We’re delighted to release our Annual Report for 2021. It’s been a busy year for the Collaborative - we’ve expanded our team, met with lots of new people, built new partnerships and grown our project portfolio!

Data for Children Collaborative with UNICEF’s Director Alex Hutchison won DataIQ 2021 Award in the Data for Good Champion category.

Have a read about what our small but mighty team get up to on a day-to-day basis and what they’re most excited about for the Collaborative this year.

The Data for Children Collaborative with UNICEF supports the delivery of a new Children’s Climate Risk Index (CCRI) which will provide UNICEF with vital information about where children are most at-risk from the impacts of climate change, both now and in the future.

Over the last year we were delighted to be involved in helping to develop an Ethical Framework and Workbook for the Scottish Government’s Data and Intelligence Network. The aim? To create a practical and valuable tool that helped to embed ethical decision making across the Network’s data science projects.

It's been a busy few weeks for us as we've made the transition to Edinburgh Futures Institute. Read this blog from our Director Alex Hutchison, sharing her thoughts on our new home.

Our partners at the ONS FCDO Data Science Hub have been exploring if machine learning methods and publicly available spatial datasets can be used to map and understand HIV risk in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa for our HIV project.

Our Population Estimation project team have recently published a paper on their work so far.

When Covid-19 forced the closure of schools in Scotland to most pupils in March 2020, there was widespread concern about the impact this might have on the mental health and wellbeing of young people.

The theme of this year’s World Obesity Day is #EveryBodyNeedsEverybody.

Read about the work our nutrition project team has been doing to analyse the Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) cohort of data to inform the design of obesity/overweight surveillance systems internationally.

We like to be transparent about our ways of working. That’s why we have completed an Impact Statement for the Impact Collaborations process (phew - that’s a bit of a tongue twister!), so you can read about our key learnings and achievements from our first few projects.

To celebrate the International Day of Women & Girls in STEM, we wanted to highlight some of the talented women working on projects for the Collaborative.

For Safer Internet Day 2021, we’ve joined the conversation about how to build an Internet we trust. The internet has an amazing range of information and opportunities online, but how do we separate fact from fiction?

We are delighted to celebrate the inclusion of our director Alex Hutchison as part of the dataIQ 100 most influential people in data.

We’re excited to celebrate the nomination of our Programme Administrator, Alessandra Fassio, as a Women in AI Hero! #WAIROE

Watch a recording of lunch and learn webinar session inviting academics to learn more about the Collaborative and our ways of working.

We hosted a webinar to celebrate the achievements of our first Impact Collaborations project: ‘Addressing socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 on children in Scotland: A review of capability and available data assets.’ You can access the recording here.

Read our Director Alex Hutchison’s interview with PrivSec global where she discusses the Collaborative and how we are improving outcomes for children through ethical data use.

We attended UNICEF Innocenti’s Leading Minds Webinar to discover more about the current infodemic and how this puts children at risk.

Read all about the impacts of our Building Footprint Identification project.