Climate change, social inequality & psychosocial wellbeing with emerging digital data – a multidisciplinary network between UK and South Korea

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Description

Climate change-related inequalities in psychosocial wellbeing are relatively difficult to analyse directly because they are typically subjective experiences and feelings at the individual level.

Recent developments in social data science and machine learning techniques mean the disproportionate effect of climate change on different vulnerable groups can be measured and tracked using emerging sources of digital data. These new data sources contain patterns of various human behaviours in vulnerable people, which can be utilised to infer individual differences in psychosocial wellbeing.

This project aims to build a cross-national network of multidisciplinary researchers between the UK and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in South Korea, to investigate the effect of climate change on psychosocial wellbeing inequalities with emerging sources of digital data.

This project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. 

Research overview

This project will conduct a scoping study to review emerging digital data sources and techniques for presenting climate change effects on psychosocial wellbeing inequality to identify opportunities for future collaborative research. It will create long-term support for researchers in wider networks of the two groups.

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Dr Xingjie Wei