Professor Ed Manley is Deputy Director of the Healthy and Sustainable Places Data Service. He is primarily responsible for mobility data, overseeing the acquisition, curation, and development of research using these data.

Ed Manley is a Professor of Urban Analytics in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds. He is also the Pro Dean for Research and Innovation at the university’s Faculty of Environment. Ed is an Honorary Professor at UCL. In 2022, Ed was awarded the Phillip Leverhulme Prize for Geography.

Ed’s responsibility at Healthy and Sustainable Places Data Service is primarily for mobility data, and he oversees the acquisition, curation, and development of research using mobility data.

His wider research focuses on the diverse use of mobility data and models to understand social systems. His current research projects include devising new ways to improve transport sustainability, understanding movement through hospitals and its role in spreading infection and modelling how spatial cognition influences movement choices.

Ed has worked extensively with many varieties of mobility data sets, and with numerous mobility data partners. Ed’s research demonstrates how mobility and interaction shape social systems, and HASP will play an important role in supporting this interdisciplinary perspective.

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