Rethinking food systems to tackle food waste
Food systems have reportedly been largely omitted from the Cop26 agenda, with critics asking: why isn’t food waste a priority? A few years ago, I worked with the leading UK charity…
Too Big to Fail
I remember the first time that I began to really understand the broad impact of the internet across all of our lives. Several years ago, I rang at…
Data for Policy 2021 conference
14–16 September 2021 Data science innovation in governance and the public sector. Zena Wood and Phil Godsiff presented papers for Digitally Enhanced Advanced Services Network+ Find out more on the Data…
How accurate are online symptom checkers?
From paper by Adam Ceney, Stephanie Tolond, Andrzej Glowinski, Ben Marks, Simon Swift, and Tom Palser. In 2013, the World Health Organisation reported that the world was short…
HICSS Conference: Call for papers
Co-creating value in the Circular Economy with financial services minitrack Minitrack cochairs: Zena Wood and Phil Godsiff, with Kyle Alves (University of the West of England) and Scott…
Doing Digital Differently: Learnings on Data, Collective Action, and Social Value
Earlier this month I had the pleasure of chairing the Digital Leaders Third Public Sector Innovation Conference. It was a really interesting day: there was a palpable realisation by…
Data-driven Design – Not a Game of Chess
The increasing availability of data provides opportunities to improve, optimise and reduce waste in current systems, products and processes. One of my research interests lies in understanding how…
Assessing COVID-19’s Mortality Trend
I recently co-authored a paper exploring 28-day mortality for patients hospitalized for COVID-19 in England over the first 5 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the opening paragraphs…
Call for proposals via DEAS Network+: Financial Services
The Digitally Enhanced Advanced Services (DEAS) Network+ has released a call inviting proposals for research that addresses the challenges of one of our industry partners from Financial Services…
Avoiding Food Shortages: Lessons Learned From Covid-19
At the start of the first lockdown, images of depleted supermarket shelves sparked fears of food shortages. In early April 2020, we saw headlines like “Coronavirus UK: Fears…