Welcome to our Knowledge Zone!

Here, you can find everything from our project outputs to impact statements and beyond.

All items are ordered by Our Key Outcomes: Actionable Insights, Responsible Innovation and Knowledge Exchange.

Actionable Insights

Here you can find a collection of the different outputs across our projects that are helping others to make a difference to children’s lives.

Outputs
Final Report: How did COVID-19 change children's sport in Scotland, and what are the lessons for future policy?
Actionable Insights
Final Report: How did COVID-19 change children's sport in Scotland, and what are the lessons for future policy?
Actionable Insights

Final Report: A robust, evidence-based set of recommendations for Scotland's children’s sports strategy to improve access and support every child's right to sport. 

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Actionable Insights
Report: The coldest year of the rest of their lives: Protecting children from the escalating impacts of heatwaves
Actionable Insights
Report: The coldest year of the rest of their lives: Protecting children from the escalating impacts of heatwaves
Actionable Insights

UNICEF has generated a new report, supported by our climate change project team, to highlight the unique risks that heatwaves pose for children.

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Actionable Insights
Poster: Population Estimation
Actionable Insights
Poster: Population Estimation
Actionable Insights

A poster designed for conference presentation by our Population Estimation project team. This highlights key aspects of their work towards sustainable census independent population estimation in Mozambique.

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Actionable Insights
Report: Is physical access to basic services a determinant of multidimensional childhood poverty?
Actionable Insights
Report: Is physical access to basic services a determinant of multidimensional childhood poverty?
Actionable Insights

This report is an output from our Poverty team, and it describes the work conducted for the Child Poverty and Access to Services (CPAS) project. The project's ultimate aim was to determine if geographic access to health centres correlated with multidimensional child poverty.

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Actionable Insights
Report: Prevention of Adolescent Mental Health Conditions - Is Technology a Possible Source for Good?
Actionable Insights
Report: Prevention of Adolescent Mental Health Conditions - Is Technology a Possible Source for Good?
Actionable Insights

This report is an output from our Mental Health project feasibility phase, aiming to establish foundational knowledge, requirements and frameworks, which will lead to developing replicable research methodologies.

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Actionable Insights
Summary: Focus Group Discussions with young People in Jamaica
Actionable Insights
Summary: Focus Group Discussions with young People in Jamaica
Actionable Insights

The objective of the focus group discussions was to evaluate the ways that adolescents and young people interact with technology.

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Actionable Insights
Report: Children's Climate Risk Index
Actionable Insights
Report: Children's Climate Risk Index
Actionable Insights

UNICEF have generated a new report, supported by our climate change project team, to highlight the real risk that climate change poses on children and young people, now and in the future.

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Actionable Insights
Report: Children's Climate Risk Index Systematic Review of the Literature - Findings, Outcomes & Policy Recommendations
Actionable Insights
Report: Children's Climate Risk Index Systematic Review of the Literature - Findings, Outcomes & Policy Recommendations
Actionable Insights

This report has been compiled as part of the Children’s Climate Risk Index (CCRI) Project for UNICEF based on the work undertaken for the systematic literature review.

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Actionable Insights
Outputs
Children's Climate Risk: Their Future, Their Opinion. Recording and a Summary of a Panel Discussion.
Responsible Innovation
Children's Climate Risk: Their Future, Their Opinion. Recording and a Summary of a Panel Discussion.
Responsible Innovation

A summary and a recording from the event we ran in November 2022: Children's Climate Risk: Their Future, Their Opinion.

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Responsible Innovation
Blog: Putting Ethics Into Practice
Responsible Innovation
Blog: Putting Ethics Into Practice
Responsible Innovation

A blog detailing our involvement with the creation of the Scottish Government’s Data and Intelligence Network Ethical Workbook.

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Responsible Innovation
Impact Statement: In Isolation, Instead of in School
Responsible Innovation
Impact Statement: In Isolation, Instead of in School
Responsible Innovation

An Impact Statement for our project examining how isolation, school closure and exam cancellation caused by Covid-19 affected the mental health of young people.

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Responsible Innovation
Impact Statement: Impact Collaborations Process
Responsible Innovation
Impact Statement: Impact Collaborations Process
Responsible Innovation

An Impact Statement for our Impact Collaboration process.

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Responsible Innovation
Impact Statement: Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19 on Children in Scotland
Responsible Innovation
Impact Statement: Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19 on Children in Scotland
Responsible Innovation

An Impact Statement for our project addressing the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 on children.

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Responsible Innovation
Impact Statement: Building Footprint Identification
Responsible Innovation
Impact Statement: Building Footprint Identification
Responsible Innovation

An Impact Statement for our Building Footprint Identification project.

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Responsible Innovation
Case Study: Data Driven Innovation Programme
Responsible Innovation
Case Study: Data Driven Innovation Programme
Responsible Innovation

A case study feature for the Collaborative by the University of Edinburgh’s Data Driven Innovation programme.

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Responsible Innovation
Interview: Ethical Intelligence
Responsible Innovation
Interview: Ethical Intelligence
Responsible Innovation

An interview with Ethical Intelligence to discuss both the journey of creating the Ethical Assessment as well as now implementing it over the past year of its existence.

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Responsible Innovation

Responsible Innovation

These outputs all relate to our Responsible Innovation framework, which helps us use data to improve outcomes for children in a safe, trusted and transparent way.

Knowledge Exchange

We want to share our learnings with you - and that’s why we encourage you to scroll through this collection of useful resources spanning a variety of topics.

Outputs
Executive Summary: Developing a methodology for using AI to identify social media discussions on mental health and well-being
Project Outputs, Knowledge Exchange
Executive Summary: Developing a methodology for using AI to identify social media discussions on mental health and well-being
Project Outputs, Knowledge Exchange

Executive summary: We supported UNICEF in exploring innovative ways to understand online mental health and well-being discourse. Our project looked at using AI to identify online discussions of young people on mental health, combining focus group input, annotated datasets, and experiments with large language models (LLMs) in English and Russian.

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Project Outputs, Knowledge Exchange
Presentation: Developing a methodology for using AI to identify social media discussions on mental health and well-being
Project Outputs, Knowledge Exchange
Presentation: Developing a methodology for using AI to identify social media discussions on mental health and well-being
Project Outputs, Knowledge Exchange

This presentation, prepared by Dr Clare Llewellyn, a lecturer in Governance, Technology and Data at the University of Edinburgh, outlines the methods and key findings of our project with UNICEF which investigated developing a methodology for using AI to identify social media discussions on mental health and well-being from young people and adolescents.   

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Project Outputs, Knowledge Exchange
Infographic: Developing a methodology for using AI to identify social media discussions on mental health and well-being
Project Outputs, Knowledge Exchange
Infographic: Developing a methodology for using AI to identify social media discussions on mental health and well-being
Project Outputs, Knowledge Exchange

Infographic: As part of our project focusing on developing a methodology for using AI to identify social media discussions of mental health and well-being, we ran a few youth engagement sessions together with UNICEF country offices in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.

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Project Outputs, Knowledge Exchange
Infographic - Building a Better Future for Children’s Sports in Scotland
Project Outputs, Knowledge Exchange
Infographic - Building a Better Future for Children’s Sports in Scotland
Project Outputs, Knowledge Exchange

An infographic summarizing key findings and recommendations from the final report on the effects of COVID-19 on children's sports in Scotland

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Project Outputs, Knowledge Exchange
Presentation: A 100m Resolution Travel Time Map
Knowledge Exchange
Presentation: A 100m Resolution Travel Time Map
Knowledge Exchange

In this presentation, Dr Watmough, the project’s principal investigator, details how the team generated novel, more sustainable maps with a five-fold increased resolution for the entire continent of Africa and its island states, including 54 Countries

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Knowledge Exchange
Literature Review
Knowledge Exchange
Literature Review
Knowledge Exchange

Literature Review that examines the previously limited studies on the sport and physical activity participation of children in Scotland identifies gaps in the literature and examines the data landscape.

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Knowledge Exchange
Gallery of Children’s Drawings - Sport and Physical Activity in Scotland
Knowledge Exchange
Gallery of Children’s Drawings - Sport and Physical Activity in Scotland
Knowledge Exchange

This Gallery of Drawings shows engagement from children and young people in Scotland which played a critical role in understanding what sports and physical activity mean to them and gaining insight into their individual experiences.

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Knowledge Exchange
Report: How can we produce a time series of country level childhood wasting estimates, accounting for seasonality: exploring the impact of survey timing
Knowledge Exchange
Report: How can we produce a time series of country level childhood wasting estimates, accounting for seasonality: exploring the impact of survey timing
Knowledge Exchange

Final Report: This project explored the seasonal effects of wasting scores with the goal of establishing if it is possible to answer the following question: “what would the wasting score have been had it been measured in a different month of that year?”

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Knowledge Exchange