Profiles
Professor Clive Sabel
Professor of Big Data and Spatial Science
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Biography
Biography
I am a spatial data scientist working in the nexus between spatial data informatics, health and the environment. My research focusses on the over-arching theme of individual level spatial data. This can mean working with point-pattern data (often residential location) to reveal epidemiological relationships to environmental exposures or patterns in road traffic accidents; building whole life-course exposures to social and environmental sources to, for example, understand wellbeing in urban areas; data mining ‘Big Data’ such as twitter feeds and sensors for spatial-temporal trends; working in the Future Cities agenda, sensing and tracking individuals through GPS and environmental and social sensors in smart-phones; or writing on the sensitive issues (and exciting possibilities) surrounding tracking individuals and their rights to privacy and confidentiality.
My research career is naturally evolving more into a leadership role. I have considerable centre, programme and project management experience, from winning and running large EU consortium grants, to my other role as Director, BERTHA – Denmark’s Big Data Centre for Environment and Health, managing and coordinating some 30 researchers.
Qualifications
BSc (hons) Degree in Geography, University of Lancaster, 1990
MSc in Geographical Information Systems, University of Edinburgh, 1991
PhD in GIS, Health and Environmental Exposure, University of Lancaster, 1999
Research
Research
Research interests
I am a spatial data scientist working in the nexus between spatial data informatics, health and the environment. My research focusses on the over-arching theme of individual level spatial data. This can mean working with point-pattern data (often residential location) to reveal epidemiological relationships to environmental exposures or patterns in road traffic accidents; building whole life-course exposures to social and environmental sources to, for example, understand wellbeing in urban areas; data mining ‘Big Data’ such as twitter feeds and sensors for spatial-temporal trends; working in the Future Cities agenda, sensing and tracking individuals through GPS and environmental and social sensors in smart-phones; or writing on the sensitive issues (and exciting possibilities) surrounding tracking individuals and their rights to privacy and confidentiality.
My research career is naturally evolving more into a leadership role. I have considerable centre, programme and project management experience, from winning and running large EU consortium grants, to my other role as Director, BERTHA – Denmark’s Big Data Centre for Environment and Health, managing and coordinating some 30 researchers.
Publications
Publications
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