Professor Michelle Morris is Deputy Director of the Healthy and Sustainable Places Data Service. Michelle is primarily responsible for lifestyles and food data, overseeing the acquisition, curation, and development of research using these data.

Michelle is Professor of Data Science for Food in the School of Food Science and Nutrition and Leeds Institute for Data Analytics at the University of Leeds. 

She leads the interdisciplinary Nutrition and Lifestyle Analytics team which uses novel forms of data, including supermarket transaction records from a number of UK supermarkets, for research into lifestyle behaviours and health.  

She is a co-director at the ESRC-funded Consumer Data Research Centre, leads the evaluation of the IGD-funded Healthy and Sustainable Diets Project, and is an investigator at the UKRI-funded UK Transforming Food Systems grants FIO Food and DIO Food.

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