Tracking migration with Facebook
Social media can provide valuable real-time data on migration, with new research using datasets from Facebook's advertising platform to uncover trends and migrant numbers.
Social media can provide valuable real-time data on migration, with new research using datasets from Facebook's advertising platform to uncover trends and migrant numbers.
Scientists from across five countries will collaborate on ambitious research to gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between humans and their environment in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Conflict, persecution and general insecurity are the main drivers of migration by sea to Europe, shows research into the Mediterranean migration crisis.
The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science has helped the University of Mosul to rebuild their language studies after the destruction by Islamic State.
