Very excited to announce the commencement of our new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – Postdoctoral Fellowship project WellbeMap undertaken by myself and postdoctoral scholar Dr. Aya Badawy. The goal of the project is to better understand subjective perceptions of residential wellbeing and how these overlap and intersect with “objective” characteristics of the phsyical and built environment.
New paper describing the method for calculating an open source Walkable Accessibility Score (WAS), a spatially-granular measure of walkability based on point of interest (POI) data from 1997 to 2019, now out in Environment and Planning B. The downloadable data and code are available on GitHub. We have also created an interactive map of the WAS, where you can explore values for the entire US, here:
Shortlisted for the 2025 AESOP Best Published Paper Award for: Third Places, the Connective Fiber of Cities, and High-Tech Entrepreneurship (co-authored with Orsa Kekezi, Charlotta Mellander, and Richard Florida), published in Regional Studies (DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2023.2297083)
Winner of the 2024 JGS Best Paper Award for: A structured comparison of causal machine learning methods to assess heterogeneous treatment effects in spatial data (co-authored with Matthew Lehnert), published in the Journal of Geographical Systems, Issue 26(4), pages 483–510 (2024 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10109-023-00413-0)
The Dublin 8 Health + Environment Dashboard project (D8Dash), completed in 2024, worked to collect, publish, and map open data on access to health benefits and exposure to health risks so that citizens, policy-makers, and researchers can better understand where the neighbourhood faces critical gaps as we work toward a healthier, more sustainable Dublin 8. To accomplish this objective, we brought together a collaborative team of academic experts from Maynooth University and non-profit organisations working in the Dublin 8 community, including the Robert Emmet Community Development Project (RECDP) and the South Inner City Development Association (SICCDA). Access the final dashboard here:
RTE Brainstorm article and podcast (below) on 2024 paper (co-authored with Conor O’Driscoll) Assessing Modal Tradeoffs and Associated Built Environment Characteristics Using a Cost-Distance Framework:
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