Welcome to our Knowledge Zone!

UNICEF has generated a new report, supported by our climate change project team, to highlight the unique risks that heatwaves pose for children.

This report is an output from our Poverty team, and it describes the work conducted for the Child Poverty and Access to Services (CPAS) project. The project's ultimate aim was to determine if geographic access to health centres correlated with multidimensional child poverty.

This report is an output from our Mental Health project feasibility phase, aiming to establish foundational knowledge, requirements and frameworks, which will lead to developing replicable research methodologies.

The objective of the focus group discussions was to evaluate the ways that adolescents and young people interact with technology.

UNICEF have generated a new report, supported by our climate change project team, to highlight the real risk that climate change poses on children and young people, now and in the future.

This report has been compiled as part of the Children’s Climate Risk Index (CCRI) Project for UNICEF based on the work undertaken for the systematic literature review.

Based on the youth-centred activities carried out for Young People Advisors, the Inspire Accelerator: Young People Advisors Report And Guide was created. The guide provides tangible examples for involving youth in research and assessment of interventions that directly impact their well-being.

Youth volunteers from five countries – Brazil, China, Colombia, Cote d’Ivore, and Uganda – looked into the implementation and outcomes of specific INSPIRE interventions. As a result of their participation, five case studies were produced – each of which assessed the successes and challenges of interventions.

This report by CivicDataLab captures the work undertaken with stakeholders to identify the shared knowledge gap across local authorities, identify the most appropriate indicators and map the suitable data sources that can be used at the school catchment aggregation.

As part of our Northern Alliance project, this report by the Fraser of Allander Institute looks across a wide range of data, some of which are rural specific, to scope out alternative evidence that could be used by schools and local authorities to identify issues that may be impacting attainment.

A poster designed for conference presentation by our Population Estimation project team. This highlights key aspects of their work towards sustainable census independent population estimation in Mozambique.

As part of our climate change project, helping UNICEF to develop their Children’s Climate Risk Index, we have produced a policy brief that highlights just how vulnerable children are to the risks of climate change.

A thought piece based on the analyses of the “Growing up in Scotland (GUS)” child cohort.

A summary of the outputs of our webinar discussion for our project addressing the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 on children in Scotland.

A topic map exploring priority areas for youth and climate change.

The outputs of a topic mapping exercise to understand priority areas for adolescent mental health, with a focus on measuring and monitoring.

A blog detailing our involvement with the creation of the Scottish Government’s Data and Intelligence Network Ethical Workbook.

An Impact Statement for our project examining how isolation, school closure and exam cancellation caused by Covid-19 affected the mental health of young people.

An Impact Statement for our project addressing the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 on children.

An Impact Statement for our Building Footprint Identification project.

A case study feature for the Collaborative by the University of Edinburgh’s Data Driven Innovation programme.

An interview with Ethical Intelligence to discuss both the journey of creating the Ethical Assessment as well as now implementing it over the past year of its existence.

A blog taking stock of what it has been like to set up a (large!) global collaborative team to work on such an important project.

An Impact Statement for our ethical assessment.

Final Report: This project explored the seasonal effects of wasting scores with the goal of establishing if it is possible to answer the following question: “what would the wasting score have been had it been measured in a different month of that year?”

Git Hub code from Phase 1 of the Building Heights project. The aim of this project was to use a convolutional-deconvolutional neural network to predict building height data from satellite images.

Git Hub code from Phase 2 of the Building Heights project. The aim of this project was to use a convolutional-deconvolutional neural network to predict building height data from satellite images.

A guide on how to conduct a systematic review on a global scale. Each section will show the steps taken, recommendations, and reflections on each part of the process. The four steps this guide will discuss are recruitment, designing the study, training & engagement of the reviewers, and creating outputs.

A rapid literature review prepared to support UNICEF’s work in assessing the unique risks heat waves have on children globally.

A paper introducing a collaborative, demand-driven methodology for the development of a strategic adolescent mental health research agenda.

A report conducting an investigation into how to collect and map data on 'what matters' to Children and Families in Scotland.

A paper presenting the data and methods used to create more realistic estimates of travel times to health facilities in Uganda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

As part of our project: Understanding Poverty and Attainment Across the Northern Alliance Region, The University of Strathclyde’s Fraser of Allander Institute completed a statistical analysis paper of the educational mobility of primary schools across Scotland.

A paper outlining a secondary analysis of data from the Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) cohort for predictors of obesity at the age of 12, present at school entry (age 5-6).

A paper exploring recent representation learning approaches, and assessing the transferability of representations to population estimation in Mozambique.

This interactive atlas allows users to visualize the Children’s Climate Risk Index (CCRI) and its key components on a map.

A collection of travel time maps to various health services produced as part of our Child Poverty Access to Services project.

Read more in this blog from Data Scientist Joseph Crispell, one of the collaborative partners working on the project, about the preliminary analysis conducted in our HIV project.

An interim paper on the work our Population Estimation team has carried out so far.

Read the final report from our project examining the impacts of isolation on young people’s mental health.

An evidence review based on our project addressing the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 on children.

A range of data catalogue outputs from our project addressing the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 on children.

A presentation from some of the experts on our team about our current HIV project looking to target interventions for adolescents in Côte d'Ivoire.