UBDC

@UrbanBigData

UBDC is a national research centre and data service providing expertise, training, extensive data collections and data tools. Funded by @ESRC & @UofGlasgow

United Kingdom ubdc.ac.uk Joined March 2013

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UBDC @UrbanBigData Jan 13

🗞️ A team of researchers have used Zoopla Property data from the UBDC data service to analyse how online real estate agencies are affecting the UK housing market.

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UBDC @UrbanBigData Dec 22, 2025

Merry Christmas from all of us at UBDC! 🎄✨
We wish you a season filled with joy, peace, and meaningful moments with loved ones. Thank you for being part of our journey this year. May the New Year bring new opportunities, growth, and success for us all.

UBDC @UrbanBigData Dec 14, 2025

🎉 Congratulations to Dr Mingyu Zhu, Dr Jiayi Jin & Prof. Richard Laing who won the Research for Healthy Cities Award at #HealthyCityDesign2025 for their paper on co-mapping future scenarios amid climate crisis.
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www.gla.ac.uk Dr Mingyu Zhu and Partners Win Design Research for Healthy Cities Award The Healthy City Design Awards 2025 celebrate and recognise professional and research excellence in the design and planning of healthy and sustainable cities and communities around the world

UBDC @UrbanBigData Dec 13, 2025

🌍 Exciting news!
We have signed a student exchange agreement with Aalto University (Finland) starting 2026–27.
✅ 1 PhD student per year
✅ Up to 6 MSc UA/UT students for 7 weeks
✅ Focus: spatial planning & geoinformatics
Great step for international collaboration!

UBDC @UrbanBigData Dec 13, 2025

🎉 Prof. Porto de Albuquerque wins £2.5M Wellcome Trust grant for PACHA – a 3-year project tackling climate-health impacts in Brazilian favelas through data analytics + participatory research.
Partners: UofG + 4 Brazilian institutions.
Learn more 👉 gla.ac.uk/news/headline_…

www.gla.ac.uk UofG research to reduce climate change impacts on health and wellbeing in Brazil’s favelas Research led by UofG is aiming to reduce climate change impacts on health and wellbeing in Brazil's favelas.