Led by Professor Gary Higgs and Dr Mitch Langford, supported by PhD students and post-doctoral research staff, the Accessibility Modelling and Spatial Inequalities team has engaged widely with academics from other institutions in addition to partners drawn from local and national government agencies and third sector organisations.
As part of its work examining geographical variation in a range of public and private services, the team has worked with organisations including Sport Wales, the Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales, the Welsh Government’s Knowledge and Analytical Services and the Department for Economy, Skills and Natural Resources divisions, and Tenovus Cancer Care. There is also an on-going collaboration with researchers based at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia in areas such as the use of GIS in crime mapping and emergency planning.
The group is primarily focussed on applying geographical information systems and advanced methods of spatial analyses to a broad range of practical application areas, in particular focussing on geographies of social inequality and seeking to measure and thereby improve our understanding of geographical accessibility to both public and private services.
If you have any questions about our research or would like to collaborate with us, please contact Professor Gary Higgs.
We welcome UK and international applications from suitably qualified graduates interested in joining us for either Masters by Research or PhD research programmes. We particularly encourage applications from candidates that hold a degree at graduate or Masters level in computer science, Geographical Information Science, data science, informatics, or Geography with significant quantitative elements.
Find out more on the Graduate School website or contact Professor Gary Higgs for an informal discussion.