Conference Organisers
Michelle Morris: Michelle is Professor of Data Science for Food in the School of Food Science and Nutrition and Leeds Institute for Data Analytics at the University of Leeds. She leads the interdisciplinary Nutrition and Lifestyle Analytics team which uses novel forms of data, including supermarket transaction records from a number of UK supermarkets, for research into lifestyle behaviours and health. She is a Co-Director at the Healthy and Sustainable Places Data Service, leads the evaluation of the IGD funded Healthy and Sustainable diets programme, and is an investigator at the UKRI-funded UK Transforming Food Systems grants FIO Food and DIO Food. m.morris@leeds.ac.uk
Anya Skatova: Anya is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, where she leads the Digital Footprints Lab. Her work focuses on realising the value of shopping history data for population health research through linking data into longitudinal population studies. Anya studies a variety of issues, including diet, reproductive health and mental health. anya.skatova@bristol.ac.uk
John Harvey: John is an Associate Professor based in N/LAB at University of Nottingham. His expertise is mainly in network science and consumer behaviour. His recent work focuses on the use of aggregated consumer behavioural data to address social issues, particularly through the use of loyalty card and telecommunications data. These issues have included: food and nutritional security, food waste, fuel poverty, loneliness, deprivation, and vulnerable migration. In short, he's interested in questioning why we give so much of our private data to companies and expect that they do nothing prosocial with it in return. john.harvey2@nottingham.ac.uk
Emma Wilkins: Emma is a research fellow in Nutrition and Lifestyle Analytics. Her work uses large administrative and commercial datasets to understand and improve population and planetary health. She has a particular interest in the retail food environment, the interplay between health and place, and how non-traditional data can be used for policy evaluation. She has recently worked on the DIO Food project, using large-scale consumer purchase data to evaluate the impact of the ‘High Fat Sugar and Salt’ (HFSS) placement legislation within supermarkets. e.l.wilkins@leeds.ac.uk
Alice Kininmonth: Alice is a Research Fellow in Nutrition and Lifestyle Analytics in the School of Food Science and Nutrition at the University of Leeds. She specialises in public health nutrition, behavioural psychology, and data analytics. Her research utilises supermarket transaction data to evaluate the effectiveness of retail interventions that aim to support customers to make healthier, more sustainable purchases. Her previous work on the DIO-Food project, used supermarket transaction data from four major UK retailers to evaluate the real-world impacts of England's High in Fat, Sugar and Salt (HFSS) product placement legislation. Alice is passionate about translating complex data into actionable insights for policymakers, researchers, NGOs and the public. a.r.kininmonth@leeds.ac.uk
Cathy Arnold: Cathy joined the University of Leeds in June 2021 as part of the Health Data Research UK North team looking after the national secure data environment for cancer. Cathy programme managed the delivery of the DATA-CAN national cancer SDE prior to taking up her current role as Head of Data Services at the University of Leeds in August 2022, overseeing the delivery of the data strategy for the university. Her role at University of Leeds includes overseeing the delivery of the data transformation programme and the development of career pathway and development support for the wider data profession, which numbers around 600 data professionals across the organisation. Cathy also looks after external partnerships and strategic communications for the Data Services team. One of the key partnerships is with Women in Data, who supported the recruitment campaign to establish the new service in Leeds in late 2022. Cathy is a member of the Women in Data Women’s Health Steering Group, a pro bono programme supporting key research topics in women’s health. C.Arnold@leeds.ac.uk
Abigail Harrison: Abigail is a Research Manager at the UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration, based at the University of Bristol. Her work focuses on linking place-based data such as Energy Performance Certificates and climate datasets to health records and longitudinal population studies. abigail.harrison@bristol.ac.uk
Frederik Trier Møller: Frederik is a Consultant MD, Ph.D. and a Specialist in Public Health Medicine. His work focuses on collecting and analysing high-quality data for epidemiological studies that generate valuable insights to benefit both patients and society. His primary research interests lie in examining how our consumption—what we buy—affects health, with a particular focus on food- and waterborne as well as zoonotic infections. Additionally, he investigates how diseases, especially infectious diseases, spread within social networks such as schools and families. frtm@ssi.dk
Ashley Prema: Ashley is the Operational Co-ordinator at the Healthy and Sustainable Places Data Service. He is responsible for providing operational support to the HASP team and works alongside the Service Manager to manage applications for the HASP data service. Ashley also provides support to the Communications and Engagement Manager. A.Prema@leeds.ac.uk
Oliver Berry: Oliver is the Research Coordinator at Smart Data Foundry/The Financial Data Service. They are responsible for working with researchers who apply to and use data within the SDF Trusted Research Environment, from project proposals through to research publications. They also work in the research development space, exploring new methods such as privacy preserving linkage and routes to federation for research. oliver.berry@smartdatafoundry.com
Marta Cantijoch: Marta is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Manchester. Since completing her PhD (2013, Political Science, Autonomous University of Barcelona), she has developed an extensive portfolio of research in the fields of political participation and political communication, with a focus on the effects of digital media on citizen engagement. She is particularly interested in understanding how citizens use the internet to become informed and engage in politics. In her analyses, Marta uses innovative forms of data, including linked survey and digital trace data or survey experiments. She is currently co-investigator of Digisurvor, a Smart Data Research UK accelerator project that seeks to develop methods for anonymising and deriving variables from smart data for linkage with surveys. marta.cantijoch@manchester.ac.uk