Professor Gary Higgs

Job Title: WISERD Co-Director & leader of WISERD Data Integration Programme

Institution: University of Glamorgan

Email: ghiggs@glam.ac.uk

Telephone: 01443 483619

Role: Responsibility for leading the Glamorgan team & overall responsibility (with Scott Orford) for leading the WISERD data integration programme 

Research Interests

Health applications of GIS

Application of GIS in environmental and urban planning

Rural services, deprivation and health

Population modelling and the census

Current Research

Gary’s current research projects include; GIS-based analysis in accessibility modelling; applications of GIS in medical geography; use of GIS and visualisation techniques in emergency planning; applying GIS techniques in collaborative environments and in particular the use of GIS in public participation arenas as part of decision support system frameworks; investigating the use of Public Participation GIS (PPGIS) in combination with multi-criteria decision analysis in the siting of facilities such as wind farms and landfill sites; investigating patterns of environmental (in) justice in the UK; researching the use of GIS in social science applications in Wales and associated capacity building.

Click here to view Gary’s official University of Glamorgan bio page.

Recent Publications

Journals

Higgs G, Fry R, Langford M, 2012, ‘Investigating the implications of using alternative GIS-based techniques to measure accessibility to green space’ Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 29(2) pp 326-343 (Available here)

Langford M, Fry R, Higgs G, 2012, ‘Measuring transit system accessibility using a modified two-step floating catchment technique’ International Journal of Geographical Information Science 26(2) pp 193-214 (Available here)

Fry R, Berry R, Higgs G, Orford S, Jones S, 2012, ‘The WISERD Geoportal: A tool for the discovery, analysis and visualisation of socio-economic (meta-) data for Wales’ Transactions in GIS 16(2) pp 105-124 (Available here)

Berry R, Higgs G, 2012, ‘Gauging levels of public acceptance to the use of visualisation tools in promoting public participation; a case study of wind farm planning in South Wales, UK’ Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 55(2) pp 229-551 (Available here)

Higgs G, 2011, ‘Book Review: Showalter and Lu (Eds.) Geospatial techniques in urban hazard and disaster analysis’ Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 38(2) pp 383-384 (Available here)

Higgs G, 2011, ‘Book Review: Skinner (Ed) GIS in Hospital and Healthcare Emergency Management’ Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy (Available here)

Corcoran J, Higgs G, Rohde D, Chhetri P, 2011, ‘Investigating the association between weather conditions, calendar events and socio-economic patterns with trends in fire incidence: an Australian case study’ Journal of Geographical Systems 13(2) pp 193-226 (Available here)

Berry R, Higgs G, Fry R, Langford M, 2011, ‘Web-based GIS approaches to enhance public participation in wind farm planning’ Transactions in GIS 15(2) pp 147-172 (Available here)

Corcoran J, Higgs G, Higginson A, 2011, ‘The importance of socio-economic factors on fire incidence: A comparison of trends for Brisbane (Australia) and Cardiff (United Kingdom)’ Applied Geography 31(1) pp 65-75 (Available here)

Berry R, Fry R, Higgs G, Orford S, 2010, ‘Building a Geo-portal for Enhancing Collaborative Socio-Economic Research in Wales Using Open Source Technology’ The Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education 2(1) pp 77-92 (Available here)

Langford M, Higgs G, 2010, ‘Accessibility and public service provision: evaluating the impacts of the Post Office Network Change Programme in the UK’ Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 35(4) pp 587-601 (Available here)

Richards W, Higgs G, 2010, ‘An audit of smoking behaviours among patients attending two general dental practices in South Wales: An awareness raising exercise for the dental team and patients’ Primary Dental Care 17(2) pp 79-82 (Available here)

Brunsdon C, Corcoran J, Higgs G, Ware A, 2009, ‘The influence of weather on local geographical patterns of police calls for service’ Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 36(5) pp 906-926 (Available here)

Corcoran J, Higgs G, Rohde D, Chhetri P, 2009, ‘Investigating the association between weather conditions, calendar events and socio-economic patterns with trends in fire incidence: An Australian case study’ Journal of Geographical Systems (InPress) (Available here)

Higgs G, 2009, ‘The role of GIS for health utilization studies: Literature review’ Health Services and Outcome Research Methodology 9(2) pp 84-99 (Available here)

Higgs G, Langford M, 2009, ‘GIScience, Environmental Justice, & Estimating Populations at Risk: The Case of Landfills in Wales’ Applied Geography 29(1) pp 63-76 (Available here)

Reports

Berry R, Higgs G, 2010, ‘An evaluation of online GIS-based landscape and visual impact assessment tools and their potential for enhancing public participation: the example of wind farm planning in Wales’ WISERD/RSS/001 (Available here)

Higgs G, Langford M, Fry R, 2010, ‘The use of GIS-derived accessibility measures in mixed methods research: A research agenda’ WISERD/WPS 001 (Available here)