CENTRE FOR SPATIAL ANALYSIS AND POLICY
Leeds has a long tradition of providing cutting-edge analysis techniques and policy predictions based on the latest science and information. The Centre for Spatial Analysis and Policy (CSAP) builds on that tradition by developing innovative ways of looking at the world to understand business, society and the environment at different spatial scales and by providing applied or policy-related analyses of geographical behaviour.
Our research interests
We have wide-ranging research interests in quantitative geography
Our particular research interests include population dynamics, migration, geodemographics, retailing,
education and health. We have specific expertise in
analysis and modelling methods including microsimulation, agent-based modelling, spatial interaction models, AI techniques, demographic estimation and projection, and applications of GIS.
We have strong commercial and public-sector links
Whilst much of our research is UK Research Council funded, we also undertake research in partnership with a number of European, national, regional and local public sector institutions as well as private sector organisations.
We provide education and training appropriate for both academic and commercial worlds
We teach Masters programmes and Undergraduate modules based on our latest research, enabling students to acquire quantitative skills that are in demand in the real world as well as training for academic research careers.
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The ESRC has awarded a grant to John Stillwell to coordinate the development of a Census Support Service as part of a new UK Data Service (UKDS) providing researchers with one-stop shop access to social science data, including the results of the 2011 Census. Worth £2.5million in total, the grant involves collaboration with existing Census Programme Data Support Units at Manchester, Edinburgh and UCL.
Alice Owen attended the UCL CLUES conference: Energy in the Locality on 08 May in London and gave a paper titled ‘Area-based energy schemes - the role of people, place and technology factors’.
Phil Rees visited the Queensland Centre for Population Research at the University of Queensland from 14 to 30 March to work with Dr Tom Wilson on a book on ‘Population Projections: Methods, Practice and Applications’, to be published by Ashgate in their International Population Studies series.
Phil Rees presented a paper entitled ‘What is driving ethnic population change in the UK?’ at the Third Biennial British-Irish Population Conference, Queens Uni-versity Belfast on 18 April.
Congratulations to Dr Hamzah Khawaldah who successfully defended his PhD thesis last week with minor editorial corrections. His thesis is entitled ‘Using GIS and Spatial Modelling for Retail Planning and Economic Impact Assessment’. Hamzah will go back to Jordan this July to join the Department of Geography at the University of Jordan as an Assistant Professor.
