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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Steve Carver together with colleagues in the Leopold Institute, Missoula have secured $221,000 of funding from the US Forest Service Joint Fire Science Program ($71,000 to WRi) to look at the role of Traditional Phenological Knowledge (TPK) in better understanding the role of cultural resilience in fire adapted ecosystems. Steve and the WRi will provide GIS and participatory mapping expertise using the MapMe tool.
Steve Carver represented the University and WRi at the IUCN conference ‘UK Protected Areas - Natural Solutions’ at the Brockholes Centre, Preston on Thursday 26 April.
Martin Clarke gave a seminar at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School titled 'New Issues for Retail Location Analysis and Planning' on 17 April.
Martin Clarke, Paul Norman, Helen Durham, Chris Thompson and Andy Newing attended a one day training course at GMAP Ltd on 19 April. GMAP have installed five licensed copies of their award winning retail decision support package known as MicroVision in the GIS lab.
Steve Carver presented two papers at the GISRUK 2012 conference in Lancaster last week on ‘No high ground: visualising Scotland's renewable energy landscapes using rapid viewshed assessment tools’ and ‘Real-time visibility analysis and rapid viewshed calculation using a voxel-based modelling approach’. The latter won the Best Paper award for the conference.
Paul Norman presented 'Informing on differences in society using the UK census' at the Geographical Association conference theme of 'Geographies of Difference' at the University of Manchester 13 April.
