and brings together millions of advertisements on their website. Adzuna aims to be the most abundant classified ads site on the web. The dataset consists of full point-in-time snapshots with details of all advertisements listed on Adzuna's website. Content includes data about the job market, including job titles, full job descriptions, salary information, location, companies and contract types. The Adzuna data can be used to research changes in the job market. As UBDC will also facilitate access to data covering the period from 2017 until Spring 2024. There are many potential applications for the dataset. It can be used for analysis of new vacancies, overall vacancy levels, vacancies by region or job type. In this webinar, the UBDC Information Services Officer provided information about UBDC, Adzuna data, metadata fields, particularly the new fields added in the 2023 licensed data, and the application process. UBDC researchers summarised existing research usage of the data. Programme - (please note that this webinar will be recorded for use on UBDC online platforms) 15:00 - 15:05 - Introduction to presenters, housekeeping and outline of agenda 15:05 - 15:20 - Introduction to Adzuna data, new data fields and how to apply for access (Heather Sinclair, UBDC) 15:20 - 15:35 - Summary of existing research usage (Professor Graeme Roy, Sam Grant) [Recording of the webinar ends] 15:35 - 16:00 - Delegate question and answer session, followed by closing remarks By the end of this session, participants would be able to: Describe the Adzuna dataset and be able to provide an overview of the main fields and coverage of the data Apply to access the data from UBDC Give examples of how Adzuna data has been or will be used in research Describe potential or intended uses of the data by researchers Explain benefits of academic research use of the data, such as increased visibility of the data through citation in publications. Who should attend This webinar was for data owners, prospective and current users of Adzuna data. PhD-level students, third party researchers or staff at UK universities who would like to learn more about the potential benefits and usage of Adzuna data should attend. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2023/adzuna-webinar/ |
| Description | Adzuna Online Workshop: Job Skills and Location |
| 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 UBDC Adzuna workshop brought together licensed users and focuses on job skills and location. Our main focus for this event was on job skills and location, two insights from Adzuna that carry the potential to inform policy on labour productivity, regional inequalities and economic growth. Delegates heard from expert presentations on these important topics by James Neave, Head of Data Science at Adzuna, and Cath Sleeman, Head of Data Discovery at Nesta. In addition, users had the opportunity to learn how other researchers are leveraging Adzuna data in their own work. Finally, delegates were introduced to the new "Adzuna Users Community of Practice" Slack forum being launched to help users: |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2023/adzuna-online-worksh... |
| Description | An Exploration of Fuel Poverty in the Private Rental Housing Market Webinar - October 2020 |
| 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 | In this webinar, led by UBDC's Dr Qunshan Zhao, we explored whether low-income neighbourhoods experience worse energy efficiency in the private rental market. We examined if a lack of energy efficiency also increases the fuel poverty level and how we can help those on low incomes. Results from research like this can serve as guidance for the Scottish Government to identify low energy efficiency areas in the private rental market. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/datadives |
| Description | An Infrastructure Emergency: Implementing Temporary Cycle Facilities During Lockdown 05.05.2020 |
| 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 | Alistair McCay has written a blog titled "infrastructure emergency: implementing temporary cycle facilities during the lockdown". This blog explains how Alistair and engineers from the industry acted to translate the language and technical components for UK practicing engineers of the Berlin Guidance for Temporary Cycle Facilities as this was the first such published guidance worldwide. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/may/an-infrastructure-emergency-implementing-temporary-cycle-f... |
| Description | An invited talk to international collaboration seminar in Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | An invited talk to discuss international collaboration and communication. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Apples and Pears? Comparing Google and Apple Mobility Data 14.05.2020 |
| 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 | Nick Bailey has written a blog on comparing Google and Apple mobility data. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, several private organisations have begun publishing indicators that shed light on the social, economic, or environmental changes resulting from 'lockdown'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/may/apples-and-pears-comparing-google-and-apple-mobility-data/ |
| Description | Are Slow Internet Connections Limiting Home Working Opportunities? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Abstract The restrictions introduced by governments around the world to slow the spread of COVID19 led to a substantial rise in the level of home working. As workplaces have reopened, many workers have expressed a desire to work from home more often than the did before the pandemic. In this talk, we look at whether having a slow internet connection might limit people's ability to increase their level of home working. We make use of a travel survey from the Puget Sound Regional Council as well as broadband speed data from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Biography David McArthur is Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies at the Urban Big Data Centre at the University of Glasgow. He has a background in regional science with an interest in active travel and using digital footprint data to make cities better. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2022/are-slow-internet-co... |
| Description | Big data in the pandemic, Data Bites #19: Getting things done with data in government |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey gave a presentation titled, 'Big data in the pandemic, Data Bites #19: Getting Things Done with Data in Government', at the Institute for Government monthly event held on the 05th of May 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/events/data-bites-19 |
| Description | Blog - Adminstering UBDC's Data Service |
| 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 day in the life summary of administering UBDC's data service, expanding on challenges associated with management and sharing of complex urban data to users, sourcing high-quality new datasets and creating accurate metadata to help users to discover and use our collections. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/march/administering-ubdc-s-data-service/ |
| Description | Blog - Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on UBDC's data services |
| 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 | As one of the Economic and Social Research Council's data infrastructure investments, UBDC was asked to join a meeting to explore the effects of COVID-19 on our work, and its impact on the role of data services and data-driven research. Within this blog we collated some of our thoughts, including how we've adapted procedures to facilitate continued and enhanced service provision, as well as some of the unexpected opportunities that have arisen. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/june/assessing-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-ubdc-s-data-services/ |
| Description | Blog - Creating open data counts of pedestrians and vehicles using CCTV cameras |
| 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 | Providing an update on our work using spare CCTV capacity to monitor activity levels during the COVID-19 Pandemicv |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/july/creating-open-data-counts-of-pedestrians-and-vehicles-using-c... |
| Description | Blog - Dividing the world: spatial techniques to acquire online data at scale |
| 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 | As we continue to adapt to the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, UBDC researchers have moved quickly to develop new programmes of research, focused on the virus' impacts, both during its current phase and throughout the subsequent recovery period. This ambition is enabled partly through the use of the Centre's existing data collections, but also demands the rapid acquisition of new data. In this technical blog, UBDC data scientists explain the different approaches to the challenges of collecting spatial data (any data with a direct or indirect reference to a specific location or geographical area) and share the method we use. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/april/dividing-the-world-spatial-techniques-to-acquire-online-data... |
| Description | Blog - New data collections - Adzuna 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 | UBDC blog promoting the availability of new dataset: The data collections at the Urban Big Data Centre are expanding! Several new datasets will be available from UBDC in 2021 covering a range of topics including employment data. It has now been confirmed that Adzuna data will be one of the datasets included in this year's data acquisitions.... |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2021/february/new-data-collections-adzuna-data/ |
| Description | Blog - Personal space exploration - pavement widths and walking space for social distancing |
| 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 | As UBDC continues to provide evidence of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and support the recovery process with data and analysis, one area of uncertainty concerns mobility and space. This blog summarised UBDC's efforts to produce open pavement width data to support planning for social distancing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/june/personal-space-exploration-pavement-widths-and-walking-space-... |
| Description | Blog - UBDC Welcomes Geospatial Commission's Decision to Release Core Property and Street Identifiers |
| 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 | Amid the widespread reporting of the recent COVID-19 pandemic many missed the announcement in April 2020 by the UK Geospatial Commission that two geographical identifiers - the Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRNs) and Unique Street Reference Numbers (USRNs) - are to be openly accessible from July of this year. This blog provides a welcome response to this news from UBDC and for those using spatial data, more specifically data describing residential and other types of properties. It explains why without a robust and persistent form of identification, the challenges of matching addresses, or reliably linking two records based on common address information are more complicated than you might think. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/april/ubdc-welcomes-geospatial-commission-s-decision-to-release-co... |
| Description | Blog - Using spare CCTV capacity to monitor activity levels during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| 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 | The Urban Big Data Centre in partnership with Glasgow City Council and Glasgow Centre for Population Health have been using artificial intelligence (AI) and spare capacity in the CCTV network to measure the levels of activity on certain streets. The data provided the means to monitor how activity levels have been affected by measures introduced to manage the Covid 19 pandemic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/april/using-spare-cctv-capacity-to-monitor-activity-levels-during-... |
| Description | Blog on "Are we visiting greenspace differently during the COVID-19 pandemic?" |
| 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 | Lead by PDRA Michael Sinclair, we published a blog to explain how people visit greenspace during the pandemic by using mobile phone data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2021/june/are-we-visiting-greenspace-differently-during-the-covid-... |
| Description | Blog on A Turning Point for Cycling: improving the safety of temporary infrastructure 28.05.2020 |
| 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 | Alistair McCay has written a blog called "turning point for cycling: improving the safety of temporary infrastructure". Glasgow and many other cities worldwide have reacted to the COVID-19 crisis by quickly implementing active travel infrastructure to enable people to move around urban areas for essential business, such as shopping and exercise. This blog critically investigates the detailed design options that different cities have applied at junctions with temporary cycle infrastructure. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/june/assessing-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-ubdc-s-data-services/ |
| Description | Blog on Active Travel During a Pandemic 12.05.2020 |
| 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 | Bruce Whyte wrote a blog on active travel during a pandemic. At the time of writing this blog, very sadly, UK deaths from Covid-19 have exceeded 30,000 and are close to 3,000 in Scotland. Public health work to mitigate the worst impacts of the virus and the lockdown has begun and examined the impacts on health behaviours, sustainable travel and air quality are all areas of interest. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/may/active-travel-during-a-pandemic/ |
| Description | Blog on Analysing ONS's 'Effects of Taxes and Benefits' 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 | Nick Bailey wrote a blog on the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) which produces an annual analysis titled 'The Effects of Taxes and Benefits on household incomes' or ETB for short. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/june/analysing-ons-s-effects-of-taxes-and-benefits-data/ |
| Description | Blog on Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on UBDC's Data Services 26.06.2020 |
| 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 | Heather Sinclair and Andrew McHugh have written a blog on how COVID-19 has had a dramatic impact on all our lives. Devastating health effects have been accompanied by a wide range of smaller impacts, ranging from minor inconveniences too often upsetting disruptions. Although we may feel awkward to admit it, many of us have also identified the positive side effects of this pandemic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/june/assessing-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-ubdc-s-data-services/ |
| Description | Blog on Big data in the Pandemic: Strengthening the Response |
| 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 | Nick Bailey has written a blog on big data in the pandemic: strengthening the response. As the UK Government's National Data Strategy recently noted, the pandemic has established a "high watermark of data use". This blog is based on a presentation that Nick gave at the Campaign for Social Science seminar on 'How can social statistics help us fight COVID-19?', which took place on 19 September 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/september/big-data-in-the-pandemic-strengthening-the-response/ |
| Description | Blog on Capturing Early Career Researchers' Professional Networks - A Quantitative Method Capturing Subjective Perceptions |
| 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 | In this blog post, Carla Cebula from the visNET project outlines how they collected rich quantitative data on the professional networks of women early career researchers' (ECRs) in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) fields to complement qualitative data on their networking and collaboration barriers with the aim of reducing the gender bias in academic STEM careers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/december/capturing-early-career-researchers-professional-networks... |
| Description | Blog on Comparison of active travel in global cities using Strava Metro Dashboard 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 | We wrote a blog to compare active travel actvities in global cities in 9 global major cities. We have found out different level of active travel increase/decrease due to the government lockdown policy, local culture, and the severity of the COVID-19 in different countries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/june/comparison-of-active-travel-in-global-cities-using-strav... |
| Description | Blog on Creating Open Data Counts of Pedestrians and Vehicles Using CCTV Cameras 28.07.2020 |
| 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 | Blog on creating open data counts of pedestrians and vehicles using CCTV cameras. Providing an update on UBDC's work using spare CCTV capacity to monitor activity levels during the COVID-19 Pandemic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/july/creating-open-data-counts-of-pedestrians-and-vehicles-usi... |
| Description | Blog on Gendered Journeys: Mixing Methods, Datatypes, and Contexts to Explore Gender in STEM |
| 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 | In this blog, Emma Seddon explains how researchers from the University of Glasgow, including Urban Big Data Centre staff, will be collaborating with the University of Rwanda and the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta to explore how gender impacts the experiences and trajectories of Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students and graduates in India and Rwanda. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/november/gendered-journeys/ |
| Description | Blog on Indicating the Importance of Children's Access to Greenspace 07/02/2019 |
| 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 | Bruce Whyte, Public Health Programme Manager at Glasgow Centre for Population Health (GCPH), provided an in-depth look at how the GCPH's indicator on children's access to greenspace works and explained why it is so important for children's health, socialisation and development that they have access to high quality natural outdoor environments. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2019/february/indicating-the-importance-of-children-s-access-to-gr... |
| Description | Blog on Investigating the Implicit Cost of Smoking |
| 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 | A team of researchers have used Zoopla Property data from the UBDC data service to estimate the rent premium associated with smoking in the long-term rental market. In this blog, Cigdem Gedikli (Swansea University, UK), Robert Hill (University of Graz, Austria), Oleksandr Talavera (University of Birmingham, UK) and Okan Yilmaz (Swansea University, UK) outline the findings from their paper on the hidden cost of smoking. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2022/october/investigating-the-implicit-cost-of-smoking/ |
| Description | Blog on MSc in Urban Analytics study visit to Aalto University in Finland |
| 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 | Four UBDC students in UBDC MSc in Urban Analytics programme recently returned from a rewarding study visit to Aalto University near Helsinki, Finland. Geoinformatics is a multidisciplinary field at Aalto University and their research and applications cover a wide range of themes from human-centred to natural environments. In Aalto, the research areas include geodesy, geoinformation technology, digital photogrammetry and laser scanning, and remote sensing. In this blog, Hao Wu, Congying Hu, Ratnil Shrivastava and Meiqi Zhao share their experiences, and Dr Qunshan Zhao summarises the importance of study visits like this one for our MSc students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2023/july/msc-in-urban-analytics-study-visit-to-aalto-university-i... |
| Description | Blog on New Funding Awarded for Urban Sensing Research |
| 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 | UBDC is delighted to announce a series of successful funding applications from the Royal Society, Understanding Society, and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ). The awards will enable the continued development of our urban sensing & analytics research stream, with particular interests in the sensor-enhanced housing survey project and building energy efficiency estimation project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2023/september/new-funding-awarded-for-urban-sensing-research/ |
| Description | Blog on Personal Space Exploration - Pavement Widths and Walking Space for Social Distancing 01.06.2020 |
| 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 | Nikos Ves and Andrew McHugh have written a blog on personal space exploration - pavement widths and walking space for social distancing. As UBDC continues to provide evidence of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and support the recovery process with data and analysis, one area of uncertainty concerns mobility and space. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/june/personal-space-exploration-pavement-widths-and-walking-sp... |
| Description | Blog on The Easing of Lockdown in Glasgow 04.05.2021 |
| 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 | Nick Bailey wrote a blog on the centres of Britain's largest cities that have been particularly badly hit by lockdown restrictions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2021/may/the-easing-of-lockdown-in-glasgow/ |
| Description | Blog on The Effects of the Lockdown on Traffic in Glasgow 08.04.2020 |
| 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 | Nick Bailey has written a blog on the effects of the lockdown on traffic in Glasgow. Using location data from mobile phones (Google Location History data), Google community mobility report shows substantial reductions in mobility. They provide a breakdown by trip purpose (e.g., retail/recreation, grocery/pharmacy, parks, etc.). In Glasgow, for example, they show an overall reduction of 84% for retail/recreation trips. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/april/the-effects-of-the-lockdown-on-traffic-in-glasgow/ |
| Description | Blog on changes in public transport accessibility by time of day |
| 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 | The blog looks at how the accessibility offered by the public transport network in Great Britain diminishes in night. It shows that some cities/towns have a much better service at night than others. This work feeds into debates about cuts to bus services and the functioning of the nighttime economy. The blog inspired work looking at Glasgow specifically where First was planning to withdraw its night buses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2023/august/unveiling-the-variability-in-public-transport-services... |
| Description | Blog on how cycling patterns are changing in response to Covid-19 |
| 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 | This blog was part of a series of blogs published by the Urban Big Data Centre looking at how new forms of data can be used to monitor the impact of Covid-19 and the subsequent recovery. In this blog, Strava Metro data is used to look at how patterns of cycling have changed in response to the lockdown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/april/using-crowdsourced-data-to-monitor-trends-in-cycling-dur... |
| Description | Blog on the Open-Source Facility Location Modeling (Spopt) Development |
| 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 | We wrote a blog to explain the programming outcome from the Google Summer of Code 2021. We developed the python version of facility location modelling packages within pysal/spopt. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2021/september/open-source-facility-location-modelling-spopt-devel... |
| Description | Blog on the effects of COVID-19 Governmental responses on mobility in Europe |
| 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 | We wrote a blog looking at how government measures influence the mobility in different countries. We used open data set such as google mobility index and government stringency index from Oxford to conduct the analysis. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/june/the-effects-of-covid-19-governmental-responses-on-mobili... |
| Description | Blog on the use of hired bikes in Edinburgh during the Covid-19 lockdown. |
| 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 | The blog is part of a series of work by the centre looking at how new forms of data can be used to inform the response to the Covid-19 outbreak. In this blog, I looked at how the hired bikes in Edinburgh are being used. There is an indication that there has been an increase in people using them for exercise. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/april/how-are-people-using-hired-bikes-during-lockdown/ |
| Description | Blog on traffic levels in Glasgow during the lockdown. |
| 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 wrote a blog looking at what has been going on with traffic levels in Glasgow. The data used were taken from an API provided by Glasgow City Council. The work is motivated by anecdotal evidence that the level of traffic is starting to increase for the first time since the coronavirus lockdown started.The analysis shows that this may be true in some places, but is not the general picture across the city. The blog also included an interactive component allowing people to visualise the data from different parts of the city. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/june/on-the-road-again-monitoring-traffic-following-the-easin... |
| Description | Blog on usage of Glasgow's subway during the Covid-19 lockdown |
| 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 | This blog was part of a series of blogs published by the Urban Big Data Centre looking at how new forms of data can be used to monitor the impact of Covid-19 and the subsequent recovery. In this blog, smart card data from the Subway is used to monitor the impact of the lockdown on demand for travel by the subway. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/april/glasgow-s-subway-during-the-lockdown/ |
| Description | Blog on: Answering the question, "What is 'Research-ready' 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 | In February this year, Andrew McHugh was part of a diverse group of over 50 academics, information curators, research managers, statisticians and analysts assembled by Administrative Data Research Centre UK (ADR UK) to consider the question of what makes administrative data 'research-ready'. Several themes, challenges and opportunities for further work were identified in the roundtable discussion that followed. The event has now been summarised in a report published by ADR UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2022/june/answering-the-question-what-is-research-ready-data/ |
| Description | Blog on: Are Short-Term Rental Regulations Already Impacting Airbnb Listings in Edinburgh and Glasgow? |
| 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 | Yang Wang has written a blog on Airbnb, the biggest player in the online 'home-sharing' world, and is running a 2023 ad campaign to encourage more people to rent out their homes or rooms for some extra cash. This comes at the same time that the Scottish Government has put in place new regulations for the sector. Some have welcomed the regulations, highlighting the social impacts of living alongside short-term rentals. Others, notably those from the hospitality industry, have expressed concern that they will reduce supply with negative consequences for tourism and the wider economy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2023/october/are-short-term-rental-regulations-already-impacting-airbnb... |
| Description | Blog on: Assessing the Value of Data - a puzzle with many moving parts 07.09.22 |
| 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 | Andrew McHugh wrote a blog on assessing the value of data - a puzzle with many moving parts. As one may imagine, data value is a critical consideration at the Urban Big Data Centre. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2022/september/assessing-the-value-of-data-a-puzzle-with-many-moving-p... |
| Description | Blog on: Building a High-Quality Annotated Image Library to Improve Object Detection |
| 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 | In this long-read blog titled 'Building a High-Quality Annotated Image Library to Improve Object Detection', Luis Serra and Maralbek Zeinullin explain how and why we are using annotated images to train computer vision models to be deployed on CCTV cameras. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2022/june/building-a-high-quality-annotated-image-library-to-impro... |
| Description | Blog on: Experian data - How to Access Retail Plans for your 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 | Heather Sinclair has written a blog titled, Experian data - how to access retail plans for your research. The retail industry continues to face turbulent conditions. After weathering the storm of the COVID-19 pandemic, the sector continues to adapt to changing consumer behaviour and the growth of online shopping. It must now face the impacts of a cost-of-living crisis. Robust research into retail has never been more important. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2022/may/experian-data-how-to-access-retail-plans-for-your-researc... |
| Description | Blog on: Improving the P-Median Model with Capacity and Near-Far Cost Allocation in Spopt |
| 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 | In this blog, UBDC's Dr Qunshan Zhao and the project team explain the two improvements on the p-median model Rongbo developed and share the future plans for this package. Spopt is an open-source Python library for solving optimization problems with spatial data (Feng et al., 2022). Originating from the region module in PySAL (Python Spatial Analysis Library), it is actively evolving to incorporate recently proposed models and techniques aimed at solving problems related to regionalization, facility location, and transportation. Following the development of the facility location modelling module for spopt in 2021 by Germano, Rongbo Xu participated in the Google Summer of Code programme in 2023, and contributed valuable enhancements to the specific location-allocation model in spopt. These enhancements can be divided into two main components: the implementation of capacity constraints in the current p-median models and the creation of a novel model incorporating near-far cost allocation principles. Notably, the project team comprises Rongbo and five mentors. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2023/september/improving-the-p-median-model-with-capacity-and-near... |
| Description | Blog on: Interfaces for data presentation: the influence of design principles on our perceptions of data 01.08.22 |
| 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 | Andy Clarke has written a blog titled 'Interfaces for Data Presentation: the influence of design principles on our perceptions of data'. Interfaces built to explore, visualise or otherwise present data are often our first encounter with datasets. Bringing together diverse data sources to tell a story involves design choices that control how a person will receive and interact with the underlying data. When people think about presenting data, their thoughts will typically, and perhaps correctly, jump to the type of chart they could choose - whether to use line or area charts, where to place their legend or how many bins to use on the bottom axis. But interfaces - whether they are just simple spaces where charts live or more fully fledged dynamic platforms - also influence how we perceive data. Features like date filters or toggle switches provide the interactivity that exposes different data scales and can control the shape of the data story presented to us. More than this, the design choices we make when creating interfaces to explore data have explicit or implicit influences on how people interpret that data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2022/august/interfaces-for-data-presentation/ |
| Description | Blog on: Is Home Where the Heat is? Understanding the Indoor Living Environment Through Sensor-Enhanced Housing Surveys - 30.06.22 |
| 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 on climate change, one of the world's greatest challenges. Around 40,000 people attended the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow in November 2021, making it one of the largest international summits held in the UK. A month before COP26, the UK government proposed the new Net Zero carbon strategy to decarbonise all sectors of the UK economy to achieve the net-zero target by 2050. In the UK, buildings are responsible for around 40% of the total energy use and 17% of emissions. Therefore, improving the energy efficiency of residential buildings is one of the most important and immediate steps needed to help achieve the Net Zero carbon strategy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2022/june/is-home-where-the-heat-is/ |
| Description | Blog on: Private Renting and the Suburbanisation of Poverty |
| 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 | Nick Bailey has written a blog on one of the most marked changes in the UK's housing system over the last 30 years has been the rise - or rather, the re-growth - of the private rented sector (PRS). Many more low-income households now find homes in this sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2023/october/private-renting-and-the-suburbanisation-of-poverty/ |
| Description | Blog on: Sensor-Enhanced Housing Survey for Urban Heat Investigation |
| 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 | Qunshan Zhao wrote a blog on 'Sensor-Enhanced Housing Survey for Urban Heat Investigation. The collaboration between UBDC and TBIJ originated from a small pilot study carried out by UBDC in the winter of 2021, supported by ESRC. In the first small-scale pilot study, the UBDC Urban Sensing & Analytics team tested a range of affordable sensors in the indoor environment and tested the methodology to include low-cost sensors in a traditional social survey. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2023/december/sensor-enhanced-housing-survey-for-urban-heat-investigat... |
| Description | Blog on: Springboard data - New Data for Measuring Footfall 13.07.22 |
| 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 | In this blog, Heather Sinclair has written about how UBDC has refreshed the Springboard data collection - which provides insights into retail issues and consumer trends - to include recent data. Springboard Research Ltd is a privately owned company established in 2002, delivering intelligence and insights into the performance of all consumer-generating environments. Its core business is the provision of automated footfall monitoring across different types of these environments, with a particular specialism in understanding the performance of town and city centres. UBDC's current collection of Springboard data from January 2013 - December 2017 has now been expanded to include Glasgow data from 2018 to 2022. Data from other major UK cities, such as Manchester, Edinburgh, Sheffield, and Birmingham, is also available. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2022/july/springboard-data-new-data-for-measuring-footfall/ |
| Description | Blog on: Towards Active Travel Cities |
| 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 | In this blog, Dr Mohammad Anwar Alattar explains the background of his team's research into active travel using crowdsourced data from UBDC and shares some of their findings. Emerging crowdsourced active travel data obtained from smart devices frequently outperform traditional data. Among other features, crowdsourced data has a fine spatiotemporal resolution. The overarching aim of our work, entitled 'Towards Active Travel-Oriented Cities - GIS Analysis Using Crowdsourced Data with the City of Glasgow as a Case Study', is to examine the use of crowdsourced data to deepen our understanding of the behaviour of active travel users and their interactions with the built environment. The thesis is composed of several intertwined studies. In this post, I will present the key contributions to this work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2021/november/towards-active-travel-cities/ |
| Description | Blog on: UBDC Students Review the Reproducibility of Their Research at AGILE PhD School 01.09.22 |
| 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 | UBDC Students Review of the Reproducibility of Their Research at AGILE PhD School. In this blog, Yue Li and Rafael Verduzco share their experiences, and Dr Qunshan Zhao and Dr Jing Yao summarise the importance of this type of activity for their PhD students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2022/september/reviewing-the-reproducibility-of-research-at-agile-phd-... |
| Description | Blog on: Up and down: Cycling and Walking Trends in Glasgow City Centre |
| 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 | Bruce Whyte has written a blog on the city centre cordon count being used to monitor changes in cycling and pedestrian trips into and out of Glasgow city centre for over a decade. This survey is important for several reasons. Transport in Glasgow is in the midst of a transformation from a car-dominated system to a sustainable transport system, where most journeys are expected to be undertaken on foot, by wheeling, by bicycle or on public transport in line with the sustainable transport hierarchy - see diagram below (Source: pedalonparliament.org). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2022/january/up-and-down-cycling-and-walking-trends-in-glasgow-city-ce... |
| Description | Blog on: Urban Analytics students dive into urban 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 | In this blog, four of our MSc in Urban Analytics students took part in the Centre for Urban Science and Progress London (CUSP London) Data Dive on 4-7 April with the theme of Working Towards Healthier Cities. As you can imagine, it was right up their street. Fifty students from five universities were split into groups and tasked with tackling one of three challenges: Making sense of simulations of an infectious disease outbreak in Manchester; finding patterns in Stop and Search police data; combining COVID-19 data with other data sets to gain insights and to find correlations. They only had a few days to explore the data available and produce analyses to develop understanding and help deliver practical solutions to the challenges facing city-dwellers everyday lives. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2022/april/urban-analytics-students-dive-into-urban-data/ |
| Description | Blog on: Using Council Data to Reveal the Invisible 'Third Shift' Done by Women from Poorer Neighbourhoods |
| 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 | Annette Hastings has written a blog titled 'Using Council Data to Reveal the Invisible 'Third Shift' Done by Women from Poorer Neighbourhoods'. While governments may have signalled an "end to austerity" in fiscal policy, at a local government level, local authorities across the UK have continued to experience year-on-year real-term cuts to their budgets. These have led to dramatic cuts to many services, and the continued reshaping and redesign of others. There is ongoing concern that citizens may unequally experience the impact of these changes. Our research using the data held deep within the customer relationship management (CRM) system of North Lanarkshire Council provides some of the most conclusive evidence yet that justifies this concern. We found that women living in neighbourhoods with the highest levels of deprivation are most impacted - and that these impacts are multiple, and perhaps surprising. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2022/april/using-council-data-to-reveal-the-invisible-third-shift/ |
| Description | Blog on: Well-being for Women Studying STEM - Experiences of Intensity and Negativity in Higher Education in India, Rwanda and the UK - 11.07.22 |
| 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 | In this blog, Daniel Leyton, Professor Catherine Lido, and Zyra Evangelista examine the Gendered Journeys project data, exploring the well-being of women and men studying STEM in India, Rwanda and the UK, using preliminary large-scale survey data, supplemented by student interviews. Mental health is an increasingly urgent issue in Higher Education, for staff and students. Recent systematic reviews show rising levels of mental health issues amongst students, alongside decreased access to mental health support, with increases in anxiety and depression worsening in universities through the pandemic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2022/july/well-being-for-women-studying-stem/ |
| Description | Blog on: What is the Role of Urban Data in Climate Action and Sustainable Development? |
| 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 | In this blog, UBDC launches a new research theme on Urban Sustainability & Participation concerned with inclusive data innovations for urban sustainability that support climate action and enable progress toward the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As the Conference of Parties (COP26) in Glasgow draws to a close, it is clear that there is much to be done to address current inter-related social and environmental urban challenges. Sound and transparent urban data are needed to support data-driven climate action by cities and citizens, which will achieve the transformations we need toward a more sustainable future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2021/november/what-is-the-role-of-urban-data-in-climate-action-and... |
| Description | Blog: Gendered Journeys Team Retreat- Mixed-methods project that explores gendered inequalities in STEM |
| 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 | The Gendered Journeys project is an interdisciplinary, international mixed-methods project that explored gendered inequalities in India, Rwanda, and the UK using online surveys, interviews, and eco-mapping techniques to address persistent and growing gender gaps in STEM study and working, particularly in global south contexts. The team has engaged in a wide range of impact and outreach activities, including eco and network mapping activities at ESRC Festival of Social Sciences, ARCadia festival, Open house for the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) 2023 as well as Reimagining the Contemporary in Indian Education Conference held at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India. Such activities have allowed us to engage diverse stakeholders - from high-level invited stakeholders meetings in Kigali in June 2023, to public-facing child-friendly events. We have since begun to triangulate our findings for a gender-sensitive virtual support toolkit to be launched in spring 2024, with recommendations for diverse stakeholders- from senior decision-makers in Higher Education Institutions to regional/ national policy-makers as well as STEM learners and learning-facilitators. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://cradall.org/content/gendered-journeys-team-retreat |
| Description | Blog: Gendered Journeys: the trajectories of STEM students and graduates through higher education and into employment, in India and Rwanda |
| 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 | Centre for Research in Adult and Lifelong Learning blog, The Gendered Journeys project investigates how far, and in what ways, gender may have an influence in the progress of students through higher education, graduation and progression into skilled employment in STEM fields in India and Rwanda. At present, girls and women are markedly under-represented in STEM areas both as students and in the workforce in most countries across the globe. At the Higher Education level, only 35% of students enrolled in STEM studies internationally are women (UNESCO, 2017a). Addressing this problem is vital in ensuring equitable access to quality education and meaningful work, and is crucial for countries seeking to prioritise equitable economic development, speaking directly to UN SDGs 4, 5, and 6. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://cradall.org/research-and-development/cradall-projects/gendered-journeys-trajectories-stem-st... |
| Description | Blog: Governing the COVID-19 pandemic in the 'smart city' |
| 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 published 29 April; reviewing and analysing the opportunities and challenges of smart technologies, and especially 'smart apps', for managing the Covid-19 pandemic. Blog originally posted on UBDC website. Additionally linked to various social media, including LinkedIN (675 views; 11 reactions; 1 comment; by 2 June 2020) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/april/governing-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-the-smart-city/ |
| Description | Building a Future for the Urban Analytics Blueprint Event - 16-18 October 2019 |
| 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 | UBDC Researcher Qunshan Zhao gave a talk at the Building a Future for the Urban Analytics Blueprint event run by The Alan Turing Institute, Princes Wharf, Bristol on the 17 October 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2019/building-a-future-fo... |
| Description | Byres Road public realm changes |
| 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 | Mark Livingston advises Glasgow City Councils Byres Road development team on the evaluation of the major structural changes on Byres Rd |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | CHiCS online KE and cafe |
| 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 | The 3-day webinar (21-23.09.2021) introduced the findings from the CHiCS project and invited participants to discuss these in small online cafés. It was ran over three days (three hours per day), each focusing on a specific aspect of health. As well as introducing results from the CHiCS project, the webinar also included guest presentations by other researchers, including research from Wales and Northern Ireland. Using the World Café method, the participants explored questions around the context of the results, how to talk to children and young people about these, and what policy responses might be required to reduce inequalities in health. We concluded with an open discussion where the different cafés feed back key ideas from their discussions to all participants. The feedback and ideas from the event will be used in a non-academic report. The feedback showed that the audience enjoyed the event and reported that they learned new information and changes in views. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/healthwellbeing/research/mrccsosocialandpublichealthscience... |
| Description | COVID-19 blog in UBDC (Did safe cycling infrastructure still matter during lockdown?) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Title: Did safe cycling infrastructure still matter during lockdown? This blog is based on our new publication and examine the role played by safe cycling infrastructure during the lockdown period. 2019-2020 Strava data were used. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/october/did-safe-cycling-infrastructure-still-matter-during-lo... |
| Description | COVID-19 blog in UBDC (The effects of the lockdown on traffic in Glasgow) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Title: The effects of the lockdown on traffic in Glasgow This blog examined the effects of the lockdown on traffic in Glasgow by using Scoot data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/april/the-effects-of-the-lockdown-on-traffic-in-glasgow/ |
| Description | CR&DALL Update | COVID-19 Activities at the School of Education |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | This is a summary of UofG SoE engagement, featuring work by UBDC co-Is, affiliates and Phd Researchers, authored by Muir Houston, featuring Catherine Lido and Barry Black, as well as Mike Osborne. It highlights UBDC and SoE engagement with Scottish Government in the area of educational change during Covid, beginning: We are working with the Scottish Government to further develop a COVID-19 communications toolkit for the general public; We are using emerging evidence from national and international networks to inform and support educational leaders and policymakers to develop evidence-informed responses to the COVID-19 crisis at the city and national level. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://cradall.org/content/crdall-update-covid-19-activities-school-education |
| Description | CREATe Copyright Centre - Text and Data Mining and the Law Talk |
| 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 | Andrew McHugh (10/10/19) - Invited talk at workshop exploring issues around data collection and intellectual property law. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2019/12/11/create-symposium-2019-information-research-data-and-open-sc... |
| Description | CaCHE Short Term Lets seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr. David McArthur gave a talk about how open data can be used to better understand the effect of short term rentals on cities. The event was intended to improve the policy response to the large growth in the market for short term lets. After the talk, three UBDC researchers were asked to attend a roundtable event organised by the Scottish Government. We were also approached by the Dublin Housing Observatory to collaborate on research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2019/cache-seminar-short-... |
| Description | Call for Expressions of Interest into Adzuna Dataset |
| 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 | UBDC invites expressions of interest from applicants interested in using Adzuna job listings data for non-commercial academic research projects. Adzuna is a search engine for job advertisements in the UK and provides data about the job market. Adzuna searches thousands of websites to bring together information on millions of advertisements on their service. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/data-services/data-services/call-for-expressions-of-interest/ |
| Description | Campaign for the Social Sciences 2020 Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey gave a presentation entitled 'Big Data and COVID-19 Pandemic: Potentials and Pitfalls' at an online event organised by the Campaign for the Social Sciences on the 21st of September 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2020/how-can-social-stati... |
| Description | Cash Transfer Programmes (CTPs) for urban sustainable development |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Eduardo H. Diniz from Escola de Administrao de Empresas de Sao Paulo presented this research seminar organised by UBDC and Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow. Cash Transfer Programmes (CTPs) have been part of global social policies for more than two decades and there are multiple studies pointing to their positive impact on fighting poverty. While most CTPs operate at national level, many municipal or city-level CTPs have launched in recent years, in particular as a response to COVID-19. These localised CTPs aim to alleviate poverty and to boost local economies impacted by the pandemic. This research will explore the emerging phenomenon of municipal CTPs through the question: how do we design, implement and evaluate city-level CTPs that align with sustainable development goals and contribute to the alleviation of poverty? The research will also focus on the emergence of blockchain and cryptocurrencies that can leverage local CTP initiatives in developed and developing countries, by providing relevant and needed technologies to improve accountability and local digital payment systems. Biography Eduardo Diniz has been a Professor at Escola de Administrao de Empresas de Sao Paulo at Fundao Getulio Vargas (EAESP FGV) for 23 years. Eduardo became recognised for his involvement with "digital financial inclusion", publishing about transformative impacts of digital technologies in society in international conferences and journals as well as participating in professional meetings of Brazilian and international organizations. Eduardo was editor-in-chief of the most important journal in the Management field in Brazil and Head of the Technology and Data Science (TDS) Department at EAESP FGV. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2022/cash-transfer-progra... |
| Description | Centre for Research in Adult and Lifelong Learning Blog- Well-being Resources to Help During Lockdown |
| 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 | Blog for researchers and citizens alike on social psychology as a tool for well-being, and practical tips during lockdown: "During these difficult and unprecedented times of social distancing, isolation, and lockdown, many of us are realising the core tenet of social psychology- that humans need to belong to groups, to feel a sense of connection to humans around us, and to share a sense of identity and purpose. Technology has played a crucial role in helping us to manufacture this sense of 'us' or 'we-ness', however the most vulnerable in society may lack access or skills necessary to maintain social connection during physical distancing. Therefore psychologists have been hard at work disseminating tips for mental and physical health during COVID-19 isolation, and I myself have been appearing on BBC Scotland radio and TV as concerns how best to mitigate feelings of loneliness, and preserve our sense of connectedness, during isolation." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://cradall.org/content/wellbeing-resources-help-you-through-lockdown |
| Description | Chair of an international conference |
| 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 | Co-Chair of the GIScience conference, one of the largest computational geography conferences in the field. 450 delegates attended. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://giscience2023.github.io |
| Description | Cities Today Online Roundtable: Cities Today Institute webinar on Data Driven Economic Recovery Beyond Covid-19 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The event is for city CIOs and CDOs mainly from Europe. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6806251575233810432/ |
| Description | Cities Today Press Coverage: Pandemic spurs city data innovation in Scotland |
| 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 | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Cities Today's press coverage of the Scottish Local Government & Data during Covid-19. Professor Simon Joss and Dr Justine Gangneux carried out an in-depth analysis of data engagements between autumn 2020 and spring 2021. A total of 31 out of the 32 Scottish local authorities were surveyed along with focus groups including NHS Scotland, Police Scotland, Scottish Government, and several third sector (voluntary) organisations. The survey found that 83% of respondents stated that there was an increase in internal data sharing during COVID-19, 79% indicated the use of new data sources, and 74% confirmed increased data collection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://cities-today.com/pandemic-spurs-city-data-innovation-in-scotland/ |
| Description | City Futures Research Seminar Series (University of New South Wales) - Exploring urban mobility using new forms of spatial big data from mobile phones |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | At the City Futures Centre, University of New South Wales, a seminar titled "Exploring Urban Mobility Using New Forms of Spatial Big Data from Mobile Phones" provided insights into urban mobility analysis through mobile phone data. The presentation covered the collection, analysis, and application of mobile phone spatial data in urban planning and transport systems enhancement. It addressed the ethical and technical challenges in data usage, showcasing case studies demonstrating its practical benefits. The session concluded with a discussion on the future of urban mobility research, emphasizing the transformative potential of mobile phone spatial data in urban development. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://cityfutures.ada.unsw.edu.au/news-event/cfrc-seminar-series/ |
| Description | Classifying 3D point clouds by using weakly-supervised deep learning |
| 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 | In this webinar, UBDC demonstrated how to prepare a training and validation dataset for applying weakly-supervised deep learning models using LIDAR data from Glasgow as our example. City 3D models can be a useful data source not just for 3D visualization, but also for urban environment assessment and analysis such as flooding simulation, urban housing planning application, and urban climate modeling. At the Urban Big Data Centre, we use high-density airborne LiDAR point clouds to extract building and tree 3D information on a city-wide scale. However, LiDAR point cloud processing and high-quality 3D model construction are demanding in terms of time and labour. In this webinar, we will share our experience of how to extract building and tree 3D information efficiently from the raw high-density airborne LiDAR point clouds. Methods of preparing a training and validation dataset, and training a weakly-supervised deep learning model to segment target objects (i.e., buildings and trees) will be introduced. A set of Glasgow LiDAR data will be used as an example to demonstrate the workflow. This webinar was aimed researchers, students, data scientists, or anybody interested in LiDAR remote sensing or using 3D city models for their research or work, and is part of a series of training webinars using LIDAR data as a case study. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2023/classifying-3d-point... |
| Description | Co-convened two panel sessions at the Smart City Research Symposium, Stavanger 22-09-2021 |
| 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 | I co-convened a panel on Smart/Sustainable Transport at the Smart City Research symposium. It was a fairly traditional academic event with paper presentations as well as a discussion. After the event, we are looking into the possibility of publishing some of the outputs in a special issue of a journal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.uis.no/en/smart-city/smart-city-research-symposium |
| Description | CodetheCity Scottish Data Science Technology Meetup - SUDS / March 19 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Obinna Anejionu presented at the Aberdeen Data Science meetup on March 12th 2019 a talk entitled "Activating big data with spatial context to derive deeper insight in socioeconomic research" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.meetup.com/Scotland-Data-Science-Technology-Meetup/events/256813260/ |
| Description | Conference presentation: European Network For Housing Research, |
| 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 research paper (ENHR, Barcelona, 31 August-2 September 2023): A MixTAPE of HITS: Mixed Tenure, educational Attainment and the Physical Environment as Health InTerventionS Author: Phil Mason Abstract: Increasing tenure mix, particularly in deprived neighbourhoods (e.g., by raising the proportion of owner-occupied homes in hitherto predominantly social-rented residential areas) has long been considered a potentially effective intervention for improving physical and mental health and wellbeing, among many other positive consequences, including educational attainment. Likewise, aspects of the physical environment, such as availability of urban greenspace, have well established associations with better health. This paper revisits survey data from the GoWell project (2006-2015) linked to annual datazone-level tenure estimates and measures of proximity to types of greenspace in deprived neighbourhoods of the Scottish city of Glasgow. Like listening again to an old C90 mixtape of songs rediscovered in a dusty cardboard box, I return to some of the research topics that have occupied me over the past 20 years and, like the songs, find them as relevant as ever. I examine, using cross-sectional and longitudinal samples, the associations of individual tenure and neighbourhood tenure mix with physical and mental health (SF-12 PCS and MCS) and positive mental wellbeing (WEMWBS), in analyses stratified by level of individual educational attainment. Cross-sectional analyses (n<18000) provide broad snapshots of communities on four occasions as they change over a decade, while the smaller longitudinal cohorts (n<2000) enable exploration of more specific aspects of the complex links between educational engagement/attainment, tenure, greenspace and health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Conference talk, International Microsimulation Association, University of Vienna |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Challenges of using microsimulation for simulating the impact of interventions on populations. IMS. University of Vienna, Austria. Jan 2024. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://ima-2024.wifo.ac.at |
| Description | Congratulatory Remarks, by Prof Mike Osborne, on the occasion of Declaration of the New Learning City of Yeong Dong, Republic of Korea |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Congratulatory Remarks, delivered by Prof Mike Osborne on the occasion of 'Declaration of the New Learning City of Yeong Dong', Republic of Korea, at the Yeong Dong Art Culture Complex Center, 13 December 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Covid-19: How pandemic could change food preferences |
| 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 | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | This news article in The National (Scotland) newspaper made use of our Food Train- University of Glasgow research partnership, led by Kate Reid and myself, using diverse data to explore food access, social isolation and active ageing embedded in place. This stemmed from a blog we wrote, pushed out by UBDC, and led to a Scot Gov policy recommendations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.thenational.scot/news/18405936.covid-19-pandemic-change-food-preferences/ |
| Description | Data Bites #19: Getting things done with data in government 05/05/21 |
| 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 | UBDC Director Professor Nick Bailey gave a presentation on 'Data Bites #19: Getting things done with data in government' at the Data Bites event from the Institute for Government held on the 5th of May 2021. Better use of data is key to more effective government. Across government, teams are doing fascinating work with data. But those projects don't get the attention they deserve. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2021/getting-things-done-... |
| Description | Data Taskforce's Advisory Board Meeting (Digital Office for Scottish Local Government) 190821 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Prof Simon Joss gave a short presentation of research findings and recommendations from our research on Scottish local government's data response at the Digital Office's Data Taskforce's Advisory Board Meeting held on the 19th of August 2021. The Data Taskforce comprises of data practitioners across local government in Scotland. The presentation was followed by an interactive discussion about how to take findings and recommendations forward, engage with key stakeholders and develop an action plan. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Data and Intelligence Network Data Transformation Board. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr Justine Gangneux gave a short presentation of research findings and recommendations from our research on Scottish local government's data response to Covid-19 to the Data & Intelligence Network led by the Scottish Government on the 31st August 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Data integration: Opportunities and Challenges 21 July 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey gave a presentation titled, Data integration: Opportunities and Challenges at the Allan Turing Institute Data Centre Collaboration Event held on 21 July 2022, along with speakers: A Heppenstall, R Franklin, Mark Mon-Williams, Phil James, Mark Birkin in Stream 1: Towards connected data for societal benefit. The aim of this session is to work towards consensus on the potential for increased data connection and co-analysis. The session will be structured around three cases: routinely collected population data (Connected Bradford), distributed sensor data (Newcastle, others) and securely stored activity/transaction data (Leeds, Glasgow). Presentations on the vision for societal problems that could be addressed, experiences (and perceptions of the issues with process, governance, enablers, etc.) will be followed by Q&A, group discussions and input from stakeholders. The session will conclude with synthesis of key opportunities and challenges - what could happen next and what's needed to enable it? Presentations on the vision for societal problems that could be addressed, experiences (and perceptions of the issues with process, governance, enablers, etc.) will be followed by Q&A, group discussions and input from stakeholders. The session will conclude with synthesis of key opportunities and challenges - what could happen next and what's needed to enable it? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Data visualization for decision makers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Nick Holliman, Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Informatics at King's College London and Director of CUSP London, presented at this UBDC research seminar. Abstract "Without good data, we are flying blind. If you can't see it, you can't solve it." Kofi Anan, Nature, 2018. One of the lessons of the COVID19 pandemic in the UK has been the demand from decision makers for the daily visualization of data about the state of the country (CSO Patrick Vallance, AI UK, 2022). The decision makers included ministers, politicians and the public, each needing to understand the current situation to make decisions for the country or in their everyday lives. This demand has exposed some important questions for visualization researchers: How to engage people in data visualizations? How to ensure data visualizations represent data truthfully? How to validate the quality of data visualizations? This presentation will demonstrate how our recent research in urban data visualization addresses these questions and argue that successful data visualization increasingly needs rigorous underpinning science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2022/data-visualization-f... |
| Description | Datafest Event - "Effective Models for Data-Driven Collaborations Between Universities and 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 | Through a combination of case study experiences and practical interactive exercises this event aimed to identify opportunities and effective models for cooperation and collaboration between academic researchers and government. Three informal presentations described some successful and ongoing collaborations between the Urban Big Data Centre and selected Local Authority partners. In each example speakers summarised the origins of their collaboration, the respective benefits of participation and any specific challenges or obstacles that have been overcome. The intention was not to present final, or even well-formed research or operational outcomes, but to focus on the collaborations themselves. 1. UBDC and Glasgow City Council's CCTV Object Detection Project (Mark Livingston, UBDC and Kimberley Hose, Glasgow City Council) 2. UBDC and North Lanarkshire Council's exploration of access to public services in the digital age (Annette Hastings and Yang Wang, UBDC and Nicole Paterson, North Lanarkshire Council) 3. UBDC's data service collection building experiences with government data owners (Andrew McHugh, UBDC) In a second session, through a series of group exercises attendees shared their experiences of similar projects (positive and negative!), developing a common understanding of challenges around issues such as data sharing, partnership development and shared objective setting, as well as best practice strategies and available resources for effectively addressing them. Participants had the chance to develop new collaborative ideas within the workshop environment, critically assessing their feasibility and potential benefits. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2020/effective-models-for... |
| Description | David McArthur and Jinhyun Hong to The National newspaper. |
| 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 | Jinhyun Hong and David McArthur were interviewed by Karin Goodwin from The National about what the "new normal" will look like for transport after the Covid-19 lockdown is lifted. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.thenational.scot/news/18406035.call-cyclists-pedestrians-prioritised-post-lockdown/ |
| Description | Deadline (News Agency) Press Coverage: A new study has revealed the importance of data sharing during COVID |
| 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 | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Deadline (News Agency) press coverage of the Scottish Local Government & Data during Covid-19. Professor Simon Joss and Dr Justine Gangneux carried out an in-depth analysis of data engagements between autumn 2020 and spring 2021. A total of 31 out of the 32 Scottish local authorities were surveyed along with focus groups including NHS Scotland, Police Scotland, Scottish Government, and several third sector (voluntary) organisations. The survey found that 83% of respondents stated that there was an increase in internal data sharing during COVID-19, 79% indicated the use of new data sources, and 74% confirmed increased data collection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2021/05/26/a-new-study-has-revealed-the-importance-of-data-sharing-du... |
| Description | Development of Transport Policy and Use of Mobility Data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey gave a presentation to the Glasgow City Council 'Open Data and Innovation Working Group', titled 'Development of transport policy and use of mobility data. on the 25th February 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Digital Glasgow Board - Transport (OFFICIAL): Transport Strategy Presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey gave a presentation on Transport Strategy at the Digital Glasgow Board - Transport (OFFICIAL) held on the 7th of December 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Discussant, European Network For Housing Research (Barcelona, 31 Aug-2 Sept) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussant of paper by Li, Baker & Bentley, "Did Public Policies Support Mental Health For All During The Pandemic?", in the Residential Context of Health Workshop at the ENHR Annual Conference, Barcelona, 1 September 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | ESRC Data Investments Data Access Meeting |
| 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 | Discussion led by each of ESRC's data investments, exploring data access during Covid19 pandemic to discuss and share the challenges and opportunities that have arisen around data access and security and the potential for linkage. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | ESRC Festival of Social Science Workshop: Exploring gendered inequalities in STEM with Eco-mapping |
| 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 | You will develop visual maps of your educational journeys to date. This will be an engaging and interactive self-assessment to reflect on the influence of family, community and society in developing educational and professional interests. Our group of interdisciplinary researchers will be on hand to share project findings on the relationship between gender and other aspects of identity and educational and occupational cultures in STEM globally. Follow us @STEM_Journeys for future workshops, including online events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://cradall.org/content/gendered-journeys-workshop-9th-november-glasgow |
| Description | EU Commission Roundtable event: Smart Cities Marketplace - INTEGRATED INFRASTRUCTURES & PROCESSES ACTION CLUSTER MEETING |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | EU Commission ACTION CLUSTER MEETING Covid-19 and Data from pan-Local government Research and Digital Health in Scotland Dr Justine Gangneux & Prof. Simon Joss, Professor of Urban Futures and Associate Director ESRC Urban Big Data Centre, School of Social & Political Sciences, University of Glasgow George Crooks, CEO of Digital Health Scotland |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://smart-cities-marketplace.ec.europa.eu |
| Description | EdinbR Seminar: Mobile phone data and big(ger) data workflows |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | At the EdinbR seminar, "Mobile Phone Data and Big(ger) Data Workflows," my presentation titled "Exploring the Use of Glasgow's Greenspaces Using Mobile Phone App Data" highlighted the application of R to manage and analyze large datasets derived from mobile phone apps. The talk focused on a case study of Glasgow's greenspaces, demonstrating how R can be used to evaluate the representativeness of mobile app data, estimate visitation numbers, and analyze usage patterns. The seminar underscored the potential of mobile app data in urban planning, while addressing the challenges in ensuring data accuracy and representativeness. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.meetup.com/edinbr/events/293427304/ |
| Description | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel - COVID-19 effects on cycling blog in UBDC |
| 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 | In this blog, we share the findings from our new publication in Sustainability, which examines the role played by safe cycling infrastructure during the lockdown period. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/october/did-safe-cycling-infrastructure-still-matter-during-lo... |
| Description | Engagement video introduction produced, shared through project Twitter page during a Scotland wide online research engagement event Explortathon 2020 |
| 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 | We produced a short video to explain the aims of our research project. The goal was to share it during the Scotland wide online engagement event to get more followers for our project twitter page. We will later use the twitter page to disseminate findings and advertise project related events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/CHiCS_project |
| Description | Enriching address-based data with UPRNs :Learning from Domestic EPC and Land Registry PPD datasets |
| 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 | Bin Chi presented our work on integrating UPRNS on a number of important housing data sets. Energy Performance Certificate and Price Paid Data, at Ordnance Survey's annual research conference in Southampton. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Estimating the cost of COVID-19 related cancellations to Airbnb and their hosts in Edinburgh |
| 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 | Blog estimating the cost of COVID-19 cancellations to Airbnb and their hosts |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/april/estimating-the-cost-of-covid-19-related-cancellations-t... |
| Description | Ethnic-led collaborative mapping in the Colombian Amazon |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC and UCL DPU presented this in-person workshop on ethnic-led collaborative mapping in the Colombian Amazon. The ethnic-led strategy to collaboratively map the ancestral territory of "Pueblo Cofán" (A'l) is aimed at ensuring the conservation and survival of original peoples in the Colombian Amazon. The Instituto Geográfico Agustin Codazzi (IGAC) and the Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) are working together to compile toponyms (names of geographic sites of relevance) and consolidate the country's cartography, including ethnic and linguistic approaches in the process. Their work comes at a time when the survival of indigenous communities worldwide is becoming increasingly precarious. This is primarily attributed to globalization, which generally leads to the violation of their rights and the erosion of their worldviews, culture, and traditions. The event presented the methodological details of the research and the relevance of the project in academic fields such as geography, citizen participation, sustainability and information sciences. To make visible the high quality of the projects led by the Colombian public sector and explore potential collaborations with partners from the global north and south. Agenda 5:00 - Welcome by the chair 5:05 - Welcome words by Nancy Benítez Paéz, Chargé of Affairs of the Colombian Embassy to the United Kingdom 5:10 - Introduction of the participating organisations (IGAC and ACT) 5:15 - Main talk "Ethnic-led collaborative mapping in the Colombian Amazon" 6:00 - Short panel session and impressions by the chair 6:10 - Q&A. 6:30 Concluding remarks and takeaway by the chair Speakers Linda García is a surveyor engineer with a master's in geographic information systems (GIS). She has over 10 years of experience in land formaliation with indigenous and local communities within the Colombian Government. Since 2017, she has been part of the Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) and currently serves as coordinator for their Land Processes initiatives in Colombia. Daniel Ojeda is a geographer with a master's in environmental conservation, public policy, and planning. He has worked in government agencies, focusing on public participation, social dialogue with ethnic groups, land tenure, and cadastral systems. Currently, he is providing advisory services to the Government of Colombia at the Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi (IGAC) on ethnic-led geographic approaches. Dr Catalina Ortiz (Chair) is an Associate Professor at the Development Planning Unit. Catalina is committed to a negotiated co-production of urban space grounded on ethics of care and engaged scholarship. Using decolonial and critical urban theory through knowledge co-production methodologies, Catalina engages with critical urban pedagogies, planning for equality, and southern urbanisms in Latin America and Southeast Asia. This event was jointly organised by UBDC and the UCL Development Planning Unit. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2023/ethnic-led-collabora... |
| Description | Ethnic-led collaborative toponomy with "Pueblo Cofán" (A'l) in the Colombian Amazon |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this seminar, we heard about the ethnic-led strategy that Instituto Geográfico Agustin Codazzi and the Amazon Conservation Team jointly developed towards the conservation and survival of original peoples through a collaborative toponomy exercise with the "Pueblo Cofán" (A'l) in the Colombian Amazon. Our event comes at a time when the survival of indigenous communities is becoming more precarious every day across the world. The main reason argued is globalisation, which, generally, brings violation of their rights and vanishing of their worldviews, culture and habits. On top of that, there are strong social, technological and industrial pressures on constantly arriving in their territories. The combined efforts of civil society, government authorities and the indigenous communities themselves have served to develop strategies to make them visible and highlight their existence within the territory. Linda García is a surveyor engineer with master's in geographic information systems (GIS). She has more than 10 years of experience in land formalization with indigenous and local communities at the Colombian Government. Since 2017, she joined the Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) and currently coordinates their efforts on Land Processes in Colombia. Daniel Ojeda is a Geographer, with master's studies in environmental conservation, public policy and planning. He has worked at government agencies on public participation, social dialogue with ethnic groups, land tenure and cadastral systems. He is currently advising the Government of Colombia at Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi (IGAC) on ethnic-led geographic approaches. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2023/ethnic-led-collabora... |
| Description | Example of the type of Analysis Undertaken using Aggregate Tables. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Yang Wang gave a presentation to a small number of colleagues in the Scottish Government, to discuss the metrics that we have developed and to show an example of the type of analysis which could be undertaken using our Aggregate tables on 24 November 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Exploring Learning City Inclusion with Diverse Education Data Webinar - October 2020 |
| 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 | In this webinar, led by UBDC's Professor Catherine Lido with Rachel Cassar (postgraduate researcher for the VisNET project), we presented the work and data behind the Oxford Review paper 'Lifewide learning in the city: novel big data approaches to exploring learning with large-scale surveys, GPS, and social media'. In this session, we examined the background to UNESCO Learning Cities and how it informed the integrated Multimedia City Data (iMCD) project, with a discussion around the educational aspects of the survey, education-relevant Twitter data harvesting and the role of GPS and lifelogging images for less formal types of learning practice. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/datadives |
| Description | Exploring human-nature Interactions Using New Forms of Data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Michael Sinclair gave a voluntary presentation on the potential of mobile phone data for managing natural areas, which was given to a wide group of Scottish park managers. This was facilitated throughout the charity Greenspace Scotland and comprised of a presentation and discussion session. This resulted in further follow-up meetings with Greenspace Scotland and the park manager's forum and generated ongoing interest in the work UBDC are undertaking on human-nature interactions via mobile phone data. This engagement was also the beginning of a longer-term partnership with Greenspace Scotland. Greenspace Scotland submitted a letter of support to contribute to our ongoing research on urban greenspace via mobile phone data in the Glasgow City Region. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.greenspacescotland.org.uk/park-managers-forum-19-may-2021 |
| Description | Festival of Social Sciences Glasgow: Eco-mapping to Address Gendered Inequalities in to STEM |
| 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 | Festival of Social Sciences Workshop: Through joining us to explore eco-mapping, you can develop visual maps of your educational journeys to date. This will be an engaging and interactive self-assessment to reflect on the influence of family, community and society in developing educational and professional interests. Our group of interdisciplinary researchers will be on hand to share project findings on the relationship between gender and other aspects of identity and educational and occupational cultures in STEM globally. Follow us @STEM_JourneysThe |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://festivalofsocialscience.com/events/gendered-journeys-eco-mapping-to-address-gendered-inequal... |
| Description | Follow up meeting re: Open Data Agenda |
| 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 | Following up from an earlier talk at a Registers of Scotland Open Day this meeting was an opportunity to expand on the potential benefits of pursuing an open data licensing approach for RoS data - at least for non-commercial academic research purposes. The meeting took place with Samuel Dickinson and Katherine Falconer of RoS, with UBDC's Andrew McHugh attending. The discussion promised much further progress but the Covid19 pandemic struck shortly afterwards, requiring the work to be largely set aside. Possible avenues included a comparative analysis of the situations in Scotland and England & Wales (the equivalent data in E&W is open already) and conceptualisation of a limited open data subset that could be available for academic users. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | From Google API to go-along interviews: mixing methods to understand active travel infrastructure, behaviour, and attitudes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Rachel Aldred, Professor of Transport at the University of Westminster, and Director of the Active Travel Academy, presented at this UBDC research seminar. Abstract Rachel will reflect on how she and colleagues are using a range of methods and data sources to address key research questions related to active travel. Much work is happening as part of a large ongoing NIHR mixed methods study focused on low traffic neighbourhoods, where methods range from analysis of granular sensor data and API calls to in-situ interviews and qualitative GIS. Other research has recently explored attitudes to cycling, including through a large TfL funded survey with data on determinants of attitudes to different travel modes, and a small-scale study into experiences of Black men who ride bikes. Rachel's presentation will draw on several different studies to highlight both novel insights and still unanswered questions arising from the research programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2022/mixing-methods-to-un... |
| Description | GALLANT, University of Glasgow, Research Workshops |
| 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 | As part of the GALLANT project, which brings researchers together from across the University of Glasgow, the data scientist is working with UBDC colleagues as part of the project's data and analytics work stream. Specifically, his responsibilities include designing and developing a data hub to provide access to and insights about datasets that are used by researchers. He is following a user centred design process that has involved hosting focus group sessions alongside major design and development milestones. These focus group sessions are held both in person and online and have a clear focus of demonstrating the capabilities of the data hub and receiving feedback about areas of interest or concern. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | GALLANT, University of Glasgow, Research Workshops |
| 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 | As part of the GALLANT project, which brings researchers together from across the University of Glasgow, the data scientist is working with UBDC colleagues as part of the project's data and analytics work stream. Specifically, his responsibilities include designing and developing a data hub to provide access to and insights about datasets that are used by researchers. He is following a user centred design process that has involved hosting focus group sessions alongside major design and development milestones. These focus group sessions are held both in person and online and have a clear focus of demonstrating the capabilities of the data hub and receiving feedback about areas of interest or concern. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | GIS-Based Facility Location Analysis for the Public and Private Sectors Webinar - October 2020 |
| 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 | In this webinar, led by UBDC's Dr Jing Yao, we introduced some classic facility location models, with examples of location-allocation analyses in ArcGIS using open data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/datadives |
| Description | GISRUK UBDC Data Challenge |
| 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 | The UBDC will hosted a data challenge for this year's GISRUK conference in support of the sustainable levelling up agenda. For this data challenge, three datasets have been chosen from the Urban Big Data Centre's data catalogue, each covering a different domain. During this event, participants gave 5-minute lightning talks exploring, visualising, and/or analysing one or a combination of the datasets in the context of Glasgow and the conference theme, Levelling Up. Three datasets were made available to participants, Public Transport Accessibility Indices, Glasgow's CCTV Object Detection Data and Zoopla Rental Properties and Advertisements. 8 presentations were made as part of the GISRUK 2023 programme, with 13 participants across the groups. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2023/march/ubdc-data-challenge/ |
| Description | GIScience: The Building Blocks of Community Mapping Platforms |
| 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 poster, presented at the GIScience 2023 conference in Leeds, summarises the work-in-progress of co-designing an urban deprivation data ecosystem, with the IDEAMAPS Data Ecosystem research project as a case study. It explains the different arrangements of cutting-edge technologies to allow local communities to map urban deprivation and its underpinning factors, as well as the features that emerged from the dialogue with communities in Nigeria and Kenya as part of the IDEAMAPS project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://gla-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/grace_gielink_glasgow_ac_uk/EWWFZrUFkK1FvVzl6Z_ooPMBsxD... |
| Description | Gave a talk on using digital footprint data to measure active travel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | I gave one of three talks in a seminar jointly organised by the Urban Big Data Centre and the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research. The session was "Active Travel: New Data, New Insights" and my talk was "Measuring active travel with digital footprints". I also participated in a discussion with the other attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.scadr.ac.uk/news-and-events/event-active-travel-new-data-new-insights |
| Description | Gave a talk to Glasgow City Council's Open Data & Innovation Working Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I gave a talk to a lunchtime session of Glasgow City Council's Open Data & Innovation Working Group about UBDC's CCTV counting project. The purpose of the talk was to show innovative ways in which data can be generated and used. There were several questions and an interesting discussion afterwards. Plans were made to further promote the use of such data, to enhance its value, and to link it to other data sources. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Gave a talk to the Postgraduate Active Travel Network |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I have a talk to around 15 members of the Postgraduate Active Travel Network. After the talk, we had an interesting discussion about the role of data in active travel research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Gave an interview for The National newspaper on public transport regulation |
| 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 | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | I have an interview to James Walker from The National on 4/10/23 on the subject of public transport in UK cities (with a focus on Glasgow). The interview appeared in the print edition of The Sunday National on the 8/10/23. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.thenational.scot/news/23839824.glasgows-public-transport-system-need-reform/ |
| Description | Gave an interview to The Scotsman about LEZs and other green transport policies |
| 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 | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | I gave an interview to Ilona Amos from The Scotsman. We mostly discussed Low Emission Zones though we also discussed the "war on cars" and various green transport policies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/lez-scotland-car-wars-and-conspiracy-theories-over-low-emi... |
| Description | Gave an invited talk at an Academy of Urbanism event |
| 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 invited talk at an Academy of Urbanism coffee break event. The talk was about the centre's work on using CCTV cameras to derive pedestrian data and about how this data can be used to improve the quality of cities. The event was online. The audience in attendance was small but a recording of the top will be made available on YouTube. One of the participants from Glasgow City Council expressed interest in learning more about the work being done at UBDC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.academyofurbanism.org.uk/events/aou-coffee-break-scotland-20/ |
| Description | Gave at talk at the Digital Office for Scottish Local Government IoT Webinar - Counting People and Things |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I have a half hour talk and participated in a Q&A session at the Digital Office for Scottish Local Government IoT Webinar on the topic of Counting People and Things. I gave an overview of the various projects and datasets at UBDC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Gave invited talk to Public Health and Sustainable Transport Partnership - Data and Evidence Group |
| 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 | Gave an invited talk about the UBDC's CCTV project. A variety of organisations were present e.g., Sustrans, Living Streets, Transport Scotland and so on. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Gave talk and participated in a panel discussion a the MaaS Scotland 2020 conference. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was a speaker on a panel at the Mobility as a Service (MaaS) Scotland conference. The session was a technical session looking at data and security. I presented work done by UBDC on using CCTV cameras to measure pedestrian activity. I then participated in the discussion afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://maas-scotland.com/maas-scotland-annual-conference-2020/ |
| Description | Gendered Journeys: ARCadia Festival of Events for Adults |
| 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 | We hosted a stall at the grand opening of the University of Glasgow's ARC building for the public-facing ARCadia events. The footfall over the course of the festival was in the thousands, and for the day of our stall in the hundreds with school visits to prominent scientists, we mapped the STEM journeys of all ages, and engaged the public in our ESRC and EPSRC-funded research through Urban Big Data Centre. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/arc/arcadia/allages/index.html/event/12479 |
| Description | Glasgow City of Science and Innovation Press Coverage: A New Study has Revealed the Importance of Data Sharing During COVID |
| 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 | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Glasgow City of Science and Innovation's press coverage of the Scottish Local Government & Data during Covid-19. Professor Simon Joss and Dr Justine Gangneux carried out an in-depth analysis of data engagements between autumn 2020 and spring 2021. A total of 31 out of the 32 Scottish local authorities were surveyed along with focus groups including NHS Scotland, Police Scotland, Scottish Government, and several third sector (voluntary) organisations. The survey found that 83% of respondents stated that there was an increase in internal data sharing during COVID-19, 79% indicated the use of new data sources, and 74% confirmed increased data collection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://glasgowcityofscienceandinnovation.com/university-of-glasgow-research-shows-importance-of-dat... |
| Description | Glasgow Metro FS 'Show and Tell' Sessions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Glasgow City Council organised an internal workshop where a number of people were giving presentations about how data can be used to support decision making. There was a particular focus mobility and place making. I was asked to present some of the work I had done at UBDC. The idea was to make the different groups attending aware of what data and methods were available, and to avoid overlap between what different groups were working on. After the presentation, I received requests for further information on the work I presented. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Guardian newspaper article focussed on project's efforts to secure access to DWP data |
| 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 | Guardian journalist (Patrick Butler) approached team to enquire about progress with this study, as DWP had (incorrectly) told House of Commons Work & Pensions Select Committee in 2018 that they had provided data to us to conduct analyses of the health impacts of sanctions. Article focussed on our struggles to access data and the failure of DWP to deliver. Included direct quotes from PI Bailey and response from Steven Timms, MP, the current Chair of the Select Committee, as well as a response from DWP. The article also referenced the recently-published Scoping Review of sanctions impacts (Pattaro et al 2022, Journal of Social Policy). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/mar/02/dwp-blocks-data-for-study-of-whether-benefit-sanctio... |
| Description | Guest Lecture for MA Students, University of Liverpool: Research Data Management and Big Data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Introductory lecture to information science students covering: - What is Research Data Management? What is Big Data? - What is involved each? - Introduction to the Urban Big Data Centre? - What types of data are being collected? - What systems are involved? - What policies are in place? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Helsinki City Council Delegation Visit 08 March 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey gave a talk on the Urban Big Data Centre, to Ilpo Laitinen, Helsinki's Director of Administration, Tech Services, Infrastructure and Logistics, and members of his delegation visiting Glasgow University on the 8th of March 2024. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Holyrood Public Sector Data Policy Summit 2022 Invited Talk (Andrew McHugh) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited participation in experts' panel session entitled "The Power of Data Science and Analytics". Session summarised as follows: "With high-quality data collected, organisations can utilise data science and analysis to drive insight and better decision-making. These analytics can then enable improved services across the public sector. This session will comprise a panel discussion amongst sector experts about how best to maximise the value of data and the impact data analysis can bring to an organisation." Chair - Gemma Milne, Writer & Researcher Speakers • Dr Joanna McKenzie, Head of Data Science, The Data Lab • Dr Andrew McHugh, Senior Data Science Manager, Urban Big Data Centre at University of Glasgow • Jarmo Eskelinen, Executive Director, Data Driven Innovation Initiative at The University of Edinburgh |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://events.holyrood.com/event/public-sector-data-summit-2022/ |
| Description | Housing and Welfare Reform, and the Suburbanisation of Poverty |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey gave a presentation on the 'Housing and Welfare Reform and the Suburbanisation of Poverty' to the Department for Work and Pensions members on 20 November 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Http Communication With Python Libraries, Post-Graduate Student Tutorial |
| 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 | Http Communication With Python Libraries, Post-Graduate Student Tutorial. Post-Graduate Students engaged in questions and discussions afterwards and the tutorial assisted them with their studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | IDEAMAPS, Lagos, Nigeria, Research workshop |
| 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 | During the IDEMAPS data ecosystem project kick-off meeting in Lagos, Nigeria, the data scientist helped to coordinate research workshops with local government and slum community representatives. The project aims to enable urban transformation through an integrated deprived area mapping system. As part of a team at UBDC, he is responsible for designing and developing the project's digital platform and interfaces. To consider and negotiate local tensions, it is important to co-design the platform with local stakeholders. Discussions around data security, data visualisation, interface accessibility and interface usability formed a key part of this workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Illinois News Today Press Coverage: Pandemic spurs innovation in Scottish urban data-Cities Today |
| 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 | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Illinois News Today's press coverage of the Scottish Local Government & Data during Covid-19. Professor Simon Joss and Dr Justine Gangneux carried out an in-depth analysis of data engagements between autumn 2020 and spring 2021. A total of 31 out of the 32 Scottish local authorities were surveyed along with focus groups including NHS Scotland, Police Scotland, Scottish Government, and several third sector (voluntary) organisations. The survey found that 83% of respondents stated that there was an increase in internal data sharing during COVID-19, 79% indicated the use of new data sources, and 74% confirmed increased data collection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://illinoisnewstoday.com/pandemic-spurs-innovation-in-scottish-urban-data-cities-today/225249/ |
| Description | Impacts of COVID-19 on the Airbnb Market in Edinburgh |
| 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 | A blog looking at the impact of Airbnbs COVID 19 cancellation and refund policy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/april/impacts-of-covid-19-on-the-airbnb-market-in-edinburgh/ |
| Description | Intersectional Inequalities in STEM webinar series: Gendered Inequalities in STEM - Local & Global Perspectives |
| 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 was the first event in our Intersectional Inequalities in STEM webinar series. These events are intended as open dialogical spaces of knowledge exchange, focusing on the experiences of under-represented groups in STEM academia and industry. Our first event took place on International Women's Day and featured research findings from VisNET (EPSRC-funded) and Gendered Journeys (GCRF-funded) projects. The event was hosted by Urban Big Data Centre, and included a brief introduction to findings in Indian, Rwandan and UK contexts, and discussion of barriers and solutions for addressing gendered inequalities in STEM study and working. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/upcoming-events/gendered-inequalities... |
| Description | Interview by New Scientist Magazine about building energy efficiency |
| 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 | I was interviewed by Jeremy Hsu from the New Scientists about one preprint publication from Stanford researchers. I gave my view about their preprints and discussed what's the best way to using AI and satellite imagery to better understand building energy efficiency in the global scale. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.newscientist.com/article/2341034-ai-can-tell-which-buildings-are-energy-efficient-from-t... |
| Description | Interview by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism about indoor heat in the London homes |
| 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 | I was interviewed in the TBIJ led project to discuss the importance to understand the indoor environment of UK housing. This has led to further request for research collaboration and also present to policy makers for establishing future UK housing retrofitting policy for overheating. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/blog/2023-06-30/the-rising-danger-of-hot-summers/ |
| Description | Interview by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism about indoor heat in the London homes |
| 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 | I was interviewed in the TBIJ led project to discuss the escalating effects of hot summers on UK housing. This has led to further request for research collaboration and also present to policy makers for establishing future UK housing retrofitting policy for overheating. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023-12-05/revealed-escalating-effects-of-hot-summers-... |
| Description | Interview for international newspaper |
| 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 | Interview with Canada's national newspaper 'Mail & Globe', 13 April 2020. Interviewer: Nathan Vanderklippe, Asia Correspondent |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-brief-home-quarantine-order-for-foreign-residents-in-b... |
| Description | Interview for national newspaper |
| 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 | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | The Herald newspaper did a series of interviews with academics as part of a series on the COP26 climate change conference. I was interviewed for Transport Day to talk about future mobility. I focused on warning against relying solely on electric vehicles to reduce CO2 emissions and promoted the idea of active travel and integrated ticketing for public transport. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.nla-eclips.com/PDFs/BRAB210.PDF |
| Description | Interview for the Financial Times |
| 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 | UBDC's Associate Director for Training and Capacity Building, Dr David McArthur, was interviewed for a Financial Times article on the potential for Strava data to generate big data that can be used for public development. In the article entitled 'City planners zero in on cyclists through exercise app', they note that David "compared journeys logged by Strava against roadside counts and found the numbers correlated relatively well." The article goes on to say: "He has found, based on data from the app, that when segregated cycle-only paths were built cycling volumes increased by 12-18 per cent; when a lane was simply painted on the road the number dropped. "The app "opens up new modelling possibilities", Mr McArthur said, but noted important discrepancies in the data. There are more Strava users, for example, in wealthier west Glasgow than the east of the city, so using the data alone could risk replicating deeper inequalities." This article, which reached a potential of 1m readers (from FT circulation statistics) has contributed to dissemination of UBDC research outcomes across an international audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ft.com/content/bfd4dbaa-061b-11ea-9afa-d9e2401fa7ca |
| Description | Interview with Technology Scotland for Blog Series on Covid-19 |
| 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 | Took part in an interview with Technology Scotland, to inform a blog on "Responding to Covid-19". This was an opportunity to highlight recent work being undertaken at UBDC in the months since March 2020 around the effects of Covid-19 on UK urban areas. We were able to highlight some of the recent research being undertaken and links to our Covid-19 related outputs were provided within the blog. This was also an opportunity to raise the profile of UBDC more generally, and to focus attention to specific successful collaborations between UBDC and local authorities, including Glasgow City Council. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://technologyscotland.scot/blog-series-responding-to-covid-19-urban-big-data-centre/ |
| Description | Introducing the Waterproofing Data Dashboard v.0.0.1 - 21.09.22 |
| 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 | In this blog, Andy Clarke and Professor João Porto de Albuquerque introduce the latest instalment from the Waterproofing Data project - a public web platform presenting maps and charts visualising flood-related data in Brazil. Bringing together data from weather stations, disaster risk mapping and citizen science, the dashboard app was developed with the dialogical approach of the Waterproofing Data project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2022/september/introducing-the-waterproofing-data-dashboard-v001/ |
| Description | Introduction to Adzuna Job Market Data Webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | A UBDC online seminar: Introduction to Adzuna Job Market Data. I gave a presentation with the title of "Understanding the impact of AI and smart technologies on jobs using online job vacancy data". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2021/introduction-to-adzu... |
| Description | Invited Expert Panel: UNESCO INTERNATIONAL EXPERT ROUNDTABLE ON LIFELONG LEARNING METRICS, Singapore |
| 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 | 5/2019 Dr Catherine Lido was invited to the firs tmeeting of the UNESCO INTERNATIONAL EXPERT ROUNDTABLE ON LIFELONG LEARNING METRICS, held in Singapore. This involved presentation, panels, and small group dicussions with UNESCO-UIL, OECD and EC surrounding better use of data and data capture for less formal forms of learning, this group then informs the onward development of the UNESCO Learning Cities Network and Learning City Indicators. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited Presentation: UNESCO Annual Learning Cities conference, on Digital Inclusion- Medellin, Colombia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | 10/2019 Invited Speaker: UNESCO Annual Learning Cities conference Medellin, Colombia From the 1st to the 3rd of October Dr Catherine Lido represented the work of UBDC and University of Glasgow as an invited guest, in the city of Medellin, for the bi-annual International Conference on Learning Cities, with a focus on inclusion. More than 400 delegates were welcomed from approximately 150 countries to discuss the role of lifelong learning in meeting the 2030 goals for Sustainable Development. Two of the four background papers for the conference were chosen from UBDC Co-Is, working at the University of Glasgow School of Education. The overall background paper by Mike Osborne and Sergio Hernandez covered Sustainable Learning Cities: Inclusion, Equity and Lifelong Learning. The background paper on Digital and Data Literacy for inclusive learning cities, offered by Catherine Lido, Lavinia Hirsu and Bridgette Wessels explored Digital and Data Literacies for Inclusion of Marginalised Citizens in Learning Cities. All delegates received printed synopsis of the work, as well as a presentation and panel discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.learningcities2019.org/ |
| Description | Invited Seminar: Scottish Government Education Analytical Services Edinburgh, UK |
| 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 | 09/2019 Dr Catherine Lido, and her funded Phd researcher Brittney Nathaniel, were invited to deliver an expert seminar/ workshop for Scottish Government Education Analytical Services, including data holders, data analysts, parliamentary researchers and policy-makers, on the topic of using novel data to capture lifelong learning, it was held in Victoria Quay, Edinburgh, UK, but disseminated to other Scottish Government statisticians and policy-makers in Glasgow via zoom. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited Talk SAD 2020 Spatial Analytics + Data Seminar Series 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | An invited talk from Newcastle University. Talk title: Articulating strategies to address heat resilience |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKYkbKpNPDY&t=67s |
| Description | Invited Talk by Co-I Dr Konstantinos Ampountolas: Motorway tidal flow lane control, 11th April 2019, Transport Institute, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | During this presentation Dr. Ampountolas proposed a simple and practical real-time strategy for efficient motorway tidal flow lane control. A switching policy based on the fundamental diagram, that requires only aggregated measurements of density (or occupancy). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.tudelft.nl/evenementen/2019/transport-institute/transport-thursday-11th-of-april-motorwa... |
| Description | Invited Talk in GDSL (Geographic Data Science Lab)-CDRC (Consumer Data Research Centre) Brown Bag Seminar, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | An invited talk at the University of Liverpool. Talk title: Fuel poverty or pandemic mobility? A new insight for the private rental housing market and green space visitation from new forms of urban big data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gdsl-cdrc-brown-bag-seminar-with-qunshan-zhao-tickets-156653664327# |
| Description | Invited Talk in Graduate Colloquium Series, Department of Geography, University of Northern Iowa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | An invited talk at the University of Northern Iowa. Talk title: Designing a Sustainable Urban Environment by Spatial Data Science and Urban Climatology |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited Talk in Heat Islands and Inequality Journalism Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An invited talk at the Heat Islands and Inequality Journalism Symposium and this may lead to future collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited Talk in School of Engineering, Newcastle University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | An invited talk at Newcastle University. Talk title: A multi-scale framework for fuel station location: From highways to street intersections |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Invited keynote Expos Utrecht |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote presentation - Challenges and opportunities of using ABMs for simulating social system. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://exposome.nl/news-events/news/highlights-from-the-exposome-nl-conference-2023.html |
| Description | Invited online talk to WGDC Summit 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In this WDGC summit 2020, I presented my recent research on "A multi-scale framework for fuel station location: From highways to street intersections." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://wgdc.taibo.cn/ |
| Description | Invited speaker at Policy Scotland webinar on "Radical Policy Rethinking after COVID-19" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | I gave a talk on sustainable transport as part of Policy Scotland's "Radical Policy Rethinking after COVID-19" webinar. The event took place as part of the ESRC's Festival of Social Science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://policyscotland.gla.ac.uk/event/radical-policy-rethinking-after-covid-19-part-of-esrcs-festiv... |
| Description | Invited talk at a symposium at the University of Zurich |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk at University of Zurich. Challenges and opportunities of using ABMs for simulating social systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Invited talk at the University of Seoul (Introduction to Urban Big Data Centre and transport case studies) |
| 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 an invited talk at the University of Seoul. About 20 people attended webinar. Due to the pandemic restriction, only 7 people attended in person and others joined through the Internet. In the presentation, I introduced Urban Big Data Centre at the University of Glasgow and some transport case studies. The University of Seoul has just established big data centre and, we talked about future collaborations briefly after the presentation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHBzK_ZO1i4&feature=youtu.be |
| Description | Invited talk by Co-I Dr Konstantinos Ampountolas: A Sociotechnical Systems Approach for Energy-Efficient Mobility in Smart Cities, July 8-9, 2019, Philadelphia, USA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk at Workshop on Control for Networked Transportation Systems (CNTS), July 8 - 9, 2019, Philadelphia, USA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://cnts.isis.vanderbilt.edu/ |
| Description | Invited talk by Co-I Dr Konstantinos Ampountolas: Workshop on Traffic Flow Modelling and Control, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, Jul 28-29, 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk at Workshop on Traffic Flow Modelling and Control, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, Jul 28-29, 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited talk in Shenzhen University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A invited talk to introduce Urban Analytics programme and Research activities in UBDC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Invited talk in the Alan Turing Institute Urban Analytics Programme Collaborative Workshop: Building a future for the urban analytics blueprint |
| 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 | Day 1 and 2 (16 and 17 October) form the core of the "Building a Future" event. In these two days, we expect attendees from a variety of institutions and career stages to come together to review, revise, and improve our Urban Analytics programme vision statement & strategic plan. This will mainly be oriented around short research talks, breakout sessions to discuss and critique the vision statement, collaborative writing to improve the statement, and networking events to foster introduce and connect workshop participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.turing.ac.uk/events/building-future-urban-analytics-blueprint |
| Description | Invited talk in the Alan Turing Institute Urban Analytics Programme Collaborative Workshop: Towards Urban Analytics 2.0 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Lighting talk has been given for the Turing workshop and it represents a strong interest for Glasgow to be part of the Turing agenda in the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.turing.ac.uk/events/towards-urban-analytics-20 |
| Description | Invited talk on CCTV project |
| 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 invited talk at a Public Health Scotland Learning Network session. The session focussed on on UBDC's collaboration with Glasgow City Council on the CCTV counting project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Invited talk: Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This is an invited talk in Harvard University for my recent research paper: Optimization of tree locations and spatial arrangements to reduce human heat stress in an urban park. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://gis.harvard.edu/event/optimization-tree-locations-and-arrangements-reduce-human-heat-stress-... |
| Description | Invited talk: MIT Sensible City Lab |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This is an invited talk given to MIT sensible city lab with the topic: Understanding cities by sensing and urban analytics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Invited talk: Mobile phone analysis of 52 of Glasgow's open spaces |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This is an invited presentation to Glasgow City Council park policy and management leaders by Dr Michael Sinclair. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited talk: Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This is an invited talk given to Peking University with the topic: Understanding cities by sensing and urban analytics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Invited talk: Spatial Statistics and Spatial Analysis Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This is an online invited talk given to Chinese research community for my most recent research paper: Optimization of tree locations and spatial arrangements to reduce human heat stress in an urban park. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Keynote Address, by Prof Mike Osborne, 'Learning for global health in cities, community resilience and the strengthening of learning cities'. 5th UNESCO Learning Cities International Conference, Joensu, Republic of Korea |
| 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 | Keynote Address, by Prof Mike Osborne, 'Learning for global health in cities, community resilience and the strengthening of learning cities'. 5th UNESCO Learning Cities International Conference, Joensu, Republic of Korea, 28 October 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Keynote Address, by Prof Mike Osborne, on Learning cities - Governance and Networking, 'Ulsan International Forum on Lifelong Learning', Republic of Korea |
| 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 | Keynote Address, by Prof Mike Osborne, on Learning cities - Governance and Networking. Given at the 'Ulsan International Forum on Lifelong Learning', Republic of Korea, 30 November 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Keynote Presentation, by Prof Mike Osborne, 9th Nordic Conference on Adult Education and Learning |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Osborne, M. (2022) Keynote Presentation, Lifelong Learning Research- Then and Now, 19 May 2022 at 9th Nordic Conference on Adult Education and Learning, University of South-Eastern Norway |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Keynote address by Prof Mike Osborne at UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities, Ansan International Forum, Ansan, Republic of Korea, on the topic of Global Citizenship Education (7 September 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Mike Osborne made a keynote address (online) to the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities, Ansan International Forum, Ansan, Republic of Korea, on the topic of Global Citizenship Education (7 September 2022). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Keynote address by Prof Mike Osborne at the 2nd Bulgarian Conference on Non-Formal Education (Sofia; 14 October 2022): Learning for global health in cities - Community resilience and the strengthening of learning |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Mike Osborne gave an invited keynote presentation at the 2nd Bulgarian Conference on Non-Formal Education (Sofia, Bulgaria; 14 October 2022) entitled "Learning for global health in cities - Community resilience and the strengthening of learning" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Keynote address by Prof Mike Osborne in the "Leadership role of Local Authorities in delivering SDG 4" session of the International Conference, Role of Adult Learning and Education (ALE) in the Development of Local Communities, Chi?inau, Moldova (9 November 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Mike Osborne presented a keynote talk (online) entitled "Leadership role of Local Authorities in delivering SDG 4" to the International Conference, Role of Adult Learning and Education (ALE) in the Development of Local Communities, Chi?inau, Moldova (9 November 2022) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://eaea.org/event/international-conference-on-the-role-of-adult-learning-and-education-in-the-d... |
| Description | Keynote address by Prof Mike Osborne to the Global Learning Festival webinar (8 November 2022): An international perspective on the vital role of local and regional government as hubs for delivering SDG4. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Prof Mike Osborne gave an online keynote presentation to the Global Learning Festival webinar (8 November 2022), organised by the Australian Learning Communities Network, entitled "An international perspective on the vital role of local and regional government as hubs for delivering SDG4". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Keynote address by Prof Mike Osborne, International Students Academic Conference, Yuanpei University of Medical Technology, Taiwan: Regional and Community Engagement of Universities (25 March 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Mike Osborne gave a keynote address to the International Students Academic Conference on Health and Wellbeing at Yuanpei University of Medical Technology, Taiwan, on the subject of "Regional and Community Engagement of Universities" (25 March 2022) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://eng.ypu.edu.tw/p/406-1056-53092,r552.php?Lang=en |
| Description | Keynote address, by Prof Mike Osborne, Conference on Educational Management & Leadership, British University in Dubai |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Osborne, M. (2022) Keynote Presentation, The leadership role of cities in delivering SDG4, 28 May 2022, Conference on Educational Management & Leadership, British University in Dubai |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Keynote speech: Finnish Geoinformatics Research Days 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I gave a Keynote Speech at Finnish Geoinformatics Research Days 2023. "Understanding building energy efficiency and the use of greenspace with administrative and emerging urban big data in Glasgow" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://fiuginet.fi/2023/04/18/geoinformatics-research-days-2023-programme-and-registration/ |
| Description | LARIA Spring Webinar Series 4 2022 16/6/22 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey presented 'capturing urban mobility through mobile phone data' at the LARIA Spring Webinar Series 4 on 16 June 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.laria.org.uk/event/laria-spring-2022-webinar-4/#!event-register/2022/6/16/laria-spring-w... |
| Description | Learning Cities in a Global Context: Presentation by Prof Mike Osborne to 23rd ASEF (Asia Europe Foundation) 'Summer University on Sustainable Cities' |
| 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 | Learning Cities in a Global Context: Presentation by Prof Mike Osborne to 23rd ASEF (Asia Europe Foundation) 'Summer University on Sustainable Cities', 15 October 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Lifelong Learning, Learning Cities and Smart Cities |
| 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 | UBDC's Professor Mike Osborne took part in a panel session on 'insights on learning and training for livable cities' at this Asian Development Bank (ADB) and UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) webinar on the 2nd of December 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2021/lifelong-learning-learnin... |
| Description | Local Gov Press Coverage: Data sharing 'crucial' to how councils managed pandemic, study reveals |
| 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 | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Loca Gov's press coverage of the Scottish Local Government & Data during Covid-19. Professor Simon Joss and Dr Justine Gangneux carried out an in-depth analysis of data engagements between autumn 2020 and spring 2021. A total of 31 out of the 32 Scottish local authorities were surveyed along with focus groups including NHS Scotland, Police Scotland, Scottish Government, and several third sector (voluntary) organisations. The survey found that 83% of respondents stated that there was an increase in internal data sharing during COVID-19, 79% indicated the use of new data sources, and 74% confirmed increased data collection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.localgov.co.uk/Data-sharing-crucial-to-how-councils-managed-pandemic-study-reveals/52388 |
| Description | Lost in Translation?: Connecting the conceptual and methodological to locate the "Left Behind" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Rachel Franklin from Newcastle University presented this UBDC research seminar. 'Left behind places' have received increasing attention in the Global North, acknowledging growing regional inequalities between and within countries. However, the trajectories followed by these places have mostly been investigated by assessing changes between two time-points. Addressing this, we combine k-means clustering and sequence analysis to study detailed regional trajectories between 1982 and 2017 for EU15 NUTS3 regions. The resulting typology of trajectories evidences how some regions have increasingly or more recently 'fallen behind', some have remained 'left behind', and still others have experienced overall positive decades, at least temporarily catching-up on wealthier regions. As such, our findings suggest different transitions in and out of 'left-behindness'. Biography Rachel Franklin is Professor of Geographical Analysis in the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS) at Newcastle University, the Head of Newcastle Data, and the University Lead for Newcastle at the Alan Turing Institute, where she is also a Fellow. Her primary research focus is in spatial demography and the interplay between spatial analytics and demographic change, in particular quantifying patterns, sources and impacts of spatial inequality. Prior to Newcastle, she was at Brown University in the U.S. for eight years, where she was Associate Director of Brown's Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4) initiative. She currently holds visiting appointments in Population Studies at Brown and in Social Sciences at the Gran Sasso Science Institute in Italy. She is also current editor in chief of the journal, Geographical Analysis. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2023/lost-in-translation-... |
| Description | Making data readable - dashboards, information visualisation and accessible evidence (UBDC Webinar) |
| 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 | Through a series of invited talks - including internal UBDC speakers and a contribution from Public Health Scotland - participants learned how to most effectively capture or share information needs and align these with available data and appropriate methods of information presentation. The session also covered practical aspects of producing attractive, accessible, and interactive dashboards and data platforms. The session was adminsistered on Zoom with participants also joining via YouTube. Around one hundred attendees participated across the platforms. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2021/making-data-readable... |
| Description | MoHeap 2021: Virtual Workshop on Mobility, Health, and Place, University of Zurich |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | This is an online webinar and I presented our recent research about "Understanding the interaction between human activities and physical health under extreme heat environment in Phoenix, Arizona." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://sites.google.com/view/moheap/home?authuser=0 |
| Description | Mobile Phone and Social Media Data for Human-Nature Research 22/07/21 |
| 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 session, lead by Michael Sinclair aims to provide a venue for studies that use social media and mobile phone data for the assessment of human-nature interactions and preferences towards the natural environment. It will contain six state-of-the-art papers describing recent applications of big data to understand human-nature interactions. The session is split into two sections. The first will showcase three applications of social media data, the second, three applications of mobile phone data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2021/mobile-phone-and-social-... |
| Description | Modern Methods for Scraping Data, Post-Graduate Student Tutorial |
| 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 | Modern Methods for Scraping Data, Post-Graduate Student Tutorial. Post-Graduate Students engaged in questions and discussions afterwards and the tutorial assisted them with their studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | NERC Constructing a Digital Environment Workshop |
| 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 | The workshops aim to bring together the 'digital environment' community, including (but not limited to) environmental science, computer science, informatics, statistics, social science, data science, policymakers and members of industry, and follows on from the first workshop held in Manchester earlier in 2019. The workshops will include presentations from the NERC Digital Environment Team and the Constructing a Digital Environment Champions Ron Corstanje and Steve Hallett and other project partners. The days will primarily focus on networking and discussions around specific digital environment themes ahead of a future funding opportunity. The themes discussed will be suggested by participants via a well-sorted.org study for which participants will be sent a link within three days of expressing interest. Each participant will need to fill out a response to a key question which will feed in to the workshop content. The responses will be grouped together to establish our discussion sessions. Please note that within three days of your EoI you will receive an email from us containing a link to the relevant Well Sorted study. If you have not received it, please check your junk/spam folder. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://nerc.ukri.org/innovation/activities/environmentaldata/digitalenv/news/workshops/ |
| Description | New ways of engaging during lockdown: turning to the digital at different costs |
| 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 built on our UNESCO briefing paper, and gained great coverage through UNESCO Learning Cities links, leading to a webinar jointly with UNESCO and PASCAL International Observatory on learning inclusion in cities (July 8th 2020). Bog identifies vulnerabilities and policy recommendations, and begins: "For those of us familiar with these tools, the lockdown due to the global spread of COVID-19 has meant that we have intensified many of our online activities. The digital possibilities of staying together, staying in touch and staying on top of the current situations, whilst physically distant, have become the main avenue for coping with the current situation. However, as critics have begun to point out, the turn to the digital is not the great equalizer and we are certainly not 'all in this together' equally, because access, skills and participation for the digital world is neither evenly distributed, nor open to all." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/may/new-ways-of-engaging-during-lockdown/ |
| Description | News Update: Gendered Journeys international and interdisciplinary project team met in June 2023 in Kigali, Rwanda |
| 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 | The Gendered Journeys international and interdisciplinary project team met in June 2023 in Kigali, Rwanda to connect regarding preliminary project findings and to conduct a high-level invited stakeholder meeting of gender practitioners, researchers, educators, industry managers and policymakers.The Gendered Journeys project (www.gendered-journeys.com) is GCRF-funded to explore gendered influences on the progress of students through higher education and into skilled employment in STEM fields in India, Rwanda and the UK initially via survey and subsequently with in-depth interviews and eco-mapping techniques. There was focus specifically on Indian and Rwandan contexts as global south nations looking to address the persistent under-representation of women STEM students in HE, and in their skilled workforces (WEF, 2018). We note limited amount of research embedded in these countries, as in many global south contexts, particularly on intersectionally gendered STEM issues in non-'western' contexts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://otb.pascalobservatory.org/pascalnow/pascal-activities/news/gendered-journeys-international-a... |
| Description | Newspaper article feature work on public transport accessibility |
| 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 | Work done by UBDC on the impact of a planned removal of night bus services in Glasgow was featured in an article by The Herald. The work showed that there would be a substantial reduction in the number of locations reachable from the city centre at night if the night buses were removed. The decision to remove the night bus service has now been delayed and it looks like the Glasgow will continue to have night buses in the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23696053.data-maps-show-impact-losing-glasgows-night-bus-service... |
| Description | ONS and Cabinet Office: Mobile Data Order Group 08/07/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey was invited to attend a meeting convened by ONS and Cabinet Office, titled 'Mobile Data Order Group', which was held on the 8th of July 2021. The group discussed their plans to put together a coordinated bid to buy mobile data for UK Government use. Nick gave a talk on the possible academic interests and reported on the work that UBDC has been doing with Glasgow City Council. It was agreed that UBDC will give a formal presentation of their work at a forthcoming meeting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | On the Spatial Statistical Analysis of Urban User-Generated Geodata |
| 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 | Dr René Westerholt, Junior Professor for Spatial Modelling at the Department of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund University (Germany), gave a presentation titled, 'On the spatial statistical analysis of urban user-generated geodata' at UBDC's Research Seminar held on the 29 March 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2022/on-the-spatial-statistic... |
| Description | Online meeting with WCS NRB members |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Patients, carers and/or patient groups |
| Results and Impact | First online meeting with WC?S National Representative Body members to discuss our work on the health of care experienced children and young people. This was a small group discussion with formerly care experienced people. we introduced our project and some early results by sharing an infographic. We discussed the work and hear feedback and questions from NRB members. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Open Data and Data Literacy Roundtable Meeting (Scottish 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 | Andrew McHugh attended an Open Data and Data Literacy Round Table Meeting hosted by the Scottish Government and chaired by Roger Halliday, Chief Statistician & Data Officer, Scottish Government On 31 January 2019, Scotland's Scotland's Open Government Action Plan 2018-2020 was launched. This contains a series of detailed commitments. One of these commitments is to improve the way information and data are used, in particular around developing data literacy within Scottish society. We recognise that giving greater access to information alone is not sufficient. The ability to find and filter databases and datasets, identify and isolate noteworthy information from raw data, and turn this into insights to inform decision making all remain out of reach for most citizens. Thus, data literacy must be developed in order to foster citizen empowerment through the use of data. Aims of this round table meeting were: • To scope out, identify and seek agreement on what the Scottish Government and its partners can do to tackle the issues of data literacy. • To secure agreements from delegates about what can be achieved in the context of Scotland's Open Government Action Plan and how we can measure success in an sustainable manner. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-data-and-data-literacy-roundtable-meeting-tickets-58283588783# |
| Description | Open Data: Enabling Transparency, Empowering Communities and Creating Economic |
| 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 | Nick Bailey participated in a discussion panel session at the online or in-person inaugural Scottish AI Summit, titled Open Data: Enabling Transparency, Empowering Communities and Creating Economic Opportunity on the 30th March 2022. Scotland's AI Strategy was launched in March 2021 with the vision for Scotland to become a leader in the development and use of Trustworthy, Ethical and Inclusive AI. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.scottishaisummit.com/ |
| Description | PASCAL 16th Learning Cities Conference: Social Enterprise for Inclusive Arts-based Economic Transformation in City Centres |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This was part of a symposium I organised for a PASCAL International Observatory, Special Interest Group- Cultural Heritage & Cultural Literacy for Inlusive Societies. The symposium topic was on cultural Heritage & arts-based education in cities. Our Paper 3 was presented on behalf of my work at UBDC, where I began collaboration with Joe Hall (CEO Creative Stirling Social Enterprise) as part of the Life in Data (RSE) network. We presented our collaborations entitled: The Case of Creative Stirling- Social Enterprise for Inclusive Arts-based Economic Transformation in City Centres Paper 4: Annie Tubaji (Swansea University, Wales, UK). Cultural Entropy, Innovation and Growth |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://events.tuni.fi/pascalconference2022/programme/ |
| Description | PASCAL Stimulus Paper: Promoting mental health and well-being in EcCoWell2 communities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Co-authored by Peter Kearns and Catherine Lido, this is the second stimulus paper for the PASCAL EcCoWell 2 Community Recovery Program is now available. This is on "Mental health and well-being", and included an online webinar for disucssion, leader to a larger UNESCO-PASCAL webinar in Nov. The impact of COVID-19 has led to an increase in anxiety, depression, and other forms of mental illness. While this is one of the most devastating impacts of the pandemic, there had been growing concern about the rising tide of mental illness before the pandemic. The World Health Organisation in 2008 estimated in 2008 that depression will be the number one health concern in both developed and developing countries by 2030. A national inquiry established in Australia has released its draft report and will shortly pass its final report to the Australian Government. The attached paper builds on some steps already taken by PASCAL and suggests further action. This subject merits extensive discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://pascalobservatory.org/pascalnow/pascal-activities/news/promoting-mental-health-and-well-being... |
| Description | Panel Discussion in national conference 'Share Scotland' organised by Socitm |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The engagement activity consisted of a 45min panel discussion which was part of a two-day national conference 'Share Scotland' organised by Socitm. Socitm is an organisation of more than 2,500 professionals with a national reach helping to shape and deliver place-based public services. The panel discussion entitled 'Data needs, capabilities and uses' was structured around the research findings and recommendations published in our research report (May 2021) on Scottish local government's data response in the context of COVID-19. The discussion was chaired by Sam Smith (President and Director of IT & Digital Services, Socitm) and joined by Tom McHugh (Strategic Partnerships Lead, NHS NSS) and Justine Gangneux (UBDC). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://socitm.net/events/share-scotland-2022/ |
| Description | Participant in "Digitalization & artificial intelligence for civic engagement" workshop, Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, Austria |
| 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 attended the inauguration of the Salzburg CIVIS Open Lab, 29-30 August 2022, which showcased local community engagement work by academics at the Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, with and for local stakeholders, and at which matters of mission and governance of CIVIS's Open Labs and Hubs were developed by representatives from 10 European Universities in the CIVIS federation. The aims of the workshop were: Aligned with the overall objectives of the CIVIS Open Labs, to foster public engagement, locally and inclusively, by elaborate on the following guiding questions: ? How to stimulate and foster public engagement through digital tools? ? How synergies, both technical and organisational, can be drawn between CIVIS OLs and Hub-5 on 'digital transformation'? ? How advanced digital tools (mapping, visualisation, surveys, etc.) can be used effectively to showcase and disseminate CIVIS achievements? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Participated in a workshop on the development of Glasgow City Council's new transport strategy |
| 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 | Glasgow City Council convened a workshop to aid in the development of the city's new strategic transport plan. Many of the group's members are council employees and I was invited as an external expert. The workshop lasted for two and half hours. I participated in discussions about what factors are likely to drive travel demand over the next decade. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Participated in one of Glasgow City Council's Open Data & Innovation Working Group meetings |
| 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 | Participated in discussions regarding Glasgow City Council's open data strategy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Participation in external engagement at DemoFest 2019 (Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance) |
| 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 | Attendance as an exhibiting partner at the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) DemoFest 2019 event. This is an annual knowledge exchange event, aimed at bringing together researchers in data science and the computational sciences and industry, public sector and governmental bodies. Representatives from the Urban Big Data Centre attended a keynote from the Head of Data and AI at InnovateUK and demonstrated the work of the Urban Big Data Centre throughout the exhibition. The activity was aimed at raising the profile of the Centre among the aforementioned groups and led to a number of discussions with potential collaborators. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Policy Scotland Research & KE document: COVID-19 AND FOOD TRAIN - MORE FOOD SECURITY, KINDNESS AND DEDICATION TO VULNERABLE OLDER PEOPLE AT HOME |
| 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 | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This stemmed from a blog and news coverage and led to fulfilling a call form Scottish Goverment Policy for 'research and knowledge exchange' documents, it described findings from our UofG-Food Train partnership project, led by Kate Reid and myself, making direct goverment policy recommendations (below). "In these unprecedented times of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, many organisations in the third sector are occupying a frontline role in supporting the needs of vulnerable older people who face the greatest risk of severe disease and death from COVID-19. During this crisis our registered charity and social enterprise, Food Train has stepped up to meet this challenge. With the aid of a new wave of volunteers and with the support of emergency Scottish Government funding, Food Train has rapidly expanded and re-designed its services to support older people to ensure that they are food secure and socially connected at home." And concludes: Based on our experience at the frontline supporting food-insecure older people in Scotland, we recommend that policymakers: urgently make these vital services available for all older people of Scotland - particularly for those who are already vulnerable, isolated and marginalised securely resource these services in terms of core funding and secure career pathways for staff recognise and harness the critical role of volunteers and look to ways to formalise this role to ensure we can react and expand quickly if we ever meet these acute challenges again make the conversations about under-eating, unintentional weight loss as well as malnutrition visible as a public health discourse and challenge perceptions of weight loss and frailty as part of a normal process of ageing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://policyscotland.gla.ac.uk/covid-19-and-food-train-more-food-security-kindness-and-dedication-... |
| Description | Policy Scotland Research and KE Briefing: ATTAINMENT AND DISADVANTAGE IN SCOTLAND'S SCHOOLS: WHAT MAY THE IMPACT OF LOCKDOWN BE? RESEARCH AND POLICY BRIEFING |
| 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 Scottish Government Policy Briefing garnered much discussion amongst schools and policy-makers, leading to some governmental backlash and media coverage. Our UBD PGR Barry Black, postgraduate researcher, University of Glasgow School of Social and Political Sciences, wrote: School campus closures have affected just over a million pupils in Scotland. While learning has continued, there is a recognition that the current environment will have an impact on the attainment of all pupils, but particularly the most disadvantaged. Scotland entered this crisis with a significant and stubborn poverty-related attainment gap, a product of wider socio-economic inequalities. Inequalities already proving to be exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The question then for policymakers is Will the public health measures implemented to stem the transmission of the virus negatively impact on the existing educational inequalities among Scottish pupils? This question is particularly important as young people return to school on 11th August with a dual online/in-class curriculum. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://policyscotland.gla.ac.uk/attainment-and-disadvantage-in-scotlands-schools-the-impact-of-lock... |
| Description | Potential of big data sources on active travel research, Invited talk at IIT Ropar, India |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Varun Raturi was invited to give a talk at the Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar, India, by Dr Rahul T.M, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, whose area of expertise is non-motorised transport planning and sustainable transportation planning. During the talk, Dr Varun shared insights on how we can leverage big data from various sources to better understand and encourage active travel. He presented his current work on active travel using Strava Metro data and highlighted the usefulness and limitations of these data sources and discussed various other work streams in the Urban Big Data Centre and talked about the acquisition of new mobile phone location data by the centre, as well as potential research directions related to the available data. The audience was a good mix of several professors, research staff, postgraduate and undergraduate students, in a hybrid session of around 60-70 people, who were particularly interested in the potential of big data to transform urban mobility and transportation. Overall, the talk was well received, and had a good level of engagement and interest from the audience. It was clear that the attendees were passionate about the potential of big data to address the challenges of urban mobility and transportation. Due to our aligned research interests, this talk provided an excellent opportunity to discuss potential areas of collaboration between our two institutes. IIT Ropar has recently built a transportation lab under the leadership of Dr Rahul and is looking to explore new directions for research in sustainable mobility and acquire new data sources. Our team at the Urban Big Data Centre has extensive experience in handling large data sets to derive insights, making it the perfect platform to build on. Dr Varun, also discussed where various potential research ideas could be undertaken collaboratively to advance the field of active travel and urban mobility and looks forward to continuing the conversation and exploring opportunities for further collaboration between our two institutes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Practical approaches for web scraping for research - using Airbnb as an example data provider |
| 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 | Referencing UBDC's project and open-source software platform to scrape short-term-let data from Airbnb, this webinar provided practical guidance on how researchers, technologists and data scientists can approach web scraping, from the selection of online sources to the planning, conceptualisation, governance, risk management and implementation of technical approaches. Participants received practical training and code examples, developing an understanding not only of how scraping works but also how to systematise approaches to scale up data collection while avoiding common pitfalls. Throughout the session, a series of practical examples covered data scraping using UBDC's established scraping method from Airbnb's online platform. Session format The webinar included a series of short talks. These punctuated the main content of the webinar - a sequence of practical demonstrations with UBDC's web scraping platform being introduced, installed, configured and deployed. Following completion of this webinar attendees were able to: -Describe and latterly recreate within their own environment the installation, configuration and deployment of UBDC's open-source web scraping platform -Explain what web scraping means and describe the variety of approaches available -Outline the legal, ethical and data governance issues that must be considered when designing a web scraping project (including coverage of relevant intellectual property, c-contract and privacy law) -Summarise limitations on data use and sharing -Identify and select appropriate datasets for web scraping -Explain what an API (Application Programming Interface) is and query APIs to retrieve data -Explain how to negotiate technical barriers to scraping (including managing call limits and avoiding blacklisting) -Systematise, scale and optimise approaches, including planning for wide geographical or temporal data coverage |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2021/practical-approaches-for-... |
| Description | Presentation at PhD Student Workshop |
| 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 | I presented as part of the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science event "Working with diverse forms of Social Data for new insights: an interactive workshop". This was a one day, in-person event in Edinburgh. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://social.sgsss.ac.uk/event/working-with-diverse-forms-of-social-data-for-new-insights-an-inter... |
| Description | Presentation at Short Term Lets workshop "Exploring the impacts of rising Short Term lets on Housing" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr Yang Wang, presented our work using scraped Airbnb data to examine the impact of the growth of STLs on the Private Rental Market |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2022/short-term-lets-big-... |
| Description | Presentation at UofG ARCadia - Global Challenges, Local Solutions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Within the context of several presentations about the CIVIS Open Labs initiative, I gave a talk entitled "Urab Big Data Centre: Research and Public Engagement", highlighting the public-facing and citizen-science facets of UBDC. This sparked discussion about the specific projects exemplifying UBDC's work and societal commitment, and general interest in the potential of UBDC's data collections |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presentation at the TRB conference, Jan 13-17, 2019, Washington DC, USA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I presented my work in the TRB conference (The largest International transport conference). Title: The role of numeracy and financial literacy skills in the relationship between information and communication technology use and travel behaviour (currently under review in Travel Behaviour and Society) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation given at the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research (SCADR) network meeting (D.Brown) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presented work on investigating health outcomes for care experienced children. Was asked to share details of the project, initial findings and challenges with the data linkage. Around 25 SCADR network members (academics, SG, eDRIS) participated, and the presentation generated discussion around networking and future work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation in the SICSA conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr. Saeed Maadi presented our work (CAV simulation by using closed-loop approach) in the interdisciplinary session on 'Developing the Future of Transport' at the SICSA conference on Oct 1st. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation to Data Task Force's Advisory Board 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC mobile data team presented work on the potential of new forms of spatial big data to the Data Task Force Advisory Board. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation to Datafest event organised by Data Lab. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A presentation was given by the study team showcasing early results from our collaboration with Environmental Assets, North Lanarkshire Council. A presentation was also given by Nicole Paterson | Head of Environmental Assets, NLC to the event in which she confirmed the value of the research to her department and to the relevant committee in relation to thinking about the distribution of resources to support the environmental amenity of neighbourhoods in the council. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation to Ordnance Survey's Lunch and Learn event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Bin Chi presented on our work on the integration of UPRNs to both the Energy Performance Certificate Data and the Land Registry's Price Paid Data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Press release by the Mirror Newspaper about indoor heat in the London homes |
| 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 | I was reported in the TBIJ led project to discuss the escalating effects of hot summers on UK housing. This has led to further request for research collaboration and also present to policy makers for establishing future UK housing retrofitting policy for overheating. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uks-overheating-summer-health-crisis-31597681 |
| Description | Press release for cohort profile paper |
| 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 | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Press office and our research team wrote a press release that came out as the Cohort profile paper was published 15.09.2021. The release was picked up by a number of papers and radio stations. Altmetric and news details here https://bmj.altmetric.com/details/113473962/news |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_811017_en.html |
| Description | Privacy, Trust and Security in Internet of Things (IOT) (1 - 3, December 2019, Ardoe House Hotel & Spa, Aberdeen, UK) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Varun Raturi presented our work on the impact of privacy regulations on the quality of crowdsourced data (STRAVA). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Prof Mike Osborne as Respondent to Workshop Discussions concerning 'Towards Sustainable Personal and Professional Fulfillment in the new Global Context', 6th WORLD FORUM for Lifelong Learning of the Comité Mondial pour les Apprentissages Tout au Long de la Vie |
| 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 | Prof Mike Osborne as Respondent to Workshop Discussions concerning 'Towards Sustainable Personal and Professional Fulfillment in the new Global Context', 6th WORLD FORUM for Lifelong Learning of the Comité Mondial pour les Apprentissages Tout au Long de la Vie, 2 July 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Public transport accessibility in Great Britain: An open dataset |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Rafael Verduzco, PhD Student Researcher, presented at this UBDC research seminar. Abstract Understanding how access to amenities by public transport varies across space is important in a wide variety of urban research, e.g., unemployment risks, property and land valuation, or gentrification issues. A considerable amount of empirical research has employed distance-based measures because they are relatively straightforward to derive (e.g. Euclidean distance). In doing so, they overlook the spatial dispersion of urban amenities. Also, they assume access to a car since mobility is seen as being equally possible in all directions. This is not a justifiable assumption in many cases, particularly for lower-income groups in urban areas. It would therefore be useful to incorporate accessibility measures which assume travel by public transport and acknowledge land use. Location-based accessibility measures can capture both the level of mobility enabled by transport infrastructure and the location of urban services. However, the estimation of these measures for large regions at small areal units is computationally expensive and demands some technical skills. This may represent a limitation for many researchers. The present work addresses this unmet need. It offers a series of accessibility indicators at the level of the Lower Super Output Area/Datazone (LSOA/DZ) covering the whole of Great Britain (GB) in the United Kingdom (UK). Indicators by public transport are offered as open-access and include a range of key amenities and services such as: employment; general practice (GP) surgery; hospital; grocery store; supermarket; primary school; secondary school; and urban centre. Additionally, we include the estimated travel time matrix from each origin to every possible destination, a key input which allows flexibility for users to customize the indexes. In this talk, we will outline how the measures were calculated by giving an overview of the measures themselves. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2022/public-transport-acc... |
| Description | Published a blog on Glasgow City Council's proposed active travel strategy. |
| 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 | I wrote a blog about Glasgow City Council's proposed Active Travel Strategy and Action Plan, and how the work of the centre can help inform, monitor and evaluate it. Following publication, I was contacted by Alistair McCay from Glasgow City Council who suggested arranging a workshop to discuss development targets and monitoring frameworks for active travel. This is now being arranged. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2021/october/glasgow-s-active-travel-strategy-is-a-step-in-the-right-d... |
| Description | Python course: Elements of scrapping |
| 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 Data Science service team created a GitHub repository containing notebook tutorials for various subjects. The tutorials are written in Jupyter notebooks and are intended to be run in a Jupyter environment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://github.com/vesnikos/tutorials |
| Description | Registers of Scotland Open Data Agenda |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | UBDC was invited to attend a Registers of Scotland Statistics and Users day, in order to present a case for open day in a general sense, but more specifically to articulate a basis under which Registers of Scotland's data (currently available on a commercial, paid basis only) could be made more openly available. This has led to follow up conversations which are ongoing within which we continue to present the benefits of a more open approach to data availability (particularly for academic audiences). Andrew McHugh presented at the initial event on 26th November 2019. This overall activity has the opportunity to be extremely impactful - that Registers of Scotland's price paid data is not already open is a point of some contention - the equivalent Land Registry data in England and Wales is available under an Open Government Licence. One result is that the Scottish data has remained fairly inaccessible to academic researchers, due to its prohibitive pricing. UBDC's agreement to facilitate access incurs significant costs, which themselves largely rule out more exploratory work, and impose additional governance burdens in the evaluation of proposals. Open Scottish Land Registry data would be a great enabler to a range of research activities and may be a spark to significant innovation within the property domain. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| Description | Research at the Urban Analytics Lab at the National University of Singapore 08/02/22 |
| 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 | Dr Filip Biljecki - Assistant Professor in Geoinformatics at the National University of Singapore, gave a presentation on the activities of the NUS Urban Analytics Lab, a multidisciplinary research group established by Dr Filip Biljecki, focusing on urban data science and 3D city modelling at UBDC's Research Seminar held on the 8 February 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2022/research-at-the-urban-an... |
| Description | Reviewing Airbnb - using a different metric to measure short-term let activity during lockdown |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This was a blog using AirBnB reviews to examine the decline in the short term let market |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/june/reviewing-airbnb/ |
| Description | Royal Geographic Society: Developing and exploring methods to understand human-nature interactions in urban areas using new forms of big 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 was given as part of a session called 'Why do urban green and blue spaces matter for health and wellbeing?' which was attended by a mixed group of stakeholders. The aim of the session was to present research and practical application related to the benefits of green and blue spaces for health and wellbeing. The talk was focussed on our project and utilising new forms of data in the aim of better quanitifiying the use of urban green space and how this could help us better understand their health benefits at the kind of scales generally not possible using more traditional types of data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference |
| Description | School visit (University of Seoul: June 13th, 2019 - and KAIST: June 17th, 2019 ) |
| 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 a talk and presented my work in UBDC to faculty members and graduate students in both University of Seoul and KAIST. Very positive and strong interests in UBDC and our transport work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Scientific Chair of AGILE conference |
| 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 | Scientific chair of the AGILE conference, an applied geography conference. Responsible for the scientific theme of the conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://agile-gi.eu/conference-2024 |
| Description | Scoping study participation re: Gambling Aware data management |
| 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 | Andrew McHugh invited to formally consult on The University of Leeds' commissioned study (by Gamble Aware) to assess options and provide recommendations as to how best an independent repository of gambling industry data should be established and maintained - to provide maximum access to data for researchers, benefits to policy-makers and industry, with the appropriate safeguards for consumers and gambling operators. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Scottish Fabians Think Tank Paper: The Challenge of 2020; Education post COVID19 |
| 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 was requested by a democratic think tank as a discussion paper for their member group, authored by UBDC PGR Barry Black, stemming from his Phd work, it begins: "Barry Black writes that the focus in education should not be on keeping things 'normal' in this period of crisis because our 'normal' education system was already not working for swathes of young people. We need a new normal." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://scottish.fabians.org.uk/beyond-covid19-next-steps-in-education/ |
| Description | Scottish Government Consultation event for Academics on Short term lets |
| 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 attended this Scottish Government Consultation on Short Term lets, which followed their announcement they would be considering legislation to lesson the impact. I attended the event with two other colleagues from UBDC. As well as the leading civil servants the meeting was attended with 5 other academics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://consult.gov.scot/housing-services-policy-unit/short-term-lets/ |
| Description | Scottish Government consultation on Housing 2040 vision with academics |
| 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 attended a Scottish Government academic consultation into their "Housing 2040" document. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://consult.gov.scot/housing-services-policy-unit/housing-to-2040/ |
| Description | Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance 'SICSA and the Sustainable Society Conference 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey gave a presentation titled "Doing Data Science for Sustainable Societies" focusing on the work of the Urban Big Data Centre at the University of Glasgow. Established in 2014, the UBDC is a multi-disciplinary collaboration of social scientists and data scientists. It is both a research centre and part of the UK's national data infrastructure. From our efforts over the last six years, we have amassed a wide experience in the challenges of delivering research and analysis to support policies for Sustainable Societies. This presentation reflects on that experience and, in particular, the many challenges in doing effective, impactful urban data science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://sicsaconference.org/conference-sessions/ |
| Description | Scottish Local Government during COVID-19: Report launch 27/05/21 |
| 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 | Professor Simon Joss and Dr Justine Gangneux presented the launch of the Scottish Local Government during COVID-19 report, highlighting the findings of a six-month research project on Scottish local authorities' data engagement conducted by the Urban Big Data Centre, which took place on the 27 May 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkqL92bBTTg |
| Description | Scottish Local Government: Data Practices during COVID-19 |
| 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 | Stakeholder dissemination & discussion event. Reporting of project findings / launch of publication. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/research/research-projects/urban-governance/scottish-local-government-during-c... |
| Description | Scottish Power Energy Networks Exploration Day |
| 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 | c. 30 attendees, a mix of UBDC and University of Glasgow academic and data staff and Scottish Power Energy Network senior staff and data practitioners met to explore three main challenges: - Data Strategy Development - Predicting and managing demand for infrastructure constraints - New datasets to support the movement to net zero These led to proposals for further work and ongoing collaborative engagement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Series of tutorial films on collaborations between Universities and Government |
| 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 | We have produced a series of short tutorial videos highlighting the benefits of identifying opportunities for collaboration between academic researchers and local authorities on projects that utilise urban data. These presentations were recorded and produced as a result of a UBDC organised workshop in March 2020 on "Effective Models for Data-driven Collaborations Between Universities and Government". We have produced this series off films to extend the reach and impact of the event and they are freely available to view on the UBDC web site and YouTube channel. The films give real-world examples of collaborations between researchers and local authorities and provide detailed insight into building successful collaborative partnerships. The films include: An overview of the series; An overview of UBDC/Glasgow City Council CCTV collaboration; An overview of UBDC/North Lanarkshire Council collaboration; and Building experiences with Government data-owners |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/online-learning/online-tutorials/working-with-government... |
| Description | Short-Term Lets - Big Data and Policy |
| 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 UBDC / CaCHE joint hybrid workshop was held to discuss new regulations and the future of short term lets in Scotland. A new licensing scheme for short-term lets came into effect in Scotland on 1 October 2022. Through the new scheme, the Scottish Government aims to 'ensure consistent safety standards while reinforcing the positive reputation of Scottish tourism and hospitality'. The change is also intended to address concerns raised by residents about the impact of short-term let properties on their local communities. The conference comprised of two sessions: the first looked at short-term lets using big data; while the second focused on policy approaches and the regulation of short-term lets, within the broader context of reforms to the private rented sector in Scotland. This event was jointly organised by Urban Big Data Centre and UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence(CaCHE). Follow up reflections by participants have been published on CaCHE's website: https://housingevidence.ac.uk/reflections-on-the-recent-cache-urban-big-data-centre-short-lets-seminar/ https://housingevidence.ac.uk/the-potential-impacts-of-new-legislation-on-short-term-lets-in-scotland/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2022/short-term-lets-big-... |
| Description | Simulating the Effects of Income and Housing Policies on Quality Adjusted Life Expectancy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Alison Heppenstall gave a presentation on Simulating the effects of income and housing policies on Quality Adjusted Life Expectancy at an ESRC Actionable Insights Seminar in January 2024. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Simulating the effects of income and housing policies on Quality Adjusted Life Expectancy |
| 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 | Presentation on actionable insights of using AI tools. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Smart Cities World Press Coverage: Data sharing critical to rapid response of the pandemic in Scotland |
| 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 | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Smart Cities World's press coverage of the Scottish Local Government & Data during Covid-19. Professor Simon Joss and Dr Justine Gangneux carried out an in-depth analysis of data engagements between autumn 2020 and spring 2021. A total of 31 out of the 32 Scottish local authorities were surveyed along with focus groups including NHS Scotland, Police Scotland, Scottish Government, and several third sector (voluntary) organisations. The survey found that 83% of respondents stated that there was an increase in internal data sharing during COVID-19, 79% indicated the use of new data sources, and 74% confirmed increased data collection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.smartcitiesworld.net/smart-cities-news/data-sharing-critical-to-rapid-response-of-the-pa... |
| Description | Smart Cities: Securing Innovation Through Better Data Sharing (organised by the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation) |
| 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 | Dr Justine Gangneux took part in the CDEI panel discussion at Leeds Digital Festival on the 28th of September 2021. The group discussed better sharing of smart cities data, whether it is held by public or private bodies, has the potential to spur local innovation, create efficiencies for local government and crucially improve services for residents. But how do we address existing challenges while also innovating in an ethical and trustworthy way? Throughout the pandemic, the CDEI has been working in partnership with local authorities, including Bristol City Council and Great Manchester Combined Authority, to help them maximise the benefits of data and data-driven tech by building trustworthy governance that earns the confidence of citizens over the long term. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://leedsdigitalfestival.org/ |
| Description | Spatial Signatures: understanding (urban) spaces through form and function |
| 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 | UBDC Research Seminar on "Spatial Signatures: understanding (urban) spaces through form and function", presented by guest speaker Dr Arribas-Bel, senior lecturer in Geographic Data Science at the Department of Geography and Planning of the University of Liverpool. This seminar introduced the notion of "spatial signatures", a characterisation of space based on form and function designed to understand urban environments. How the building blocks that make up cities are spatially arranged influences social, economic and environmental outcomes. The talk attracted a global audience, sparking interesting discussion. This was the first UBDC Research Seminar that has been opened up to an external audience and it attracted delegates from across the globe and from a wide range of sectors. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2021/spatial-signatures-r... |
| Description | Support Development Action Plan with Digital Office's Data Tasforce |
| 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 | Series of meetings with the Digital Office's Data Taskforce to discuss and support the development of an Action Plan drawing on the 15 policy and practice recommendations highlighted in the project report (Scottish Local Government during COVID-19: data needs, capabilities, and uses). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| Description | Taking the Carbon Out of Transport: How might data help us? |
| 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 | Dr David McArthur, Associate Director for Training and Capacity Building at UBDC and Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies at the University of Glasgow, and Rafael Verduzco, PhD Researcher, delivered a keynote at this event to celebrate 10 years of the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science on the 4th November 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2021/taking-the-carbon-out-of-... |
| Description | Talk at GIScience conference |
| 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 | Talk called Exascale agent-based modelling for policy evaluation in real-time |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://giscience2023.github.io |
| Description | The Academy of Urbanism Coffee Break 20/05/21 |
| 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 | Dr David McArthur, Associate Director for Training and Capacity Building at UBDC and Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies at the University of Glasgow, gave a presentation on 'The Academy of Urbanism Coffee Break' outlining some of UBDC's work using CCTV cameras in Glasgow to derive pedestrian counts and also some of the planned applications of the data on the 20/05/21. These sessions are hosted and organised by a group of Young Urbanists in Scotland and are open to all. If you have never been to an AoU event before, or are thinking about joining, you are welcome to join the discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2021/the-academy-of-urban... |
| Description | The Effects of the Lockdown on Traffic in Glasgow 16.04.2020 |
| 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 | Jinhyun Hong wrote a blog with regard to the restrictions on mobility during lockdown, which led to clear reductions in traffic volume in all cities across the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/april/the-effects-of-the-lockdown-on-traffic-in-glasgow/ |
| Description | The Scottish Qualifications Authority's 2020 Alternative Certification Model - The Deprivation Impact |
| 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 | The aim of this blog is not to rehash the controversy surrounding this year's Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) results day. It is to explain the context behind the decision-making, the implications of results in terms of inequalities, and the broader consequences for the Scottish education system. To do this, Barry Black draws upon Free Schools Meals data gathered as part of his PhD research, alongside recently available secondary SQA data (obtained from Freedom of Information requests). Barry does this to illustrate what the real-world implications of results day were, and might have remained, had these moderated results not been withdrawn. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/october/the-sqa-s-2020-alternative-certification-model-the-dep... |
| Description | The UBDC Local Sustainability Data Blog: New sources of data can contribute to inclusive policymaking |
| 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 | Conversations with municipal government stakeholders indicate that the link between exponentially increasing availability of data and the analytical value for policymaking is not always straightforward. The question of how to make sense of the data continues to present a major challenge for policy makers. Based on ongoing research at UBDC, this blog series on 'Sustainability Data' presents research results, debates and emerging insights which, we hope, stimulate further discussion and add value to researchers, policy makers, city managers, and government officials in general, who deal with these questions on a daily level. This first blog starts at the macro-level, presenting a pilot analysis of three UK cities and a UK nation's approaches to localised SDG reporting'. This will be followed with insights from UK and global VLR stakeholder interviews to provide more detail regarding the technological and institutional factors which determine these methodological choices. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/research/research-projects/urban-sustainability-participation/the-ubdc-local-... |
| Description | The Value of Citizen Science Data for Tracking Progress of the Sustainable Development Goals |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr. Dilek Fraisl from the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis Program presented at this UBDC research seminar. The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2015 as a call to action to tackle the world's greatest challenges such as poverty and climate change. With its 17 goals, 169 targets, and 231 indicators, the SDGs reflect a data-driven and society-oriented framework that requires a collaborative effort from all levels of society to achieve the future we wantand to leave no one behind. Crucial to their success is timely, reliable and comprehensive data that are difficult to gather using traditional sources of data alone, such as censuses and household surveys. Coupled with these traditional methods and other new sources of data such as Earth Observation (EO), and mobile phone data, citizen science has an immense potential to address these data gaps. A recent study by Fraisl et al. shows that citizen science data have the potential to contribute data to 33% of the SDG indicators. This lecture aimed to demonstrate the value of citizen science data for tracking progress of the SDGs, drawing upon concrete examples that outline the use of citizen science data by National Statistical Offices (NSOs) and UN agencies. It discussed the challenges and barriers for the uptake of citizen science data for feeding into SDG monitoring processes, and how we can bring it into the scope of official statistics through recognition by governments, NSOs, the UN system, and other data producers and users. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2023/the-value-of-citizen... |
| Description | The World News Press Coverage: Pandemic spurs city data innovation in Scotland Today - Connecting the world's urban leaders |
| 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 | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The World News press coverage of the Scottish Local Government & Data during Covid-19. Professor Simon Joss and Dr Justine Gangneux carried out an in-depth analysis of data engagements between autumn 2020 and spring 2021. A total of 31 out of the 32 Scottish local authorities were surveyed along with focus groups including NHS Scotland, Police Scotland, Scottish Government, and several third sector (voluntary) organisations. The survey found that 83% of respondents stated that there was an increase in internal data sharing during COVID-19, 79% indicated the use of new data sources, and 74% confirmed increased data collection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://theworldnews.net/gb-news/pandemic-spurs-city-data-innovation-in-scotland-today-connecting-th... |
| Description | The impact of coronavirus on education - for children and parents |
| 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 | This was a news article in The National (Scottish) newspaper. It stemmed from my personal experience as a mother but links to our work on eduational inequalities. It begins: "THIS August, Catherine Lido's five-year-old will undertake that familiar rite of passage - his first day of primary one. Some of the rituals will be the same - putting on the new uniform, packing up the school bag, the parade of pictures on Facebook timelines up and down the country. But this year much will be very different. Last Thursday the anticipated date for the return of schools on August 11 was announced as part of Scotland's road map through and out of the coronavirus crisis. A strategic framework for reopening schools was published simultaneously." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.thenational.scot/news/18471650.impact-coronavirus-education---children-parents/ |
| Description | The metrics developed by the Airbnb team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Yang Wang and Mark Livingston gave a presentation to Visit Scotland's data team on the metrics developed by the Airbnb team and a brief on the open tables and also discussed the reproduction of the data through the Visit Scotland data hub on 7 January 2024. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Tracking Lockdown, Supporting Recovery: The Potential and the Pitfalls of Big Data 01.05.2020 |
| 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 | Nick Bailey has written a blog on the Government's response to the COVID-19 crisis is being influenced by a wealth of data, including novel analyses using new forms of data. Downing Street briefings illustrate the potential of big data to provide timely information to guide public policy. But they also underline the pitfalls of relying on statistics where we have no control over their production. In this blog, Nick Bailey argues that we need a stronger public infrastructure to support policymakers at this critical time and highlights how the Urban Big Data Centre is contributing to this challenge. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/may/tracking-lockdown-supporting-recovery-the-potential-and-th... |
| Description | UBDC DataFest Fringe Event: Effective Models for Data-Driven Collaborations between Universities and Government |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | UBDC organised this workshop as part of The Data Lab's annual DataFest - a two-week festival across Scotland focussing on Data Innovation. Approximately 30 delegates attended, from Local Government, Third-Sector, Academia and Business. The event aimed to explore and identify opportunities for data-driven collaborations between academia and Government. The event featured specific case studies about successful collaborations between UBDC and local Government bodies, including Glasgow City Council and North Lanarkshire Council. Following the talks, delegates were involved in a range of interactive exercises which examined the key issues around developing collaborations between academia and Government. The event proved to be very successful, facilitating much discussion. The event was also effective as a profile-raising exercise for UBDC, introducing the work of the Centre and some examples of its successful collaborations to a range of new contacts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2020/effective-models-for... |
| Description | UBDC Employment Data User Group webinar: Adzuna Jobs Listings 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 | This event, led by Heather Sinclair (UBDC Information Services Officer), focused on Adzuna job listings data and is relevant for current and prospective users of the Adzuna dataset. This webinar is part of a series of events we have developed to facilitate discussion by the academic research community and data owners about sources, attributes and usage of employment data and associated research outputs. Adzuna is a search engine for job advertisements and provides data about the job market. The dataset consists of full point-in-time snapshots with details of all advertisements appearing on adzuna.co.uk. UBDC supported several Adzuna projects last year. In this webinar, researchers will share how the data has benefitted their projects. A representative from Adzuna will also provide an update on new Adzuna data fields, and there will be an opportunity to ask our experts your questions about the data. The event included presentations from projects that have used the data, and discussions on methods for using this data set such as data cleaning. Participants were also invited to be part of a user network that will include future Adzuna data set events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2022/ubdc-employment-data... |
| Description | UBDC Employment Data User Group webinar: Adzuna Jobs Listings data |
| 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 | Adzuna is a search engine for job advertisements and provides data about the job market. The dataset consists of full point-in-time snapshots with details of all advertisements appearing on adzuna.co.uk. UBDC supported several Adzuna projects last year. The aim of the event was to facilitate discussion by the academic research community and data owners about sources, attributes and usage of employment data and associated research outputs. In this webinar, researchers shared how the data has benefitted their projects. A representative from Adzuna provided an update on new Adzuna data fields, and there was an opportunity to ask experts questions about the data. 25 delegates attended the UBDC Employment Data User Group webinar. The webinar focussed on Adzuna job listings data and was relevant for current and prospective users of the Adzuna dataset. UBDC received requests for updated Adzuna data after the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | UBDC Meetup: Crowdsourced Data - From Mobile Apps to Citizen Science |
| 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 | At this UBDC Meetup networking event we will be shared experiences of working with crowdsourced data. Big data is an important tool for understanding the world around us. With smartphones and internet connected devices come new ways to gather data directly from individuals. At the same time, there is an increased emphasis on public involvement with research with methods such as citizen science. Challenges in working with crowdsourced data range from the technical aspects of working with the data to ensuring the dataset reflects the diverse spectrum of relevant groups. At this event researchers from UBDC led group discussions on crowdsourced data, such as how data can be crowdsourced equitably, interactions of personal privacy with data collection, and how crowdsourced data can be combined with other datasets. In addition to networking and knowledge exchange, this event has identified an opportunity for networking events based on transport data which we are developing with interested parties from industry and government. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2023/ubdc-meetup-crowdsou... |
| Description | UBDC Meetup: Exploring Transport Data |
| 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 Urban Big Data Centre Meetup networking event brought together people interested in and working with transportation data. Understanding transport is crucial to understanding the spaces that we live and work in. Access to transport can affect everything from housing and employment to the economy and environment. This series of networking events aims to bring together people working with transport data, to share knowledge and experiences and create useful links across a range of data users and industries. This meetup had contributions from ScotRail and Sustrans Scotland as well as from UBDC. This event was attended by several transport groups including rail and subway companies and transport/travel third sector organisations. Discussions were had about ways these groups could share experiences and work together. We have had requests from participants at this event to present at future transport data networking events. We plan to hold the next event in April 2024. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2023/ubdc-meetup-explorin... |
| Description | UBDC Research Seminar: Research at the Urban Analytics Lab at the National University of Singapore |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Filip Biljecki - Assistant Professor in Geoinformatics at the National University of Singapore gave a presentation on the overview activities of the NUS Urban Analytics Lab, a multidisciplinary research group established by Dr Filip Biljecki, focusing on urban data science and 3D city modelling. The Lab is spearheading research lines such as new means to generate and analyse high-resolution data of the urban form and developing novel instruments to assess and support urban sustainability. For example, the group recently developed the first open registry of sustainable rooftops around the world, which will be presented in this talk UBDC research seminar |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2022/research-at-the-urban-ana... |
| Description | UBDC Training Webinar: Introduction to Adzuna Job Market Data 25/05/2021 |
| 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 | In this webinar, UBDC researchers provided an overview of how they intend to use the data and the Adzuna data owners will give additional background information and perspective about the creation of the data held on the 25th of May 2021. Adzuna is a new dataset available from the Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC). Adzuna searches thousands of websites and brings together millions of advertisements on their website. Adzuna aims to be the most abundant classified ads site on the web. The dataset consists of full point-in-time snapshots with details of all advertisements listed on Adzuna's website. Content includes data about the job market, including job titles, full job descriptions, salary information, location, companies and contract types. The Adzuna data can be used to research changes in the job market. As UBDC will also facilitate access to data covering the period from 2017 until Spring 2022, the data can be used to analyse changes before, during and after COVID-19. There are many potential applications for the dataset. It can be used for analysis of new vacancies, overall vacancy levels, vacancies by region or job type. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2021/introduction-to-adzu... |
| Description | UBDC Training Webinar: Introduction to Geospatial Analysis Using Python Tools and Adzuna Data 03/06/2021 |
| 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 | In this training webinar, the Adzuna dataset will be used to demonstrate how to perform typical GIS tasks in the Python environment. Following on from the Introduction to Adzuna job market data webinar, which took place on 25th May, this session will cover how to read and write spatial data, perform a simple geospatial analysis, create map and cartographic visualisations using GeoPandas and other Python geospatial libraries. Webinar link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhQe_Kpoaks |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2021/introduction-to-geos... |
| Description | UBDC Training Webinar: Practical Approaches for Web Scraping for Research - Using Airbnb as an Example Data Provider 22/06/21 |
| 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 | Referencing UBDC's project and open-source software platform to scrape short-term-let data from Airbnb, this webinar provides practical guidance on how researchers, technologists and data scientists can approach web scraping, from the selection of online sources to the planning, conceptualisation, governance, risk management and implementation of technical approaches. Participants will receive practical training and code examples, developing an understanding not only of how scraping works but also how to systematise approaches to scale up data collection while avoiding common pitfalls. Throughout the session, a series of practical examples will cover data scraping using UBDC's established scraping method from Airbnb's online platform. Session format: The webinar included a series of short talks. These punctuated the main content of the webinar - a sequence of practical demonstrations with UBDC's web scraping platform being introduced, installed, configured and deployed. Following completion of this webinar attendees were able to: -Describe and latterly recreate within their own environment the installation, configuration and deployment of UBDC's open-source web scraping platform -Explain what web scraping means and describe the variety of approaches available -Outline the legal, ethical and data governance issues that must be considered when designing a web scraping project (including coverage of relevant intellectual property, c-contract and privacy law) -Summarise limitations on data use and sharing -Identify and select appropriate datasets for web scraping -Explain what an API (Application Programming Interface) is and query APIs to retrieve data -Explain how to negotiate technical barriers to scraping (including managing call limits and avoiding blacklisting) -Systematise, scale and optimise approaches, including planning for wide geographical or temporal data coverage. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2021/practical-approaches... |
| Description | UBDC Training Webinar: Using Daily Airbnb Web Scraped Data to Provide Spatial and Temporal Understanding of Short-Term Lets Activity 24/06/2021 |
| 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 | In this training webinar, led by Dr Yang Wang and Dr Mark Livingston we introduced using daily Airbnb web scraped data to provide spatial and temporal understanding of short-term lets activity. http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/media/2227/using-airbnb-web-scraped-data-webinar-240621.pdf |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/media/2227/using-airbnb-web-scraped-data-webinar-240621.pdf |
| Description | UBDC Webinar: Triangulating Novel Mixed-Method Educational Data to Develop Effective, Evidence-Based Policy 28.09.21 |
| 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 | Members of UBDC/School of Education's Educational Disadvantage & Place (ED&P) research group presented a webinar to over 20 participants on the use of data triangulation to create research impact for knowledge exchange and policy change. The webinar session illustrated how the ED&P group have employed a spectrum of complementary quantitative and qualitative methods to address educational inequalities, to inform the development of more effective policy solutions to the educational attainment gaps at all stages of life-long/life-wide education in Scotland and elsewhere. Our research involves multiple, large, diverse and/or novel linked datasets, facilitating the use of mixed-method approaches such as: 1) Novel data linkages 2) Multivariate regression 3) GIS mapping 4) Searchable Twitter dashboards 5) Lived experience interviews These were demonstrated with reference to three projects with demonstrable impact in academic, media and government policy domains: 1) Integrated Multimedia City Data (iMCD) as applied to adult learning and greenspace in Learning Cities 2) Gendered Journeys in Higher Education (inequalities in STEM) 3) Social enterprise partnerships (Food Train for older adults) The use of these diverse data strands illustrates the value of holistic and integrated solutions to Learning City issues and urban inequalities. In a subsequent discussion, participants engaged in exploring how policy briefs and social media coverage of their research could be developed to ensure it had great impact. Participants expressed their satisfaction with the thought-provoking content of the webinar and felt that the ideas would inform their work in future. Link to webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuVLVmVGJyA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2021/triangulating-novel-mixed... |
| Description | UBDC Zoopla Data 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 | At this workshop, we brought together people working with the Zoopla dataset from The Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC), the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) and other data users, as well as a presentation from Zoopla about recent developments in the data. Zoopla is one of the UK's leading aggregators of property listings data, giving free access to information on 27,000,000 homes, up to 1,000,000 property listings and 15 years of sold prices data. UBDC's Data Service is licensed by Zoopla to provide access to the data for registered users. This workshop will include examples of how Zoopla can be used to produce policy relevant research on the housing market, affordability and the private rental sector. Programme Prof. Nick Bailey, Director of the Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC) Ross Allan, Director of Property Data Solutions at Hometrack (Zoopla) Tom Waters, Associate Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) Dr Michail Georgiou, Research Associate at the Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC) These was be followed by a round of short presentations (<5 minutes) by current data users on how they have used the data, their research aims and what they would like to see for an improved experience. The final section of the workshop featured a talk by Prof. Nick Bailey on the recent and planned developments from a data service end at UBDC. We plan to run future events of this format based on this dataset in order to build a community of data users. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2023/ubdc-zoopla-data-worksho... |
| Description | UNESCO- UIL/PASCAL webinar: The challenge of measurement, planning and evaluation in learning cities |
| 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 | The July 8th 2020 UNESCO UIL- PASCAL webinar was hosted by Catherine Lido and addressed Learning City Metrics and the work of UBDC in operationalising these (iMCD) The June webinar was faciliated by Prof Mike Osborne (also of UBD). About this webinar series generally The COVID-19 pandemic has clearly demonstrated that cities' resilience is key to tackling crisis situations. Learning cities such as those engaged in the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities need to be able to cushion shocks and persistent structural changes in such a way that learning continues, the well-being of citizens is preserved and no one is left behind. But how are resilient learning cities built? Taking stock of the previous and ongoing webinar series UNESCO Learning Cities' response to COVID-19, this new webinar cycle will address this question by highlighting challenging aspects of learning city development, drawing on recent research and development. Starting on 17 June 2020, five webinars will focus on topics such as inclusion, learning outcomes measurement, planning and evaluation, technical and vocational education and training (TVET), education for sustainable development and learning for health and well-being. The webinar series will demonstrate the practical application of successful approaches in learning cities to address the above issues by offering a conceptual and analytical dialogue. In so doing, the intention is to build learning cities' capacity to take forward their own responses and approaches to the challenges they face. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/upcoming-events/uilpascal-webinar/ |
| Description | UNESCO/PASCAL Observatory Webinar 'Learning Cities' COVID-19 recovery: from research to practice - The challenge of inclusion 17/06/20 |
| 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 | Mick Osborne, gave a presentation at the UNESCO/PASCAL Observatory Webinar 'Learning Cities' COVID-19 recovery: from research to practice - The challenge of measurement, planning, and evaluation on the 17th June 2020. Link to summary: https://uil.unesco.org/lifelong-learning/learning-cities/unescopascal-observatory-webinar-learning-cities-covid-19-recovery |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6_zxWuFVO4 |
| Description | UNESCO/PASCAL Observatory Webinar 'Learning Cities' COVID-19 recovery: from research to practice The challenge of measurement, planning and evaluation 08/07/20 |
| 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 | Catherine Lido hosted the UNESCO/PASCAL Observatory Webinar titled 'Learning Cities' COVID-19 recovery: from research to practice - The challenge of measurement, planning and evaluation, on the 8th July 2020. Link to summary: https://uil.unesco.org/lifelong-learning/learning-cities/unescopascal-observatory-webinar-learning-cities-covid-19-0 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ofcl5YEfw&feature=youtu.be |
| Description | Understanding Urban Mobility During the Pandemic 27/05/21 |
| 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 | UBDC colleagues gave presentations on a range of areas of work to capture urban mobility using new forms of data on the 27th of May 2021. The pandemic has brought an unparalleled focus on mobility in urban areas. Initially, the interest was in compliance with social distancing measures, then later in understanding transmission risks for the virus and guiding policies on easing restrictions. Looking ahead, the interest is shifting again to using mobility to provide rapid feedback on how cities are recovering - which areas and which activities bounce back, and which do not. Longer-term, a better understanding of mobility will be key to achieving more sustainable urban forms. Capturing mobility using conventional research methods is challenging. Big data from sensors and apps offers great potential but also many challenges. There are technical challenges in managing and analysing the volumes of data involved. At least as important, however, are the socio-legal challenges of securing access to data and the privacy issues raised by high precision locational information. And there are important ethical issues about the representativeness of different sources - whose activities, demands or perspectives are captured or amplified, and whose are omitted or marginalized. A number of private firms have provided public access to data and analyses, with Google and Apple offering near-global coverage for example, but we are unable to scrutinise or validate their methods and there is no guarantee of continuity. Valuable as these sources may be in the short term, they are not a substitute for a more public data infrastructure. This seminar, therefore, looks at a number of alternative approaches which have been employed over the last year to capture different aspects of mobility using big data. It reports on several strands of work conducted by the Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC) as well as work in the US using large-scale access to mobile phone data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2021/understanding-urban-... |
| Description | Understanding the Impacts of COVID-19 on the Glasgow City Region Economy - gauging impacts through big data? 06.05.2020 |
| 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 | Blog on understanding the impacts of COVID-19 on the Glasgow City Region economy - gauging impacts through big data? In this blog, which is reposted from the Policy Scotland website, Dr David Waite from Policy Scotland and UBDC's Dr David McArthur examine the economic impacts of COVID-19 in the Glasgow City Region & explore the potential for using local big data to fill the gaps in our understanding |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/may/understanding-the-impacts-of-covid-19-on-the-glasgow-city-... |
| Description | Understanding the potential impacts of rent regulation in the PRS: Roundtable Discussion with Scottish Government |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey gave a presentation on understanding the potential impacts of rent regulation in the PRS, at a roundtable discussion with the Scottish Government on 28 November 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | University of Glasgow, School of Education 2021 Webinar- Adult Learning and Youth Transitions |
| 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 was the third of five open impactful webinars that focus on key issues in educational research. The focus of this webinar is on the impact of learning opportunities on the life courses of young and older adults, including those most vulnerable in labour markets and at risk of social exclusion. Further details can be found below, although the video and summary are to-be published. UBDC's contribution was via its collaboration with the EPSRC-funded Inclusion Matters projects VisNET and eBASE, both represented on the panel, and the diverse data methods used to demonstrate widening inequalities in academic STEM- in this instance using SNAS, Motivational Interviews and Digital Footprints of Early Career women in Engineering and Tech. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://cradall.org/content/school-education-2021-webinar-series-adult-learning-and-youth-transitions |
| Description | University of Glasgow, School of Education 2021 Webinar- Urban and Place Based Learning |
| 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 | Full report link below, excerpt of the webinar/ workshop event summary as follows as regars UBD contribution: Urban Big Data Centre Professor Catherine Lido, Associate Director and Dr Phil Mason, Research Fellow in the Urban Big Data Centre funded by the ESRC, spoke about the workstream of the centre that uses big and novel data to meet social challenges related to educational disadvantage and place. Following an overview of the objectives of this strand of work, they outlined this work as it pertained to secondary, vocational and higher education, and to learning cities. They described a particular piece of work, the Integrated Multimedia City Data (iMCD) Project, and its use of novel methodologies, such as travel diaries, GPS, lifelogging cameras and social media capture. They continued with an example of follow-on work with families in the field of lifewide literacies, and an example of rapid-response work related to COVID-19 undertaken by a PhD student, Barry Black. Full contribution excerpt: Dr Muir Houston, Deputy Director of CR&DALL opened the webinar and provided an overview of logistics for the 80+ delegates and panellists. Professor Michael Osborne, Director of Research in the School of Education, began formal proceedings and introduced Professor Margery McMahon, Head of School, who welcomed delegates. Professor Osborne then explained that in this webinar with its theme of Urban and Place Based Learning, we would be hearing from representatives of four of the school's major projects in this area, some very local to the city of Glasgow and others that involved cities and neighbourhoods in the global south.... focus on cities reflects rapid and accelerating urbanisation, and the associated challenges of poverty, crime, environmental risks, poor health and inequitable access to learning. He suggested that a recognition that learning, living productive lives and inclusion are intimately connected requires localised initiatives and joined-up policy initiatives that recognise the heterogeneity of cities. As a result, some of the place-based initiatives presented within the webinar would focus on neighbourhoods. He pointed out the special nature of the day with the inauguration of the new President of the United States, who wife, the First Lady, Dr Jill Biden, is a teacher with a doctorate in Education. This provides for us some hope that things can change, and it was also important to note that a few days it would be UNESCO International Day of Education on 24 January. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://w.cradall.org/content/school-education-2021-webinar-series-report-%E2%80%93-urban-and-place-b... |
| Description | Unleashing the 'new normal' in Scottish schools |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | This was blog developed for and pushed out by UBDC, based on the work of our PGR Black, co-authored by myself Catherine Lido. You will see it led to media coverage and pick up by Scottish Gov. and Teacher Education Scotland. "Reflections from the field- Before the school closures, I had been conducting my PhD fieldwork in several secondary schools in the Greater Glasgow area. I have spoken one-on-one with around one hundred pupils about their aspirations, their interests and their subject choices. Before this fieldwork, I worked in education policy and spent a year doing desk research into our education system. I feel very lucky to have been able to contribute to our national debate through a time of change in Scottish education. The issues that have been the focus of the education debate have very real implications for pupils, teachers and the wider population. The issue of narrowing subject choice has implications for young peoples' futures and other vital decisions, such as resource allocation and teacher numbers. This, along with spending cuts at a time of change, inevitably impacts upon learning and attainment, ultimately impacting most upon those at the 'wrong' end of Scotland's stubborn poverty-related attainment gap. The focus of my research is really to understand more about how young people in Scotland negotiate the influences upon them when making their choices. Ultimately to see whether the Curriculum for Excellence and initiatives such as Developing the Young Workforce have introduced the change they sought to. Are Scottish schools 'failing'? Whether from my desk at the Scottish Parliament or from The University of Glasgow, the impression I had formed was that Scottish schools - through no fault of their own - were 'tired' institutions and that young people were being let down by an education system struggling to implement the structural changes designed years ago. Whilst not downplaying the very real issues within our schools, my experience of being at the 'coalface' has challenged these preconceptions. The discourse of 'failing' Scottish schools was far away from the reality of what I saw. Over these past few months, I have witnessed a dynamic, vibrant, innovative and exciting system, packed full of professionals striving to do their very best by every young person. The issues relevant to my PhD study are of course evident, but the solutions being implemented are as well. I have observed many different curricular models aiming to ensure that young people can not only take as many subjects as possible but also take the specific subjects of their choosing. For example, in one school I sampled, the shared campus arrangements with other local schools were vast, bordering on a communal senior phase timetable. Some were even teaching a handful of advanced higher pupils through extra sessions and blended online learning. Indeed, as online learning has been forced to the forefront of education, it is unlikely to disappear as we phase back into the classroom. Innovative routes of co-designing courses already exist, and such best practice needs to be shared and expanded. I have undertaken research in a diverse range of schools including those with staggering levels of deprivation. One of those is tailoring individual employment plans for every pupil, ensuring a positive pathway upon leaving education. Often such best practice is driven mainly by teachers in a bottom-up grassroots push, and in one Higher Accounts class alone, a school had four S5 pupils already accepted into modern apprenticeships. Every pupil leaving in S4 I spoke to from this particular school had a job, college place or apprenticeship to take up after summer. Due largely to their employability focus, this was the school whose pupils demonstrated the most understanding of how subject choice links to career aspirations. I have also visited some of the most affluent parts of this region, where the extra-curricular offer was wider than in other areas and often aimed at bolstering university applications. Such activities included peer-to-peer learning, leadership courses and debate clubs. Contrary to preconceptions that such schools only focus on STEM and university places, there was a thriving uptake of the arts and humanities, but also strong input from employers with modern apprenticeship pathways on offer. Perhaps the most notable challenge to my preconceptions were the young people themselves. No matter their social background, interest or level of educational attainment, every young person I spoke with rightly had high levels of aspirations for themselves. Surprising to me was how well they were informed and aware of the steps needed, and subjects required, for their aspirational pathways - particularly what study and experience it would take to get there. They understood - more so I think than when I was at school nearly a decade ago - the challenges they had ahead and the work it would take to achieve. Every school I engaged with, and every member of staff I spoke with, were determined to make sure the young people were equipped with tools - inside and outside the classroom - to achieve their educational and professional goals. What does the future hold for Scottish schools, post-pandemic? The issues of inequality and narrowing subject choice and implications for future destination are real. They deserve scrutiny and debate and are worthy of robust research. The ongoing problems researchers are discovering and highlighting deserve the strongest of responses so that the education system can work as effectively as it can for all. However, the experience on the ground must be acknowledged; in times of depleted funding and teaching resources, best practice can emerge. Aspirations, perceptions-of-self and effective signposting can, and are, driven in individual classrooms and schools. Over the past two years of researching educational short-comings, and sometimes downright failings in the Scottish education system, I have perhaps become a cynic regarding the trajectory of developments. What has become clear to me, however, is that the 'kids are alright' and their schools are too. When 'normal service' resumes, likely in the next academic year, it is hoped that education reformers will be offered a unique opportunity to move away from standardised metrics, and stringent funding decisions made in a top-down fashion. Instead, the teachers and pupils themselves might offer a ground-up, grassroots insight for how aspirations can not only remain high but truly be actualised by these novel ways of working online. Through employers outwith the schools and building capacity with the support of communities coming together, schools may no longer be seen as 'apart'. Hopefully, the curriculum will not be seen as something to implement 'on pupils'. Perhaps we can see different ways of tackling education inequality and empowering teachers and pupils over what and how they learn. 'Normal' before this pandemic wasn't working for swathes of young people. We have a vastly unequal education system in Scotland - a symptom of a vastly unequal society. We need to use this time of uncertainty and forced change to be bold. We need a new normal and it has its roots in the schools that welcomed me in.' Barry's research aims to investigate the social and structural factors that influence pupils' school subject choices in the Greater Glasgow region, and assess the implications for employer's engagement in schools." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/april/unleashing-the-new-normal-in-scottish-schools/ |
| Description | Urban Big Data Centre and Glasgow City Council pilot CCTV analysis that protects individuals' privacy- count me in! |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Blog on a pilot study using cctv images to count pedestrians and vehicles |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2019/september/piloting-cctv-analysis-that-protects-individuals-pr... |
| Description | Urban Data Science Conference Session Organizer and Convener in the AAG 2020 |
| 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 | More than 100 AAG conference participants joined the AAG virtual urban data science session in April 2020 and we organized 6 talks for 2 sessions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202020/sessions-gallery/25255 |
| Description | Urban Data Science Conference Session Presenter, Organizer and Convener in the AAG 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 | About 50 AAG conference participants joined the AAG virtual urban data science session in April 2021 and we organized 10 talks for 2 sessions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/Submissions/6/ViewSession?sessionId=27313 |
| Description | Urban Data Science Conference Session Presenter, Organizer and Convener in the AAG 2022 |
| 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 | About 50 AAG conference participants joined the AAG virtual urban data science session in April 2022 and we organized 5 talks for 1 session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://aag-annualmeeting.secure-platform.com/a/solicitations/19/sessiongallery/2891 |
| Description | Urban Housing Markets After the Pandemic - A UK Perspective |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Nick Bailey gave a presentation at the ENHR - European Network for Housing Research Seminar 'Changing spatial preferences through Covid-19', titled Urban Housing Markets After the Pandemic - a UK perspective held on the 17th February 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Urban Neighbourhood Sustainability and Impacts from Covid-19 Research Findings and Future Directions for International Collaboration (15-16 February 2023) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The Centre for Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC) was set up in 2017 as a GCRF-funded international collaborative research project to address global urban challenges and grow research capacity in Africa and Asia. It focuses on understanding neighbourhood and spatial and socio-economic inequalities in fast growing cities and contributes to three UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals: 11: Make cities and human settlements sustainable; 3: Ensure healthy lives for all; 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education for all. SHLC involves three schools of the University of Glasgow - Social and Political Sciences, Education and Health and Wellbeing; its eight excellent international partner teams are located in Bangladesh, China, India, Philippines, Rwanda, South Africa and Tanzania. There have been over 100 researchers trained, and the associated academic network has become an important international force for urban neighbourhood sustainability studies and a key resource for future research collaboration. The recently completed comprehensive survey of over 14000 households and more than 70 neighbourhood focus groups in fourteen Asian and African cities are unique and valuable datasets about neighbourhoods and their residents under the influence of Covid-19. This workshop, supported by UKRI/ODA fund, will has two interrelated aims: a) To share SHLC research findings with partner teams, University of Glasgow researchers and wider international research communities, and b) To identify future research directions and facilitate further research collaboration between current SHLC team members and other international and University of Glasgow researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Using New Forms of Spatial Big Data for Urban Mobility Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UBDC's mobile phone data group were invited to give a presentation to the S&SR Environments and Spaces Group on using new forms of spatial big data for urban mobility research to a wide network of public health professionals. This talk was arranged to introduce and foster collaboration on the UBDC's mobile data collection for research into urban human mobility. The walk generated a large amount of interest in their new data sources and their future potential. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Using new forms of data to analyse cycling activity - October 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This is the webinar about the use of new forms of cycling data for cycling studies. It includes both presentation and tutorial sessions. Several questions were raised from different audiences with the increased data requests through UBDC channel. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/online-learning/online-tutorials/interactive-data-dives/ |
| Description | Using spare CCTV capacity to monitor activity levels during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Blog about using CCTV pedestrian and vehicle counts to monitor changing activity in Glasgow City Centre |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/april/using-spare-cctv-capacity-to-monitor-activity-levels-du... |
| Description | Video Analytics Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Comprehensive description of the development process for object detection models, covering various stages from data collection and cleaning to model training and results demonstrations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Video Analytics project presentation, MSc Student Tutorial |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | MSc students attended and engaged in question and answer discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/research/research-projects/urban-sensing-analytics/video-analytics-to-monitor... |
| Description | Video Series - Effective Models for Data-driven Collaborations Between Universities and Government (Building experiences with government data owners) |
| 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 | The Urban Big Data Centre has built a strong track-record of closely working with UK, devolved and local government, delivering valuable data and analysis to support policy and practice in the governance of urban environments. We have produced a range of knowledge-sharing presentations, which aim to highlight the benefits of identifying opportunities for collaboration between academic researchers and local authorities on projects that utilise urban data. They also explain the need for effective models for cooperation, so that all parties can benefit from the potential rewards of these partnerships. In this session we explain how the Urban Big Data Centre provides access to data and other support through our data services. You will also hear about other opportunities to collaborate within the context of our wider programme of data-driven urban research. Presented by: Dr Andrew McHugh, Senior Data Science Manager, Urban Big Data Centre |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kusGRI0x62s&ab_channel=UrbanBigDataCentre |
| Description | Video Series - Effective Models for Data-driven Collaborations Between Universities and Government (Introduction) |
| 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 | The Urban Big Data Centre has built a strong track-record of closely working with UK, devolved and local government, delivering valuable data and analysis to support policy and practice in the governance of urban environments. This short film highlights the benefits of identifying opportunities for collaboration between academic researchers and local authorities on projects that utilise urban data. It also explains the need for effective models for cooperation, so that all parties can benefit from the potential rewards of these partnerships. The video features commentary from: Professor Nick Bailey, Director, Urban Big Data Centre Kimberley Hose, Head of Business Intelligence, Glasgow City Council Dr Mark Livingston, Lead - Housing & Neighbourhoods, Urban Big Data Centre Professor Annette Hastings, Urban Studies, University of Glasgow Josie McGregor, Portfolio Manager, Economic and Social Research Council Morven Fraser-Walther, Programme Co-ordinator, College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OqQ6TTetLE&ab_channel=UrbanBigDataCentre |
| Description | Video Series - Effective Models for Data-driven Collaborations Between Universities and Government (UBDC and North Lanarkshire Council's exploration of access to public services in the digital age) |
| 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 | The Urban Big Data Centre has built a strong track-record of closely working with UK, devolved and local government, delivering valuable data and analysis to support policy and practice in the governance of urban environments. We have produced a range of knowledge-sharing presentations, which aim to highlight the benefits of identifying opportunities for collaboration between academic researchers and local authorities on projects that utilise urban data. They also explain the need for effective models for cooperation, so that all parties can benefit from the potential rewards of these partnerships. In this session we explore how research on unequal access to public services can be brought into the digital age, comprising an analysis of data from within North Lanarkshire Council's customer relationship management (CRM) system, focusing primarily on environmental and maintenance provision. After watching this video you will have an understanding of how reported issues data reveal information about levels of demand and types of engagement and actions data offer perspectives on the Authority's responses, which may include provision of additional services or resources, or changes to policy or practice. You will also learn how people living in North Lanarkshire neighbourhoods will benefit from the work through improvement to their environmental quality. Presented by: Professor Annette Hastings, Urban Studies, University of Glasgow Dr Yang Wang, Research Associate, Urban Big Data Centre Nicole Paterson, Head of Environmental Assets, North Lanarkshire Council |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOnqXyWf0r8&ab_channel=UrbanBigDataCentre |
| Description | Video Series - Video Series - Effective Models for Data-driven Collaborations Between Universities and Government (UBDC & Glasgow City Council's CCTV Object Detection Project) |
| 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 | The Urban Big Data Centre has built a strong track-record of closely working with UK, devolved and local government, delivering valuable data and analysis to support policy and practice in the governance of urban environments. We have produced a range of knowledge-sharing presentations, which aim to highlight the benefits of identifying opportunities for collaboration between academic researchers and local authorities on projects that utilise urban data. They also explain the need for effective models for cooperation, so that all parties can benefit from the potential rewards of these partnerships. In this session collaborators from Glasgow City Council and UBDC describe their efforts to apply novel image detection methods to data from Glasgow's existing CCTV network in order to automatically count pedestrians and vehicles. After watching this video you will have an understanding of how this project offers perspectives on mobility habits throughout the city, minimising costs and offering scalability across space and time. You will also learn how open count data enables researchers, the local authority and interested third parties to assess the impact of recent infrastructural developments within the city, and also helps inform subsequent investments. Presented by: Dr Mark Livingston, Lead - Housing & Neighbourhoods, Urban Big Data Centre Kimberley Hose, Head of Business Intelligence, Glasgow City Council |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uuQzyhFDdM&ab_channel=UrbanBigDataCentre |
| Description | Virutal Urban Thinkers Campus (World Urban Campaign, UN-Habitat) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Urban Thinkers Campus, which took place 30-31 October 2020, virtually from Gurugram, India. Simon Joss presented on 'data driven cities: information infrastructure for learning cities' and then took part in a panel discussion. The audience, mainly from India, were particularly interested in insights from the UK and Europe relating to 'smart city' innovations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/sspdgurgaon?lang=en |
| Description | Was interviewed for the Active Travel podcast. |
| 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 | I was interviewed by Guardian journalist Laura Laker for the Active Travel podcast she produces in association with the Active Travel Academy based at the University of Westminster. We discussed the role of data in promoting active travel;particularly in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://t.co/cj4pQ7Fbqd |
| Description | Waterproofing Data: Engaging citizens for data-driven sustainability |
| 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 | The closing workshop for the Waterproofing Data project was hosted by UBDC at the Advanced Research Centre (ARC). The workshop consisted of presentations from project participants, discussions on future directions for the research area and a photography exhibition created in collaboration with people living in areas involved in the research. In addition to the workshop participants, at least 20 additional people engaged with the exhibition set up in the venue. Abstract Climate change is causing extreme weather events to become more frequent and more severe. This raises serious challenges for many communities, including those vulnerable to flooding and other rain-related hazards. Extreme rainfall events can be particularly devastating in more physically and socially vulnerable areas. However, major data gaps exist around the world about the local impacts of extreme weather events to vulnerable communities. This lack of information currently undermines the establishment of effective strategies for improving resilience, including better early-warning systems and community-based risk reduction. To address this issue, the Waterproofing Data project investigated how to build communities' resilience to flooding, by engaging communities and stakeholders in Brazil in the process of generating, circulating and using flood-related data. The project was conducted by an international, transdisciplinary team of researchers and practitioners from Brazil, Germany and the UK. In this closing event, we invite researchers and practitioners interested in the topic to discuss the results achieved in the Waterproofing Data project and to work together on synthesising information from other related initiatives and to work a collaborative research agenda for future research. The format of the workshop will include invited presentations, followed by an interactive collaborative session. The presentations will introduce the innovative methods and co-produced a social data-driven innovations achieved by Waterproofing Data, which combine community data and analytics to improve the resilience of communities to flooding. These include ethnographic methods for making social practices around data visible ("data diaries"), a method to engage communities in data generation for flood resilience ("data gardening"), as well as a citizen-science mobile app, a model curriculum for schools, and a data analytics platform for developing early-warning models. These outputs and outcomes have been co-produced and successfully trialled with 300+ school students and civil protection agents in Brazil and have the potential to be translated to engage citizens from vulnerable communities around the globe in transformative adaptation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2022/waterproofing-data-e... |
| Description | Wave Break Media Ltd Press Coverage: Pandemic spurs city data innovation in Scotland |
| 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 | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Wave Break Media Ltd Press Coverage press coverage of the Scottish Local Government & Data during Covid-19. Professor Simon Joss and Dr Justine Gangneux carried out an in-depth analysis of data engagements between autumn 2020 and spring 2021. A total of 31 out of the 32 Scottish local authorities were surveyed along with focus groups including NHS Scotland, Police Scotland, Scottish Government, and several third sector (voluntary) organisations. The survey found that 83% of respondents stated that there was an increase in internal data sharing during COVID-19, 79% indicated the use of new data sources, and 74% confirmed increased data collection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://cities-today.com/pandemic-underpins-a-new-era-for-smart-city-data/ |
| Description | Webinar: Doing research on data uses, needs & capabilities with local authorities |
| 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 | Part of an online training series hosted by UBDC |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2021/doing-research-with-l... |
| Description | Webinar: Wake of Covid-19: Supporting Older People to Eat Well, Age Well & Live Well 05/10/2020 |
| 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 | During the UK Malnutrition Awareness Week showcases recent research by the University of Glasgow in partnership with Food Train / Eat Well Age Well around how older people are living and ageing. Catherine Lido gave a presentation at the Wake of Covid-19: Supporting Older People to Eat Well, Age Well & Live Well webinar, which was held on the 5th of October 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2HFYcyzHpA&feature=youtu.be |
| Description | What is Feminist 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 | Dr Lauren F. Klein, associate professor and director of the Digital Humanities Lab at Emory University, presented at this UBDC research seminar on bringing together data science and feminist theory in research. Abstract What is feminist data science? How is feminist thinking being incorporated into data-driven work? And how are scholars in the humanities and social sciences, in particular, bringing together data science and feminist theory in their research? Drawing from her recent book, Data Feminism (MIT Press), coauthored with Catherine D'Ignazio, Klein will present a set of principles for doing data science that are informed by the past several decades of intersectional feminist activism and critical thought. In order to illustrate these principles, as well as some of the ways that scholars and designers have begun to put them into action, she will discuss a range of recent research projects including several of her own: 1) a thematic analysis of a large corpus of nineteenth-century newspapers that reveals the invisible labor of women newspaper editors; 2) the development of a model of lexical semantic change that, when combined with network analysis, tells a new story about Black activism in the nineteenth-century United States; and 3) an interactive book on the history of data visualization that shows how questions of politics have been present in the field since its start. Taken together, these examples demonstrate how feminist thinking can be operationalized into more ethical, more intentional, and more capacious data practices, in the digital humanities, computational social science, human-computer interaction, and beyond. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2022/what-is-feminist-dat... |
| Description | Workshop on Mitigating Flood Susceptibility and Risk |
| 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 | A workshop on flooding from government partners, research institutions and the University of Glasgow. Flash flood is a type of catastrophic natural hazard that can cause severe damages to both human society and the physical environment. In recent years, the emergence of big data collected by various sensors monitoring weather, rainfall and water levels offers new opportunities of data-driven knowledge discovery in relation to floods. Meanwhile, Artificial intelligence (AI) has been increasingly applied in the evaluation and prediction of flood susceptibility and risk. This workshop aimed to communicate and share the knowledge and experience in flood susceptibility/risk modelling and estimation among researchers and practitioners, and to communicate the available resources (data, expertise, projects) among the workshop participants. The invited speakers were from University of Glasgow, Glasgow City Council, Scottish Water, Scottish Environment Protection Agency and the James Hutton Institute. Organisers: University of Glasgow (Urban Big Data Centre, School of Interdisciplinary Studies, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2023/workshop-on-mitigati... |
| Description | Workshop on Short Term Lets "Short-Term Lets - Big Data and Policy" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | We organised a Seminar on the impact of Short Term Lets on the private rental market with the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence. It was attended by about 60 people, from a wide range of areas, including academia, policy makers, and practitioners. There were two presentations on the current evidence of the impact of STL on the private rental sector, one from Dr Agustin Cocola-Gant from the University of Leeds and one from Yang Wang a researcher at the Urban Big Data Centre. This was followed by a panel discussion with a panel including Ken Gibb from Cache, Dr John Boyle. and a Louise Dickens, representative of the Short Term Let community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/education-and-events/events-and-courses/past-events-2022/short-term-lets-big-... |
| Description | Wrote blog: "When five times three equals zero: the curious case of Strava Metro" |
| 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 | I wrote a blog based on a recent publication (with some colleagues at UBDC). The blog aimed to give a simple explanation of what the paper was about and to highlight the main conclusion of the paper. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2021/april/when-five-times-three-equals-zero-the-curious-case-of-s... |
| Description | YOLOV4 Object Detection Model Tutorial |
| 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 | This How-to guide explains in great detail how to install and deploy YOLOv4 object detection model using GPU. To be more specific, first, CUDA and cuDNN libraries need to be installed. The YOLOv4 repository should be cloned and configured accordingly. Configuration files should be modified, and the code needs to be compiled. The command-line interface is utilised to specify video input, output, and model details. The video is then processed through the customized model for object detection. Proper GPU configuration should be ensured, and the output should be monitored for detection results, with parameters adjusted as necessary. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |