Hub
Research Hub
UofG social scientists receive UKRI funding for data-driven research
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Research Themes
Housing and neighbourhoods
Revealing housing needs through smart data to advance adequate, affordable homes for all.
Transport and mobility
Uncovering travel behaviours and access patterns to drive more sustainable, equitable mobility.
Environment & Health
Exploring the links between urban environments and health to address inequalities and improve wellbeing.
Participatory Analytics
Placing people and communities at the centre of data innovation to co‑create just and sustainable urban futures.
City Modelling & Sensing
Expanding real‑time sensing and computational modelling to reimagine and design the cities of tomorrow.
Current Research Projects
Understanding use of urban greenspaces through big data
The overall aim of this project is to incorporate mobile phone data to better understand human interactions with urban greenspaces and how this dynamic has changed for different sectors of the population throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.
Changing travel behaviour
Understanding current travel behaviour is only part of a transport planner’s job as achieving targets relating to decarbonisation, air quality and physical activity will inevitably require substantial changes in how we travel.
Valuing energy efficiency and clean heating
There isno pathway to Net Zero without the near-complete decarbonisation of heat inhousing. In this project, we seek to provide high quality evidence on progressin relation to this goal to support public policy and wider debate.
Publications
Did COVID-19 discriminate in the global South? Revealing heterogeneity of urban households’ livelihood resilience based on evidence from Bangladesh, China, India and Philippines.
Developing an annual global Sub-National scale economic data from 1992 to 2021 using nighttime lights and deep learning.
Transportation and process modelling-assisted techno-economic assessment of resource recovery from non-recycled municipal plastic waste.
Meet our team and join the UBDC Community
At UBDC, you’ll join an international community of researchers, data scientists, social scientists and innovators using data and AI to understand and improve urban life. Our team brings together diverse expertise and perspectives to tackle the complex challenges facing cities worldwide.
Visit our people pages to meet the researchers, technical specialists and partners who make UBDC a leading centre for urban analytics and AI. Be part of our vibrant community by following our updates, sharing insights and engaging in conversations about data innovations and AI in urban policy.
Vanessa Galeano Duque
Researcher
Xingyi Du
PhD Student Researcher
Yuchen Xie
PhD student researcher
Jiazhi Zhu
PhD student researcher
Haoyu Tian
PhD student researcher
Sebastian Hafner
Research Associate
Mingyu Zhu
Research Assistant
Luning Li
Research Associate in Urban Analytics
Oluwatimilehin Shonowo
PhD Student researcher
Yuxiao Li
PhD student researcher
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