We are hiring: Research Fellow in African Heritage, Remote Sensing and GIS The postholder will be employed on the Mapping Africa’s Endangered Archaeological Sites and Monuments (MAEASaM) project. Full time | Hybrid | Fixed-term | Deadline: 26 July 2026 Find out more: tinyurl.com/2myczpv8 #jobs

Sometimes, having a bit of extra capacity makes all the difference ☕ Find out more about what our internship programme can do for your organisation: tinyurl.com/pk7tyjf6 @ucl.ac.uk #interns #internships #coffee #RedemptionRaosters

📣 Have you heard? Thanks to incredible minds from every corner of the globe, from curious first-years to Nobel prize-winning researchers, we’re now joint #8 in the QS World University Rankings. We are University College London. And here, it can happen. #QSWUR 🔗: https://bit.ly/4vlW4w2

Check out Julia De Romémont, our Deputy Director, on @uclspp.bsky.social's podcast, UCL Uncovering Politics 👇

Wondering how a Social Data Intern could support your organisation? Head to tinyurl.com/pk7tyjf6 to find out more!

Meet James Cheshire, Director of the UCL Social Data Institute (SODA) As well as his role in SODA, James is Professor of Geographic Information and Cartography at @uclgeography.bsky.social and Deputy Director of Smart Data Research UK's Geographic Data Service. 🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/4yktptd2

🥳 Thank you to everyone who made it to our event celebrating 10 years of our Social Data Internship programme! If you would like to find out more about how hosting a social data intern could help you, head to tinyurl.com/pk7tyjf6 or email us at [email protected] #SocialData #Internships #Intern

☀️ Boost your CV with data skills this summer! Join us for our three-day (15-hour) course, equipping health scientists and practitioners with essential tools to gather human-centred insights and turn them into actionable strategies. 🔗 tinyurl.com/HealthCPD #Health #Shortcourses #SocialData #Data

🩺 What drives behaviours and programme outcomes in public health? Advance your data skills with our three-day (15-hour) course, equipping health scientists and practitioners with essential tools to gather human-centred insights and turn them into actionable strategies. 🔗 tinyurl.com/HealthCPD

☀️Learn new programming skills this summer! Boost your CV by signing up for our Introduction to Bayesian Inference and Modelling four-day (eighteen hours) short course. Find out more and book your spot: tinyurl.com/BayesianInfe... #ShortCourses #Bayesian #SocialData #Programming #CV @ucl.ac.uk

Teaching + spatial data = real-world impact. We’re looking for an Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Social Data Science and Cartography to join the @ucl.ac.uk Geography. 👉 Details: tinyurl.com/ucl-carto #UCLGeography #GIS #SpatialData

This week⏰ 🔗https://tinyurl.com/soda10y Join us to celebrate of 10 years of connecting organisations with world-class talent and find out more about how our internship programme can help you! Booking is essential: tinyurl.com/soda10y #Interns #events #UCL @ucl.ac.uk

⏰Just one week to go! Join us to find out more about how the Social Data Institute's Internship Programme can help you. Get your ticket: tinyurl.com/soda10y #Internships #NGOs #Collaboration #UCL200 @ucl.ac.uk

Looking to boost your CV with data skills? We are offering several hands-on, interactive courses. You don’t need to be an expert. Our courses are designed for those who are interested in or working with data and are looking to upskill. 🔗 Find out more: tinyurl.com/ShortSODA @ucl.ac.uk #Data

⌛There's still time to book your spot on our Quantitative Text Analysis short course! As advances in artificial intelligence continue to accelerate, the ability to analyse text at scale has become a powerful skill across disciplines. Find out more and book your spot: tinyurl.com/bdcrbrea #AI #CV

🩺 What drives behaviours and programme outcomes in public health? Advance your data skills with our three-day (15-hour) course, equipping health scientists and practitioners with essential tools to gather human-centred insights and turn them into actionable strategies. 🔗 tinyurl.com/HealthCPD

Don't just take our word for it! Want to see what’s possible for your organisation? Join us at our 10-year celebration event and discover how you can host an intern: tinyurl.com/stcsdi

For a decade, SODA's Internship Programme has partnered with organisations across sectors to deliver real-world impact. Join us to celebrate this milestone and discover how you can collaborate with top-tier talent from one of the world’s leading universities: tinyurl.com/soda10y #Interns #Data

☀️Learn new programming skills this summer! Boost your CV by signing up for our Introduction to Bayesian Inference and Modelling four-day (eighteen hours) short course. Find out more and book your spot: tinyurl.com/BayesianInfe... #ShortCourses #Bayesian #SocialData #Programming #CV @ucl.ac.uk

Celebrate a decade of connecting organisations with world-class talent with us!🎉 🔗 tinyurl.com/stcsdi Meet us and discover how hosting an intern from the UCL Social Data Institute help move your projects off of the backburner: tinyurl.com/stcsdi @ucl.ac.uk #UCL200 #Internships #Partnerships

Celebrating 10 years of connecting organisations like Dods Political Intelligence with world-class talent 🎉 Discover how hosting an intern from the UCL Social Data Institute can strengthen your team when it counts at our event: tinyurl.com/stcsdi @ucl.ac.uk #UCL200 #Internships #Partnerships

Celebrating 10 years of connecting organisations like Save the Children UK with world-class talent 🎉 Join the UCL Social Data Institute to celebrate this milestone and see how collaboration with interns can benefit your organisation: tinyurl.com/stcsdi @savechildrenuk.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

Wishing everyone celebrating a happy and fun-filled Vaisakhi!

📣 There's still time to book your spot on our Ethnographic Methods for Public Health: From Data to Meaningful Intervention short course Boost your CV and build on your data skills by taking this three-day course this summer: tinyurl.com/HealthCPD #CV #Data #ProfessionalDevelopment @ucl.ac.uk

Have a Happy Passover!

For a decade, our Internship Programme has partnered with organisations across sectors to deliver real-world impact. Join us to celebrate this milestone and discover how you can collaborate with top-tier talent from one of the world’s leading universities. 🔗 Book your spot: tinyurl.com/soda10y

🗺️ Are maps culturally relevant? Hear from James Cheshire, our Director and Professor of Geographic Information and Cartography the UCL Department of Geography, on The Deep Dive Podcast with Philip McKenzie. 🔗 www.thedeepdivepod.com/250 #Maps #LostMaps #Geography#DeepDive @ucl.ac.uk

Eid-e Nowrooz Mobarak!

💻 The Politics of Computer Science: margins and centres Luxembourg, 23 March 2026, 16:50-18:20 (CET) Tone Walford, our Deputy Director, will be chairing this roundtable as part of the Undone Computer Science conference. 🔗Find out more: www.undonecs.org/2026/index.h... #ComputerScience #Politics

Looking to acquire data skills this summer? Learn how to understand survey sampling and weighting, evaluate and design questions, extract meaningful data, and more! Sign up for UCL Social Data Institute’s Survey Methods and Analysis Course: tinyurl.com/SurveyMethodsAnalysis #SurveyMethods #Data

Looking to boost your CV with data skills? We are offering several hands-on, interactive courses. You don’t need to be an expert. Our courses are designed for those who are interested in or working with data and are looking to upskill. 🔗 Find out more: tinyurl.com/ShortSODA @ucl.ac.uk #Data

🎙️ The Library of Lost Maps Listen to James Cheshire, Britain’s only Professor of Cartography and Director of UCL Social Data Institute, talk about the role of maps in our histories and why they still matter. 🔗 tinyurl.com/iwejtwe @ucl.ac.uk #maps #podcasts #libraries

💫 Meet Moira Hague, our Institute Manager! "I’m most proud of building and facilitating data internships for our SHS students. Developing these partnerships from scratch and seeing them evolve has been hugely fulfilling." 🔗Find out more about Moira's work: tinyurl.com/MoiraHS @ucl.ac.uk #Data

📣 Hear from Tone Walford, Deputy Director of UCL Social Data Institute and Associate Professor in UCL Anthropology, in their seminar talk, 'God tricks, open knowledge and environmental data justice' 🔗 Book your place tinyurl.com/GodTricks @ucl.ac.uk @uclknowledgelab.bsky.social #DataJustice

Looking to boost your data skills in less than one week? 🔗 tinyurl.com/SODASC We are offering several hands-on, interactive courses perfect for professionals who are keen to grow their data expertise. Find out more and book your place: tinyurl.com/SODASC #Upskill #Data #ShortCourses @ucl.ac.uk

🩺 What drives behaviours and programme outcomes in public health? Advance your data skills with our three-day (15-hour) course, equipping health scientists and practitioners with essential tools to gather human-centred insights and turn them into actionable strategies. 🔗 tinyurl.com/HealthCPD

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: Sarah Lim, BA Geography with Social Data Science In our February Student spotlight, Sarah reflects on her UCL Social Data Institute internship with the @financialtimes.com, discussing responsibilities and opportunities. Read the full post: tinyurl.com/SpotlightSarah @ucl.ac.uk

Ramadan Mubarak to everyone celebrating.

Wishing everyone who is celebrating a Happy Year of the Horse🏮

📢 CALL FOR PROJECTS The Geospatial Engagement Initiative (GEI) has launched its first open call for projects, which is open to research funded by UCL Grand Challenges. Express your interest by 3rd March by going to: tinyurl.com/GeospatialEI #Geospatial #CallForProjects #DataScience @ucl.ac.uk

How can we use AI to analyse text? Sign up for UCL Social Data Institute’s three-day (fifteen hours) Quantitative Text Analysis Course to find out. Read more and register: tinyurl.com/Quantitative... #ShortCourses #ArtificialIntelligence #TextAnalysis @ucl.ac.uk

🎉 Fantastic to see UCL Social Data Institute alumna receiving this accolade. Well done Maia Watson-Hearne!

Looking to build on your data skills but don’t know how? The UCL Social Data Institute’s Introduction to Bayesian Inference and Modelling four-day (18 hours) course is a great place to start! Find out more: tinyurl.com/BayesianInfe... #DataScience #ProfessionalDevelopment @ucl.ac.uk

How does systematic racism affect health outcomes? Caroline Parker, our Deputy Director, has recently published ‘Racism and racial health inequity: four theories for public health’ in collaboration with the London Association of Directors of Public Health: tinyurl.com/yc23e7j5 @ucl.ac.uk

Looking to acquire data skills this summer? Learn how to understand survey sampling and weighting, evaluate and design questions, extract meaningful data, and more! Sign up for UCL Social Data Institute’s Survey Methods and Analysis Course: tinyurl.com/SurveyMethod... @ucl.ac.uk

What can Cold War maps teach us about today’s Arctic tensions? In this piece for @uk.theconversation.com, Prof. James Cheshire, (@uclsocialdata.bsky.social) shows how US maps from the 1940s–50s shaped public understanding of global threats - and why perspective still matters in geopolitics today.

Looking to boost your data skills in less than one week? The UCL Social Data Institute is offering several hands-on, interactive courses perfect for professionals who are keen to grow their data expertise. Find out more and register: www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Meet Vaishnavi Gondane, our Project Coordinator! "I was drawn to UCL because of its strong research culture and its commitment to interdisciplinary work across departments." Read more: www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

📢 Bookings open! Data Storytelling for Digital Research Infrastructure workshops in London. Two-part series on turning data into compelling stories, led by Dr Igor Tkalec. 🗓 Feb & Mar 2026 | 📍 London 🔗 Register: www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

🗺️ Mapping Night Work in London - As part of #DataAfterDark, we released a report on the geography of night work in London. Using employment stats & mobile data, we created the London Night Worker Classification, revealing where they work, travel, and rely on services. dataafterdark.org/reports.html