Foundations

Foundations research sits at the interface of methods and application: its aim has been to develop novel methodology inspired by the real-world challenge.

Health

The Health theme has a wide scope. Current areas of strength include spatial and spatiotemporal methods in global public health, design and analysis of clinical trials, epidemic forecasting and demographic modelling, health informatics and genetics.

Society

Data science takes new approaches to understanding long-standing social problems concerning energy use, city life, climate change, the knowledge economy, ecologies of media, design and communication in everyday life, or the distribution of wealth in financialised economies.

Environment

The focus of the environment theme has been to seek methodological innovations that can transform our understanding and management of the natural environment.