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- Professor Nicholas Blomley Honored with the Community-Engaged Research Achievement Award
- Graduate Students Claire Shapton and Marina Chavez Honored with the Community-Engaged Graduate Scholar Award
- Applications now open: 2024 ESRI Canada GIS Scholarship for SFU
- Associate Professor Rosemary Collard achieves 13th place on 51ÉçÇøºÚÁÏAltmetric List
- The PEAK feature: GSU hosts inaugural RANGE conference
- Gabrielle Wong wins First Prize in 2023 Student Learning Commons Writing Contest
- Gabrielle Wong receives Warren Gill Memorial Award
- Professor Nick Blomley receives Warren Gill Memorial Award for Community Impact
- Geography Student Union recipient of the FENV 2024 Changemaker Awards
- Senior Lecturer Tara Holland reveals the secret sauce of great teaching
- Senior Lecturer Tara Holland Receives 51ÉçÇøºÚÁÏ2023 Excellence in Teaching Award
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Program: PhD
Supervisor: Nadine Schuurman
Education: BS Geography, MA Geography – Appalachian State University
Research description/interests: Feminist GIScience, Health Geography, Crowdsourced Data
Spatial Big Data from Crowdsourced Fitness Applications (Dissertation): My research aims to develop methodologies for analyzing crowdsourced datasets through a feminist GIS perspective. A central component of this work is to propose best practices for big data analysis and utilize crowdsourced data to promote equity in urban mobility.
Teaching Assistantships: GEOG 355 (Fall 2021), GEOG 455W (Spring 2022), GEOG 251 (Fall 2022)
Research Assistantships: RAship Fall 2021 to present
Publications:
Runkle, J.D., Harden, S.R., Hart, L., Moreno, C., Michael, K., and Sugg, M.M. (2022). Socio-environmental Drivers of Adolescent Suicide in the United States: A Scoping Review. Journal of Rural Mental Health. doi.org/10.1037/rmh0000208
Harden, S.R., Runkle, J.D., and Sugg, M.M. (2022). An Exploratory Spatiotemporal Analysis of Socio‑Environmental Patterns in Severe Maternal Morbidity. Maternal & Child Health Journal. doi.org/10.1007/s10995-021-03330-0
Harden, S.R., Sugg, M.M., Runkle, J.D. (2021). Spatial Clustering of Adolescent Bereavement in the U.S. During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Adolescent Health. doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2021.04.035
Andersen, L.M., Harden, S.R., Sugg, M.M., Runkle, J.D., and Lundquist, T. (2021). Analyzing the Spatial Determinants of Local Covid-19 Transmission In The United States. Science of the Total Environment. doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142396
Runkle, J.D., Sugg, M.M., Yadav, S., Harden, S.R., Weiser, J., and Michael, K. (2021). Real-time Mental Health Crisis Response in U.S. to COVID-19: Insights from a National Text-based Platform. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention. doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000826
Sugg, M.M., Spaulding, T., Lane, S., Runkle, J.D., Harden, S.R., Hege, A., and Iyer, L. (2021). Mapping Community-Level Determinants of COVID-19 Transmission in Nursing Homes: A multi-scale approach. Science of the Total Environment. doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141946