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Our People

Spatial Analytics and Modelling is a collaborative initiative working across faculties, schools and University research centres and institutes.

Geography

Name and role

Research focus

Tony Champion 

Emeritus Professor of Population Geography

Migration, demography, cities, UK

Mike Coombes

Professor of Geographic Information

Geographical information and urban systems

Alison Copeland

Lecturer in Human Geography

Spatial inequalities in health, GIS and spatial modelling of large data sets

Rachel Franklin

Professor of Geographical Analysis

 Demographic change, shrinking cities, migration and spatial demography

Wen Lin

Lecturer in Human Geography

GIS and urban geography

Andy Pike

Professor of Local and Regional Development; Director of CURDS

Geographical political economy of local and regional development

Caitlin Robinson
Research Associate

 Spatial Inequality in the Smart City

Victoria Houlden
Research Assistant

 

Architecture and Planning

Name and role

Research focus

Roger Burrows

Professor of Cities

Inter-disciplinary dialogues between humanities, social science and urban science

Carlos Calderon

Senior Lecturer in Architecture

Local energy planning

Jane Midgeley

Lecturer in Planning 

Sustainable food planning, food security and food provisioning practices 

Neil Powe

Senior Lecturer in Planning 

Planning and non-market economic valuation 

Mark Tewdwr-Jones

Professor of Town Planning 

Urban and regional planning and governance, and city futures 

Sebastian Weise

Lecturer in Digital Civics 

Spatial dimensions to participation in urban planning 

Engineering

Name and role

Research focus

Stuart Barr

Professor of Geospatial Systems Engineering

Geoinformatics, geospatial modelling

Richard Dawson

Professor of Earth Systems Engineering

Risks associated with urban and infrastructure systems

Dave Fairbairn

Senior Lecturer in Geographic Information Science

GIS, citizen science,  geovisualisation

Stephanie Glendinning

Professor of Civil Engineering

Environmental geotechnics, climate change modelling

Phil James

Senior Lecturer in Geographic Information Science

GIS, sustainability

Computing Science and the Digital Institute

Name and role

Research focus

Nick Holliman

Professor of Visualisation

Exploration and visualisation of spatial and big data

Watson, Paul, Professor

Professor of Computing Science and Director of the Digital Institute

Scalable information management and cloud computing

Mathematics and Statistics

Name and role

Research focus

Stafano Castruccio

Lecturer in Mathematics and Statistics

Big data analytics and modelling, climate change

Emilio Porcu

Professor of Statistics

 

Darren Wilkinson

Professor of Stochastic Modelling

Bayesian analysis and software development, cloud computing technology for big data and computational statistics

Institute for Sustainability

Name and role

Research focus

Phil Taylor

Professor of Electrical Power Systems and Director of the Institute for Sustainability

Energy storage management, infrastructure and control, smart grid technology

Marine Science and Technology

Name and role

Research focus

Clare Fitzsimmons

Lecturer in Marine Spatial Planning, GIS and Remote Sensing

GIS and remote sensing in marine environments

Miguel Morales Maqueda

Senior Lecturer in Sea Level and Climate

Marine measurement and mapping using autonomous underwater vehicles

Nick Polunin

Chair of Marine Environmental Science

Marine ecosystems modelling, mapping and resource use