Programme
Day 1–Wednesday 14th May
| 10–10.30am | Registration and Coffee |
| 10.30–11.15am | Opening remarks with Michelle Morris and Anya Skatova & research from the Nutrition and Lifestyle Analytics team at the University of Leeds and the Digital Footprints Lab at the University of Bristol |
| 11.15am–12.45pm | Workshop Session 1
Workshop 1A: Mobile Phone App Data for Public Good: Opportunities and Challenges - Luning Li, University of Glasgow Workshop 1B: Data Donation: empower the public through sharing their personal data for health research - Neo Poon, University of Bristol Workshop 1C: The Hidden Harms of Self-Tracking: Can Contextualising the Digital Records of Wearables Protect - Sahar Bakr, Nottingham Trent University |
| 12.45–1.30pm | Networking lunch |
| 1.30–2.30pm | Flash talks 1 |
| 2.30–3pm | Joe Cuddeford: Director of Smart Data Research UK
Presentation title: Smart data for public good: UK as a world-leader |
| 3–3.30pm | Networking coffee break |
| 3.30–5.00pm | Workshop session 2
Workshop 2A: Smart Data Research UK Expert Panel: Building Public Trust - Smart Data Research UK in collaboration with Sciencewise Workshop 2B: Unlocking New Forms of Social Data for Discovery Research on Life, Health, and Wellbeing - Stefaan G. Verhulst, Wellcome Trust / GovLab |
| 5.30pm | Conference dinner |
Day 2–Thursday 15th May
| 9–9.30am | Registration |
| 9.30–9.35am | Day 2 opening remarks |
| 9.35–10.05am | Michael Sinclair: University of Glasgow | Urban Big Data Centre | Urban Studies | School of Social and Political Sciences.
Presentation title: Digital Footprints in Nature and Culture: Navigating Bias and Scaling Visitation Estimates with Mobile Phone App Data |
| 10.05–10.35am | Cathy Capelin: Strategic Projects Lead at British Nutrition Foundation
Presentation title: The power of partnerships |
| 10.35–11am | Break |
| 11–11.45am | Poster tour 1 |
| 11.45am–12.30pm | Flash talks 2 |
| 12.30–1pm | Hannu Koivisto: Biomedical engineer at ŌURA
Presentation title: From Sensor to Science: How ŌURA Transforms Wearable Data into Breakthrough Health Insights |
| 1–2pm | Lunch |
| 2–2.45pm | Poster tour 2 |
| 2.45–3.45pm | Panel discussion – advanced careers stage by ECR's |
| 3.45–4.15pm | Prize giving and closing remarks |
| 4.15–5pm | Networking - Healthy and Sustainable Places Data Service |
| 5pm | Depart |
Proceedings of the conference will be published in the International Journal for Population Data Science.
Digital Footprints 2024
The 2024 conference focused on advancing the understanding of digital footprints data for social impact, inviting innovative research that harnesses the potential of these novel datasets to address pressing societal challenges and drive positive change. See the proceedings here.
Digital Footprints 2023
The 2023 conference topics were: leveraging shopping loyalty card data to understand dietary transitions and nutrient deficiency, using social media data to measure mental health and wellbeing, exploring spatial patterns of vulnerability using linked health data, using mobile phone traces to examine transport and mobility segregation in urban spaces, and investigating customer trends in take-away purchasing using geospatial data from food delivery platforms. See the proceedings here.
For enquiries, please email digitalfootprints@leeds.ac.uk