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Dr Patrick Ballantyne

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Geographic Data Science Geography and Planning

Research

Consumption Spaces and Retail Centres


How can we empirically define and delineate retail centre boundaries?

To what extent have the form and function of retail agglomerations evolved over time, and how can we account for this?

Where do people who shop at retail centres come from and why?

How are consumption spaces responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and cost-of-living crisis?

Urban Mobility and Cities


What new questions can we answer with data derived from mobile phone applications?

To what extent is data derived from mobile phone applications representative of populations and sufficient enough to facilitate spatio-temporal analysis.

How has urban mobility changed during the COVID-19 pandemic and cost-of-living crisis?