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 ESRC funded Consumer Data Research Centre, leads the evaluation of the IGD funded Healthy and Sustainable diets programme, and 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
Michael Sinclair: Michael is a lecturer in Urban Analytics at the University of Glasgow, with a key interest in utilising and exploring the strengths, weaknesses, and ethical implications of digital footprint data for social good. His research focuses on socio-environmental issues, using data from sources like social media and mobile phones to study human-nature and cultural interactions. He pays particular attention to under-resourced spaces such as natural sites, which provide crucial social and health benefits that are often overlooked. michael.sinclair@glasgow.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
Romana Burgess: Romana is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol, working in the Digital Footprints Lab investigating the use of shopping data in health research. She is a data scientist by background, and is interested in all things digital health and health technology. She was previously an organiser for Digital Footprints 2024. romana.burgess@bristol.ac.uk
Anna Cupani: Anna is a professional in the area of business and innovation, based at University College London. She builds partnerships between academia and industry in the healthcare sector, ensuring that academic research can directly benefit patients and clinicians. She focuses in particular on projects that use data science tools and artificial intelligence applied to medicine, benefitting a variety of areas, from diagnostics to surgery, from drug discovery to global health management. She combines years of experience in business development and research management with technical scientific expertise as a researcher in chemistry and engineering, both in academia and in industry. Anna is interested in responsible innovation in the digital health space. Thanks to her training in foresighting and facilitation techniques, she develops workshops that bring together companies and academic institution to collaborate on joint projects and help businesses to innovate and academics to have an impact on people’s needs addressing societal issues. a.cupani@ucl.ac.uk.
Neo Poon: Neo is a behavioural data scientist. Currently a Senior Research Associate in the Medical School at the University of Bristol, his research focuses on consumer choices, public health, and sociopolitical behaviours. His doctoral research (PhD Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School) covered a range of topics related to human decision making and economic choices. Awarded Outstanding Doctoral Student, he also has teaching experience in statistics and behaviour economics that led to two awards. neo.poon@bristol.ac.uk
Anna-Leena Vuorinen: Anna-Leena is an Assistant Professor of health data science at Tampere University, Finland, with a background in statistics (MSc) and epidemiology (PhD). Her research focuses on digital epidemiology involving the secondary use various real-world data sources including health registers, biobanks, consumer-generated data, environmental data and their linkages. Vuorinen is the PI of a biobank study which aims to link food purchase data with health registers to predict the onset and progression of cardiometabolic diseases. anna-leena.vuorinen@tuni.fi
John Stuart: John is a seasoned start-up and scale-up specialist with over 20 years of experience, John has successfully founded and expanded three businesses from inception to exit. He specialises in leveraging technology to drive significant impact, demonstrated by his tenure at the Alan Turing Institute, where he facilitates collaborations between industry leaders and researchers. His work in developing health applications, which have reached millions worldwide, highlights his commitment to using technology for meaningful change. john@fuell.io
Emma Wilkins: Emma is a Research Fellow in the School of Food Science and Nutrition at the University of Leeds, working within the in Nutrition and Lifestyle Analytics team. She has experience working with large consumer, administrative and spatial datasets, with a focus on understanding population behaviours relating to health, nutrition and environmental sustainability. Her current work involves using supermarket retail data to understand the interplay between health, environmental sustainability and cost of foods, and to evaluate impacts of legislation restricting the placement of products high in fat, sugar and salt (HFSS) in England. 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 current research on the DIO-Food and FIO-Food projects uses supermarket transaction data to evaluate the impact of retail environment interventions and public health policy on food purchasing behaviours and whether impacts are equitable across communities. Alice has experience in large-scale secondary data analysis, contributing to multidisciplinary research on relationships between the food environment, eating behaviour, and health outcomes. For the past eight years, she has also been a core member of the Gemini twin birth cohort, supporting research on genetic and environmental influences on appetite and weight, as well as data management. a.r.kininmonth@leeds.ac.uk
