The theme of this year’s World Obesity Day is #EveryBodyNeedsEverybody.

Read about the work our nutrition project team has been doing to analyse the Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) cohort of data to inform the design of obesity/overweight surveillance systems internationally.

We like to be transparent about our ways of working. That’s why we have completed an Impact Statement for the Impact Collaborations process (phew - that’s a bit of a tongue twister!), so you can read about our key learnings and achievements from our first few projects.

To celebrate the International Day of Women & Girls in STEM, we wanted to highlight some of the talented women working on projects for the Collaborative.

For Safer Internet Day 2021, we’ve joined the conversation about how to build an Internet we trust. The internet has an amazing range of information and opportunities online, but how do we separate fact from fiction?

We are delighted to celebrate the inclusion of our director Alex Hutchison as part of the dataIQ 100 most influential people in data.

We’re excited to celebrate the nomination of our Programme Administrator, Alessandra Fassio, as a Women in AI Hero! #WAIROE

Watch a recording of lunch and learn webinar session inviting academics to learn more about the Collaborative and our ways of working.

We hosted a webinar to celebrate the achievements of our first Impact Collaborations project: ‘Addressing socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 on children in Scotland: A review of capability and available data assets.’ You can access the recording here.

Read our Director Alex Hutchison’s interview with PrivSec global where she discusses the Collaborative and how we are improving outcomes for children through ethical data use.

We attended UNICEF Innocenti’s Leading Minds Webinar to discover more about the current infodemic and how this puts children at risk.

Read all about the impacts of our Building Footprint Identification project.

This World Mental Health day we want to give an overview of our projects working on the topic of mental health, as well as acknowledging why mental health is so important.

We’re delighted to publish our first annual report! We hope you enjoy reading about everything the Collaborative has been up to this year.

We recently commissioned a piece of work to The GovLab at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering to complete a topic mapping exercise on youth and climate change.

A review of the recent UNICEF report: ‘Worlds of Influence: Understanding what shapes child well-being in rich countries.’

On the 26th August we hosted a webinar to showcase the fantastic progress our project teams are making across our portfolio of work. We were also delighted to officially launch our Impact Collaborations process with two new challenge questions.

Watch our video presentation from UNICEF’s HIV Conference Satellite Session to hear from our HIV project team experts.

To help us gain a better understanding of the research landscape and the various themes within the mental health space, we commissioned The GovLab to undertake a topic mapping exercise on adolescent mental health, with a focus on measurement and monitoring.

Our Director Alex Hutchison takes stock of what it has been like to set up a (large!) global collaborative team to work on such an important project.

We are delighted to publish our ethical assessment which captures the unique challenges posed by working on data projects for children.