Research Profile
Dr Scott Orford
Telephone:+44 (0)29 208 75272
Fax:+44 (0)29 208 74845
Address:Room 2.81, Glamorgan Building / 46 Park Place
Qualifications
PhD., School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol (1997).
BSc (Hons) Geography, Department of Geography, University of Lancaster (1993).
Research Interests
His research interests are in GIS and quantitative human geography, particularly modelling socio-economic processes using techniques that are sensitive to spatial context. He has particular expertise in multi-level modelling, multivariate statistics, and visualization. He has worked on projects in a variety of social science areas such as health, population studies and electoral studies, all within a GIS and spatial modelling framework, and he has a special interest in housing and housing markets. He has published his work in a variety of books and international academic journals. He has undertaken joint policy research with the Welsh Assembly Government on age-balanced communities in Wales and the role of the housing system in rural Wales, and research funded by the ESRC and HEFCW. He is very familiar with the principal socio-economic and environmental data sets for Wales and the UK.
He is currently on secondment to the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD).
Selected Projects
Selected Publications
- Towards a data-rich infrastructure for housing market research: deriving floor area estimates for individual properties from secondary data sources
- Electoral Salience and the Costs of Voting at National, Sub-National and Supra-National Elections in the UK: a case study of Brent, UK
- Investigating differences in electoral turnout: the influence of ward level context on participation in local and parliamentary elections in Britain
- Modelling UK residential dwelling types using OS Mastermap data: A comparison to the 2001 census
- Valuing locational externalities: A GIS and multilevel modelling approach