A research report by a postgraduate student, Kyra Fong. This report explores how Scottish secondary school students experience digital data collection and privacy in their education and how they want to learn about these issues in the future.

An extended dataset of individual travel time maps for the 54 countries across the African continent and its island states, generated with the precision of a 100-meter resolution.

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.

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.   

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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?”

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.

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.

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.

A rapid literature review prepared to support UNICEF’s work in assessing the unique risks heat waves have on children globally.

A paper introducing a collaborative, demand-driven methodology for the development of a strategic adolescent mental health research agenda.

A report conducting an investigation into how to collect and map data on 'what matters' to Children and Families in Scotland.

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.

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.

A paper exploring recent representation learning approaches, and assessing the transferability of representations to population estimation in Mozambique.

This interactive atlas allows users to visualize the Children’s Climate Risk Index (CCRI) and its key components on a map.