Scott Orford is a Professor in Spatial Analysis and GIS at the School of Geography and Planning
His research interests are in GIS and social geography, particularly the statistical and geographical modelling of socio-economic processes using techniques that are sensitive to spatial context. Scott is an expert in mapping, spatial analysis and statistical modelling using multi-level modelling and Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR). he is also an expert in meta-data, data-integration and the search and discovery of socio-economic data.
Scott is the Director of Data of the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) and a Co-Director of the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) and lead on the WISERD Data Portal project which is a web-based application that enhances a researcher’s ability to search, discover and access socio-economic research data with the aim of encouraging the re-use and re-purposing of existing data. He is the Co-Director and Cardiff lead of the AHRC funded Public Map Platform, a two year community mapping and community science project working with creative pratitioners in Anglesey with the aim of making places in the UK better for the people who live there with an emphasis on climate change and future generations.
