Ready for 2022 – after another great year!
2021 was another great year for us at INDEX. From published papers to partaking in panel discussions, there is a lot to choose from for our highlights of the last twelve months. Funding We’ve had multiple projects funded, but one that stands out is our DIGIT Lab. This £12 million project has allowed us to […]
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 organization fighting food waste, FareShare. The project was a study I co-authored, looking at how service innovations can contribute to the alleviation of food poverty. This would […]
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 the front door of a geeky friend of mine for a meeting we’d arranged. No answer. I kept trying with the same response. Eventually, I called him […]
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+
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 of 7.2 million healthcare professionals of all disciplines. This is predicted to grow to 12.9 million by 2035. Primary care is particularly affected, with severe shortages being […]
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 Sampson (Brigham Young University). The financial services sector (banking, insurance and investing) is crucial for a healthy, green and stable economy. Like most sectors, financial service providers […]
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 us all that something had changed during the pandemic, and that the need to accelerate digital and data-enabled transformation of public services was more universally accepted than […]
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 data can be used to innovate, create, customise, or design products and experiences – as opposed to optimising systems based on available data. Thus, within this context, […]
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 here, and the full article on the Journal of Hospital Medicine website. The early phase of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in the United Kingdom (UK) […]
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 (EHAB and HMRC). Proposals are invited up to £20,000 (Full Economic Cost) that address the call criteria. The call is of interest to researchers in Finance and […]
