Live Research Projects
Using Big Data to Understand Investment Gaps
Funder: EPSRC
Duration: Sep 2023 - Sep 2027
Project Lead: Ramneek Athwal
Sensory Appeal and Purchase Behaviour
Funder: UoN
Duration: Sep 2024 - ongoing
Project Lead: Chukwudumebi Okeke
“Somewhere I Belong”
Funder: EPSRC
Duration: Sept 2023 - Sept 2027
Project Lead: Bogna Liziniewicz
Public Perceptions of Food’s Environmental Impact
Funder: ESRC
Duration: Jun 2024 - Dec 2025
Project Lead: Dr Daniel Fletcher
Predicting Alcohol-Related Mortality
Funder: UoN
Duration: Jul 2024 - Oct 2025
Project Lead: Raphael Derecki
Predictors of sharing platform growth
Funder: EPSRC
Duration: Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
Project Lead: Yang Bong
Large Language Models as ‘Hidden Persuaders’
Funder: Innovate UK
Duration: May 2024 - ongoing
Project Lead: Dr Weiyao Meng
Do Geography and Environment Shape Racial Bias?
Funder: School of Psychology
Duration: Oct 2023 - Dec 2026
Project Lead: Raphael Derecki
Simulating Policy Discussions with Large Language Models
Funder: Innovate UK
Duration: May 2024 - ongoing
Project Lead: Dr Weiyao Meng
Automatic Lifestate Identification and Clustering
Funder: EPSRC
Duration: Oct 2022 - Dec 2025
Project Lead: Samuel Smith
Mapping Environmental Impact of Food Purchases across UK
Funder: ESRC
Duration: Jan 2024 - Dec 2025
Project Lead: Dr Evgeniya Lukinova
Examining how Analytics affects Consumer Choice
Funder: Leverhulme Trust
Duration: Jun 2023 - Sept 2024
Project Lead: Prof Andrew Smith
Natural Language Processing of Digital Mental Health Transcripts
Funder: EPSRC
Duration: Sept 2022 - Nov 2023
Project Lead: Gregor Milligan
Methane Stocktaking
Funder: EPSRC
Duration: Oct 2022 - Sept 2025
Project Lead: Prof. Stuart Marsh
Predicting deprivation and health outcomes
Funder: Future Food Beacon
Duration: Sept 2021 - Nov 2024
Project Lead: Gavin Long
Binge-watching
Funder: EPSRC
Duration: Oct 2020 - Sept 2024
Project Lead: Joanne Parkes
Diagnosing Disease with Shopping Data
Funder: EPSRC
Duration: Sept 2019 - Sept 2023
Project Lead: Elizabeth Dolan
Model Class Reliance for Variable Importance (MCR)
Funder: EPSRC
Duration: April 2021 - Mar 2023
Project Lead: Dr Gavin Smith
Catchment Models for Spatial Attribution of Big Data
Funder: Future Food Beacon
Duration: Sept 2021 - Nov 2024
Project Lead: Gavin Long
Mapping London Loneliness via Digital Footprint data
Funder: EPSRC
Duration: Sept 2022 - Sept 2023
Project Lead: Gregor Milligan
Understanding Iodine Deficiencies in retail dietary shifts
Funder: Future Food Beacon
Duration: Sept 2022 - Sept 2023
Project Lead: Roberto Mansilla
An empirical critique of the LILEE fuel poverty metric
Funder: NHS Foundation Trust, EPSRC
Duration: Oct 2022 - Feb 2024
Project Lead: Torran Semple
Bundle Entropy as a Measure of Product Choice Combinations
Funder: EPSRC
Duration: Oct 2020 - Oct 2023
Project Lead: Roberto Mansilla
Educational Interventions in Rural Tanzania (XPRIZE)
Funder: ESRC
Duration: Sept 2019 - Sept 2023
Project Lead: Bethany Huntington
Archived Research Projects
Modelling Vulnerability to Slavery in Brazil (RADAR)
Funder: UoN, Rights Lab
Duration: Jul 2019 - Jun 2021
Project Lead: Dr Harry Marshall
Modelling Plastic Bag Usage in the UK
Funder: EPSRC Horizon
Duration: Aug 2019 - Sept 2020
Project Lead: Dr Rosa Lavelle-Hill
Comparative Judgement for Deprivation in Dar es Salaam
Funder: EPSRC
Duration: Jun 2020 - Aug 2022
Project Lead: Dr Rowland Seymour
Stigma and Adherence to Asthma Medication
Funder: EPSRC / Horizon
Duration: Sept 2017 - Mar 2022
Project Lead: Dr Vanja Ljevar
Mapping Food Insecurity in the UK
Funder: Innovate UK
Duration July 2019 - July 2021
Project Lead Dr John Harvey