Dr Paul Brindley

2016-2018: Improving Wellbeing through Urban Nature (IWUN) (Client: NERC) Research Associate on Work Package 1 with Jorgensen, A.; Maheswaran, R.; and Cameron, R. WP1 is a place-based analysis of population-level linkages between natural environments, health inequality, deprivation and green space usage. It will take an epidemiological approach to investigating and evidencing the relationship between urban Natural Environments and Health and Wellbeing in Sheffield, focusing especially on the links between the characteristics of urban Natural Environments and Health and Wellbeing outcomes, and the way this plays out within differing socio-economic population groups. See http://iwun.uk for details.

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2016-2017: Freedom to re-use property: a fiscal give-away? (Client: RICS Research Trust) Co-investigator with Henneberry, J., Bibby, P. and Dunning, R. The project covers development activity where the need for planning permission is obviated by: (a) ‘change of use’ provisions in the GPDO, Part 3; (b) other GPDO provisions; (c) use of (local) development orders; (d) extended use of development orders based on new legislation; or (e) circumvented by small scale adaptive adjustments to existing buildings. Estimates will be made of the nature and extent of such development in England since 2001, and of the enhanced private values and net additional public / social costs resulting. The work will combine analysis of (i) the Post Code Address File (PAF; using natural language interpretation in Prolog) to identify the flow of new addresses; and (ii) the Land Use Change Statistics (LUCS) to identify the flow of new construction; to produce estimates of such development under different assumptions. [£19,992]

 

2015: Real Time Information Plus (RTI+) project (Client: South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive and The University of Sheffield). Research Associate working with Ferrari, E. and Phillips, A. and in partnership with the South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive. The project made use of real time GPS data collected from buses, in order to map and analyse bus network performance to facilitate network management. [£24,647]

 

2014: Rural-Urban Classification for Local Authority Districts in England (Client: Defra, ONS, CLG and Welsh Government). Co-Investigator with Bibby, P. The work updated the 2001 official definitions for rural areas to tie in with the 2011 Census. [£39,150] Click here for further details

 

2013: Rural-Urban Classification (Client: Defra, ONS, CLG and Welsh Government). Co-Investigator with Bibby, P. The work updated the 2001 official definitions for rural areas to tie in with the 2011 Census. [£61,934] Click here for further details

 

2013: Housing Market Monitoring for Leeds City Region (Client: Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership). Co-Investigator with Ferrari, E. Undertook GIS analysis of house prices for the region. [£1,650]

 

2010: Natural Language Processing of Housing Search Data (Client: The University of Sheffield, KT Rapid Response fund). Co-Investigator with Bibby, P., Ferrari, E. and Watkins, C. The work sought to identify and operationalise the types of 'places' discussed in survey responses on housing location preferences (for sample questionnaires for Manchester), and thus, derive greater spatial knowledge from the data. Responsible for undertaking data exploration to identify most pertinent data. [£8,090]

 

2010: Analysis of Available Data on Affordable Housing Investment (Client: Homes & Communities Agency and the Tenant Services Authority). Co-Investigator with Bibby, P., Crook, T. and Ferrari, E. Undertook large scale data analysis of Census data and Land Use Change Statistics (LUCS) to investigate the local of Social Housing in England 1981-2010. Responsible for data assembly, provision of support in computing and statistical work, and the production of maps and tables. Work involved tying Census data (such as numbers of households and social housing) for 1981-2001 to hectare cell framework and developing a single measure of deprivation consistent through the Census data (1981-2001). COntinuous REcording System (CORE) data was mapped to identify the locations of Housing Association owned housing stock. [£63,000]

 

2010: Access to Services (Client: Lincolnshire County Council). Co-Investigator with Bibby, P. Responsible for GIS analysis, measuring the distance from all households within the county to a range of ten 'facility' types. [£10,000]

 

2009-10: Current role and function of historic farm buildings in the West Midlands (Client: English Heritage and Advantage West Midlands). Co-Investigator with Bibby, P. Undertook computational matching of comprehensive database of historic farm property across the region with current postal addresses and mapped farmstead attribute data (plan type, date, etc). [£15,100]

 

2009: Review of Subregional Housing Market Area Analyses (Client: Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council on behalf of the West Midlands Regional Housing Executive). Co-Investigator with Bibby, P. and Ferrari, E. Responsible for house price regression modelling with Census Output Area data and undertook necessary data assembly, computing and statistical work, and production of maps and tables. The house price modelling formed the basis of subregional housing market area identification. [£16,200]

 

2009: State of the Greenbelt (Client: Natural England). Co-Investigator with Bibby, P. Responsible for the construction of evidence on economic activity and the use of land and property in all of England's urban fringes and for comparative analyses of the character of fringes with and without Greenbelts. The work included a broad range of indicators of impact of Greenbelt constraint and access to countryside resources. Data included the use of the Postal Address File, Valuation Office Agency rating list, Generalised Land Use Database and Census data. An important aspect of this work was to ensure that Greenbelts could be evaluated against comparator areas subject to similar demand pressures. [£32,500]

 

2009: Computational Approaches to Identifying Home Based Business (Client: CRC, Shropshire Council; Herefordshire Council; Telford and Wrekin Council). Co-Investigator with Bibby, P. Responsible for a programme of work using computational searches and interpretative techniques to gauge the extent and character of home-based business in three local authority areas. [£8,975]

 

2009: Economic Development: Research Support (Client: Lincolnshire County Council). Co-Investigator with Bibby, P. Responsible for a programme of work to assist the county council prepare to undertake its anticipated economic assessment duty. Undertook cluster analysis on travel to work data (Census Output Area data tied to hectare cells), PLASC school data and library users' location for Lincolnshire to form economic sub-zones within the county. [£30,000]

 

2009: Settlement Characteristics of East of England Landscape Character Types (Client: Landscape East). Co-Investigator with Bibby, P. Summarised the settlement structure of various landscape character types (LCTs) defined for the East of England Region by reference to work on settlement types undertaken for a consortium of government agencies to support Government's Rural Strategy. [£3,000]

 

2008: Housing Market Subregions in North East England (Client NEA). Co-Investigator with Bibby, P. and Ferrari, E. Responsible for data management, mapping and statistical work to isolate property, neighbourhood and subregional house price components. [£15,000]

 

2008: Historic Chapels in Cornwall: Informing Change in Future Strategies (Client: English Heritage). Co-Investigator with Bibby, P. Responsible for mapping the church and chapel database. Explored the extent to which the intensity of church property varied in differing socio-economic contexts (for example different settlement contexts, types of rurality). Undertook grid regression analysis to explore the relationship between intensity of churches and the density of households and service endowment. [£5,231]

 

2008: The Use of Migrants in Agriculture (Client: Public Services Academy (University of Sheffield) on behalf of the Home Office). Principal investigator, working with Scott, S. Responsible for the mapping of migrant and related data including information from National Insurance numbers and Worker Registration Scheme data. Explored the relationship between measures of casual labour and agricultural land coverages (by crop type). [£1,800]

 

2008: Urban Intensification in New Zealand (Client: Parliamentary Commission for New Zealand). Co-Investigator with Bibby, P., Henneberry, J., Galil, R., Bailey, N., Eldridge, A., Nelson, S., and Roberts, M. Responsible for the generation of settlement typology for New Zealand using grid based GIS procedures for New Zealand postal data. The work included categorising urban areas in terms of the type of property likely to be found there based on density measures. [£18,500]

 

2008: Household Growth and Retail Performance of Market Towns (Client: Department of Geography, Birkbeck College). Co-Investigator with Bibby, P. Responsible for using postal data and the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) hereditament data to gauge household growth and retail offer of market towns across England. [£207,050]

 

2008: New Social Housing in Scotland (Client: Scottish Government). Co-Investigator with Bibby, P. Responsible for liaison with Communities Scotland area offices and development of methods for transferring data. This included the development of automated methods for linking data zone boundaries to Google Maps to allow officers to confirm the position of new property. [£7,660]

 

2008: Housing Market Subregions in North West England (Client NWRA). Co-Investigator with Bibby, P. and Ferrari, E. Responsible for data management, mapping and statistical work to isolate property, neighbourhood and subregional components of house price. [£13,177]

 

2008: Non Residential Development 2000-20006 (Client: Commission for Rural Communities). Co-Investigator with Bibby, P. Mapped new industrial, commercial, retail and related development in England between 2001 and 2006 using data from Land Use Change Statistics (LUCS), Postcode Address File (PAF) and company account data. [£9,000]

 

2007-08: Productivity Place and Peripherality (Client: Local Government Association). Co-Investigator with Bibby, P. Responsible for mapping fine grained indicators of economic activity, and generating information about home-based economic activity. [£21,479]

 

2007: Land Use Change Indicators for Protected Areas (Client: Natural England). Co-Investigator with Bibby, P. Mapped Land Use Change Statistics (LUCS) and the Postcode Address File (PAF) data in order to explore the extent of development in protected areas and the settlement context in which they were found. [£1,650]

 

2007: Historic Farm Complexes in Current Socio-Economic Context: High Weald (Client: High Weald AONB). Co-Investigator with Bibby, P. Responsible for mapping and tabulating data from a variety of sources (including the Postcode Address File (PAF), house-price data and the number of directorships of large companies). [£2,750]

 

2007: Mapping Socio-Economic Flows (Client: East of England Development Agency). Co-Investigator with Bibby, P. Responsible for GIS analysis of, flows of households from the Postcode Address File (PAF), and financial flows from Financial Analysis Made Easy (FAME) and the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) data in the East of England. Also explored the geographic patterns of firm ownership and mapped the extent to which postcodes are 'visible' and referenced on the web. [£24,000]

 

2007: Business Parks in South Yorkshire (Client: University of Sheffield). Principal investigator. Identification of Business Parks in South Yorkshire using the Postcode Address File so that questionnaires could be sent to firms. [£500]

 

2007: Investigation of a Network Approach to Understanding Variations in District Productivity: An Approach Based on VOA Data (Client: Defra). Co-Investigator with Bibby, P. Responsible for data management and mapping of VOA data. Investigated the relationships between VOA data and financial data (from Financial Analysis Made Easy - FAME) and non-residential entries on the Postcode Address File (PAF). [£43,500]

 

2007: Gangmasters Licensing Authority: Information for the Baseline Report (Client: Public Services Academy (University of Sheffield) on behalf of the Gangmasters Licensing Authority). Co-Investigator with Scott, S. and Geddes, A. Responsible for data collection and mapping of agricultural and related data, including horticultural land use, casual labour and migrant workers. [£600]

 

2007: Analysis of VOA data in the rural domain (Client: Commission for Rural Communities, Natural England). Co-Investigator with Bibby, P. Responsible for data management and mapping of VOA data in order to analyse commercial development located at the urban-rural fringe and in the wider countryside. Explored the links between the physical use of land with social and economic features (such as social mix and housing markets).

 

2006: Historic Farmsteads (Client: English Heritage). Co-Investigator with Bibby, P. Responsible for linking information about historic farmsteads with other data (including Land Use Change Statistics, Postal Address File, HMLR house price data, Census of Population etc). The work investigated the economic function, house prices and social role of historic farmsteads and examined new development in such contexts. [£1,500]

 

2006: Look again at Longdendale (Client: Heritage Lottery Fund). Co-Investigator with Bibby, P. Map production of historic tithe maps. [£4,400]

 

2006-07: Places in Networks (Client: Defra). Co-Investigator with Bibby, P. Undertook GIS and statistical analyses to produce a typology of places in rural England on the basis of their residents participation in networks. [£93,800+£35,000]

 

2006: Residential Development since 2000 (Client: CLG). Co-Investigator with Bibby, P. Responsible for GIS and statistical analyses to ascertain key similarities and differences between patterns of residential development at small area level between the 1990s and the period since 2000.The work included developing a detailed typology of urban areas based on density profiles and Census data. [£25,000]

 

2006: Travel Time to Services (Client: Defra). Co-Investigator with Bibby, P. Responsible for data management of a very large scale analysis of travel time from every rural settlement to a broad range of services through the road network. Also responsible for implementing procedures which involved finding shortest paths through a network of more than 2 million nodes. [£35,000]

 

2005: Physical Development in Intermediate Locales (Client: Countryside Agency). Co-Investigator with Bibby, P. Responsible for the production of GIS-based analyses of physical change at the urban-rural fringe and of physical development in the countryside. [£23,349]

 

2005: Countryside Quality Counts IV (Client: Nottingham University Consultants for the Countryside Agency). Co-Investigator with Bibby, P. Responsible for GIS based analyses of land use change at small-area level across England in the period 1998-2003. [£11,000]

 

2004-05: Rural Funding Streams (Client: Defra). Research Associate working with Bibby, P. Responsible for the development of methods for improving landcover information using logic programming methods. Also responsible for a wide range of analyses designed to identify need for policy intervention with respect to government policy goals with respect to sustainable rural communities, sustainable food and farming, and protecting natural environments. [£98,000]

 

2004-05: West Midlands Regional Housing Strategy (Client: West Midlands Regional Assembly). Research Associate working with Bibby, P. Responsible for the use of statistical and GIS techniques to identify the changing patterns of segregation of ethnic groups from Census data (1991-2001) for the West Midlands. [£36,950]

 

2003-04: Collaborative Analysis of Offenders' Personal and Area-Based Social Exclusion: a Demonstrator Project for E-Social Science (Sponsor: ESRC). Research Associate working with Craglia, M., Costello, A. and Young-Hoon Kim. Investigated the use of grid technologies to enhance the capacity to address substantive social science research questions. Analysed the relationships between the characteristics of offenders and the socio-economic and physical characteristics of the area they lived in.

 

2003: Street Crime (Client: South Yorkshire Police). Research Associate with Young-Hoon Kim. GIS analysis to demonstrate the spatial-temporal patterns of street crime in South Yorkshire.

 

2002-05: Unpacking the dynamics of domestic burglary space-time continuum (Sponsor: The University of Sheffield) University bursary awarded to advance the theory of Barker's behaviour settings to incorporate domestic burglary activity. Explore the importance of space-time for burglary. Incorporated regression analysis at Census Output Areas and finer resolutions (100 metre grid cells) to investigate domestic burglary in South Yorkshire. (PhD thesis)

 

2002-03: Urban Boundaries (Clients: Countryside Agency, ODPM and others). Research Associate working with Bibby, P. Synthesis of urban areas using the Postal Address File (PAF) and provision of a wide variety of analyses in support of work on a digital settlement morphology.

 

2002: Outstanding Planning Permissions (Client: DTLR). Research Associate working with Bibby, P. Research to assess the numbers of outstanding planning permissions, involving the collection of data associated with unimplemented planning permissions (for example low demand) and assess their quality and robustness.

 

2002: Shopping Catchment Areas (Client: Lancaster University). Research Associate. Construction of catchment areas for supermarkets in Portsmouth using GIS.

 

2001-02: Feasibility of a Strategic GIS (Client: Housing Corporation). Research Associate working with Bibby, P. Undertook data auditing of databases held by the Housing Corporation.

 

2001: Crime Reduction in Secondary Schools (Client: Home Office). Research Associate working with Craglia, M., Signoretta, P. and Young-Hoon Kim. Responsible for data collection and analysis of crime hot spots and catchment areas in selected secondary schools across England. Ward level, socio-economic data were collected from a diverse range of sources.

 

2001: Air Pollution Episode (Client: Institute for Environmental Health). Research Associate. Undertook spatial and temporal GIS analysis for an episode of sulphur dioxide pollution, emitted in the East Midlands during September 2000.

 

2000: Sports Facility Mapping (Client: Sheffield City Council). Research Associate. Mapped the location of sports facilities in Sheffield and compared intensity with socio-economic data from the Census of Population.

 

2000: Prioritising Contaminated Land for Assessment (Client: Chesterfield Borough Council). Research Associate. Assessed the feasibility of establishing a GIS to help create and maintain a database to house all the required information and data for contaminated land.

 

2000-02: Geographic Information System-based Mapping and Analysis for Local Area Crime Reduction (Client: Home Office). Research Associate working with Young-Hoon Kim. Development of tools for the analysis of high volume crimes (domestic burglary, and car thefts), at varying geographic scales. The tools that were developed for the Home Office were subsequently adopted (and further progressed) by ESRI for commercial sale (ESRI Crime Analyst).

 

2000-02: The Effects of Outdoor Air Pollution in Sheffield (Client: NHS Trent). Research Associate working with Maheswaran, R., Haining, R.P., Fryers, P. and Wise, S.M. Undertook an investigation into the chronic effects of outdoor air pollution on cardiovascular respiratory functioning. Modelled and validated air pollution data and estimated data for differing geographies.

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