Publications

Title Date Author Journal
Geodemographics and residential differentiation: A methodological review and future directions for learned representations of the social landscape 2026 Alex Singleton; Seth E. Spielman Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
Thriving or surviving: Understanding the geography of financial precarity in Great Britain 2026 Zi Ye; Alex Singleton Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
Reconfiguration and economic performance of British retail centres in the post-pandemic era 2026 Les Dolega; Patrick Ballantyne; Alex Singleton The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research
Tracking spatio-temporal energy vulnerability: A composite indicator for England and Wales 2025 Cameron Ward; Alexander Singleton; Caitlin Robinson; Francisco Rowe Regional Studies, Regional Science
A spatial typology of energy (in)efficiency in the private rental sector in England and Wales using Energy Performance Certificates 2025 Caitlin Robinson; Ed Atkins; Tom Cantellow; Meixu Chen; Lenka Hasova; Alex Singleton Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
Mapping multidimensional energy deprivation: Socio-spatial inequalities and policy implications in Great Britain 2025 Meixu Chen; Caitlin Robinson; Alex Singleton Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
Leveraging Advanced Technologies for (Smart) Transportation Planning: A Systematic Review 2025 Heejoo Son; Jinhyeok Jang; Jihan Park; Akos Balog; Patrick Ballantyne; Heeseo Rain Kwon; Alex Singleton; Jinuk Hwang Sustainability
Using composite indicators and city dashboards to promote place-based policy interventions 2024 Patrick Ballantyne; Alex Singleton Cities
Unraveling the Brexit–COVID-19 nexus: assessing the decline of EU student applications into UK universities 2024 Ruth Neville; Francisco Rowe; Alex Singleton Data & Policy
Developing two-dimensional indicators of transport demand and supply to promote sustainable transportation equity 2024 Patrick Ballantyne; Gabriele Filomena; Francisco Rowe; Alex Singleton Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
Mapping cognitive place associations within the United Kingdom through online discussion on Reddit 2024 Cillian Berragan; Alex Singleton; Alessia Calafiore; Jeremy Morley Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Spatial-Temporal Dynamics of Gas Consumption in England and Wales: Assessing the Residential Sector Using Sequence Analysis 2024 Cameron Ward; Caitlin Robinson; Alexander Singleton; Francisco Rowe Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy
Using loyalty card records and machine learning to understand how self-medication purchasing behaviours vary seasonally in England, 2012–2014 2024 Alec Davies; Mark A. Green; Dean Riddlesden; Alex D. Singleton Applied Marketing Analytics: The Peer-Reviewed Journal
‘Research ready’ geographically enabled smart data 2024 Paul A. Longley; James Cheshire; Alex Singleton Annals of GIS
Nonlinear relationships between human development and international student mobility: The prominent role of employment prospects and cultural and linguistic ties 2024 Ruth Neville; Francisco Rowe; Alexander Singleton Population, Space and Place
A neighbourhood Output Area Classification from the 2021 and 2022 UK censuses 2024 Jakub Wyszomierski; Paul A. Longley; Alex D. Singleton; Christopher Gale; Oliver O’Brien The Geographical Journal
Classifying and mapping residential structure through the London Output Area Classification 2024 Alex D Singleton; Paul A Longley Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
Harnessing mobility data to capture changing work from home behaviours between censuses 2024 Hamish Gibbs; Patrick Ballantyne; James Cheshire; Alex Singleton; Mark A. Green The Geographical Journal
Mapping Great Britain’s semantic footprints through a large language model analysis of Reddit comments 2024 Cillian Berragan; Alex Singleton; Alessia Calafiore; Jeremy Morley Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
Segmentation using large language models: A new typology of American neighborhoods 2024 Alex D. Singleton; Seth Spielman EPJ Data Science
Local Data Spaces: Leveraging trusted research environments for secure location-based policy research in the age of coronavirus disease-2019 2023 Jacob L. Macdonald; Mark A. Green; Maurizio Gibin; Simon Leech; Alex Singleton; Paul Longley Data & Policy
Transformer based named entity recognition for place name extraction from unstructured text 2023 Cillian Berragan; Alex Singleton; Alessia Calafiore; Jeremy Morley International Journal of Geographical Information Science
Integrating the Who, What, and Where of U.S. Retail Center Geographies 2023 Patrick Ballantyne; Alex Singleton; Les Dolega; Jacob Macdonald Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Decomposing the Temporal Signature of Nitrogen Dioxide Declines during the COVID-19 Pandemic in UK Urban Areas 2022 Alessia Calafiore; Jacob L. Macdonald; Alex Singleton Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy
From Data to Narratives: Scrutinising the Spatial Dimensions of Social and Cultural Phenomena Through Lenses of Interactive Web Mapping 2022 Tian Lan; Oliver O’Brien; James Cheshire; Alex Singleton; Paul Longley Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis
Changing patterns of SARS-CoV-2 infection through Delta and Omicron waves by vaccination status, previous infection and neighbourhood deprivation: a cohort analysis of 2.7 M people 2022 Mark A. Green; Daniel J. Hungerford; David M. Hughes; Marta Garcia-Fiñana; Lance Turtle; Christopher Cheyne; Matthew Ashton; Gary Leeming; Malcolm G. Semple; Alex Singleton; Iain Buchan BMC Infectious Diseases
A Generalized Model of Activity Space 2022 Seth E. Spielman; Alex D. Singleton Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Assessing the value of user-generated images of urban surroundings for house price estimation 2022 Meixu Chen; Yunzhe Liu; Dani Arribas-Bel; Alex Singleton Landscape and Urban Planning
An open source delineation and hierarchical classification of UK retail agglomerations 2022 Jacob L. Macdonald; Les Dolega; Alex Singleton Scientific Data
Estimating generalized measures of local neighbourhood context from multispectral satellite images using a convolutional neural network 2022 Alex Singleton; Dani Arribas-Bel; John Murray; Martin Fleischmann Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
A framework for delineating the scale, extent and characteristics of American retail centre agglomerations 2022 Patrick Ballantyne; Alex Singleton; Les Dolega; Kevin Credit Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
Archetypes of Footfall Context: Quantifying Temporal Variations in Retail Footfall in relation to Micro-Location Characteristics 2022 Susie Philp; Les Dolega; Alex Singleton; Mark Green Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy
The 20-minute city: An equity analysis of Liverpool City Region 2022 Alessia Calafiore; Richard Dunning; Alex Nurse; Alex Singleton Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
The Association between Fast Food Outlets and Overweight in Adolescents Is Confounded by Neighbourhood Deprivation: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Millennium Cohort Study 2021 Mark A. Green; Matthew Hobbs; Ding Ding; Michael Widener; John Murray; Lindsey Reece; Alex Singleton International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Open data products-A framework for creating valuable analysis ready data 2021 Dani Arribas-Bel; Mark Green; Francisco Rowe; Alex Singleton Journal of Geographical Systems
A regional exploration of retail visits during the COVID-19 pandemic 2021 Patrick Ballantyne; Alex Singleton; Les Dolega Regional Studies, Regional Science
Identifying how COVID-19-related misinformation reacts to the announcement of the UK national lockdown: An interrupted time-series study 2021 Mark Green; Elena Musi; Francisco Rowe; Darren Charles; Frances Darlington Pollock; Chris Kypridemos; Andrew Morse; Patricia Rossini; John Tulloch; Andrew Davies; Emily Dearden; Henrdramoorthy Maheswaran; Alex Singleton; Roberto Vivancos; Sally Sheard Big Data & Society
The Evolution Characteristics and Influence Mechanism of Chinese Venture Capital Spatial Agglomeration 2021 Li Yao; Alex Singleton; Pingjun Sun; Guanpeng Dong International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
A deep learning approach to identify unhealthy advertisements in street view images 2021 Gregory Palmer; Mark Green; Emma Boyland; Yales Stefano Rios Vasconcelos; Rahul Savani; Alex Singleton Scientific Reports
A geographic data science framework for the functional and contextual analysis of human dynamics within global cities 2021 Alessia Calafiore; Gregory Palmer; Sam Comber; Daniel Arribas-Bel; Alex Singleton Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
Beyond retail: New ways of classifying UK shopping and consumption spaces 2021 Les Dolega; Jonathan Reynolds; Alex Singleton; Michalis Pavlis Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
Geographic Data Science 2021 Alex Singleton; Daniel Arribas‐Bel Geographical Analysis
Using convolutional autoencoders to extract visual features of leisure and retail environments 2020 Sam Comber; Daniel Arribas-Bel; Alex Singleton; Les Dolega Landscape and Urban Planning
Building Hierarchies of Retail Centers Using Bayesian Multilevel Models 2020 Sam Comber; Daniel Arribas-Bel; Alex Singleton; Guanpeng Dong; Les Dolega Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Mapping the geodemographics of digital inequality in Great Britain: An integration of machine learning into small area estimation 2020 Alex Singleton; Alexandros Alexiou; Rahul Savani Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
Considering context and dynamics: A classification of transit-orientated development for New York City 2020 Yunzhe Liu; Alex Singleton; Daniel Arribas-Bel Journal of Transport Geography
Quantifying the Characteristics of the Local Urban Environment through Geotagged Flickr Photographs and Image Recognition 2020 Meixu Chen; Dani Arribas-Bel; Alex Singleton ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
A Principal Component Analysis (PCA)-based framework for automated variable selection in geodemographic classification 2019 Yunzhe Liu; Alex Singleton; Daniel Arribas-Bel Geo-spatial Information Science
Data infrastructure requirements for new geodemographic classifications: The example of London’s workplace zones 2019 Alex D. Singleton; Paul A. Longley Applied Geography
Open data on health-related neighbourhood features in Great Britain 2019 Konstantinos Daras; Mark A. Green; Alec Davies; Benjamin Barr; Alex Singleton Scientific Data
Understanding the dynamics of urban areas of interest through volunteered geographic information 2019 Meixu Chen; Dani Arribas-Bel; Alex Singleton Journal of Geographical Systems
Using machine learning to investigate self-medication purchasing in England via high street retailer loyalty card data 2018 Alec Davies; Mark A. Green; Alex D. Singleton PLOS ONE
Developing an openly accessible multi-dimensional small area index of ‘Access to Healthy Assets and Hazards’ for Great Britain, 2016 2018 Mark A. Green; Konstantinos Daras; Alec Davies; Ben Barr; Alex Singleton Health & Place
A Modified DBSCAN Clustering Method to Estimate Retail Center Extent 2018 Michalis Pavlis; Les Dolega; Alex Singleton Geographical Analysis
More bark than bytes? Reflections on 21+ years of geocomputation 2017 Richard Harris; David O’Sullivan; Mark Gahegan; Martin Charlton; Lex Comber; Paul Longley; Chris Brunsdon; Nick Malleson; Alison Heppenstall; Alex Singleton; Daniel Arribas-Bel; Andy Evans Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
Experience of disadvantage: The influence of identity on engagement in working class students’ educational trajectories to an elite university 2017 Tamara Thiele; Daniel Pope; Alexander Singleton; Darlene Snape; Debbi Stanistreet British Educational Research Journal
A Classification of Multidimensional Open Data for Urban Morphology 2016 Alexandros Alexiou; Alex Singleton; Paul A. Longley Built Environment
Establishing a framework for Open Geographic Information science 2016 Alex David Singleton; Seth Spielman; Chris Brunsdon International Journal of Geographical Information Science
Predicting students’ academic performance based on school and socio-demographic characteristics 2016 Tamara Thiele; Alexander Singleton; Daniel Pope; Debbi Stanistreet Studies in Higher Education
Creating the 2011 area classification for output areas (2011 OAC) 2016 Christopher G Gale; Alexander D Singleton; Andrew G Bates; Paul A Longley Journal of Spatial Information Science
The stability of geodemographic cluster assignments over an intercensal period 2016 Alexander Singleton; Michail Pavlis; Paul A. Longley Journal of Geographical Systems
Role of students’ context in predicting academic performance at a medical school: a retrospective cohort study 2016 Tamara Thiele; Daniel Pope; A Singleton; D Stanistreet BMJ Open
Measuring the spatial vulnerability of retail centres to online consumption through a framework of e-resilience 2016 A.D. Singleton; L. Dolega; D. Riddlesden; P.A. Longley Geoforum
Estimating attractiveness, hierarchy and catchment area extents for a national set of retail centre agglomerations 2016 Les Dolega; Michalis Pavlis; Alex Singleton Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services
Geographers Count: A Report on Quantitative Methods in Geography 2015 Richard Harris; Tate Nicholas; Catherine Souch; Alex Singleton; Scott Orford; Chris Keylock; Claire Jarvis; Chris Brunsdon Enhancing Learning in the Social Sciences
Featured graphic. Transport mode choice and the commute to work 2015 Alexander D Singleton Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
Studying Neighborhoods Using Uncertain Data from the American Community Survey: A Contextual Approach 2015 Seth E. Spielman; Alex Singleton Annals of the Association of American Geographers
The internal structure of Greater London: a comparison of national and regional geodemographic models 2015 Alex David Singleton; Paul Longley Geo: Geography and Environment
Modelling the potential impact on CO2 emissions of an increased uptake of active travel for the home to school commute using individual level data 2014 Nick Bearman; Alex D. Singleton Journal of Transport & Health
The Past, Present, and Future of Geodemographic Research in the United States and United Kingdom 2014 Alexander D. Singleton; Seth E. Spielman The Professional Geographer
Escaping the pushpin paradigm in geographic information science: (re)presenting national crime data 2014 Alex Singleton; Chris Brunsdon Area
Broadband speed equity: A new digital divide? 2014 Dean Riddlesden; Alex D. Singleton Applied Geography
A GIS approach to modelling CO2emissions associated with the pupil-school commute 2014 Alex Singleton International Journal of Geographical Information Science
OACoder: Postcode Coding Tool 2013   Journal of Open Research Software
Researching the riots 2013 Richard Phillips; Diane Frost; Alex Singleton The Geographical Journal
The geodemographics of access and participation in Geography 2012 ALEX D SINGLETON The Geographical Journal
A SURVEY OF THE USE OF GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN ENGLISH LOCAL AUTHORITY IMPACT ASSESSMENTS 2012 D. RIDDLESDEN; A. D. SINGLETON; T. B. FISCHER Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management
Geodemographics and spatial interaction: an integrated model for higher education 2012 A. D. Singleton; A. G. Wilson; O. O’Brien Journal of Geographical Systems
The Surname Regions of Great Britain 2012 James A. Cheshire; Paul A. Longley; Alex D. Singleton Journal of Maps
Including Accident Information in Automatic Bicycle Route Planning for Urban Areas 2012 Alex D. Singleton; Daniel J. Lewis Urban Studies Research
Developments in Quantitative Human Geography, Urban Modelling, and Geographic Information Science 2011 Pablo Mateos; Michael de Smith; Alexander A. Singleton Transactions in GIS
Estimating secondary school catchment areas and the spatial equity of access 2011 Alex D. Singleton; Paul A. Longley; Rebecca Allen; Oliver O’Brien Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
Predicting Participation in Higher Education: A Comparative Evaluation of the Performance of Geodemographic Classifications 2011 Chris Brunsdon; Paul Longley; Alex Singleton; David Ashby Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society
The Geodemographics of Educational Progression and their Implications for Widening Participation in Higher Education 2010 Alex D Singleton Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
Towards Real-Time Geodemographics: Clustering Algorithm Performance for Large Multidimensional Spatial Databases 2010 Muhammad Adnan; Paul A Longley; Alex D Singleton; Chris Brunsdon Transactions in GIS
Lost in Translation: Cross-Cultural Experiences in Teaching Geo-Genealogy 2010 Paul A. Longley; Alex D. Singleton; Keiji Yano; Tomoki Nakaya Journal of Geography in Higher Education
Grid-enabling Geographically Weighted Regression: A Case Study of Participation in Higher Education in England 2010 Richard Harris; Alex Singleton; Daniel Grose; Chris Brunsdon; Paul Longley Transactions in GIS
Uncertainty in the Analysis of Ethnicity Classifications: Issues of Extent and Aggregation of Ethnic Groups 2009 Pablo Mateos; Alex Singleton; Paul Longley Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Data mining course choice sets and behaviours for target marketing of higher education 2009 Alex D Singleton Journal of Targeting, Measurement and Analysis for Marketing
Classification through consultation: public views of the geography of the e-Society 2009 Paul A. Longley; Alexander D. Singleton International Journal of Geographical Information Science
Creating open source geodemographics: Refining a national classification of census output areas for applications in higher education 2009 Alexander D. Singleton; Paul A. Longley Papers in Regional Science
Geodemographics, visualisation, and social networks in applied geography 2009 Alexander D. Singleton; Paul A. Longley Applied Geography
Linking Social Deprivation and Digital Exclusion in England 2009 Paul A. Longley; Alexander D. Singleton Urban Studies
Web Mapping 2.0: The Neogeography of the GeoWeb 2008 Muki Haklay; Alex Singleton; Chris Parker Geography Compass
An Exploratory Cartographic Visualisation of London through the Google Maps API 2008 Maurizio Gibin; Alex Singleton; Richard Milton; Pablo Mateos; Paul Longley Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy
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