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If you were at the excellent #giscience2023 hoping you've not tired of University of Leeds. ...Either way, come to #gisruk2024 -- it'll be ace!

Food prices are making it more and more difficult for people to stay fed and healthy. Who's hit the hardest and how can we help? Listen to @itsRichWilliams and professors Michelle Morris @effers1 and @sgonzalez_sara discuss the issues, research and solutions: listen.podmasters.uk/HTFHealthyFood…

Today on #WorldFoodDay, we're highlighting research that supports sustainable food systems. Our faculty round-up explores research into the value of food hubs by @effers1 and traditional retail markets by @sgonzalez_sara. Read more: environment.leeds.ac.uk/faculty/news/a…

Scaling out place-based, community-centred food initiatives will look at how to grow or replicate best practice for community #foodhubs to increase their positive impact on communities, environment and local economies across the UK. #FoodSystems #CostOfLivingCrisis

CDRC's Fran Pontin, alongside colleagues from @GlobalFoodLeeds and Which?, will offer evidence to EFRA Committee on the resilience of the UK's food supply chain at 2.30pm today. Fran will be discussing insights from our Priority Places for Food Index.

Congratulations to our Nutrition and Lifestyle Analytics team from University of Leeds who were today awarded an Economic and Social Research Council Celebrating Impact Prize. The team were delighted to accept the award with our project partners Sainsbury’s and Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD).

This week we took evidence for our Fairness in the food supply chain inquiry. We questioned witnesses on access to affordable and healthy food. Sue Davies, Head of Consumer Rights and Food Policy Which? told us that food prices are a worry for 83% of people. Watch below👇

Interested in being a Research Fellow in Mobility Data Science at the University of Leeds? - is looking for two researchers to work with him and the CDRC team on mobility behaviour and data 👇

Last week Dr Fran Pontin gave evidence to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee on ‘Fairness in the food supply’, sharing insights from our Priority Places for Food Index & the team's wider research. Read more on her key points here 👇 cdrc.ac.uk/cdrc-evidence-…

This is your reminder to be kind to your 2024 selves and avoid the usual last minute GISRUK abstract rush (deadline is Monday 8th January 2024) . Call for papers: 2024.gisruk.org//cfp/ We look forward to welcoming you to University of Leeds on 9th – 12th April 2024

📢 Calling @gisruk-ers, recent past + 2024 (2024.gisruk.org). We've an E&P B: Urban Analytics and City Science SI for showcasing the community's excellent Data/Code outputs. Submissions due: Sep 24. 👇 journals.sagepub.com/page/epb/colle…

📢 Registration for #gisruk2024 is now open! * Early bird deadline: *18th March* * Fee waiver bursary deadline: *4th March* Details on website... 👇 2024.gisruk.org

New paper from Matt Keeble exploring public acceptability of local planning restrictions on new takeaways around schools. 51% of adults support, 37% neutral, 9% opposed. Thus new proposals are unlikely to be met with substantial public disapproval tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

📢 Our webinar exploring how to scale up community-led food initiatives in partnership with is now available! It gives an insight into efforts to build a global movement to ensure all citizens have access to healthy and #nutritious food. Watch in full: ➡️

Hear how this project team are using our Priority Places for Food Index to help improve understanding of how to scale up or replicate place-based, community-led food initiatives. Explore the index: priorityplaces.cdrc.ac.uk Listen to the webinar 👇

Next up is a panel of some of our previous Data Impact Fellows! They'll be answering questions & discussing the challenges/opportunities for ECRs. Great to have two our current Fellows hosting the panel Natasha Chilman Tasos Papastylianou #UKDSPovertyInData

How can we scale out the work of community-centred 'food hubs' to tackle food insecurity across the UK? Research by @effers1 (SRI Leeds), Michelle Morris (Earth and Environment at Leeds), Rachel Oldroyd (Geography at Leeds) and colleagues at the The Food Foundation hopes to address this need. ⬇️youtube.com/watch?v=iA8g1u…

We’re at #IMGS2024 this week. Rachel Oldroyd is presenting today on socio-demographic factors impacting antidepressant prescribing. Fran Pontin presented on Monday on identifying policy intervention areas where food insecurity risk is impacting childhood obesity rates.

🕸 Our latest webinar exploring how to scale up community-led food initiatives in partnership with University of Leeds takes place next week! Featuring Gemma Bridge Rachel Oldroyd and @effers1 it will summarise findings from 10 community food projects. Sign up: bit.ly/3y6EFPx

👏A big thank you to everyone who took part on Saturday in the first of our UK-wide public dialogue events with Sciencewise. Workshops ran in Belfast, Gateshead, Inverness, London and Newport with excellent talks from Paul Monks and Rachel Oldroyd. More here: bit.ly/3XytBEU