Data Science for Common Good

Empowering communities through data

Our Mission

Our mission is to unleash the transformative potential of data science to empower people and communities for a brighter future serving the common good. By putting people at the heart of data science, we aim to combine humans' collective experience and perspectives with data and AI to foster social innovation, co-creation and collective action.

Contact information

Research Group Leads

Professor Sebastien Chastin

Email: Sebastien.Chastin@gcu.ac.uk

Dr Zoë Tieges

Email: zoe.tieges@gcu.ac.uk

More ways to get in touch

Group email: DS4CG@gcu.ac.uk

Data lab community page: https://community.thedatalab.com/topics/38765/feed

Follow us on Twitter @Data4CommonGood or on LinkedIN

Latest news

Brain Health Alliance

GCU is improving brain health as part of new £2.4m boost for collaborative research

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Climate and health

New research finds that living near a canal cuts chronic disease risk

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Blue space experts give local communities a voice

Watch GCU researcher Niamh Smith and Hayden Atkin MSYP speak about research into the effects of blue spaces on health and wellbeing in North Glasgow.


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PhD opportunities

Find PhD opportunities at The School of Health and Life Sciences.

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SafePod

The SafePod Network (SPN) is a major research innovation to provide and manage a standardised safe settings across the UK

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Patient and public involvement

Find out more about patient and public involvement in our research.

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ReaCH

We are focused on enhancing the lives of people with long-term health conditions, developing and evaluating public health and lifestyle interventions.

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