The CDRC team were delighted to collect four awards at the University of Leeds inaugural Research Culture and Engaged for Impact Awards earlier this week. The awards celebrated the role that all members of the research community – participants; collaborators and partners; academic, research and technical staff; professional services and students – have to play … Read more
CDRC students are prize-winners at GISRUK Conference Congratulations to Abigail Hill and Shunya Kimura, who both won prizes at the GISRUK Conference, 6-8 April 2022. Abigail Hill, a PhD student with CDRC and UCL Geography, won the Best Early-Career Presentation Award, sponsored by Google, for her presentation on “An investigation of the impact and resilience … Read more
Winner’s insight into the Masters Dissertation Scheme Disa Ramadhina, winner of the Best Dissertation Award 2021, shares her experiences and insights about participating in the CDRC Masters Dissertation Scheme. What attracted you to working on a project in partnership with the Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC?)? Prior to studying the MSc Business Analytics program at … Read more
Fruit and Veg Findings – IGD behavioural insights report follow-up November 2020 brought a series of sustainability goals to the forefront with COP26, and linked initiatives such as the Earthshot Prize, rightly monopolising media attention. Tackling climate change was not only of great importance to policy makers in Glasgow, but also to companies and consumers … Read more
Masters Dissertation Scheme 2021 Awards Since 2012, the nationwide CDRC Masters Dissertation Scheme (MDS) has brought together masters students intent upon pursuing dissertations using retail and other industry data, their academic supervisors and industry contacts who are able to provide data or support ‘horizon-scanning’ research focused upon real world problems. The MDS now also has … Read more
First Findings From IGD Research Trials Announced The research results from the first of our behaviour change trials working with the Institute of Grocery Distribution have been announced this week! Further blogs from members of the team involved will follow in the next few weeks… IGD press release Collaboration between IGD, food and consumer goods … Read more
Measuring Ambient Populations during COVID-19 in Leeds City Centre(Case Study) The COVID-19 pandemic led to lockdowns being implemented all over the world, including in the UK. The aims of the project were to investigate relevant data sources for modelling the ambient population of Leeds City Centre during COVID-19 and analysing the impacts that lockdown policies … Read more
Population movement in Greater London during the first lockdown Researchers from UCL Geography with the Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC) have published a new study that uses smartphone location data to explore activity patterns in Greater London during the first lockdown. Professor James Cheshire and PhD researcher Terje Trasberg used anonymised smartphone data from over … Read more
Masters Dissertation Scheme 2021: another fantastic year of projects! A record number of students from UK universities applied to the Masters Dissertation Scheme (MDS) this year. Of more than 80 applications, a total of 20 students were selected to partner with 15 organisations for their 2021 Masters dissertations. Real-world data was used across a range … Read more
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, already strained Local Authority resources were stretched even further, with infection and transmission of the virus exacerbating existing social inequalities. In order to support the response of local authorities, groups and stakeholders to COVID-19, the Local Data Spaces (LDS) project was set up – a collaboration between the Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC), the Joint Biosecurity Centre (JBC), the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and ADR UK. What did … Read more