Author: Emily Sheard (gy14ejs@leeds.ac.uk) Effective crime prevention relies on the identification of variables which render particular persons, or places, at a heightened risk of victimisation e.g. possession of desirable goods or inadequate security measures. The practical utility of such insights can, however, be limited due to a lack of information...
Author: Lili Xiang I’m a first-year PhD student in CSAP and this is an outline of my PhD research: Background: Education is key to reducing polarisation and difference and itself is an important factor of social differentiation. Since China is experiencing rapid urbanisation, both educational and social equality are facing...
By Rachel Oldroyd In October 2015, I started a part-time PhD in the Consumer Data Research Centre on the topic of Spatial Data Analytics for Food Safety. This is a White Rose DTC project which forms part of the Big Data and Food Safety Network, funded by the Economic and...
Author: Stephen Clark. My PhD began in January 2012 and, nearly 4 years later, the end is in sight. The topic area is close to epidemiology but with a strong geographic context. My task was to try and forecast, for the medium term, the health condition of the older population...