This report brings together findings from two linked work packages: one exploring data protection officer (DPO) challenges through discovery sessions, surveys, and stakeholder mapping; and the other investigating how existing tools support (or fail to support) practice through interviews and focus groups.  

This report brings together an overall narrative review of what good data sharing looks like in practice, alongside a set of detailed examples from a number of US and European jurisdictions, including recent successes from within Scotland.

This report focuses on the development of a Transparency Enhancement Tool using semantic ontology to help visualise data flows, stoppages, and organisational dependencies. 

This report focuses on exploratory research into workforce training and development for data sharing.

This report focuses on organisational risk maturity and the communication of risk guidance within the care ‘system’.

This is a summary of a white paper assessing the current state of public service integration across statutory, public, third, and independent sector organisations.

This Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) Template Pack combines narrative structure with visual representation to better understand risk, roles, and responsibilities. The report outlines how the DPIA template can be used in practice, making data sharing arrangements easier to assess, communicate, and explain.

This sandbox provides a practical demonstration environment to illustrate the art of the possible for person-centred, transparent, and secure data sharing.

This interim presentation visualises data flows mapped within this project, using existing composite stories to clearly map how data moves across organisations and systems. 

Workshop report exploring innovative methods developed by Data for Children Collaborative and Futures and Design at the Edinburgh Futures Institute to establish a social licence for data use at Young Scot. 

This report addresses the mental health and well-being of adolescents in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan through a comprehensive Digital Ecosystem Analysis. This initiative maps available digital resources that support adolescents through the provision of culturally sensitive and accessible mental health services.

A research report by a postgraduate student, Kyra Fong. This report explores how Scottish secondary school students experience digital data collection and privacy in their education and how they want to learn about these issues in the future.

Bespoke Workbook for Designing Responsible Youth Participation, developed while supporting The Data Tank’s NextGenData initiative, which focuses on pioneering a new approach to youth engagement in data and service provision.

Phase 2 Report: As a part of phase 2 of the project, which explored the seasonal effects on wasting scores, this report proposes a robust, data-driven protocol to correct observed wasting prevalence for seasonal variation at a global scale.

An extended dataset of individual travel time maps for the 54 countries across the African continent and its island states, generated with the precision of a 100-meter resolution.

Executive summary: We supported UNICEF in exploring innovative ways to understand online mental health and well-being discourse. Our project looked at using AI to identify online discussions of young people on mental health, combining focus group input, annotated datasets, and experiments with large language models (LLMs) in English and Russian.

This presentation, prepared by Dr Clare Llewellyn, a lecturer in Governance, Technology and Data at the University of Edinburgh, outlines the methods and key findings of our project with UNICEF which investigated developing a methodology for using AI to identify social media discussions on mental health and well-being from young people and adolescents.   

Infographic: As part of our project focusing on developing a methodology for using AI to identify social media discussions of mental health and well-being, we ran a few youth engagement sessions together with UNICEF country offices in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.

This case study outlines how Data for Children Collaborative’s processes allowed for a reimagining of the End of Violence multi-country study to bring in the voices of youth.

This case study explains how the Data for Children Collaborative Facilitated a Collaborative Solution for UNICEF to Support them in Exploring Ways to Better Understand Access to Child Services.