University of Bristol, UK
On November 30th, the Alan Turing Institute hosted the second meeting of the Turing Special Interest Group (SIG) on Novel Data Linkages for Health and Wellbeing, organised by Anya and Michelle Morris (University of Leeds). The […]
Read moreOn Thursday 26th October, our new PhD student Poppy attended the Faculty of Health Sciences PGR Symposium at Bristol Aerospace. Taking place besides the Concorde, the day began with a keynote lecture from Dr Kaitlin Wade […]
Read moreOn 25th of October, Anya presented at ClOSURE Data Linkage about our work with ALSPAC and shopping data linkages. She provided overview of the project, linkage update and plan for next steps, including ESRC Data Services […]
Read moreOn friday the 20th of October, Anya took part in a panel organised by The Royal Statistical Society Data Governance and Ethics Section on International approaches to the legal, governance and ethical challenges of social media […]
Read moreThis week we have yet another person joining, Romana Burgess has just submitted her PhD in Digital Health and joining the lab to work on shopping data and health projects!
Read moreThis week we welcome Poppy Taylor who is starting a PhD student with Digital Footprints Lab, co-funded by The Health Foundation. Her PhD will evaluate the utility and acceptability of using a novel health data source […]
Read moreWe are delighted to announce that the Conference Proceedings for The Digital Footprints ’23 Conference have been published in the International Journal of Population Data Science. The proceedings were compiled by Dr. Anya Skatova, in collaboration […]
Read moreAn exciting fully funded PhD position has opened up at the Digital Footprints Lab to start in October 2023. The PhD project focuses on the utility of using shopping data to understand female reproductive health. This […]
Read moreChronic pain is a major health issue across the globe. Researchers estimated that at least 10% of the population in the United Kingdom are suffering from pain conditions. If we consider the entire world, some estimated […]
Read moreA couple of weeks ago, on the 25th of May, Anya presented our lab’s work at Dunnhumby, a leading company for retail data analytics. The talk focused on using transactional data for public good and was […]
Read moreJob Advertisement Post! Are you looking for a job in behavioural data science as a postdoc? Do you want to work with novel approaches to improve public health? Look no further and join Digital Footprints Lab […]
Read moreOn the 14th of June Elizabeth and Anya met with We The Curious and Woven films to discuss creating a public engagement event and film to maximise the impact of Elizabeth’s PhD research. Really exciting to […]
Read moreLast month I had the pleasure of organising and co-chairing (with Michelle Morris) the 1st Digital Footprints Conference, which took place at the University of Bristol in the magnificent Wills Memorial Building. We conceived this one-day […]
Read moreAnya published a paper in Plos One from Value of Personal Data project together with collaborators Rebecca McDonald (University of Birmingham), Sinong Ma (Queens University Belfast) and Carsten Maple (University of Warwick). It uses Willingness to […]
Read moreBack in March, Anya participated in the panel discussion at the AI UK 2023 that took place in the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in Westminster, London; together with together with Johanna Hutchinson (UKHSA), Albert King (NHS […]
Read moreAnya talked to James Gallagher from BBC 4 Inside Health about challenges and opportunities of research with shopping data and what benefit it can bring for public health. The episode was first aired on the 21st […]
Read moreOne of a series of knowledge share series aiming to bring together members of Roche (a large biotech company, and leading provider of in-vitro diagnostics and innovative solutions across major disease areas) and The Alan Turing […]
Read moreA protocol describing how to link shopping history data into a longitudinal population study has been published on Wellcome Open Research by Anya in collaboration with Andy Boyd. The paper uses Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents […]
Read moreNeo has recently been awarded two funds, including a £5,000 Seed Corn Fund from the Jean Golding Institute (JGI) and a £400 Research Staff Development Fund. The JGI Seed Corn Fund will be used to conduct […]
Read moreBack in November, Anya presented her and lab’s work at the Welsh NHS Confederation Conference in Cardiff. It was attended by over 800 attendees from Welsh NHS, central and local government, charities, community groups, industry and […]
Read moreLast week Anya, together with Michelle Morris from University of Leeds, hosted an inaugural meeting of the Turing Special Interest Group on Novel data Linkages for Health and Wellbeing. It was great to see many familiar […]
Read more25.10.2022: Digital Footprints Lab had a very productive writing day at the Alan Turing Institute, located at the British Library, London. After all previous attempts with rail strikes and COVID cancellations, we finally made it! Compulsory […]
Read more18.10.2022: Anya and Neo presented our lab’s work with shopping data to Statistical Genetics group at the MRC IEU, University of Bristol, led by Gib Hemani. We had a great discussion about potential of the shopping […]
Read moreBack in July members of Digital Footprint Lab – Neo, Lizzie, Steve and Anya – took part in the inaugural meeting of DDAC: Data Donation Advisory Council at the University of Nottingham. DDAC was founded by […]
Read moreOn 21st of September, Anya, together with James Goulding and Georgiana Nica-Avram from N/Lab at University of Nottingham, presented to the Spatial Unit at Levelling Up Department on Shopping Data and Inequalities. The slides can be […]
Read moreThe Digital Footprints Lab collaborated with We The Curious, which is a major science and educational centre in Bristol, and delivered the public event Shopping Trolley Secrets throughout the past summer. In total we delivered three […]
Read moreOn the 20th of September Digital Footprints group (or at least most of its members!) had a writing day which turned very productive for everyone! We also had a dinner out and drinks to say good […]
Read moreThrough June and July of 2022, I got to be a member of the Digital Footprints Lab at the University of Bristol. I worked primarily with Dr. Neo Poon and Dr. Anya Skatova, and the goals […]
Read moreThe Digital Footprints Lab was invited to participate in the Jean Golding Institute (JGI) Data & AI Showcase 2022 on the 7th of June 2022. The Showcase was the flagship event of JGI and discussed the […]
Read moreOn Saturday the 11th of June 2022 Bristol hosted Big Tent Ideas Festival attended by around 850 people. It brought together politicians, including sitting members of parliament, medical practitioners, journalists, artists, scientists, health campaigners and the […]
Read moreOn the 4th and 5th of December 2021, we had the fantastic opportunity to host an event in the Open City Lab at We The Curious, the science and educational centre in Bristol. ‘Shopping Trolley Secrets’ […]
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