Data Detectives
Date & time
31 October 2025 | 11.00-12.30
Event format
Attend event in person
Event type
Participatory interactive event
Event topic
Health and wellbeing
Audience
Children & families
Academic discipline
Social statistics and demography
Venue
South Dining Hall, Queen’s University Belfast, 89 University Rd, Belfast BT9 6BD
What's on offer?
Join the research teams from the GroundsWell Consortium and the Administrative Data Research Centre Northern Ireland to explore all things health data: how we collect it, how we analyse it, and how we use it to better understand and improve public health.
Exciting Halloween-themed challenges and activities will help young attendees better understand the health data landscape and encourage them to gain hands-on experience of collecting and analysing data.
Children can participate in the activities and challenges by themselves, or with the help of their family. Our research teams will be dressed in their Halloween finest, so we welcome all manners of fancy dress for the children and the adults!
What's it about?
This event aims to inspire young people to understand how health data is collected, educate them in how the environments in which they live can affect their health, and empower them with data skills to advocate for positive change. GroundsWell will be simultaneously running a UK-wide series of Data Detectives events in collaboration with our partners at the University of Edinburgh and University of Liverpool.
Who's leading the event?
Dr Niamh O'Kane in the Centre for Public Health at Queen’s University Belfast, GroundsWell Consortium, and the Administrative Data Research Centre Northern Ireland
Open to
Children aged 7-12 years of age and their families – fancy dress encouraged!
Of particular interest to
Budding scientists, doctors, or ghouls with an interest in how we collect and use data to improve public health
Event booking deadline
30 October 2025
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