Digital Footprints Conference

📷 This time last week…we’re still feeling energised from our visit to Leeds for the @digital-footprints.bsky.social. An opportunity to meet smart data researchers from across the UK. If you’d like to know more about the work of Smart Data Research UK, please join our mailing list: bit.ly/43ugIgQ.

Thanks to everyone at @digital-footprints.bsky.social and the Healthy and Sustainable Places Data Service @uniofleeds.bsky.social for making the SDR UK team so welcome. A fantastic event - here’s to 2026! #DigitalFootprints25

And now for the 'Audience Choice Award'! Congrats to Weiyao Meng @uniofnottingham.bsky.social for picking up the Best Poster Prize @digital-footprints.bsky.social - as voted for by the delegates! Fantastic result!🧑‍🎨🎉 #DigitalFootprints25

And Highly Commended for her @digital-footprints.bsky.social conference poster was Dr @romanaburgess.bsky.social from @bristoluni.bsky.social - great work Romana 🧑‍🎨😀 #DigitalFootprints25

The winner of the @digital-footprints.bsky.social Poster Prize was Early Career Researcher Torran Semple from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social - great poster Torran 😀🧑‍🎨 #DigitalFootprints25

And congratulations to Dr Emma Wilkins @uniofleeds.bsky.social, who was Highly Commended in the Early Career Researcher Flash Talk Prize category. #DigitalFootprints25 🎉🎉

Congratulations to all the prize winners @digital-footprints.bsky.social, supported by SDR UK! Firstly, the recipient of the Early Career Researcher Flash Talk Prize - Dr Elizabeth Dolan 🥇🎉

🎬It's lunchtime here @digital-footprints.bsky.social and a chance to chat to more of the smart data researchers - next up, Faraz Awan from the Urban Big Data Centre at @uofglasgow.bsky.social !

📽️ We’re meeting some of the smart data researchers attending @digital-footprints.bsky.social. Here are @anyaskatova.bsky.social and Alice James from @digifootprintslab.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social

Hannu Koivisto, biomedical engineer at Oura explains how they transform wearable data into health insights.

They’re keen to collaborate with researchers, but receive 15+ per week and have limited resource so have to prioritise

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Smart data foundry logo in purple

Oliver Berry from Smart Data Foundry discussing using financial digital footprints data to estimate the affordability of retrofitting.

‘Further research needed on actual retrofit costs and the willingness of individuals to spend on retrofit’

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📷 It’s day two at the @digital-footprints.bsky.social. Thanks to
Michael Sinclair from the Urban Big Data Centre and Cathy Capelin from @nutritionorguk.bsky.social for two great talks. Now it’s the flash talks and poster competition…plus coffee, of course!

Abigail Hill sharing an overview of the UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration - ‘a unique multi-faced resource, data is free and available via one application’

Potential research areas:
- Dwelling properties
- Heating financial support for the elderly
- Respiratory health

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Connor Gaughan from the University of Manchester presenting at the Digital Footprints Conference

Connor Gaughan from the University of Manchester discussing the value and challenges of making survey and digital trace datasets available for open access.

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Poster Tour 1

💳Laura Fryer (&Huw Day): Visualisation tool for Enhancing Public Engagement Using Loyalty Card Data
📊Neo Poon: Impact of Pain on Workplace Attendance
🌎Romana Burgess: Socioeconomic factors on attitudes and behaviours regarding shopping data donation in ALSPAC

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Elizabeth Dolan from the University of Nottingham presenting at the Digital Footprints Conference

Elizabeth Dolan from the University of Nottingham ‘shopping data captures hidden health journeys: trials, delays and unmet need that don’t show up in clinical records.’

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‘Third parties like the British Nutrition Foundation and IGD can play an important role in enabling connections, project management and sometimes funding’ Cathy Capelin, British Nutrition Foundation.

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Cathy Capelin discussing the Tesco Fruit and Veg in Schools programme - £4m of fruit and vegetables to 400 schools.

The British Nutrition Foundation helped identify the schools, using data including the Priority Place for Food Index.

priorityplaces.cdrc.ac.uk

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It’s day two of @digital-footprints.bsky.social @uniofleeds.bsky.social and we’re meeting some of the smart data researchers attending from across the UK. Say hi to @mcuanti.bsky.social, who's part of the SDR UK accelerator team @uniofmanchester.bsky.social 😀

Michael Sinclair, University of Glasgow: Can we use mobile phone app data to understand visitation for tourist sites like the Giants Causeway?

We can, but there are challenges:
1. Data Quality
2. Technical Access and Barriers
3. Measurement Bias
4. Ethics and Trust

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Group of unidentifiable group of people networking at the University of Leeds

Day 2 underway here at Nexus. Looking forward to plenary presentations from Michael Sinclair from the University of Glasgow, Cathy Capelin from the British Nutrition Foundation and Hannu Koivisto from Oura.

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Keep and eye out today!

11:00-11:45, Poster Talks
💳Laura Fryer: Visualisation tool for Enhancing Public Engagement Using Loyalty Card Data
📊Neo Poon: Impact of Pain on Workplace Attendance
🌎Romana Burgess: Socioeconomic factors on attitudes and behaviours regarding shopping data donation in ALSPAC

👋 Catching up with another of our SDR UK accelerator teams led by @anyaskatova.bsky.social @digifootprintslab.bsky.social - talking smart data research #DigitalFootprints2025

The sun shone for a lovely evening of data chat.

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Great session by @thegovlab.org at #DigitalFootprints25 on using social data for health and well-being research in population and public health, social sciences, and humanities

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Earlier in this workshop the govlab team provided an overview of the social data 4 health initiative and key findings from this research

Two workshops this afternoon, in this one Romana is discussing how social data (particularly shopping data) can be used to gain insights into individual and population health.

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Smart Data Research UK workshop underway discussing their new Public Dialogue 2025 report which launched today 👇

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As we launch our public dialogue report @joecuddeford.bsky.social talks about Smart data for public good - UK as a world leader #DigitalFootprints2025