Data for Children Collaborative Deputy Director Fraser Macdonald has joined the Young Scot Board.
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Our annual report is a chance for us to reflect on our progress, what we've learned and, most importantly, how we use data to improve children's outcomes. We are excited to share with you some of the highlights, showing how our work continues to create real-world impact.
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Fraser Macdonald, Deputy Director at the Data for Children Collaborative, has been honoured with the prestigious DataIQ Award for 2023 in the Data for Good Champion category. This award recognises his outstanding dedication to utilising data and analytics to improve society, mainly focusing on child-centric challenges.
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A short interview with our new Senior Project Manager, Olivia Hale. Olivia joined our team in May this year with extensive project management experience, thorough understanding of knowledge exchange and impact best practice in a research environment, and knowledge of internal structures/networks at the University of Edinburgh. Olivia has indeed hit the ground running in her new role.
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We are calling all young people aged between 13-18 years old living in Scotland! We want to hear about your experiences of sport and exercise before, during and after the pandemic. By participating in this, you can share your stories and photos of what sport and exercise mean to you.
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At the Data for Children Collaborative, we continually reflect on our own methods and seek opportunities to refine how we deliver on complex challenges. Response to March Dictionary Entry by Kristy Docherty on Collective Leadership. Crafted by Fraser Macdonald - Data for Children Collaborative, Deputy Director
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Abertay University's School of Sport and Exercise Sciences has launched a research study to understand the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on children and young people's recreational sport and exercise participation in Scotland. The sturdy is a part of a collaborative, nationwide project with the Observatory for Sport in Scotland, Data for Children Collaborative, and private sector organisations.
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Generally, when it comes to collaborating, our attention is naturally concentrated on ‘what do we want to achieve?’ This answer is almost always focused on the task or the reason for collaborating in the first place. This is not wrong, however, what if we took the time to think about how we would like to work as a group, to notice how we work, how we are interacting, and how we are behaving, as we collaborate?
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With climate change an ever-increasing presence in today’s news and media, a lot of talk is based around how policy today impacts the climate of the future.
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Working in a domain that has such high stakes around decisions that are made, given the impact on children directly, on service providers working with children or indeed on data and models, it is essential that all of our activities are directed by ‘good governance’.
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As the Data for Children Collaborative transitions from our initial start up phase, we gathered our partners, colleagues and stakeholders for an overview of what we have achieved and our plans for the future..
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We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic, and systematic Senior Project Manager to join our dynamic team at the Data for Children Collaborative. The deadline for applications is 27th January 2023.
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When offered the opportunity to work on an expert group report on Building Trust in the Digital Era, commissioned by the Scottish Government, our team leapt at the chance. Ethics is such a central part to our thinking at the Data for Children Collaborative that the idea that we could support work aimed at influencing change in this area really chimed with our broader goal of being ethical activists.
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At the Data for Children Collaborative, we love challenges. We are continually building challenge-led projects aimed at improving outcomes for children globally. We do this because we believe that they enable collaborative innovation, novel solutions, and real impact.
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As an organisation that prides itself in collaboration, just how collaborative are we, and how can that be defined? Dictionary entry by our Director, Alex Hutchison.
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Guest blog by Claire Barale, a PhD student at the Centre for Technomoral Futures, about Natural Language Processing (NLP): what is it and what are its limitations?
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In efforts to set out a roadmap for a fairer digital Scotland, the Scottish Government publishes ‘Building Trust in the Digital Era: Achieving Scotland’s Aspirations as an Ethical Digital Nation Digital Ethics Expert Group Report’. The key narrative of this publication is building trust with the people of Scotland through engaging them in digital decisions that affect their lives.
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On 25th October 2022, UNICEF released a report: “The coldest year of the rest of their lives: Protecting children from the escalating impacts of heatwaves”.
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We’re delighted to release our Annual Report for 2022. It’s been a busy year for the Collaborative. With 7 project underway, 10 completed and 32 project partners, it has been a year of growth for us as a data collaborative and learning how to bring data to life with the human side of the story.
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We are thrilled to announce that The Data for Children Collaborative with UNICEF has won DataIQ 2022 Data for Society Award for its innovative approach to leveraging data to tackle some of the world's most pressing issues, with a focus on children.
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