John Callagy works as a Marketing & Communications Offer in the Marketing team. Here he writes about what a typical day looks like for him – if there is such a thing! “No two days are the same at The Data Lab”. A phrase that was uttered to me at the start of my journey […]
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Funding for a collaborative project that uses genomic data to deliver precision stroke treatment
The University of Dundee, in collaboration with NHS Tayside, has been awarded £100,000 by The Data Lab, Scotland’s innovation centre for data and AI, to develop a new precision medicine care pathway for stroke patients with support from Storm ID, developers of the Lenus Digital Health Platform. Every year, 15,000 people in Scotland have a stroke. […]
How Scots students are helping make business greener
Published in The National by Multimedia Journalist Emer O’Toole A group of students from a Scottish university are in the process of creating an app that will allow businesses to share resources to be more eco-friendly. Six students from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh won the Data Lab’s global Innovation Week competition in June which tasked […]
Our External Funding service assists Intense IT to secure COVID-19 funding
A Scottish technology firm is to lead an international consortium to roll out a new tool that will help businesses minimise the transmission of Coronavirus. Intense IT has created the WorkSafeAI solution which will help workplaces to decide which prevention measures are most suitable for them. Funding for the project was obtained with help from […]
Regeneration of canals and rivers can improve community health
The regeneration of canals and rivers in cities around the world can result in fewer deaths in neighbouring communities, according to groundbreaking new Scottish research. In a global first, the study led by Glasgow Caledonian University in partnership with Scottish Canals and facilitated by The Data Lab, revealed a faster rate of decline (3% annually) […]
MSc Success Stories: Dr Natalie Polack, Information Analyst at Public Health Scotland
Dr Natalie Polack joined The Data Lab MSc Programme in 2017, undertaking her course at Stirling University on a part-time basis. This allowed her to balance studying with parenting, and to navigate the pressures that come with completely changing the course of your career. In 2019, she completed a six-month remote placement with Public Health Scotland, which […]
What data can do to support organisations across the Highlands & Islands
Karen O’Hanlan, our Business Development Executive based in Inverness, reflects on the successes of the first year working in the Inverness Hub The Data Lab’s Inverness Hub has now been up and running for over a year. Much of my focus over this first 12 months has been around community building, networking and creating new […]
We all need data skills to prepare for the jobs of the future
Blog by Anna Scott, the Project Delivery Manager at The Data Lab for the DDI Skills Gateway (Data Skills for Work) When I joined The Data Lab last November to set up the Data Skills for Work (DSW) programme, I had no idea how timely the development of an upskilling and reskilling programme like this […]
The best STEM inspiration – speaking to a real life astronaut
We need to do more to inspire our children from an early age to develop an interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) subjects to improve the number of young people with the qualifications and interest to consider pursuing a job in a STEM field. In an era when technical and scientific skills are […]
Our live webinar for schoolkids with world-famous astronaut Tim Peake
Our Project Development Manager Neil Brown was determined not to disappoint the hundreds of school children who had been looking forward to their audience with the astronaut Major Tim Peake as part of DataFest20, so he organised a virtual event with the inspiring astronaut instead. Despite everyone’s disappointment around the understandable cancellation of DataFest20, due […]