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.

Available Projects

Creating Small Area Populations

Partner: CACI
Status: Open

Available Projects

Creating Small Area Populations

Use Cases of Geospatial in Tourism

Solutions to the ‘attribution problem’ in geospatial cost-benefit analysis

Geospatial Use Cases in Health Sector

Scorecard for the Leisure Industry

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

On- and Off-line Dimensions of Problem Gambling

Understanding changing energy use in London’s commercial buildings due to climate change and the impact on landlords, developers and occupiers

The value of leasehold v freehold commercial property in London

An assessment of smart CCTV camera calibration to capture customer itineraries through a retail environment

Combining footfall from mobile network data and event listings to predict consumer behavioural patterns

An assessment of the impact of weather on global shipping patterns using GPS data and weather APIs

Identification, prediction and potential resolution of fault location/type, impacting the delivery of Internet connectivity to domestic users at home

What is the optimal delivery trade-zone in the UK?

Driver Pooling & Dispatch Potential

How are sales impacted by poor customer experience?

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

Assessing Monetary County Court Judgments as a leading indicator of financial vulnerability

Detecting Local Congestion on Store Access Routes

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

The UK’s new housing – population growth or internal migration?

Understanding the extent that mobile GPS data can be used for measuring city movement

The UK’s new housing – population growth or internal migration?

Refining POI on the basis of observed data

Device behaviour in indoor, multi-store and densely populated environments

Capturing pricing and promotional effects in demand forecasting models

Text mining customer complaints (and other external data sources) to understand customer experience

Customer Churn Prediction

Modelling cannibalization and halo effects using product categories

Barriers to access of healthcare records

Using new datasets to help understand the dynamic nature of retail