Masters Dissertation Scheme - Consumer Data Research Centre

The programme offers an exciting opportunity to link students on Masters courses and their university supervisors with leading retail companies on projects which are important to the retail industry.

The scheme provides the opportunity to work directly with an industrial partner and to link students’ research to important retail and ‘open data’ sources. The project titles are devised by retailers and are open to students from a wide range of disciplines.

2021 Projects (updated regularly)

Forecasting the survival rate of tenants using historical occupier data and key performance drivers

Partner: Local Data Company
Status: Closed

2021 Projects (updated regularly)

Forecasting the survival rate of tenants using historical occupier data and key performance drivers

Scrutinising Policy: Using Monetary County Court Judgments (CCJs) data to understand the effects of austerity

Using satellite imagery to detect supermarket car parks and their levels of occupancy

Developing an ‘interesting company score’

Detecting pedestrian movements using computer vision

Inferring transport mode using GPS data

Developing a database for identifying the most influential directors in the UK using Companies House

Making the Cambridgeshire £ work harder for citizens

Point of Interest (POI) Refinement through Observed Data

Valuing the high street and modelling the impact of a change of policy and uses on the generation of place management and development funding

How does retail shop penetration impact the digital customer profile

Pets Output Area Classification

Gamified Prediction Markets: Assessing and Improving Research Accuracy

How is future planning supporting the changes in where we work, rest and play?

Understanding the disparities in infrastructure & public investment across Great Britain and how and where to build back better

The Warehouse Revolution: is the current boom in warehouse construction set to continue and is it positioned to match our consumer needs?

Determining the key sources, speed and evolution of anti-migration sentiment on social media

Mapping Cities as Flows: An evaluation of mobile app-based trajectory data for the modelling of origin destination flows

Improving housing submarket spatial segmentation

Recommender Systems for Personalized Customer Experience

Evaluating the accessibility and equity of vaccination centre locations