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• On scale, sustainability and the organisational demands of successful research
  2026-04-07 • 4 min read

  Visit to WorldPop, Southampton

• When good work doesn’t travel
  2026-04-05 • 3 min read

  the invisible cost of locally grounded knowledge

• New ReliefWeb situation report on the Iran conflict
  2026-04-04 • 2 min read

  Digital trace data analysis for the reporting period 28 February 2026 to 19 March 2026

• DEBIAS Workshop and Symposium 2026
  2026-03-31 • 2 min read

  Setting standards for bias-adjusted digital mobility data

• Postdoctoral Research Associate in Geographic Data Science
  2024-10-15 • 3 min read

  We are expanding! We are looking for a new Postdoctoral Research Associate in Geographic Data Science to join us at the Geographic Data Science Lab at the University of Liverpool (UoL). This is one of various positions …

• Publication in the Science in Parliament Magazine
  2024-10-03 • 2 min read

  Geographic data science for policy research and impact

• The role of social media and local deprivation in UK anti-immigration riots
  2024-08-26 • 6 min read

  Francisco Rowe and Matt Mason The UK has recently experienced a wave of anti-migrant and Islamophobic riots. Towns and cities across England and Northern Ireland have seen large gatherings of rioters clash with police and hundreds of arrests …

• Fully Funded PhD studentship
  2024-06-18 • 3 min read

  Safeguarding urban communities: Using data science to determine the impact of the spatial structure of urban activities and residential segregation on the spreading of infectious diseases

• Data Innovation in Demography, Migration and Human Mobility
  2022-04-17 • 2 min read

  New Report by the European Commission Joint Research Centre

• Fitting Logistic Regression with Aggregate Data in R
  2021-10-16 • 2 min read

  Example Using Simulated Migration Data

• Modelling Count Data in R: A Multilevel Framework
  2021-01-11 • 2 min read

  A quick practical guide to Poisson, zero-inflated and negative binomial mixed models

• Mapping The Impact of Internal Migration Across Europe
  2020-02-08 • 4 min read

  # Net Internal Migration Rate Across Europe At the end of last year, we published a paper assessing the impact of internal migration on redistributing population within European countries. Specifically we assessed the impact of internal migration on …

• Introducing the R Package CIM
  2019-10-11 • 2 min read

  # R Markdown This post introduces our recently published R package, CIM, to measure the impacts of migration on local population structures. We developed the methodology in this paper in 2018. This paper is one of the top …

• Migration of Young Human Capital?
  2017-10-23 • 2 min read

  Introducing our Special Issue

• How do we define functional labour market areas?
  2017-02-23 • 3 min read

  Introducing a new method