Technologies for Migration and Commuting Analysis: Spatial Interaction Data Applications

Oliver Duke-Williams completed his PhD in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds and is now Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director of CIDER, working remotely from his home in Walthamstow, London. His research interests include methods and reasons for collecting and using small area interaction data, the effects of disclosure control on Census and survey data, and dissemination of data sets so as to promote their widespread usage. As part of the ESRC Census Programme, he also directs a research network which explores the potential benefits and implications of distributing census data via data feed APIs rather than the traditional bulk methods used with previous censuses.

Adam Dennett studied Geography as an undergraduate at Lancaster University before training as a secondary school teacher at the University of Cambridge. After some years in the teaching profession, he returned to higher education and completed a Masters degree at the University of Leeds where he now remains as a researcher, working full-time for CIDER and studying part-time for a PhD on the development of a migration-based area classification framework. His research interests lie in the quantitative analysis of population; principally internal migration flows. He has recently published papers in Population Trends and Population Space and Place relating to methodological developments in the analysis of internal migration in Britain and he is currently working on a European Spatial Planning Observatory Network project known as DEMIFER (DEmographic and MIgratory Flows affecting European Regions and cities).