Last week, Romana attended the AI UK 2024 conference, hosted by the Turing Institute and aiming to showcase innovations in data science and AI. The conference took place over two days, and was held at the […]

On the 22nd of March, Anya presented work on digital health and shopping data at the First Faculty of Public Health AI & Digital Health Interest group. The event was online and attended by 170 participants […]

DFL took part in the Consumer data applications: Causal research in novel linked datasets. The workshop took place on the 21st of March and was organised jointly by two Turing Interest groups: Novel data linkages for […]

On the 14th of March, Anya hosted an online webinar in collaboration with AI UK Fringe, a series of talks hosted by the Turing Institute aiming to share ongoing research in the field of AI. The […]

Yesterday, Poppy presented at the Faculty of Health Sciences Spring Symposium in Bristol, where she shared plans for her PhD on exploring inequalities in managing menstrual symptoms using shopping data. The symposium was attended by 50 people […]

On the 8th of March, Anya presented at the JGI International Women’s Day Seminar. She talked about her path in health data science as well as reflected on difficulties accounted along the way. The event was […]

This week, Romana and Neo have both been awarded a £400 Research Staff Development Fund. For Romana, the fund will enable her to attend two significant Turing events: the Causal Research Workshop and the AI UK […]

Last Thursday, Poppy attended the ‘Management of heavy menstrual bleeding: Women’s voices informing future health research’ event, hosted by The EVIdencE Synthesis and Methodology Group for Women’s Health Research (EVIE) group at UCL.  The day included […]

We worked with We The Curious (WTC) and Woven Films to create a video explaining some aspects of our research with shopping data. Check out a blog by WTC featuring a video with Lizzie Dolan and […]

Anya presented on DFL work at an online ONS Health Data Science Seminars dedicated to Digital Footprints, together with Tim Chico (University of Sheffield) and Will Dixon (University of Manchester). The seminar was attended by 160 […]

Digital Footprints Lab extends a warm invitation for you to join us at the Digital Footprints 2024 conference, taking place at the University of Bristol on May 8th and 9th. Building on the triumph of last […]

Yesterday we had our Christmas dinner 2023 at Muiño Bristol. Also massive congratulations to Dr Romana Burgess for passing her viva!

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 Skatova (University of Bristol) and Michelle Morris […]

On 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 […]

On 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 […]

On 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 […]

This 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!

This 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 […]

We 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 […]

An 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 […]

Chronic 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 […]

Job 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 […]

Anya 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 […]