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 |
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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 |
Spatial Inequality in the Smart City |
Victoria Houlden |
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Architecture and Planning
Name and role |
Research focus |
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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 |
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Professor of Geospatial Systems Engineering |
Geoinformatics, geospatial modelling |
Richard Dawson Professor of Earth Systems Engineering |
Risks associated with urban and infrastructure systems |
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 |
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Professor of Visualisation |
Exploration and visualisation of spatial and big data |
Professor of Computing Science and Director of the Digital Institute |
Scalable information management and cloud computing |
Mathematics and Statistics
Name and role |
Research focus |
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Stafano Castruccio Lecturer in Mathematics and Statistics |
Big data analytics and modelling, climate change |
Professor of Statistics |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |