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Visualisation tool for Enhancing Public Engagement Using Supermarket Loyalty Card Data
JGI Seedcorn funding 2024-25: Laura Fryer Introduction Digital footprints are electronic traces of our daily lives which can provide insight into behavioural patterns and habits. Things like bank transaction records, fitness and wearable technology and supermarket loyalty cards all provide insight which can be useful for health research. One example of this can be seen in the application of over-the-counter pain…
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Using topic modelling to study lived experiences in extreme weather conditions
In 2025, Huw Day (formerly JGI Data Scientist, now Research Associate in Digital Health at the VIVO Hub for Enhanced Independent Living) completed a project working with Eunice Lo and Joanne Godwin, helping them with a study of lived experiences in extreme climate conditions in the South West of England. This project has now been…
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Irish Financial Records from the Reign of Edward I: What Applying Data Science Techniques Can Reveal
JGI Seedcorn follow on funding 2023-25: Mike Jones and Brendan Smith Introduction This project was a follow-on extension of the JGI-funded seed-corn initiative titled ‘Digital Humanities meets Medieval Financial Records: The Receipt Rolls of the Irish Exchequer.’ The original project, along with a subsequent paper, ‘The Irish Receipt Roll of 1301–2: Data Science and Medieval…
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AI in Health Awardees 2025-2026
Over summer, the Elizabeth Blackwell (EBI) and Jean Golding (JGI) Institutes together with the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences strategic research support fund, and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, ran a pump-priming funding call to support innovative applications of AI in health or biomedical research. This funding call came with the…
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Telling Tales: Building a Folk Map of St Lucia
JGI Seedcorn Funding Project Blog 2024/25: Leighan Renaud In a research trip funded by the Brigstow Institute, a small research team and I met on the Eastern Caribbean island of St Lucia in the Summer of 2024 and spent 10 days immersed in the island’s folk culture. Our research was guided by the question: how…
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Widening Participation (WP) Research Summer Internships
The Widening Participation (WP) Research Summer Internships provide undergraduates with hands-on experience of research during the summer holidays, with the aim of encouraging a career in research. Interns gain professional experience and knowledge through a funded placement in their chosen subject. This also supports application for postgraduate study and other research jobs. This year, the…
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How to make data science skills stick? Learnings from the OCSEAN project
Written Catherine Upex and Rachel Wood Introduction Earlier this summer, the University of Bristol and the JGI welcomed a group of visiting researchers from the “Oceanic and Southeast Asian Navigators” (OCSEAN) project. OCSEAN is a worldwide interdisciplinary consortium researching the demographic history of ancient seafarers across Oceania and Southeast Asia. The visiting humanities researchers from…
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MagMap – Accurate Magnetic Characteristic Mapping Using Machine Learning
PGR JGI Seed Corn Funding Project Blog 2023/24: Binyu Cui Introduction: Magnetic components, such as inductors, play a crucial role in nearly all power electronics applications and are typically known to be the least efficient components, significantly affecting overall system performance and efficiency. Despite extensive research and analysis on the characteristics of magnetic components, a…
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Unveiling Hidden Musical Semantics: Compositionality in Music Ngram Embeddings
PGR JGI Seed Corn Funding Project Blog 2023/24: Zhijin Guo Introduction The overall aim of this project is to analyse music scores by machine learning. These of course are different from sound recordings of music, since they are symbolic representations of what musicians play. But with encoded versions of these scores (in which the graphical…
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