Overview

UKRI's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) plans a major investment into strengthen and grow capacity, infrastructure and impactful research in the arena of Digital Footprints data and economics and social research.

Join us for a day-long discussion about the importance of Digital Footprints (DF) data and how to indentify community needs in this area. Featuring a range of perspectives and highlighting current DF resources and research, we welcome participation from academic researchers, industry and government.

Draft Programme

10:00-10:30: Arrivals

Tea, coffee and mingling

10:30-10:45: Welcome and overview of the day

Rachel Franklin, Newcastle University + Alan Turing Institute

10:45-11:00: Introducing the Digital Footprints Programme

Deborah Kroll, ESRC

11:00-11:30: Hearing from existing investments

Paul Longley and Nik Lomax, The Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC)
Nick Bailey, The Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC)

11:30-12:00: The Digital Footprints Data + AI/data science interface

Daniel Arribas-Bel, University of Liverpool + Alan Turing Institute
Omar Guerrero, Alan Turing Institute

12:00-12:30: Government and Governance Perspectives

Rosalind Goodfellow, Geospatial Commission
Laura Carter, Ada Lovelace Institute

12:30-13:30: Lunch

13:30-14:30: Researcher Perspectives

Jonathan Reades, University College London
Emilio Zagheni, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Ridhi Kashyup, University of Oxford
Elena Musi, University of Liverpool

14:30-15:00: Getting involved + Q & A

Simeon Yates, University of Liverpool
Rachel Franklin, Newcastle University + Alan Turing Institute

15:00-15:15: What ESRC is looking for

Bruce Jackson, ESRC

15:15-15:45: Industry Perspectives

Gill Kingston, Meta
Scott Counts, Microsoft (virtual)

15:45-16:00: Closing remarks

Rachel Franklin, Newcastle University + Alan Turing Institute

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