New Data for Understanding the Human Condition:International Perspectives
Participant: David DeRoure Date: 28 March 2013 Dissemination / Communication
Obesity e-Lab: e-Infrastructure for inter-disciplinary collaborative research into obesity
- Start date: 01 September 2008
- End date: 29 February 2012
Background: Obesity is associated with ill health and causes early death. More people are getting obese world-wide and the health and economic consequences are grave. The rising cost of obesity-related diabetes care alone threatens to bankrupt the NHS. Reducing obesity is a key priority for the Government, yet there is insufficient evidence to support specific policies. The proximal cause of obesity is simple: an energy imbalance between intake (diet) and expenditure. However, the distal determinants, and their relationships, are unclear. E-Social Science can help improve the evidence base and inform policy-making.
Aim: The Obesity e-Lab project aims to enable social and biomedical researchers to share data, information and analytical tools for obesity research.
Objectives and methods: A web-based system will be created to provide access to relevant information and facilitate social networking. Search and navigation tools will be generated for researchers in academic, NHS or local government organisations to find data from administrative and secure data services, via social science views of health datasets, and health science views of social datasets. Accessible analytical tools will then be developed, bringing deeper and wide-spread, social analysis into obesity research in academic, public health, NHS and local government settings.
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New Data for Understanding the Human Condition:International Perspectives
Speaker: David DeRoure Date: 28 March 2013 Dissemination / Communication
Co-evolution of digital technologies and research methods
Speaker: David DeRoure Date: 28 March 2013 Dissemination / Communication
Digital Social Research: Harnessing Technology for Social Science Research
Speaker: David DeRoure Date: 28 March 2013 Dissemination / Communication
Speaker: David DeRoure Date: 28 March 2013 Dissemination / Communication
Speaker: Ian Dunlop Date: 04 October 2012 Dissemination / Communication
Speaker: Shoaib Sufi Date: 04 October 2012 Conference paper/presentation
Methodbox : finding surveys and sharing methods
Speaker: Ian Dunlop Date: 27 September 2012 Seminar/workshop
Author: Sarah Thew Date: 03 September 2012 Conference paper/presentation
Author: Iain Buchan Date: 16 August 2012 Conference paper/presentation
Speaker: Ian Dunlop Date: 15 August 2012 Seminar/workshop
Speaker: Sarah King-Hele Date: 15 August 2012 Conference paper/presentation
Author: Dexter Cannoy Date: 19 July 2012 Dissemination / Communication
Author: Dexter Cannoy Date: 19 July 2012 Dissemination / Communication
Organiser: Sarah Thew Date: 19 July 2012 Organised event
Speaker: Georgina Moulton Date: 18 July 2012 Seminar/workshop
Author: Iain Buchan Date: 17 July 2012 Conference paper/presentation
Author: Ian Dunlop Date: 17 July 2012 Conference paper/presentation
Author: Urara Hiroeh Date: 17 July 2012 Seminar/workshop
Author: Urara Hiroeh Date: 17 July 2012 Seminar/workshop
Author: Sarah Thew Date: 17 July 2012 Seminar/workshop
Author: Sarah Thew Date: 05 July 2012 Conference proceedings
Author: Iain Buchan Date: 18 May 2012 Dissemination / Communication
Author: Iain Buchan Date: 18 May 2012 Dissemination / Communication
Speaker: Dexter Cannoy Date: 18 May 2012 Dissemination / Communication