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🔔 Just one week to go! Next Thursday, 25 July, Smart Data Research UK and Google Health will be co-hosting a free lunchtime webinar: 'Using internet search data to improve health research'. Book your place here: sdruk.ukri.org/2024/07/08/usi…

We’re at #IMGS2024 this week. Rachel Oldroyd is presenting today on socio-demographic factors impacting antidepressant prescribing. Fran Pontin presented on Monday on identifying policy intervention areas where food insecurity risk is impacting childhood obesity rates.

🕸 Our latest webinar exploring how to scale up community-led food initiatives in partnership with University of Leeds takes place next week! Featuring Gemma Bridge Rachel Oldroyd and @effers1 it will summarise findings from 10 community food projects. Sign up: bit.ly/3y6EFPx

🌎NEW DATA ALERT🌎Discover the potential of globally available, open access Point of Interest data from Overture Maps Foundation. In our new E&P B: Urban Analytics and City Science paper, Cillian Berragan and I introduce a processed, fully queryable UK version, perfect for researchers & practitioners! 👀🧑‍🔬🖥️ #UrbanAnalytics

1/2💡Survey time! Economic and Social Research Council would love to hear from data service staff! A new survey for the Future Data Services programme aims to understand the needs and experiences of those who provide and manage data services. Closes 30 August: orlo.uk/mwI0R

📽️ In case you missed our recent webinar with University of Leeds about scaling out community food organisations! You can still catch it on YouTube It features the takeaways and policy implications from 10 best practice case studies. Watch in full: tinyurl.com/ytzuzb4u

Almost time for the Future Food Movement FIO-FOOD Grant community huddle! Professor Alexandra Johnstone Michelle Morris @CharlotteHard & Nilani Sritharan (she/her) discuss FIO-FOOD Grant research shaping #healthier and more #sustainable #food choices. 👉tinyurl.com/y9z57mr6 #TUKFS #SPFfoodsystem Rowett Institute UK Research and Innovation

Great to see the work of Michelle Morris and the Nutrition and Lifestyle Analytics team included in the first round of case studies from Smart Data Research UK.

👏A big thank you to everyone who took part on Saturday in the first of our UK-wide public dialogue events with Sciencewise. Workshops ran in Belfast, Gateshead, Inverness, London and Newport with excellent talks from Paul Monks and Rachel Oldroyd. More here: bit.ly/3XytBEU

Fab opportunity - PhD to investigate geographical inequalities in access to services & amenities in later life, funded through @DunhillMedical Reimagine Ageing Doctoral Research Programme phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2035-h… . Great supervision team Nik Lomax Oliver Todd Academic Unit for Ageing and Stroke Research CDRC

Fantastic opportunity to join Smart Data Research UK as Head of Research and Policy 👇

Dr Fran Pontin and colleagues have received funding from the Research England Policy Support Fund to utilise open data to enhance park safety for women and girls in Bradford. The project will use open-source spatial data to identify safe and unsafe areas in parks.

Ahead of #WorldFoodDay tomorrow, explore our research on place-based food initiatives and how they support rights to food. 📖Blog: medium.com/@globalfoodlee… 👂Podbite: open.spotify.com/episode/57CbwS…

We’re delighted to share the news that teams from both CDRC Leeds and CDRC ULO will lead new Smart Data Research UK data services. cdrc.ac.uk/smart-data-res…

We're proud of our researchers, who will lead one of Smart Data Research UK's four new Centres of Excellence for smart data services. The service will support researchers to use smart data to better understand the health and sustainability of places. Read more: environment.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/5…

Huge congratulations to Nik Lomax, Michelle Morris, - and Mark Birkin for their ground-breaking Healthy and Sustainable Places Data Service being selected as part of Smart Data Research UK programme for data-driven innovation!

I had forgotten that I wrote this for the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) RGS-IBG Higher Ed - but some thoughts on how academics can engage commercial organisations. This is mostly drawn from the past ten years of running the CDRC. buff.ly/4ftruYV

🚀 Job Alert!!! 🚀 The first in a series of long term posts within the SDRUK Geographic Data Service which will launch next year -this one is based UCL News - buff.ly/4fSyChU and builds on the work that we have done over the past ten years as part of the @cdrc_uk.

🎉 Save the date May 14–15 2025 Digital Footprints for Public Good 🌍 🎟️ Early bird tickets are on now on sale for £130, 📢 Call for Submissions- Abstracts & Workshops Stay tuned and visit our website to learn more. 👉 conferences.leeds.ac.uk/digitalfootpri…

🌍 #30DayMapChallenge 🗺️ Day 29: Overture "Mapping the Deli Divide" 🥪 Patrick Ballantyne has used data from Overture (available from CDRC) to explore the geography of deli's in the UK. Code available at: tinyurl.com/deli-map.