The UBDC will be hosting a stall at Migrants in the City: New Dynamics of of Migration in Urban Settings, a conference at the University of Sheffield from 12th-13th October. UBDC Co-I, Prof. Gwilym Pryce, and Research Associate, Dan Olner, will be available to answer questions about the UBDC and their research on Population movements and economi...

UBDC Director, Prof. Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah will be a keynote speaker at the PASCAL Observatory 12th Annual Conference in Catania, Italy from 7-9 October, 2015. The 12th PASCAL conference will be hosted by one of Italy’s leading institutions, the University of Catania in the beautiful island of Sicily. The theme of the conference co...

UBDC researcher Dr. Catherine Lido will be presenting at Learning Cities 2015 on "Using urban ‘Big Data’ to evaluate modern learning cities" (view abstract below), which is research being undertaken by Dr. Lido and by UBDC Co-I, Professor Mike Osborne. Dr. Lido will be representing the UBDC and the University of Glasgow School of Education as pa...

UBDC Director, Prof. Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah will speak at the Opening of the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics in Leeds, UK on Friday, 10th of July.