Thanks to everyone at @digital-footprints.bsky.social and the Healthy and Sustainable Places Data Service @uniofleeds.bsky.social for making the SDR UK team so welcome. A fantastic event - here’s to 2026! #DigitalFootprints25
And now for the 'Audience Choice Award'! Congrats to Weiyao Meng @uniofnottingham.bsky.social for picking up the Best Poster Prize @digital-footprints.bsky.social - as voted for by the delegates! Fantastic result!🧑🎨🎉 #DigitalFootprints25
And Highly Commended for her @digital-footprints.bsky.social conference poster was Dr @romanaburgess.bsky.social from @bristoluni.bsky.social - great work Romana 🧑🎨😀 #DigitalFootprints25
The winner of the @digital-footprints.bsky.social Poster Prize was Early Career Researcher Torran Semple from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social - great poster Torran 😀🧑🎨 #DigitalFootprints25
And congratulations to Dr Emma Wilkins @uniofleeds.bsky.social, who was Highly Commended in the Early Career Researcher Flash Talk Prize category. #DigitalFootprints25 🎉🎉
And here's early career researcher Dr Roberto Mansilla from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social talking about his experience of this year's @digital-footprints.bsky.social in Leeds #DigitalFootprints25
Listen to what some of our team have to say!🛒👣
#digitalfootprints25
Come and speak to our lab members at Poster Tour 2!
14:00-14:45
☀️Romana Burgess: Using loyalty card transaction data to track seasonal laxative purchasing in the UK
🛍️Alisha Suhag: Exploring the Use of Supermarket Loyalty Card Data in Health Research
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👋 And here's Evgeniya Lukinova from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social, one of the early career smart data researchers delighted to be taking part in Digital Footprints 2025 #DigitalFootprints25
Hannu Koivisto, biomedical engineer at Oura explains how they transform wearable data into health insights.
They’re keen to collaborate with researchers, but receive 15+ per week and have limited resource so have to prioritise
#DigitalFootprints25
Abigail Hill sharing an overview of the UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration - ‘a unique multi-faced resource, data is free and available via one application’
Potential research areas:
- Dwelling properties
- Heating financial support for the elderly
- Respiratory health
#DigitalFootprints25
Connor Gaughan from the University of Manchester presenting at the Digital Footprints Conference
Connor Gaughan from the University of Manchester discussing the value and challenges of making survey and digital trace datasets available for open access.
#DigitalFootprints25
Elizabeth Dolan from the University of Nottingham presenting at the Digital Footprints Conference
Elizabeth Dolan from the University of Nottingham ‘shopping data captures hidden health journeys: trials, delays and unmet need that don’t show up in clinical records.’
#DigitalFootprints25
I've really enjoyed being at #digitalfootprints25 with Bristol's Digital Footprints Lab :)
Poster Tour 1
💳Laura Fryer (&Huw Day): Visualisation tool for Enhancing Public Engagement Using Loyalty Card Data
📊Neo Poon: Impact of Pain on Workplace Attendance
🌎Romana Burgess: Socioeconomic factors on attitudes and behaviours regarding shopping data donation in ALSPAC
#digitalfootprints25
‘Third parties like the British Nutrition Foundation and IGD can play an important role in enabling connections, project management and sometimes funding’ Cathy Capelin, British Nutrition Foundation.
#DigitalFootprints25
Cathy Capelin discussing the Tesco Fruit and Veg in Schools programme - £4m of fruit and vegetables to 400 schools.
The British Nutrition Foundation helped identify the schools, using data including the Priority Place for Food Index.
priorityplaces.cdrc.ac.uk
#DigitalFootprints25
Michael Sinclair, University of Glasgow: Can we use mobile phone app data to understand visitation for tourist sites like the Giants Causeway?
We can, but there are challenges:
1. Data Quality
2. Technical Access and Barriers
3. Measurement Bias
4. Ethics and Trust
#DigitalFootprints25
Group of unidentifiable group of people networking at the University of Leeds
Day 2 underway here at Nexus. Looking forward to plenary presentations from Michael Sinclair from the University of Glasgow, Cathy Capelin from the British Nutrition Foundation and Hannu Koivisto from Oura.
#DigitalFootprints25
14:00-14:45, Poster Tour 2
☀️Romana Burgess: Using loyalty card transaction data to track seasonal laxative purchasing in the UK
🛍️Alisha Suhag: Exploring the Use of Supermarket Loyalty Card Data in Health Research
14:45-15:45
💼Neo Poon: ECR Panel
#digitalfootprints25
14:00-14:45, Poster Tour 2
☀️Romana Burgess: Using loyalty card transaction data to track seasonal laxative purchasing in the UK
🛍️Alisha Suhag: Exploring the Use of Supermarket Loyalty Card Data in Health Research
14:45-15:45
💼Neo Poon: ECR Panel
#digitalfootprints25
Within this session Dr Romana Burgess provided a great overview of how social data (particularly shopping data) can be used to gain insights into individual and population health #DigitalFootprints25
Great session by @thegovlab.org at #DigitalFootprints25 on using social data for health and well-being research in population and public health, social sciences, and humanities
@digital-footprints.bsky.social
Two workshops this afternoon, in this one Romana is discussing how social data (particularly shopping data) can be used to gain insights into individual and population health.
#DigitalFootprints25
Smart Data Research UK workshop underway discussing their new Public Dialogue 2025 report which launched today 👇
#DigitalFootprints25
Joe Cuddeford from Smart Data Research UK explaining their vision for a thriving, trusted research culture where smart data is routinely used to drive discovery, inform policy and improve lives.
#DigitalFootprints25
@sdruk.bsky.social
Really interesting presentation from Alice James from the University of Bristol on how they combined playful exploration with critical discussion at their public engagement events ‘Shopping Trolley Secrets’
@digifootprintslab.bsky.social
#DigitalFootprints25
Lovely to meet Alexa Spence, one of our SDR UK accelerator leads and her fellow @uniofnottingham.bsky.social smart data researchers! #DigitalFootprints25
