Dr Nick Hood

Profile

I am a Lecturer in Quantiative Human Geography based in the Institute for Spatial Data Science in the School of Geography. I focus on the application of quantitative spatial analysis techniques to a range of areas and questions, particularly in the areas of retail, access to services, and housing.

I take an active role in student education and leadership and I am currently BA Economics and Geography programme leader, Deputy Director of Postgraduate Research Studies (DDPGRS), and Widening Participation Academic Lead. From a pedagogic and scholarship perspective, I am focused on widening participation and sense of belonging at university.

Responsibilities

• BA Economics and Geography Programme Leader
• Deputy Director of Postgraduate Research Studies (DDPGRS)
• Widening Participation Academic Lead

Research interests

I focus on the application of quantitative spatial analysis techniques to a range of areas and questions, particularly in the areas of retail, access to services, and housing. I am currently focused on deveoloping research on inequalities in spatial accessibility to a range of services, in particularly amid the impacts of a growth in online retailing.

My research has aligned with the Consumer Data Research Centre (an ESRC data investment) including in a collaboration with the Property Analytics function at major grocery retailer Sainsbury’s as described here. I was previously a researcher on the Open Research Area (ORA) project Sub-National Context and Radical Right Support in Europe focusing on harmonising data between different countries and contexts.

I am also active in pedagogy and scholarship, focusing on widening partipation and sense of belonging, whilst developing research interests in access to higher education from a spatial perspective.

I currently supervise one PhD student:

• Juetian Hu (Labour Skills and Mobility in China)

Qualifications

• PhD, Quantitative Human Geography, University of Leeds, 2016
• MSc, Social and Spatial Inequalities, University of Sheffield, 2012
• BA, Human Geography, University of Sheffield, 2010

Professional memberships

• Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
• UK Advising and Tutoring Association
• Society for Location Analysis

Student education

I am a Lecturer in the School of Geography and Programme Leader for BA Economics and Geography. My teaching covers a wide range of quantitative methods and applications, specialising in spatial analysis and statistics with a particular interest in retail, service planning, and more broadly GIS.

Research groups and institutes

• Institute for Spatial Data Science