BSc (University of Nottingham), MSc (University of Nottingham), PhD (University of Nottingham)
Associate Professor in Business Analytics
Department: MarketingCentre/Institute: N/LABE-mail: James.Goulding@nottingham.ac.ukTel: +44 (0) 115 8467768
Location: B34c (North Building, Jubilee Campus)
James Goulding is Director of N/LAB, a centre of excellence in international analytics at the University of Nottingham (see www.nlab.org.uk); An Associate Professor in social data science, his background is uniquely multidisciplinary with a BSc in Economics, an MSc in Computer Science, and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence. He has extensive expertise in the development of novel techniques to analyse large-scale human behavioural data; research focuses on bridging the gap between behavioural science and recent advances in AI and Machine Learning, particularly to achieve sustainable development goals.
James is highly research active, with with >75 international peer-reviewed publications crossing disciplines of social and computer science, winner of ACM Engelbart prize for data theory and Centre for DE prize for data visualisation. Since 2017, he has helped expand the N/LAB research centre from its initial 3 members to over 20 research fellows, PhDs and academic staff.
With a proven grant record, and being PI/CO-I on Research programmes of over £15m since 2015 (EPSRC, ESRC, Gates, British Council, Newton) he is an accomplished coordinator of large, international research projects, with rich experience of bringing research to real world impact in applications of sustainability. This research has used novel Big Data streams (mass retail data, telco logs, mobility data) to reveal key behaviours/drivers underpinning UN SDGs. (Sustainable Development Goals). Work has advanced knowledge in behavioural factors contributing to: food waste (UK/Innovate UK), mental health (UK/EPSRC), Perinatal Mortality (Zanzibar/DfID); Dengue Fever transmission (Malaysia/British Council); Domestic Servitude and Gender Inequality (North India/Arise); Educational Development Challenges (Malawi/ESRC); and factors perpetuating poverty in in East Africa (Tanzania/EPSRC). A founding committee member of UN's Code 8.7 initiative to use AI to end modern slavery, and lead for NHS's data science program.
In order to establish N/LAB as a permanent centre, James has leveraged strong data-sharing partnerships with a wide array of businesses, including: Walgreen Boots Alliance, Marks & Spencer, Tesco, 7-eleven (China), TiGo (Tanzania), Ipsos Mori, Experian (UK/Brazil) and the NHS. This has resulted in production of a research dataset covering the behaviour of around 100 million people across the world, and a growing body of multi-institutional projects. James has extensive lecturing experience (successfully convening 9 different UoN modules), won the 2018 MSc teaching award, is an associate fellow of the HEA, and has supervised 15 PhDs (9 to completion as of writing) plus over 100 Masters Dissertation projects.
Behavioural Analytics, Machine Learning, Time Series Prediction, International Development, Consumer Psychology, Econometrics, Social Data Science
James is currently collaborating on the following projects:
- EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Geospatial Systems
- Horizon: Trusted Data-Driven Products
- IJM - Research Consultant - Scale of Harm project
- IJM Philippines 2.0 - Implementation
- KTP with Strategic Innovation Limited
- KTP with STRATEGIC INNOVATION LIMITED/Innovate
- Data Donation for Climate Action: Linking psychological perceptions to behaviour via Digital Footprints
James is currently supervising the following Research Students:
Georgiana Avram
Gregor Engelmann
Gregor Milligan
Kai Zhou
Madeleine Ellis
roberto mansilla
Vanja Ljevar