2024 was another year of progress across our portfolio at Data for Children Collaborative. The wide variety of our activities tells a story of how versatile and transferable Data for Children's Collaborative approaches, tools, and methods are.

Our collaborative team, led by Dr. Gary Watmough from the School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh, developed a scalable solution for generating travel maps that uses only free open data, allowing it to be applied to any country in the World.

A new, a transdisciplinary, collaborative project with The Promise Scotland and partners to understand and overcome the legal, technical, and cultural barriers to data and information sharing relating to care experienced children, young people and their families across public sector agencies and organisations in Scotland.  

At the Data for Children Collaborative, we have been continuously developing and refining our Responsible Innovation framework to support challenge-led, multi-sectoral collaborative data projects that aim to improve children's lives

Deputy Director, Fraser Macdonald, writes about the immense value in cross-network learning based on his experience travelling to Nairobi to attend the third annual the Jameel Observatory Community of Practice meeting.

Data for Children Collaborative has been shortlisted for the DataIQ 2024 Awards in the Best Ethical Data Initiative category in the Data and AI for Good stream.

Data for Children Collaborative supports The Data Tank’s NextGenData initiative, which focuses on pioneering a new approach to youth engagement in data and service provision.

The two-day event focused on brokering science, knowledge and action to support dryland communities across East Africa.

The policy recommendations report launched today can support Scotland’s vision of embedding children’s rights through a robust national sports strategy.

In June 2024, the Data for Children Collaborative’s new home at the Edinburgh Futures Institute opened to the public

Data for Children Collaborative’s nutrition team published the final report for their impact collaboration project on the Impact of Seasonality on Nutrition Surveys.

The National Museum of Scotland hosted a series of children's art-science collaborative events as a part of Data for Children Collaborative's ‘Children’s Climate Risk Index’ project.

Data for Children Collaborative’s Deputy Director, Fraser Macdonald,joins the Childlight Research Ethics Sub-Committee

Data for Children Collaborative Deputy Director Fraser Macdonald has joined the Young Scot Board.

Our annual report is a chance for us to reflect on our progress, what we've learned and, most importantly, how we use data to improve children's outcomes. We are excited to share with you some of the highlights, showing how our work continues to create real-world impact.

Fraser Macdonald, Deputy Director at the Data for Children Collaborative, has been honoured with the prestigious DataIQ Award for 2023 in the Data for Good Champion category. This award recognises his outstanding dedication to utilising data and analytics to improve society, mainly focusing on child-centric challenges.  

A short interview with our new Senior Project Manager, Olivia Hale. Olivia joined our team in May this year with extensive project management experience, thorough understanding of knowledge exchange and impact best practice in a research environment, and knowledge of internal structures/networks at the University of Edinburgh. Olivia has indeed hit the ground running in her new role.  

We are calling all young people aged between 13-18 years old living in Scotland! We want to hear about your experiences of sport and exercise before, during and after the pandemic. By participating in this, you can share your stories and photos of what sport and exercise mean to you.

At the Data for Children Collaborative, we continually reflect on our own methods and seek opportunities to refine how we deliver on complex challenges. Response to March Dictionary Entry by Kristy Docherty on Collective Leadership. Crafted by Fraser Macdonald - Data for Children Collaborative, Deputy Director 

Abertay University's School of Sport and Exercise Sciences has launched a research study to understand the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on children and young people's recreational sport and exercise participation in Scotland.  The sturdy is a part of a collaborative, nationwide project with the Observatory for Sport in Scotland, Data for Children Collaborative, and private sector organisations.