Dr Paul Brindley

Dr Paul Brindley was a co-investigator on work package 1 on the geography of the natural environment, socio-economic deprivation and health inequalities in Sheffield.

Paul has over fifteen years’ experience of spatial data analysis and has worked on over fifty research projects including the official Rural-Urban Definitions for England and Wales (client: Defra, ONS, DCLG, Welsh Assembly).

His research interests centre on the socio-economic applications of geographic information science (GIS). In particular, his work explores the importance of scale within data analysis and the generation of vague geographic places.