School of Geography - Faculty of Environment

RESEARCH OVERVIEW

Mark Birkin is Professor of Spatial Analysis and Policy. My major research interest is in simulating social and demographic change within cities and regions, and in understanding the impact of these changes on the need for services like housing, roads and hospitals.

I am co-editor of the journal Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy.   I am a member of the editorial board of Transactions in GIS and on the programme committee for both the European Social Simulation Association and the International Conference on e-Social Science.

CURRENT PROJECTS

Principal Investigator of MoSeS: Modelling and Simulation for e-Social Science, and joint PI of GENeSIS (Generative Simulation for the Social and Spatial Sciences); www.ncess.ac.uk.  PI of National e-Infrastructure for Social Simulation (JISC Information Environments Programme).

RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS

• Centre for Spatial Analysis and Policy

PUBLICATIONS

• Birkin M & Malleson N (2011) An Investigation of the Sensitivity of a Dynamic Microsimulation Model of Urban Neighbourhood Dynamics [PDF]
• Birkin M, Townend P, Turner A, Wu B, Xu J (2009) MoSeS: A Grid-enabled spatial decision support system, Social Science Computing Review, in press. DOI: 10.1177/0894439309332295.
• Wu B, Birkin M, Rees P (2008)  A spatial microsimulation model with student agents, Computers Environment and Urban Systems, 32, 440-453.
• Heppenstall, A.J., Evans, A.J., and Birkin, M.H. 2005. A Hybrid Multi-Agent/Spatial Interaction Model System for Petrol Price Setting, Transactions in GIS, 9(1), 35-51.

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