All Project Outputs
Infographic - Building a Better Future for Children’s Sports in Scotland
An infographic summarizing key findings and recommendations from the final report on the effects of COVID-19 on children's sports in Scotland
Presentation: A 100m Resolution Travel Time Map
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
Literature Review
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.
Gallery of Children’s Drawings - Sport and Physical Activity in Scotland
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.
Report: How can we produce a time series of country level childhood wasting estimates, accounting for seasonality: exploring the impact of survey timing
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?”
GitHub Code: Building Heights Phase 1
Git Hub code from Phase 1 of the Building Heights project. The aim of this project was to use a convolutional-deconvolutional neural network to predict building height data from satellite images.
GitHub Code: Building Heights Phase 2
Git Hub code from Phase 2 of the Building Heights project. The aim of this project was to use a convolutional-deconvolutional neural network to predict building height data from satellite images.
Guide: Step-by-Step Guide: Running Global Systematic Reviews
A guide on how to conduct a systematic review on a global scale. Each section will show the steps taken, recommendations, and reflections on each part of the process. The four steps this guide will discuss are recruitment, designing the study, training & engagement of the reviewers, and creating outputs.
Rapid Literature Review: Children and Heat Waves
A rapid literature review prepared to support UNICEF’s work in assessing the unique risks heat waves have on children globally.
Paper: Toward a Demand-Driven, Collaborative Data Agenda for Adolescent Mental Health
A paper introducing a collaborative, demand-driven methodology for the development of a strategic adolescent mental health research agenda.
Report: An investigation into how to collect and map data on 'what matters' to Children and Families in Scotland
A report conducting an investigation into how to collect and map data on 'what matters' to Children and Families in Scotland.
Paper: Using open-source data to construct 20 metre resolution maps of children’s travel time to the nearest health facility
A paper presenting the data and methods used to create more realistic estimates of travel times to health facilities in Uganda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Paper: Statistical Analysis of the Educational Mobility of Primary Schools Across Scotland
As part of our project: Understanding Poverty and Attainment Across the Northern Alliance Region, The University of Strathclyde’s Fraser of Allander Institute completed a statistical analysis paper of the educational mobility of primary schools across Scotland.
Paper: Census-Independent Population Estimation using Representation Learning
A paper exploring recent representation learning approaches, and assessing the transferability of representations to population estimation in Mozambique.
Atlas: Children's Climate Risk Index
This interactive atlas allows users to visualize the Children’s Climate Risk Index (CCRI) and its key components on a map.
Travel Time Maps: Child Poverty Access to Services
A collection of travel time maps to various health services produced as part of our Child Poverty Access to Services project.
Paper: Validity of Scottish predictors of child obesity (age 12) for risk screening in mid-childhood
A paper outlining a secondary analysis of data from the Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) cohort for predictors of obesity at the age of 12, present at school entry (age 5-6).
Blog: Mapping HIV Risk
Read more in this blog from Data Scientist Joseph Crispell, one of the collaborative partners working on the project, about the preliminary analysis conducted in our HIV project.
Paper: Towards Sustainable Census Independent Population Estimation in Mozambique
An interim paper on the work our Population Estimation team has carried out so far.
Report: In Isolation, Instead of in School
Read the final report from our project examining the impacts of isolation on young people’s mental health.