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  • Open Data for Neighbourhood Health: How AHAH Can Support England’s New Health Framework

    On 17 March 2026, the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England published the Neighbourhood Health Framework, setting out how the NHS and local authorities will reorganise health and care services around defined local populations. The framework represents the most significant structural commitment to place-based health delivery in England in over a decade,…

  • Beyond the Method: What the Geographic Information Science Community Must Do to Matter

    This week our Director Alex Singleton participated in a roundtable discussion hosted in the House of Lords by Lord Errol, organised by the Connected Places Catapult, bringing together industry and public sector leaders with interests in geospatial data and insight. Conversation ranged across data stewardship, skills pipelines, the language of business, digital twins, and the…

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    Unlocking the power of geographic data—by Professor Paul Longley

    Professor Paul Longley explains how the Geographic Data Service is transforming research by connecting smart data to real places and people More data is collected about us today than at any point in human history. Ever-increasing proportions are smart data, collected and retained as a by-product of human interactions with smartphones and other digital devices.…

  • PhD Funding: Multimodal AI & Geodemographic Classification

    The University of Liverpool offers a PhD opportunity focused on using multimodal AI to enhance geodemographic classifications. The project explores the integration of large language models and vision language models to develop accessible narratives and visuals. Candidates should have a strong background in geography, data science, or related fields.

  • The geography of economic insecurity in Great Britain

    The Financial Precarity Classification presents the first national atlas of financial precarity in Great Britain, illustrating geographic variation in the types of challenges local communities are facing.

  • Gentrified London neighbourhoods seeing major population churn, GeoDS research using smart data reveals

    Research on gentrification in London, undertaken by the Geographic Data Service in collaboration with Trust for London, was featured on BBC Politics London.