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Neighbouring Data

Project overview

Neighbouring Data draws together and amplifies place-based data on pride, culture, heritage, health and wellbeing. This work offers insight into the qualitative data that local authorities and communities need to inform their place-based decision making.

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Nicky Marsh

PROFESSOR
Research interests
  • Intersections between culture and economics
  • Cultural representations of risk, money, finance, markets
  • Gender, feminism and the economy 
Connect with Nicky

Email: nm8@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Daniel Ashton

Professor-Cultural & Creative Industries
Research interests
  • Work and the Creative Economy
  • Culture, Data and Place
  • Arts and Cultural Organisations
Connect with Daniel

Email: d.k.ashton@soton.ac.uk

Dr Joseph Owen

Research Fellow
Research interests
  • Culture and heritage in place
  • Arts and humanities approaches to law and policy
  • Modernist art and literature
Connect with Joseph

Email: J.G.Owen@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Towards a qualitative data observatory: generation, connection, use
Nicky Marsh, Daniel Ashton & Joseph Owen, 2025, Policy Studies
DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2025.2600362
Type: article
Understanding the observatory
Joseph Owen, Nicky Marsh & Daniel Ashton, 2025
DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/P1221
Type: report
Neighbourhood Insight Engine 1.0
Joey Jones, Joseph Owen, Nicky Marsh & Daniel Ashton, 2025
DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/P1224
Type: other
Transforming the Observatory
Daniel Ashton, Richard Gomer, Joey Jones, Nicky Marsh, Joseph Owen & Owen Richards, 2025
DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/P1223
Type: report