We mined 10 years worth of data on 100 million interactions between job counsellors and job seekers to develop a recommender system - allowing job counsellors to make smarter, more personalised suggestions on which interventions unemployed individuals should take....

Despite the success of plastic bag charges in the UK, there are still around a billion single-use plastic bags bought each year in England alone (DEFRA, 2018), and politicians are currently debating whether to double the 5 pence charge to 10 pence (Rawlinson, 2018). Pr...

Using Machine Learning Techniques to Examine the Relationship between Money, Personality, and Well-being

This research replicates and extends findings that the degree to which peoples’ personalities match their purchases (psychological-fit) positively predicts well-bein...

How to developmental psychologists solve the problem of getting children participants from a representative sample, and engaging children of all SES backgrounds with science… in one week.

Summer Scientists Week (SSW) is an initiative set up by Associate Professor Lucy C...

In traditional science the boundaries, rules and regulations for what is and isn’t responsible practice are well etched out. Anything contained within the blurry middle-ground is then debated and juried through a systematic procedure. With the increase in technology al...