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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.
Methodological challenges of digital footprint data for mobility analysis
Digital footprint data offers a variety of new and exciting opportunities for transport planners. However, with these new opportunities come new challenges. This work packages uses a variety of different forms of digital footprint data and works to understand where the data can make a valuable contribution.
Valuing energy efficiency and clean heating
There is no pathway to Net Zero without the near-complete decarbonisation of heat in housing. In this project, we seek to provide high quality evidence on progress in 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.
Eric Kodua Tweneboah
PhD student researcher
Pengyuan Liu
Lecturer in Digital Planning
Vanessa Galeano-Duque
Research Associate
Xingyi Du
Research Assistant
Darren Dixon
Project Officer
Yuchen Xie
PhD student researcher
Jiazhi Zhu
PhD student researcher
Haoyu Tian
PhD student researcher
Sebastian Hafner
Research Associate
Mingyu Zhu
Research Fellow
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