The Consumer Data Research Centre has run the Masters Dissertation Scheme for over ten years. The programme offers an exciting opportunity to link students on Masters courses and their university supervisors with leading retail companies, via projects which are important to the retail industry.
The scheme provides the chance for students to work directly with industrial partners, and to link students’ research to important retail and ‘open data’ sources. The project titles are devised by the partners, and are open to students from a wide range of disciplines.
How to Apply
The next round of projects will be listed on this webpage from late January 2024. If you are interested in applying for a project, please complete the application form, and send it as an attachment to projects@cdrc.ac.uk, along with a copy of your CV. Both documents should be in PDF format. Applications will be forwarded to the industry partners for consideration until all the projects are filled successfully. Any questions about the process or the Scheme can be sent to Richard Arnold.
2024 Projects
Project 2024A: Estimating Global Worker Workplace Counts using Overture Data and Open Employment Sources
Partner: Geolytix
Status: CLOSED
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Project 2024B: Location-based decarbonization strategies for UK industries
Partner: GHD
Status: CLOSED
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Project 2024C: Development of the Liverpool City Region place-based development pipeline
Partner: Liverpool City Region Combined Authority
Status: CLOSED
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Project 2024D: Using road safety data to target future investment in transport interventions
Partner: Liverpool City Region Combined Authority
Status: CLOSED
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Project 2024E: Explaining Environmental Health Outcomes from Satellite Imagery
Partner: Nokia Bell Labs
Status: CLOSED
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Project 2024F: Analyzing Prescription Outcomes through Spatial Signatures
Partner: Nokia Bell Labs
Status: CLOSED
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Project 2024G: Classifying road segments through the use of a clustering and natural language model to understand whether the indicative use of the road matches that of the actual use.
Partner: Transport for the West Midlands
Status: CLOSED
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Project 2024H: Cost of living and fire risk
Partner: West Midlands Fire Service
Status: CLOSED
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Project 2024I: The Waitrose Effect – is it still a reality?
Partner: Barbour ABI
Status: CLOSED
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Project 2024J: Application of machine learning for predicting low-incidence events for a fintech in a big data environment
Partner: Salad Money
Status: CLOSED
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Project 2024K: Advanced Analytics Framework for Small Professional Service Firms
Partner: Gemstone IT Services
Status: CLOSED
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Project 2024L: Estimating Dwells using Mobile Phone Network Data
Partners: Virgin Media and GHD
Status: CLOSED
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Project 2024M: Use of Optimisation Algorithms for Efficient Map Data Feature Collection
Partner: HERE Technologies
Status: CLOSED
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Project 2024N: Developing a new multi-scale street map centrality indicator to explore movement (land-use-movement-spatial-transport relations) in London and other cities
Partner: Space Syntax
Status: CLOSED
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