Committee

Seraphim Alvanides (Chair)

I was appointed Reader in GISc at the School of Built and Natural Environment, Northumbria University in Autumn 2010. I am an urban social geographer with substantive research interests in health inequalities, obesogenic environments and environmental justice. In particular, I am concerned with understanding the effect of the built and natural environment on physical activity and active living. My past GIS research has focused on the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (MAUP) and matters of geographical scale. My recent methodological interests involve the use of space-time geography in researching everyday mobilities and active transport, such as walking and cycling.

James Cheshire (Secretary)

I am currently a PhD student based in the Department of Geography at University College London. My interests lie in the use of GIS for studying surname patterns in Europe. I started my PhD in the autumn of 2008 and am supervised by Paul Longley and Pablo Mateos. My PhD is funded through an ESRC CASE Award in collaboration with ESRI (UK).

Muki Haklay (Treasurer)

I am a Senior Lecturer in Geographic Information Science and the director of UCL Chorley Institute – an interdisciplinary research centre, established to spatially enable UCL strategic research activities. My research interests include Public Access and use of Environmental Information, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Usability Engineering of GIS and Societal aspects of GIS use. I specialise in interdisciplinary research.  Since 2001, I have secured over £1.9 million in research funding from research councils, the public and private sectors, and charities.

Thomas Burgoine (Postgrad Rep. and Website)

I am currently a Career Development Fellow at the Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), University of Cambridge. My research interests are inter-disciplinary and include environmental justice and the effects of the obesogenic food and physical activity environment, as assessed through the use of GIS and advanced spatial statistics.

Yi Gong (Conferences and Events)

Joana Barros (Prizes and Awards)

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Alex Singleton (Quantitative Research Methods Group Rep.)

I am a Lecturer in Urban Planning at the University of Liverpool. I currently chair the RGS QMRG.