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
Follow us on Twitter @Data4CommonGood
Latest news
Brain Health Alliance
GCU is improving brain health as part of new £2.4m boost for collaborative research
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PhD opportunities
Find PhD opportunities at The School of Health and Life Sciences.
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The SafePod Network (SPN) is a major research innovation to provide and manage a standardised safe settings across the UK
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The core of our activity is to focus on enhancing the lives of people with long-term health conditions as well as developing and evaluating public health and lifestyle interventions.
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