Dr Charlotte van der Lijn
Associate Lecturer in Spatial Data Science
Teaching
I am both a mentor and reviewer for staff on the STARS (St Andrews Recognition Scheme) Advance HE accredited scheme.
I am currently teaching on the following modules:
- GG1001: Climate, Capital, Community: Fundamentals of Global Geography
- SD2100: Sustainable Scotland
- GG4255: Geographies of Urban Housing
- and am a dissertation supervisor for honours students.
I have also taught on the following team-taught modules:
- GG4201- Advanced Debates in Geography
- GG3209- Spatial Analysis with GIS
- GG2011- Geographies of Global Change
- GG1002- A World in Crisis
Research areas
I am an Associate Lecturer in Spatial Data Science.
My main research interests span:
- understanding urban housing markets using online housing searches
- spatial accessibility
- interpreting mental maps
- urban inequalities and developing deprivation indices
- data visualisation and storytelling
- exploring urban design and planning using virtual reality.
I am currently a co-researcher in the CEE-VR project: HEIF Higher Education innovation funding Community Engagement with Virtual & Augmented Reality: Shirebrook market redevelopment project to engage in participatory design of community spaces with immersive visualisation.
I am a member of the Bell-Edwards Geographic Data Institute.
I am an Associate Editor for the Housing & Society Journal.
I am a co-opted Board Member for the Housing Studies Association.
Prior to joining the SGSD, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Geosciences and Geography at the University of Helsinki, Finland, in the YLLI- project. I obtained my PhD in Urban Studies and Planning in the USP department at the University of Sheffield.
PhD supervision
- Alistair McConnell
Selected publications
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Open access
Detecting informal green, blue, and street physical activity spaces in the city using geotagged sports-related Twitter tweets
van der Lijn, C., Ehnström, E., Koivisto, S. & Muukkonen, P., 5 May 2023, In: Frontiers in Sociology. 8, 13 p., 1125343.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Population differences in national Finnish grid scales
van der Lijn, C. & Muukkonen, P., 19 Apr 2023. 8 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
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Open access
Assessing travel time-based accessibility to outdoor ice skating fields for children in Helsinki during the COVID-19 pandemic
van der Lijn, C., Nurmi, M., Hasanen, E., Pyykönen, J., Salmi, L., Salmikangas, A.-K., Vehkakoski, K., Virmasalo, I., Toivonen, T. & Muukkonen, P., 23 Dec 2022, In: Fennia - International Journal of Geography. 200, 1, p. 6-23 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Extracting locations from sport and exercise-related social media messages using a neural network-based bilingual toponym recognition model
Liu, P., Koivisto, S., Hiippala, T., van der Lijn, C., Väisänen, T., Nurmi, M., Toivonen, T., Vehkakoski, K., Pyykönen, J., Virmasalo, I., Simula, M., Hasanen, E., Salmikangas, A. K. & Muukkonen, P., 20 Jun 2022, In: Journal of Spatial Information Science. 24, p. 31-61 31 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review