Professor Brimicombe is the Head of the Centre for Geo-Information Studies at UEL. Allan is a Chartered Geographer and is active in the Royal Geographical Society, Association for Geographical Information, British Society of Criminology and the Royal Statistical Society. He is Chair of the Crime & Justice Statistics Network. In 2011 he was awarded Academician status in the Academy of Social Sciences. His expertise focuses around cross-disciplinary applications of Geo-Information Science.

His research interests include issues of data quality; the coupling of GIS and numerical simulation modelling for decision support; spatial data mining, analysis and visualisation; mobile systems and location-based services (LBS). These have been applied to crime, health, education, natural hazards, utilities and business. Recently he has been working on the Olympic Games Impact Study for the London 2012 Games. Commissioned by the Economic and Social Research Council, this work is mandated by the IOC and is the first for a summer Games. He has published over 90 academic papers and is the author of ‘GIS, Environmental Modeling and Engineering’ (Taylor & Francis, 2nd Edition, 2010) and ‘Location-Based Services and Geo-Information Engineering’ (Wiley, 2009).

Teaching Areas

• Geo-Information Science and Systems
• Spatial Data Analysis
• Modelling with GIS
• Research Methods
• Quatitative and Computational Methods

Research Interests

• GIS & Environmental Simulation Modelling
• Spatial Data Analysis & Data Mining
• Modelling of Spatial Phenomena
• Modelling Crime, Deprivation and Social Exclusion
• Spatial Data Quality
• Fuzzy Concepts in GIS
• Location-Based Services (LBS)

Please see http://www.uel.ac.uk/geo-information/research.htm