Tag Archives: Air quality

Using social media data to track health and wellbeing impacts of pollen and air pollution

May 4, 2017 · by · in Background, Project progress · 1 Comment

We have started work on a new ESRC funded project which will develop and evaluate prototype “social sensing” tools that use social media data to monitor environmental triggers (pollen and air pollution) for asthma and hayfever. We aim to help build the evidence base for the feasibility of the use of social sensing in an […]

Job opportunity – Social sensing data to assess health and wellbeing impacts of pollen and air pollution

March 15, 2017 · by · in Job, Project progress · Leave a comment

We are working with Dr Hywel Williams on an ESRC funded New and Emerging Forms of Data Policy Demonstrator Projects focusing on the use of social sensing data to understand the health and wellbeing impacts from pollen and air pollution. Hywel is searching for a Post-doc with a PhD in computer science or a related […]