Biography
Before coming to 91¸£ÀûÍø, I taught for 15 years at Edinburgh University, where I was Co-Director of the ESRC Regional Research Laboratory and a Member of the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre. In the 2004/5 Session I was Scholar-in-Residence at the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Research interests
- Historical GIS - use of GIS and visualisation methods for the development and analysis of large spatio-temporal databases of regional economic development; Internet-based historical GIS data resources, especially 19th century railroad GIS; simulation modelling of regional development
- Historical regional dynamics - economic development of the North-East United States 1850-1900 with particular reference to the railroad, oil, coal mining and iron industries
- Behavioural regional investment - development of new methods for analysing investment diversification that extend the theory of behavioural finance into the regional domain
- Use of advanced data warehousing, spatial data mining and big data techniques to analyse the United States 1880 census and linked data sources
- GIS - use of parallel processing and database methods within a GIS framework; Internet map and database server technologies; environmental applications of GIS
Research outputs
2023
Healey, R.
27 Nov 2023,
Research output: Book
2021
Anderson, J., Healey, R., Lux, Z., Schlarb, S.
14 May 2021, In: New Review of Information Networking. 25, 2, p. 119-133, 15p.
Research output: Article