Highlight Researchers

Digital Futures is showcasing the work of academics and researchers across The University of Manchester.

Charlotte Evans - Postdoctoral Research Associate at The University of Manchester's NERC Digital Solutions Hub

Charlotte's research interests are GIS, maps, water, and spatial analysis.

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Mustafa Ali - Research Fellow in Health Informatics, Centre for Health Informatics at The University of Manchester

Mustafa's research interests focus on how we can build or develop digital health technologies that create opportunities for everyone living in the UK, regardless of their background and their circumstances.

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Fernando Rosenblatt - Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics at The University of Manchester

Fernando's research interests are political organisations, comparative politics, parties and party systems, activism, and democratic representation.

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Helen Zheng - Senior Lecturer in Spatial Policy at The University of Manchester

Helen's research interests are spatial structures, human mobility, and sustainability.

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Julia Handl - Professor in Decision Sciences at The University of Manchester

Julia's research interests are AI, AI translation, and human AI teaming.

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Giulia Grisot - Lecturer in Digital Humanities at The University of Manchester

Giulia's research interests are empirical approaches to literature, digital humanities, distant reading, eye-tracking, stylistics, reader response theory, and historical linguistics.

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Josh Behan-Devlin - Research Associate in The School of Health Sciences at The University of Manchester

Josh's research interests relate to how people perceive innovations, and health and social care settings.

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Liangping Ding - PDRA in Manchester Insitute of Innovation Research at The University of Manchester

Liangping's research interests surround the intersection of AI and scientific progress, and scientific retractions on research trajectories.

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Ransford A. Acheampong - Senior Lecturer in Transport and Urban Futures at The University of Manchester

Ransford's research interests regard the nexus among transport, mobility technologies and land use, and their integrated planning in cities.

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Riza Batista-Navarro - Senior Lecturer in Text Mining at the School of Computer Science at The University of Manchester

Riza's research interests lie in text mining, natural language processing or NLP, and artificial intelligence.

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Sarah Devaney - Professor of Healthcare Law and Regulation at The University of Manchester

Sarah's research interests focus on the use of health data in research.

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