Professor Paul Longley is a director of our Geographic Data Service. He is Professor of Geographic Information Science at UCL.

Paul’s research interests are focused around socioeconomic applications of GIScience, in geo-temporal demographics, retailing, genealogy and urban modelling, latterly often using Big Data analytics.

He teaches Geographic Information Science and Systems and is a co-author of the best-selling book of that name.

Paul Longley has been involved in 61 research grants and three teaching grants; postgraduate supervision of 72 Ph.D. students. Publications include three books, 127 refereed journal articles and 79 contributions to edited collections.

His academic and editorial duties have included past editorship of two journals and current membership of five editorial boards.

Paul has held fifteen externally-funded visiting appointments. He has also taken strategic roles in two centres of excellence in teaching and learning and made major commitments to administration in four leading university departments.

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