Aleisha Turner
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HGV Incident Hotspot Analysis
September 6, 2019
Hot spot identification (HSID) problems are present across several domains, such as health care, security, maintenance, energy or transport. A hot spot can be defined as an area with high likelihood of occurrence for a certain event. In public health care, algorithms to determine hot spots could be employed for early detection of locations of …
Police interactions and interventions with suspects flagged as experiencing mental health problems
Interactions between individuals experiencing mental health (MH) problems and the police are complex, and effectiveness of innovative support and diversion models in England and Wales not yet fully evaluated. Researchers in the University of Nottingham examined police interactions with suspects and measured the immediate effectiveness of police/NHS MH interventions. Data on police interactions with suspects …
Helping to find the UK’s best HGV driver
The hotspot analysis and HGV driver profiling work also contributed to Microlise’s Driver of the Year competition which recognises the UK’s most talented HGV drivers. Data analysis undertaken by members of the Digital Research Service generates an initial shortlist of fifteen drivers in each of the three categories – short, medium and long-distance drivers. The …
Computing Chemistry, Modelling Molecules
October 4, 2018
When Ellen Guest was struggling with A Level Chemistry, her teacher suggested she drop the course altogether. And yet she persisted. Fast forward a few years and Ellen has an MSci in Chemistry and is Chemistry PhD candidate conducting important drug discovery research. You might assume this type of work is conducted in a traditional chemistry lab, …
