Election further postpones the decision on UK space plans

UK government postpones publishing report on sexual health services.

Publication of a report on the effect of NHS reforms on sexual health provision in England has been postponed indefinitely despite being originally scheduled for publication in November last year. TheDepartment of Health reviewwas supposed to have reported on the implementation of A Framework for Sexual Health Improvement in England, which was published in March 2013 just ahead of the introduct...

Election Forecasting in the UK

UK General Election 2017: a Twitter Analysis

This work is produced by researchers at the Neuropolitics Research Lab, School of Social and Political Science and the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. In this report we provide an analysis of the social media posts on the British general election 2017 over the month running up to the vote. We find that pro-Labour sentiment dominates the Twitter conversation around GE2017 a...

On Predicting Election Results using Twitter and Linked Open Data: The Case of the UK 2010 Election

The analysis of Social Media data enables eliciting public behaviour and opinion. In this context, a number of studies have recently explored Social Media’s capability to predict the outcome of real-world phenomena. The results of these studies are controversial with elections being the most disputable phenomenon. The objective of this paper is to present a case of predicting the results of the...

Low Decision Space Means No Decentralization in Fiji; Comment on “Decentralisation of Health Services in Fiji: A Decision Space Analysis”

Mohammed, North, and Ashton find that decentralization in Fiji shifted health-sector workloads from tertiary hospitals to peripheral health centres, but with little transfer of administrative authority from the centre. Decisionmaking in five functional areas analysed remains highly centralized. They surmise that the benefits of decentralization in terms of services and outcomes will be limited....