LIDA is co-producing research and innovation between the academic, commercial, government and third sector communities. Below are examples of projects conducted by researchers from LIDA and our partners.
Project Background Understanding hate crime is a priority for police forces across England and Wales. Since the EU referendum in June 2016, there has been renewed emphasis on the importance of preventing hate crime and providing support for victims. The Home Office reported an...
Project Background Understanding hate crime is a priority for police forces across England and Wales. Since the EU referendum in June 2016, there has been renewed emphasis on the importance of preventing hate crime and providing support for victims. The Home Office reported an increase of 29% in...
The UK statistics on bowel cancer are clear. It is the fourth most common cancer in the UK, with over 41,000 new cases each year. Just under 16,000 people die each year from the disease, making it the second most common cause of cancer death. But behind these numbers lies another story – that diagnosis,...
Immersive technologies - including virtual, augmented and mixed reality - are radically changing the way we use technology. The University of Leeds is at the forefront of research in this area,...
So many of the services that we all take for granted – water, digital connectivity, transport, or energy – require huge amounts of planning to get right. Because the systems underpinning these services are so complex, the business of making decisions about where to focus investment requires sophisticated...
The purpose of HABITS is to design improved policy to mitigate pollutant and inactivity related health burdens through new big data opportunities. Researchers at the University of Leeds will be working in partnership with Newcastle City Council to explore the potential...
Charlotte Sturley, University of Leeds Project Background The proliferation of smartphone ownership and app usage has enabled new forms of data collection relating to transport behaviour. Currently, data is collected via transport surveys which have small sample sizes,...
Katie Nicoll Baines1, 2, Karen Siu Ting2,3, Chris J. Creevey3, Mary J. O’Connell2* 1Leeds Institute for Data Analytics, and 2Computational and Molecular Evolutionary Biology Group, University...
Bethan Swift, Phani Kumar Chintakayala and William Young University of Leeds Project Background There are large differences in the rates of household bin use in different parts of Leeds with a high level of contamination being seen...
Alice Tapper, Dr Jonathan Ward, Dr Nicolas Malleson and Dr Andrew Evans University of Leeds Project background Agent-based models (ABMs) play a useful role in the social sciences, helping us to understand emergent patterns...