Emeritus Professor of Human Geography and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College
Methodologies for spatial data analysis with applications in health services research and the geography of crime.
Biography
Career
- 1974-1976: Lecturer, Queen’s University Belfast
- 1977-2000: University of Sheffield (Personal Chair awarded 1993; Head of Department 1994-97)
- 2000-2016: Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.
- 2002-2007 Head of Department
- 2016– Emeritus Professor of Human Geography, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
Qualifications
- MA University of Cambridge
- MSc Northwestern University, USA
- PhD Northwestern University, USA
Research
Bayesian modelling of small area spatial and spatial temporal data:
- Modelling spatial and spatial-temporal data using Bayesian methods.
- Achieving statistical precision when working with small area data (Spatial precision and statistical precision: having the best of both worlds)
Geographical criminology:
- Evaluating crime reduction programmes: weighing-up the balance sheet
- Using remotely sensed data to model offence geographies
Publications
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External
Short Courses (recent)
- ‘Spatial and Spatial-Temporal Data Analysis using Bayesian Hierarchical Models.’ ESRC-funded 3-day short course in association with the Social Science Research Methods Centre (with G.Li and G.Amable). Cambridge, 2015-2016.
- ‘Spatial data analysis.’ University of Central Karnataka, India. November 2015.
- ‘Spatial data analysis.’ Wuhan University, China. October 2015 and October 2017.
- ‘Spatial data analysis with spatial econometrics’. IPSA-USP Summer School, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Feb 2015.
- ‘Spatial data analysis’ KTH, Stockholm, Sweden. April 2017.
- ‘An introduction to spatial statistics for human geographers and earth scientists’ Central University of Tamil Nadu. May 2022 (via Zoom)
Journal activities (current)
- Associate Editor: Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Epidemiology